Moran Cerf: Finding Fear
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2014
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
When he misses the opportunity to work with one of the most famous patients in neuroscience, Moran Cerf takes an unorthodox approach. Moran Cerf is a neuroscientist at NYU and Northwestern University. Prior to his career in opening and studying brains, Moran used to work as a hacker in various security companies, breaking into banks and financial institutes to make a living. Moran is involved in the story-telling community, and is also the Alfred P. Sloan faculty at the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles, where he teaches screenwriting.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt. |
| 0:07.0 | I was so... |
| 0:08.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi everyone. I'm Ben Lilley, and welcome to The Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:29.6 | This week's story is from Moran's Surf as part of our Chicago event in association with the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting. |
| 0:43.3 | The story was recorded in February 2014 at American Junkie in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 0:53.3 | I just came here from teaching. 20 minutes ago I was in class. Hence the confused look. I'm |
| 0:57.0 | a scientist, particularly a neuroscientist, and as such I'm interested in how we perceive |
| 1:06.0 | things by looking at the brain and understanding how it works. This worked well with a lot of my research colleague. |
| 1:12.2 | It didn't work well with my girlfriend |
| 1:13.7 | who kept not understanding how I attribute |
| 1:16.9 | just the acts of the mind |
| 1:21.4 | to all kinds of things that she perceived as emotional. |
| 1:24.7 | So we had a lot of problems with my feelings, |
| 1:27.1 | which we talked about. |
| 1:29.3 | I experienced in my mind a lot of feelings and I could break them down to the neural pathways that lead to their existence. |
| 1:37.3 | And she was mostly concerned in the way we communicate by just explaining what's going on and solving that. |
| 1:45.1 | The one feeling that I could clearly express was fear. |
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