Patrick House and Itzhak Fried on the Brain's Mysteries

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🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

While operating on a 16-year-old girl who suffered from severe seizures, neurosurgeon Itzhak Fried stumbled on the region of the brain that makes us laugh. To neuroscientist Patrick House, Fried's ability to produce laughter surgically raises deep and disconcerting questions about how the brain works. Join Fried, House, and EconTalk's Russ Roberts for a live broadcast from Jerusalem's Shalem College that is a sequel of sorts to House's earlier appearance on EconTalk. House and Fried discuss the mystery of consciousness and try to square the biological bases for emotions with the circle of our humanity.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.2	We'd love to hear from you.
0:38.4	We are recording this live, so there may be some audience noise.
0:43.0	People can applaud if you'd like.
0:48.0	We were here at Shalem College.
0:50.0	We're a student of study, the great ideas and books of Western and Jewish thought and small
0:54.0	seminars led by master teachers.
0:57.0	Our students learn to read deeply, ask good questions and appreciate complexity.
1:02.3	They also learn to speak and most of all listen, respectfully, a skill this country desperately
1:08.6	needs right now.
1:10.5	Our students aim to become the best versions of themselves and to become Shalem, which
1:15.1	is Hebrew for whole or complete, which is a task for a lifetime, but we like to think
1:20.7	we hope our students get started.
1:22.0	So I want to welcome everyone.
1:24.8	Today is March 13, 2023, and I have two guests.
1:27.8	The first is author and neuroscientist Patrick Kous.
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