Jess Zimmerman: The Gorilla In the Room
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2013
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Writer Jess Zimmerman discovers the dangers of dating a philosopher of neuroscience who thinks he knows what's really happening in her head.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.8 | Is NYU a scientist the... |
| 0:06.6 | I felt... |
| 0:07.4 | I was so... |
| 0:08.7 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:09.6 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.8 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:28.7 | Hey, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:31.7 | This week's story is from Jess Zimmerman. |
| 0:36.7 | The story was recorded in March 2013 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 0:40.0 | The theme of the event was brain awareness. |
| 0:49.1 | Hey, so has anyone ever tried to date a philosopher? |
| 0:53.6 | Okay, this is good, this is good. It's not too many people. |
| 1:01.1 | Because if you've ever tried to date a philosopher, you will know that you should never try to date a philosopher because it will make you crazy. |
| 1:05.9 | They have, and I'm sure it's not like all of them, it's just maybe 90, 92%. They tend to have these carefully constructed worldviews that are perfectly elegant, perfectly |
| 1:11.8 | self-consistent, and perfectly disassociated from anything that happens in the real world. |
| 1:18.3 | And if you've ever tried to date a neuroscientist, sorry guys, you will know that they will also |
| 1:23.0 | make you crazy because they know exactly how and why you're crazy and will tell you so using |
| 1:28.6 | science words I used to date a philosopher of neuroscience which is like a two-for-one |
| 1:37.2 | sale at the shitty boyfriend store which is not to say that he would accept me |
| 1:42.9 | saying that he was my boyfriend, God no. |
| 1:46.0 | He actually was my philosophy professor initially, and of course he, yeah. |
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