The myth of lizard brain vs rational brain | Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett

"We can impose new functions on things and create reality"
"A superpower works best when you know that you have it"
"You have the kind of nature that requires nurture"

Why do you have a brain and how does it work? One of the top 1% most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary neuroscience research, Lisa Feldman Barrett is here with answers.

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University with appointments at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Barrett was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in neuroscience in 2019, and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada. She lives in Boston.

[qjacquer]

Lisa, you and your work are awsome Thank you so much for your contribution to modern science and humanity:))

[brendanh]

What a brilliant and beautiful PowerPoint presentation.

[stiofanmacamhalghaidhau]

it is very important however to be cautious using phrases like 'these things are uniquely human' because far too often absence of (or apparent absence of, or partial absence of) one or more of those things has been used as a means to justify de-humanisation, exclusion, oppression, even extermination. setting out 'social reality' as 'uniquely human' is arguable. definitely the multidimensional complexity of our social realities is - so far as we know - unique to our species... but what qualifies as a typically human social reality? what happens if an individual or a society does not include social realities we consider uniquely human? if for example a person cannot frame abstractions, cannot engage in to-and-fro communication in ways we deem sufficient, cannot understand the concept of money, or of nation, and so on? does that make them non-human? past history tells us that very often the answer one group of humans have reached is that, Yes, those other beings are not actually human. If you are not deemed human, you lose access to human rights. That sounds terribly unreasonable... but we've been doing this for centuries and likely millenia, and justifying extermination, enslavement, abuse on the grounds the victims are 'mentally unstable' or 'idiots' or 'criminal' or 'savages' or 'not people of god' or 'illegals'... so perhaps the phrase required is not 'these things are uniquely human' but 'these things are unique to humans.' It is a subtle rephrasing but one that stops those things being read as qualifiers for humanness, and instead become characteristics of humanity. why bother? because the thing that actually makes people human is being born of other humans. the resulting being may have the ability to utilise those five 'C's or they may not. You can be pretty certain a two-week old infant cannot. Dementia or ABI may strip away a person's capabilities in this regard. Some physical or cognitive disabilities make accessing some of them nigh on impossible. Social structures - some of those social realities - may be implemented in ways that deny access to learning or accessing them. Those individuals remain human however. I'm confident anyone bothering to read this will agree. But some people do not, and the consequences (enslavement, loss of basic human rights, genocide, or eugenics programs for example) are potentially enormous. I would thus encourage researchers, writers and presenters to be more explicit in the distinctions they make, and not unintentionally give ammunition to the cruel-minded few.
that's my sole gripe, if you can even call it that, with the lifelong body of Lisa Feldman Barrett's work, that one phrase in one presentation might have been better phrased. Her work, otherwise, It is a thing of beauty. But LFB, like all of us, is just human and like any human imperfect. we all have things we can do better. I think this is one. Possibly in her case the only one.

[misclic]

yeap . .. that seems evelutionary - mechanicly logical .. but why ? in so many videos keep talkin about lizard, libic & cortex
i love the human -social referencies ... the mask is too risky -simplistic coment in my opinion ..but probably its just my compresion wirin