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

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I Don't Think It's a Useful Narrative

The idea that your brain is like an already baked cake and you know the cortex cerebral cortex just layered on top like icing. It's a great narrative it sort of fits our intuitions about how we work but it also suggests that emotions can't be a source of wisdom which they often are. So well the narrative is on the way it evolved but do you I mean again it's that problem of it being a useful tool of conversation to say like there's a lizard brain?

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