Hidden Brain

Waking Up Your Spiritual Brain: Part 1

People who have what researchers call 'spiritual experiences' — states of overwhelming connection, awe, or transcendence — consistently show changes in a specific region of the brain called the parietal cortex. What's surprising is that damage to this region, whether from a stroke or a tumor, can actually cause people to become more spiritual, not less.

The New York Times

Why A Supreme Court Ruling Could Separate This Mother and Her Son

It hurts deeply to know that just six years ago, I was a hero. Now I am considered a burden to this country.

TED

The Art and Science of Wine Tasting | Qian Janice Wang | TED

Chemical complexity in the glass does not necessarily equal perceived complexity when people are rating the wine.

TED

The Art and Science of Wine Tasting | Qian Janice Wang | TED

There are actually two ways of thinking about complexity when it comes to wine or food. There's, first, chemical complexity, right? That's the stuff that's in the glass. What are the chemical molecules in the wine? And then there's a concept called psychological complexity, where complexity is not really in the wine, but it's in the mind of the drinker.

TED

Why AI Is Unlikely to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED

We project consciousness into them in the same way we might project faces into clouds, or even the image of Mother Teresa in a cinnamon bun.

Radiolab

Forests on Forests

It didn't take long for them to realize not only was the forest canopy not empty, it was absolutely filled to the brim with life.

How to Be a Better Human

How to Confront Your Inner Critic (W/ Anu Gupta) | How to Be a Better Human | TED

I realized people aren't seeing me. people are seeing ideas of me and it was those ideas that kept me depressed and paranoid all these years and I realized I wasn't alone. I don't want to live in a world where we live in ideas of one another. I want to live in a world where we live in the presence of one another, the real people.

Hidden Brain

Group Think

our group loyalties affect us more than we realize, and can even shape our basic senses of sight, taste and smell

Book of the Day

In the novel ‘Black Bag,’ a classroom experiment invites questions about masculinity

We often regard people as black bags, don't we? Filling in the blanks for suppositions we make without really knowing

Hidden Brain

Group Think

how our group loyalties affect us more than we realize, and can even shape our basic senses of sight, taste and smell

TED Radio Hour

How does your brain perceive the world?

It puts us into confrontation with the fact that two minds can perceive the same reality entirely differently.

Mixed Signals

Gavin Newsom on 'Sick' FCC Threats, David Ellison, & Getting Trump's Personal Cell Phone Number

It's not what is said now, it's not it's what's not said. It's what's not reported and it's happening.

It's Been a Minute

Is tech making us too obsessed with our bodies? | It's Been A Minute

Even if you're not paying attention to how your body is feeling, you're paying attention to those metrics.

Book of the Day

To understand consciousness, Michael Pollan looked at plants, AI and himself

Sensience is kind of the base default case of having a certain awareness of your environment and a sense of the changes taking place in your environment and whether they're good for you or bad for you and then the ability to move toward the positive and away from the negative. Consciousness is kind of how we do sensience.