Nobel prize winner on oxygen who was a Nobel prize winner into worms is sitting in the suite at the Shangri-La. He would spend every single morning trying to discover new things about genomes like he would sit there and compare different aquatic genomes. His ideas that we are caught in a kind of cognitive bias because if you for example look at the way that castles were built they did not have kind of scaffolding in modern construction equipment or design.
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.