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12. Derren Brown — Magic, Happiness, and Skepticism
The Michael Shermer Show
The Left Hemisphere Storyteller
The neuroscientist Michael Gizanica up here at UC Santa Barbara, he theorizes about this what he calls the left hemisphere storyteller. So part of the left cortex integrates all these inputs coming in from these various neural networks into some kind of coherent picture that makes sense. And it's quite apparent with brain damage subjects. His point and his larger point for non neurological patients is that we all do this. We're just dreams are mostly just random firings and we string them together into a sort of coherent story. But so is life. You look back and make some sort of coherent connection between all the dots from birth to where you are now. rarely would you predict that
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