Lisa: When you're thirsty and you drink a glass of water, you drink until your thirst is quenched. The thing is that the water takes about 20 minutes to make it into your bloodstream to get to your brain. So based on drinking water, your brain is predicting that your thirst will be quenched, but actually it takes about20 minutes for that change to happen. Same thing with hunger. We talk about hunger as being this physical thing, but hunger pain also experiences,. There are physical components to those experiences like how much glucose do you have in your bloodstream, or in the case of pain, how much what's called no-susception that is signals about tissue
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.