Learning to Debug Our Memory Logs

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There's more than one system going on in our brains. We're trying to interpret the world, but then there's a whole separate set of judgments that we have,. Like what was igt what was wrong, you know. And there there's an interplay there, which which is really complicated and hard. Thinking about it in a more self reflected way, i is probably very useful. Is not something that is quantifiable as such, because it relies on a moral interpretation, right, of what right and wrong can be - which is not something that can be formulat.

Being a human is tricky. There are any number of unwritten rules and social cues that we have to learn as we go, but that we ultimately learn to take for granted. Camilla Pang, who was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at age eight, had a harder time than most, as she didn’t easily perceive the rules of etiquette and relationships that we need to deal with each other. But she ultimately figured them out, with the help of analogies and examples from different fields of science. We talk about these rules, and how science can help us think about them.

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Camilla Pang received her Ph.D. in computational biology from University College London. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in pharmaceuticals and a volunteer cancer researcher at the Francis Crick Institute. She was awarded the Royal Society Prize for Science Books in 2020 for her book Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love, and Relationships (US title: An Outsider’s Guide to Humans: What Science Taught Me about What We Do and Who We Are).

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