The Nuclear Bomb of Cognitive Science

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

neuroscientist pascal wallish shows off the place where he and his colleague michael carlovich built the nuclear bomb of cognitive science out of socks and crocs. This is still set up in this in a way there's the lamb's up back there the crocs are here there's there's tube socks and wires it's thrilling because this is what science looks likewhat real science looks like it's messy and messy andreal scientists can't tell you why the roman emperor fell but we could recreate it from scratch.

When facing a novel and uncertain situation, the brain secretly disambiguates the ambiguous without letting you know it was ever uncertain in the first place, leading people who disambiguate differently to seem iNsAnE.

This episode is about why we so often don't understand why we disagree, which leads us to disagree even more, and we explore that through the science behind The Dress. We look into why some people see it as black and blue, others see it as white and gold, and how the scientific investigation of why that is led to the scientific investigation of socks and Crocs, and how the scientific investigation of socks and Crocs may be, as one researcher explains, the nuclear bomb of cognitive neuroscience.

- Show notes at: www.youarenotsosmart.com

- Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart