Lisa Ling: It turns out our brain is not for thinking. She says the parts of the brain that are most important also happen to be important for regulating the systems of your body. "You can't really say why a brain evolved, but one of its most important jobs during this evolutionary trajectory is to control the body," 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.