How Does The Human Mind Work? - Paul Bloom - #608
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Paul Bloom. He's a professor of |
| 0:05.7 | psychology at the University of Toronto, professor emeritus of psychology at Yale University, |
| 0:10.9 | and an author. The human mind is a mystery. If it wasn't for the fact that we experience it, |
| 0:17.1 | the universe would give us absolutely no indication that consciousness even existed. After an |
| 0:23.3 | entire career studying psychology, Professor Bloom has some answers to the psychology questions |
| 0:28.6 | we've all asked ourselves. Expect to learn whether you can actually remember everything that |
| 0:33.6 | you've ever experienced, whether we know why consciousness evolved at all, why we should remember |
| 0:39.1 | segment Freud, why babies are way smarter than you think, whether attachment theory is rubbish, |
| 0:45.2 | if psychology can tell us how to live a good life, and much more. Don't forget that if you are |
| 0:51.2 | listening you should have also got a copy of the Modern Wisdom reading list. It is one hundred of |
| 0:55.1 | the most interesting and impactful books that I've ever read fiction and nonfiction real-life |
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