#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a neuroscientist, psychologist, and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (book): https://amzn.to/2Sp5ar9

How Emotions Are Made (book): https://amzn.to/2GwAFg6

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OUTLINE:

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00:00 - Introduction

06:35 - Are we alone in the universe?

08:03 - Life on Earth

12:55 - Collective intelligence of human brains

21:43 - Triune brain

27:52 - The predicting brain

35:48 - How the brain evolved

41:47 - Free will

50:40 - Is anything real?

1:03:13 - Dreams

1:09:00 - Emotions are human-constructed concepts

1:34:29 - Are women more emotional than men?

1:43:05 - Empathy

2:14:46 - Love

2:18:40 - Mortality

2:20:16 - Meaning of life