Today we finish our discussion of Oliver Sack's book Musicophilia by covering chapters 9, 10, and 19. These cover things like perfect/absolute pitch, cochlear hearing loss, and the neurobiology of rhythm.

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Today we discuss chapters 2, 3, and 8 from Oliver Sack's book Musicophilia. These chapters cover interesting neurological cases where people have seizures that cause and are caused by music, as well as people who have congenital and onset amusia, dysharmonia, and tone-deafness. Could you live in a world without music?

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Today we discuss Oliver Sack's book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", specifically focusing on chapter 2, "The Lost Mariner". It discusses a 49 year old patient suffering from a particularly bad form of Korsakoff's syndrome, where he could not make any new memories and had forgotten the last 30 years. This resulted in him thinking he was a 19 year old fresh out of WWII.

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Today we discuss A.H. Maslow's "A Theory of Human Motivation", which is the paper that proposed his 5 hierarchies of needs.

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Today we discuss Byoung-Kyong Min's article called "A thalamic reticular networking model of consciousness", which basically theorizes a the primary location of consciousness within the nervous system resides in the thalamic reticular nucleus.

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Today we discuss "Dioscorides On Pharmacy And Medicine" by John M. Riddle. Dioscorides was a Greek/Roman physician who wrote an influential pharmacopeia back in the 1st century AD. We discuss the treatise, what life was like as a Roman physician, some of the different schools of medicine back then, among other things!

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Today we finish our discussion of John Locke’s 2 Treatises

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Today we continue our discussion of John Locke’s 2 Treatises

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Today we begin our discussion of John Locke’s 2 Treatises

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Today we finish our discussion of Plato with the dialogue Theatetus, which is basically about knowledge. Spoiler, they conclude that they don't know what knowledge is, but this is kind of in line with Socrates' whole schtick. We share our thoughts on what knowledge is though, so listeners have that to look forward to!

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