What is a 'controlled hallucination”? | The Power of Brains with Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett

“Your brain’s most important job is not thinking”
“A 3lb blob between your ears that makes you human”
“All brains are prediction engines”

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.

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LFB and Damian Milton, with Antonio Damasio running a very close third, have between them provided the crucial insights that give us our most up to date, most coherent understanding of what it means to be autistic... and as a result of what it means to be human.

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8:10 + ...is it because of the budget that we cant be rational [ or fully rational ] when scared or threatened ? .. please, i d like some answers ..ty