Is Your Desire for FaceTime Because You Can't See Me?

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There are so many examples of this. Isaac Asimov says he can never write a script because it's a visual medium. Nabokov had color graphing synesthesia, which means every letter is colored to him. Vladimir Bocov got the story rejected by the New Yorker called the Vane Sisters and wrote back with an angry letter.

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.