The Unknown Brain

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Original broadcast date: February 20, 2015. The brain can seem as mysterious as a distant galaxy, but scientists are starting to map and manipulate its many regions. In this hour, TED speakers take us on a trip through the human brain. Guests include neuroanatomist Jill Bolte-Taylor, neuroscientists Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Nancy Kanwisher, and Rebecca Saxe, and philosopher David Chalmers.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Guy here. So, have you ever wondered why your brain makes you, you, and mine makes me, me?
0:07.1	Well, there are a lot of mysterious, murky, and, frankly, unknown aspects to how our brains work.
0:13.3	But scientists have been doing incredible things to answer one of the biggest unanswered questions in biology,
0:19.4	which is, how do our brains make us?
0:22.8	This episode originally aired in February of 2015. Here it is.
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1:04.3	I'm Guy Ross.
1:05.3	And on the show today, the Unknown Brain.
1:09.3	The mystery of how billions of neurons make us who we are.
1:17.3	And the one brain that you think you might know, your own?
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