I think for me, I'm susceptible to not some TALMS view, bigger data, bigger mistakes. There's so much interaction that we are going to then be drawn into false correlations and be fooled into thinking we understand things we don't. But he'll let us know if we got it wrong. Patrick: Maybe what we need is the help of philosophers really. We still have something in there. That is just it comes from the ether and we can choose. You like that? Yes.
While operating on a 16-year-old girl who suffered from severe seizures, neurosurgeon Itzhak Fried stumbled on the region of the brain that makes us laugh. To neuroscientist Patrick House, Fried's ability to produce laughter surgically raises deep and disconcerting questions about how the brain works. Join Fried, House, and EconTalk's Russ Roberts for a live broadcast from Jerusalem's Shalem College that is a sequel of sorts to House's earlier appearance on EconTalk. House and Fried discuss the mystery of consciousness and try to square the biological bases for emotions with the circle of our humanity.