Episode 492 - Dr. Heather Berlin

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Neuroscientist and clinical psychologist Dr. Heather Berlin (@heather_berlin) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about hosting the upcoming PBS series Your Brain, the hard problem of consciousness, evolutionary mismatches, panic attack strategies, flow state performance, debating Deepak Chopra about god, the Stanford marshmallow experiment, impulse control, the downside of getting a hangry judge, debunking brain myths, creating consciousness in different substrates, the thermal grill experiment and the fact that we're all going to die.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hi everyone, and welcome to Probably Science. I'm Matt Kirshan.
0:14.0	I'm Jesse Case.
0:15.0	And I'm Andy Wood.
0:17.0	Look at us.
0:18.0	Yeah, we're doing it.
0:19.0	Yeah, we almost got that smooth after nearly 500 episodes.
0:24.5	Well done.
0:25.1	There's a few mental flubs in there.
0:27.3	There's a few jitters, few things getting us out of the state.
0:30.9	What better person.
0:32.2	I'm trying to neatly segue to our guests because I'm very excited about that guest today.
0:36.2	Our guest is someone I first met on an episode of StarTalk where she's resident
0:41.9	neuroscientist that I'll go-to person for whenever Neil DeGrasse Tyson and co.
0:47.7	want to talk about the brain.
0:50.1	God, I'm so bad at that kind of slick intro shit.
0:53.7	But look, she isn't because she has a brand new series on Nova entitled Your Brain, which is coming out in less than a week's time.
1:02.6	It is Dr. Heather Berlin.
1:04.6	Hey, Heather.
1:05.6	Hi, how are you?
1:06.8	Thanks for having it.
1:07.8	Thanks for coming on.
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