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217 - Livewired - David Eagleman (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

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The Relationship Between Motor Babbling and Social Babbling

"Your brain is the mission control center, and it's three pounds," he says. "And as i said, it's locked inside this armored bunker plating of your skull." He calls motor babbling an analogy to verbal babbling that a baby does. The same thing with motor babbling: You try thing, you're larning how to ride a bicycle.

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