Your Brain's Reins

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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ENCORE You are your brain. But what happens when your brain changes for the worse – either by physical injury or experience? Are you still responsible for your actions? We hear how the case of a New York man charged with murder was one of the first to introduce neuroscience as evidence in court. Plus, how technology hooks us – a young man so addicted to video games, he lacked social skills, or even a desire to eat. Find out how technology designers conspire against his digital detox. Also, even if your brain is intact and your only task is choosing a sock color, are you really in control? How your unconscious directs even mundane behavior … and how you can outwit it. Guests: Kevin Davis – Author of The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America’s Courtrooms Hilarie Cash – Co-founder and chief clinical officer of reSTART, an internet addiction recovery program Adam Alter – Assistant professor of marketing and psychology at New York University, Stern School of Business, and author of Irresistible: the Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked Peter Vishton – Psychologist at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.0	That's Wired Science wherever you are your brain, your big buddies. You and your brain are so close, you're really one and the same. There's no way your best friend would keep something from you. But what if I told you that brain has a hidden
1:13.9	agenda that some of your behavior is driven by impulses that your conscious mind doesn't
1:18.4	recognize? This might happen when brains aren't working properly, sure, but even when they are.
1:24.4	Either way, are you sure you're in control?
1:27.2	And yet you are your brain.
1:28.8	So who or what else could be at the driver's wheel?
1:31.6	I'm Seth Shostak and Seth Shostak's brain.
1:34.6	I'm Molly Bentley. Welcome to Big Picture Science, produced at the Citi Institute
1:38.1	where researchers investigate the nature and origin of life.
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