I have a very vivid image of all of my children at various ages that I can conjure up whenever I want. 99% is not my own memories. It's memories of photographs. The other thing, by the way, that your book says, which is startling to me, this is like the dreamy in color. You claim in your book, that in dreams, the other characters don't talk. Only the dreamer talks. Is this true? I have no idea. But you're telling me that when people wake up and remember their dreams, the only people who talk are the dreamer. So that's a bit slippery, which is to say that's me cheekily
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.