There's an irony there because our most deeply encoded memories, our favorite memories, we've reconstructed more times. And I feel this about some of my favorite memories that I've told the stories so many times that I actually have no access to the stories you told. Your most important memories tend to be the most corrupted. It turns out that under pressure people, but not everybody, but some people are more malleable and others can be pushed.
In his expansive new book, "Psych: The Story of the Human Mind," Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, lays out, in his words, "basically everything I know about the mind." And when he says everything, he means it. Where does consciousness come from? Does IQ matter? What makes us happy? Was Sigmund Freud a madman? The answers to these questions (and more) are all in Paul's book — and in this episode.
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