Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain
Click here or on the above image to see video of the event and interviews with Zimmer and the four scientists. The transcript of the event is below.
We toss away things that are not salient.
These shortcuts help us survive
The big story of memory revealed by music
you tend to remember those things
that you have some deep emotional connection with
it is astonishingly accurate
Our ancestors discovered that if they set the words to music they were easier to remember
“Where is consciousness in the brain?”
These things come on and off constantly, and there’s this appearance of unity to it all, but in fact it’s each of these separate circuit systems being enabled and being expressed in a particular moment in time
a useful and healthy illusion
Social cognition is the same. We feel as if we can see what other people are thinking.
you can be pretty committed to a decision yet be unaware of it
clipped from: discovermagazine.com 