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🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss Doppelgangers, fairy imposters, the brain basis for the feeling of familiarity, and a unique way of understanding the impact of social media and modern communications technology.
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| 2:17.0 | Hey, welcome to Stuff To Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lam. |
| 2:20.0 | And I'm Joe McCormick and today I thought we might have a discussion bringing together the seemingly disparate topics of familiarity, doppelgangers or doubles, capgross syndrome and social media. |
| 2:34.0 | And I got the idea to talk about this today because a few weeks ago I read this interesting article that had a very intriguing central comparison or image. |
| 2:43.0 | It was a thought provoking essay by the Stanford Neuro-Indochronologist Robert Sapulski. |
| 2:48.0 | It was originally published a few years ago in Nautilus and it was an article comparing the effects of social media and sort of the digital world like Facebook and you know all that to a psychological condition known. |
| 3:03.0 | And so today I thought maybe we should start by explaining and discussing Sapulski's comparison and argument in that article and just see where we go from there. |
| 3:14.0 | Now Capgrave syndrome has definitely come up on the show before I don't know that we've done a designated show on the topic. |
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