Patrick House on Consciousness

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🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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How does the mind work? What makes us sad? What makes us laugh? Despite advances in neuroscience, the answers to these questions remain elusive. Neuroscientist Patrick House talks about these mysteries and about his book Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. House's insights illuminate not just what we know and don't know about our minds--he also helps us understand what it means to be human.

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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.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is October 31st, 2022, and my guest is neuroscientist and author Patrick House.
0:43.8	He is the author of 19 ways of looking at consciousness, which is our topic for today.
0:50.2	Patrick, welcome to econtalk.
0:52.9	Thank you for having me.
0:53.9	That tells very briefly your background in writing the book.
0:58.2	What is your, you've worked in neuroscience labs, you've got a PhD, just give us a little
1:04.2	bit of flavor of that.
1:05.7	Yeah, kind of how to get here.
1:09.6	So, I studied mind control parasites during my PhD.
1:15.0	I was most interested in basically why people do the things that they do.
1:21.3	And of course, when you're a neuroscientist, you can't really directly study, it's difficult
1:25.5	to directly study people.
1:28.6	You can do it, your tools are a lot better with different kind of models.
1:32.1	And so I was really interested in this idea of whether or not people are the accumulation
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