Sally Kohn: The idea that words are a tool for regulating bodies is, to me, a remarkable concept. She says we have socially dependent nervous systems where we are the caretakers of each other's nervous systems. "We should be trying to figure out what this means for us and what it means for public discourse," she says.
If you managed to stay awake during Bio 101, then you probably think you have a basic understanding of how your brain works. Not so, says neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett. In this cerebral yet highly entertaining conversation with Next Big Idea Club curator Daniel Pink, Lisa says our brains are made for budgeting, not thinking. She debunks the myth of the lizard brain. And she makes the far-out claim that everything you see and hear, including this podcast, is a hallucination.