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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

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Is the Human Brain Any Less Miracleous Than Other Animals?

With your work on how emotions are made and so on you kind of repaint the view of the brain as less glamorous I suppose that you would otherwise think. Yeah I wouldn't say that the human brain is any less miraculous than anybody else would say. There's nothing special about our brain in terms of its size. The basic blueprint that builds our brain from an embryo is the basic blueprint for all vertebrate brains.

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