Dr. James Coan stops by to talk about how the mind's sense of {self} rules the brain and all our decision-making, and how he first discovered that in an fMRI lab not long ago. We discuss his work running Dr. John Gottman's lab, and his love of training dogs and training people to be more like dogs.

Two SEALs and a Walrus is a humor podcast focused on following the science of improving our lives and humanity starting with taming our own BS.