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EP 80: Zab Johnson, PhD, on the Neuroscience of Perception

The Emergency Mind Podcast

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You Can't Be Aware of What's Going on in Your Brain

I think we're just at this incredible threshold of understanding what we do and don't have access to in the brain. We know that parasympathetic responses, you know, are like this idea that, oh, the other stuff is the stuff that just keeps us breathing. But then when we do, we realize like when we think about our breathing, we realize that changes cognition as well. And then we know that there are all aspects of how we problem solve, even how we decide that aren't at the level of conscious awareness by our brain circuitry. It's a point that the difference between what you think you're doing and what you're actually keeping doing is frequently made so painfully

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