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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

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Is Your Brain Using Your Brain to Communicate?

There are many species of animals that influence each other's nervous systems. They mainly do it by physical means but they also use scent, hearing audition and vision. Humans as far as I know are the only species that use ideas and words to regulate each other right. We communicate with words in a sense a way for us to do mental telepathy with each otherright. How do I control your heart rate, howDo I control your breathing, how do I controlyour actions with words? It's because those words are communicating ideas.

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