Exploring Brain and Mind
Brain and mind are intrinsically connected but often seen as separate. Every week, “Exploring Brain and Mind” will combine neuroscience research, tips to keep brain and mind healthy and functioning well as well as talks with guests in different professions from science,…
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Episode 61 - The Outsourced Mind: From Smartphone Brain Drain to AI Cognitive Debt (opens the original)
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Episode Summary For fifteen years we've been quietly handing our memory over to our smartphones – phone numbers, directions, recall itself. Now Generative AI is asking for something bigger: our reasoning. In this episode of Exploring Brain and Mind, we dig into the neuroscience of cognitive offloading from the “Brain Drain Effect” that saps your working memory just by having your phone in the room to brand-new EEG research showing what happens in your brain when you write with ChatGPT instead of
Episode 60 - What Happens To Brain and Mind When Life Ends? (opens the original)
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Episode Summary In this solo episode, we explore one of neuroscience's most profound and unresolved questions: what actually happens to the brain and mind at the end of life? We look at documented phenomena like terminal lucidity, the gamma-wave activity researchers have observed around the time of death, and near-death experiences along with what this research can and can't tell us about consciousness. Then we widen the lens to explore how eleven different cultural and philosophical traditions,
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