Ep. 3 - Bethany Ranes' Conversational Portrait

Bethany Ranes shares about..

- Becoming maternal as a stepmother, letting failure guide development

- How growing up in an era of shame helped her become a more attuned neuroscientist

- A quirky neuroscientist's intuition, interoception, and instinct

- Appalachian Granny Magick

- Rolling into a police station with derby gear and a mohawk–-for professional reason

s - Seeing the soul as the energy between the neurons

Chapters

00:00 "Sensations of the Past With the Thoughts of the Present"

07:48 Aha Moments and a Continuous State of Awe

12:46 Parenting and Learning from Mistakes

18:53 Rebelling In Favor of Boredom

21:15 Becoming Step-Maternal and Nurturing the Ability to Fail

26:29 Taking Things Apart But Not Putting Them Back Together

32:28 Growing Up in an Era of Shame..While Helping Those In Need

35:30 Depression as a Condition of Being

38:51 Your Body is Working as it Should

42:35 Being a Perennial Misunderstood

49:45 A Neuroscientist's Intuition, Interoception, and Instinct

01:15:56 Living in a Place, As What the Place Is

01:22:06 The Quirky People Who Let Me Embrace My Quirk

01:33:14 Being Loved Because I'm Like This

01:39:45 Continuity With My Family's Culture: From Other-ness to Us-ness

01:52:01 Exploring Abnormal Psychology (Because It's All Abnormal)

01:55:47 The Soul as the Energy Between the Neurons

02:05:10 The Symbols Only Available to Us Through Other Religions--Including Appalachian Granny Magic

02:11:20 Making Rules That Aren't "'Cuz I Said So"

02:20:00 Imagination, Creativity, and Solving SQL Challenges in a Dream

02:41:37 Embracing Curiosity and Self-Discovery

02:48:15 Debrief and Behind the Scenes

Show Notes

~14:40 Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Szent-Gy%C3%B6rgyi

John Wheeler’s Participatory Universe image (the J that is actually a U) https://www.organism.earth/library/docs/john-archibald-wheeler/participatory-universe.jpg

02:04:00 - Lisa Feldman Barrett and untranslatable foreign words: https://how-emotions-are-made.com/notes/Emotion_concepts_from_non-English_languages

02:08:41 - Appalachian Granny Magick https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/appalachian-folk-magic More on it here: https://youtu.be/ex_4tgyzWZ8

Find Bethany Ranes everywhere

Blog:  https://medium.com/firing-and-wiring

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-bethany-ranes/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/firingandwiring

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