Lisa Ling: We've got seven and a half lessons about the brain. Tell us how it becomes a tool for living. How can we go about our lives differently now that we've better informed? "I think there are some real potential lessons here," she says. 'It really works on an example by example basis'
If you managed to stay awake during Bio 101, then you probably think you have a basic understanding of how your brain works. Not so, says neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett. In this cerebral yet highly entertaining conversation with Next Big Idea Club curator Daniel Pink, Lisa says our brains are made for budgeting, not thinking. She debunks the myth of the lizard brain. And she makes the far-out claim that everything you see and hear, including this podcast, is a hallucination.