podcast:: [[Lex Fridman Podcast]] guest:: [[Lisa Feldman Barrett]] topic:: [[neuroscience]]

Lex Fridman Podcast 129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett – Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

• [[there is no lizard brain]]

• [[t.neurons are not digital]]

noise's role in free will cells whose only job it is is to introduce noise stochasticity as a source of free will conceptual combination as a source… you can't reach into your past and change your past, but you can change your present, which becomes your past.

note: your present also becomes your future.

you are continually cultivating your past as a means to control your future.

note: this eliminates time, in a weird way.

[[The brain does not classify, it does concept construction]]

[[cortisol is not a stress hormone]]

Terms

• [[teleology]]
• [[Dan Dennet]]