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"The Brain" with David Eagleman (WiM132)

The "What is Money?" Show

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How Important Is It in the Human Brain?

By the time you become a young teen agor your whole life is about your peers. You're actually running whole chunks of your brain on other people. This is how we learn about the world. And so much of the structure of the human brain. So essentially everybody in your life that you know,. you probly know about a thousand people, you've got pretty rich simulations of all of them - and especially the people you're closest with such as your parents. All that requires brain real estate. That's pretty extraordinary.

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