Things Can Only Get Better: Professor Brian Cox
Reasons Revisited
Geoff Lloyd
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Hello! To kick off our season of Existential Cheerful Summer interviews we’re talking to Professor Brian Cox ahead of his UK tour ‘Horizons: A 21st Century Space Odyssey’. Ed and Geoff chat to Brian about the big questions: black holes, how we came to be here, what it means to be human, and what we can become. What does the climate crisis mean if we’re the only civilisation in a galaxy of 400 billion stars? To bring things down to earth, Brian tells us about his music career, car parks and his pivotal role in soundtracking 1997.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by the Perception Census, a new groundbreaking study exploring |
| 0:05.6 | the fascinating potential of the mind from the creators of Dream Machine. |
| 0:09.7 | Here's a question. |
| 0:10.8 | Which is heavier? |
| 0:12.2 | Red? |
| 0:13.2 | Or yellow? |
| 0:14.7 | Now, did an answer come to mind instantly? |
| 0:17.9 | Most people say red, but why is that? |
| 0:21.8 | That's at the heart of what the Perception Census is aiming to discover. |
| 0:25.7 | To what extent are we all experiencing the world around us differently? |
| 0:29.8 | And why? |
| 0:30.8 | It's led by world-leading academics, professor of neuroscience, Annal Seth from the University |
| 0:36.0 | of Sussex. |
| 0:37.0 | You may have heard of. |
| 0:38.0 | He crops up on TV and radio. |
| 0:39.4 | He's always brilliant. |
| 0:40.4 | He wrote a fantastic book called Being You, which came out last year, and professor of |
| 0:45.0 | philosophy, Fiona McPherson from the University of Glasgow. |
| 0:49.2 | And the team has designed this brilliantly. |
| 0:52.0 | Basically, the more you complete, the more valuable the research becomes. |
| 0:56.7 | So just taking part is really engrossing. |
| 0:59.6 | They're all kinds of games, illusions, tests, brain teasers, as well as a little bit about |
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