"I don't want to be inferior to Alan Lyman who who I have great respect for but I think his answer was basically you're just it's just a piece of your software that you get stuck with somewhere along the way what are your thoughts on that? back with the story with Anna I skipped over this moment or I said something very definitively and I think really that that phrase that sentence is is the heart of the matter," he says. "The interesting thing one of the interesting things there to me is that the brain never says I don't know when I asked myself why do I like you know I could come up with a list of the things that I do for some
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.