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Mind, Body, Spirit - Part 1

TED Radio Hour

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What's the Biggest Mystery of the Brain?

For me, the huge mystery is the unconscious. We have not figured out how the random, chaotic, unconscious world that exists when we're dreaming interacts with our day-to-day life. I started psychiatry and I decided not to do psychiatry because I didn't feel like we fully had a biological, physiological framework to understand why people were suffering. And so I'm on a journey right now. Over our lifetime we're going to have major breakthroughs in the ability to integrate the whole mind which includes the subconscious and the collective unconscious.

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