Patrick House: I love when people will admit that they don't know and in a situation like that it's even more fascinating because that kind of vigilance is something you you want to both train into people kind of in various different vocations. He says the only way the brain can pick up on these things is if it has paid attention to everything that has ever happened before notice. Patrick House: When we trust our intelligence or thought or intuition we mostly can but it's fascinating to ask my son what he thinks about his dad today.
How does the mind work? What makes us sad? What makes us laugh? Despite advances in neuroscience, the answers to these questions remain elusive. Neuroscientist Patrick House talks about these mysteries and about his book Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. House's insights illuminate not just what we know and don't know about our minds--he also helps us understand what it means to be human.