217 - Livewired - David Eagleman (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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Youen, You've Been Brainwashed
"I see the world as it is, because i carefully consider all the information," she writes. "Because that's what anybody would do, because i am a defaulte human being." She had damaged to her interior singular cortex, which seems to be correlated with recognizing when there's fake news. The idea that the brain is equal in those ways just doesn't make sense for people who have been through trauma or suffered other kinds of damage.
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