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Here We Are

Cognition + Consciousness

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Shane talks with Picower Professor of Neuroscience at M.I.T. about the pattern recognition computer and black box known as the human brain. Earl Miller has a PH.D. in Psychology and Neuroscience; he has 1 of the top 5 most cited papers in Neuroscience and is also a Professor in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at M.I.T.  What are meta-patterns? Is multi-tasking a myth, and what is the difference between low-order and high-order information?  Charity Of The Week - American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)www.aclu.org Please visit our sponsors The Great Courses www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare  Libro.fm is the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE  Outro Music "Landscape" by Tooth Lures A Fang Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. Welcome to the Here We Are Podcast. I have a fantastic episode for you today and my co-host from last week. She's not the co-host on this episode but I thought

0:15.4

she'd have a little bit to say here because we mentioned last week that I

0:19.1

don't know a thing about plants and ecology and Sophia Rockland she's's the plant lady. She's joining me on the head talks to her traveling all around the country.

0:27.6

Check out Shane Moss MAUS.com to find out more about where we're going and within that travels we sometimes listen to some

0:38.2

audio books on libro dot fm and then we also sometimes go listen and take some classes. We've been taking some

0:48.4

courses plus classes and I have mine that I've enjoyed listening to, especially Robert

0:59.0

Sapolsky, which Sophia can tell you I'm always blabbing about Robert Zepolsky and how he's my hero and just reciting,

1:08.0

regurgitating things that I've learned from his classes on the great courses plus and we just

1:15.3

started a new one I don't know a thing about plants and it's called Plant Science

1:20.1

an Introduction to Botany like I said last week trying to start filling in the

1:25.0

gaps I want to start getting some botanists on the show and talking a little bit

1:29.2

more about ecology and that sort of thing that we don't talk about much on the podcast and this is how I

1:37.3

This is a big part of how I learn you can go and

1:41.9

Watch the great courses plus programs on your computer and get all the great

1:46.1

videos and everything and I often just don't have time for that because there is a lot of time in a car when you're touring.

1:54.8

Did you have any idea how much time you're going to be spending in a car this

1:57.5

year, Sophia?

2:00.5

A sore subject.

2:02.1

All right, that's not talk about it. Let's not talk about it. So our subject. Nervously laughing.

2:04.0

Let's not talk about it.

2:07.0

So we just started this plant science and introduction to botany.

2:12.0

And the great thing about great courses is there's a zillion different

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