The brain thinking about itself: Default mode network explained | Charan Ranganath and Lex Fridman

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Charan Ranganath is a psychologist and neuroscientist at UC Davis, specializing in human memory. He is the author of a new book titled Why We Remember.

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[LexClips]

Guest bio: Charan Ranganath is a psychologist and neuroscientist at UC Davis, specializing in human memory. He is the author of a new book titled Why We Remember.

[fergmeisters]

ineresting how a person with psychosis can also be aware they are experiencing it, but at the same time assume the effects of psychosis

[TakoyakiStore]

It took me a long while to be able to differentiate between my dreams, daydreams, what-if scenarios, things I was going to say but never did, and reality. The breakthrough came when I noticed the flow of time seemed different or out of step with how things progress in reality. A good example was a dream I had about a UFO flying over my parents back yard. I remember calling my mom to see it before it disappeared. She came to the door and exclaimed "well that's weird." For the longest time I thought that actually happened. That is until I realized that at the speed it was going would've just been 3 to 5 seconds, far longer than it would've taken me to see it, call for my mom, have my mom walk from the other side of the house to the back porch, and still be able to get a glimpse of it.

It's been illuminating because you hear of missing time in a lot of UFO, paranormal, or other such high strangeness cases, but all that tells me is that it likely didn't happen and that the person is remembering something like a dream or other such memory of something other than reality. Of course there are other explanations that I'd enjoy ruling out first, but as far as my own personal experience that's the issues I was encountering with distinguishing reality from dreams.

[ericlutz]

Imagine someone imagining you imagining them .. then realizing your not imagining

[lodosdurak]

Damn Lex he was spitting you went on a tangent 🤣

[matthewhartigan]

Wow now I know why I remember people by colors

[peterbroderson]

Max Planck states: "Consciousness is fundamental and matter is derived from Consciousness".
The moment a particle is a wave; it has to be a conscious wave!
Nicola Tesla states, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe,
think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration”

Gravity is the conscious attraction among waves to create the illusion of particles,
and creates our experience-able Universe.
Life is the Infinite Consciousness, experiencing the Infinite Possibilities, Infinitely.
We are "It", experiencing our infinite possibilities in our finite moment.
Our job is to make it interesting!

[piles]

a mixture of physicalism ai and neural mythology, the new state religion.

[shanep]

They do this in the intelligence services.

[Dan-fhkh]

Earth is a brain and we are the Thots, thouths being played out

[mmullen]

Man, Lex loves to ramble about nonsense