The Brain, the Brain, and the Nervous System

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When it comes to animal cognition, like, if you go all the way down to like oysters, where it's they're just stimulus response. You just don't have enough centralized nervous system tissue to do anything with. We'll step up from oyster to things like flatworms and and those organisms. It's purely higher association. All networks make notes. That also happens in the nervous system on networks form nodes. This is, I will derail our conversation so fast.

Temple Grandin was born in 1947 at a time when words like neurodivergent and neurotypical had yet to enter the lexicon, at a time when autism was not well understood, and since she didn’t develop speech until much later than most children she might have led a much different life if it hadn’t been for people around her who worked very hard to open up a space for her to thrive and explore her talents and abilities. In this episode we discuss all that as well as her latest book, Visual Thinking, all about three distinct ways that human brains create human minds to make sense of the world outside of their skulls.