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Feed Your Head

By: Adam Jacobs
  • Summary

  • An interview program that conducts thought-provoking discussions with scientists, philosophers, theologians and other thought-leaders—searching together for meaning and integrity in a modern world.
    2023
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Episodes
  • Your Brain Is Not For Thinking
    May 8 2024

    Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is among the top 0.1% most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. She is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University. She also holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior. In addition to the books Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain and How Emotions are Made, Dr. Barrett has published over 275 peer-reviewed, scientific papers appearing in Science, Nature Neuroscience, and other top journals in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, as well as six academic volumes published by Guilford Press.

    Learn more about Dr. Barrett and find her books visit https://lisafeldmanbarrett.com

    Read the transcript www.feedyourhead.blog/p/your-brain-is-not-for-thinking

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    53 mins
  • Your Control Freak Left Brain
    Apr 16 2024

    Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore. He is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence, and of the wider human culture in which they arise – the culture which helps to mould, and in turn is moulded by, our minds and brains.

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    46 mins
  • The Purpose of the Universe
    Mar 4 2024
    Philip Goff is a philosophy professor at Durham University, UK. He spends most of his time trying to work out the ultimate nature of reality.

    In his recent book Why? The Purpose of the Universe (Oxford University Press, 2023) he explores whether panpsychism can offer a kind of middle way between traditional belief in God and secular atheism.
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    41 mins

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