Braincast - on the frequency of Mind and Brain

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This Braincast looks deep into the structure of our brain: what do brain cells look like, how do they operate, how do they communicate and – just a tiny start – how do meaning and decission emerge from that?

Are we our body? Or does it just carry us through the world? Braincast

7 is about this internal relationship of brain, body and mind. This is

much more complex than it feels like, and has some strange

side-effects, e.g. an orgasm in a foot.

Man is driven by emotions. So the reward system promises heavenly joy once we reach our goal. This makes it rather a motivational system – and it´s one of the best ideas of evolution.

The brain once was a cooling system and a soul organ. It consisted of cavities and gear wheels. Today we know better for we screen even the tiniest structures. Here a brief (historical) summary of models and methods.

One of the most important application of the brain is intelligence. In this episode we talk about definitions, benchmark data and background, about where and what for.

Between mind and brain there is room for different kinds of blindness. Some, like the face blindness – base on structural damage. Others – like emotional blindness – are grounded on lacks in parenting. In this episode we discuss both.

Why do we have a brain at all? Not everybody needs it and it just burns up a lot of energy. But apart from our own body we have to deal with the world, have to decode it´s signals from all the noise ...

Braincast is the podcast on the frequency of mind and brain. Episode one is a short description of what we are up to.