Counterfactual Thinking w/ Dr. Keith Markman

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

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🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Today I'm hanging out with Dr. Keith Markman! Keith was one of the scientists that gave a talk at this year's Mind Under Matter Campout Festival. Keith's research focuses on “counterfactual thinking”, or how people imagine alternative realities, develop conspiracy theories, and connect coincidental dots dreamt up by the hyper-active human brain.

Learn more about Dr. Markman's work: https://www.ohio.edu/cas/markman

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0:00.0	Are we yes? Where are we here? Why are we here not entirely clear? We are misfits
0:07.6	thrust into existence by random chance with no hints at all as to how we're supposed to make
0:14.5	sense of it all. It's immensely bizarre. Here we are.
0:20.3	Hello everybody and welcome to the here we are podcast. I have a wonderful guest today
0:25.8	who was actually at the Mind Under Matter Camp out festival gave a wonderful talk.
0:32.7	That was very well attended and people were so interested that we had to cut it off because
0:39.3	we had other activities about to start but people could not get enough of my guest today.
0:46.5	Keith Markman is joining me. Keith, thanks so much for joining me. Thanks so much for having me
0:52.7	and I'm still reflecting on the Mind Under Matter Festival. What do you think? It was just so
1:03.6	interesting. It was just such an interesting combination of things, comedy and music and
1:12.2	then the science. I thought what was really cool about it was you had people who were fans of
1:20.5	the podcast, but not necessarily scientists per se, but they had this tremendous curiosity.
1:27.5	It had all of these talks. You can tell the audience that I think it rained for probably
1:36.2	about two days or so, but even in the pouring rain, people from out of the day.
1:40.9	Oh, stop slandering my festival. It rained for four to eight hours one day. It didn't rain
1:49.9	Friday. It didn't rain Sunday. What I'm saying is that's how powerful the festival was. It didn't
1:54.9	bother people. It didn't bother people. Yeah, yeah. No, that's true. Actually, when we made
2:01.7	a triumphant return after the rain, that was super fun. You guys did the smart
2:10.8	move and got an RV for it. Exactly. You did it correctly. That's definitely the move. Yeah,
2:18.9	that was. I was the most nervous that the science talks wouldn't be as well attended as I wanted
2:25.9	them to be because they're kind of the most important part for me. Obviously, I have a show that
2:32.1	I interview a scientist. I'm passionate about this stuff. I was very happy to see. I should have
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