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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works
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Lisa Feldman Barrett is a neuroscientist, psychologist, and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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– Introduction
– Are we alone in the universe?
– Life on Earth
– Collective intelligence of human brains
– Triune brain
– The predicting brain
– How the brain evolved
– Free will
– Is anything real?
– Dreams
– Emotions are human-constructed concepts
– Are women more emotional than men?
– Empathy
– Love
– Mortality
– Meaning of life
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