232. Amishi Jha on Learning How to Pay Attention to Your Attention
The Michael Shermer Show
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What's the Default Mode Network of the Brain?
The attention networks are all about primarily engaging with and interacting with the external environment. When it comes to internal, the internal mileu whether that is our opinions, our thoughts, our memories, that is going to be a different network. And those are also antagonistic with each other. There's a lot of benefits and costs to having this mutual antagonism. It was a big mystery figuring out what the heck this network is doing. Always said was rest. So we almost cind of, in a comical way, talk about it's not rest it's rapid, ever present, self related thinking. That's what people are doing.
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