Making and Breaking Habits

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To honk or not to honk?

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Humans are uniquely storytelling creatures who can narrate the events of their own lives. Some argue that our lives derive meaning from our ability to see them as an ongoing story. So is telling our own life story the key to a meaningful life? Is it the events that matter, or how we describe them? Does it matter if we’re unreliable narrators who fudge the facts to make ourselves look good? Josh and Ray tell tales with Helena de Bres from Wellesley College, author of "Philosophy in the First Person."

Narrative and the Meaning of Life

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Gilbert Ryle and the Map of the Mind

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Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976) was a British philosopher of mind and language best known for his book The Concept of Mind. He developed a novel argument against Cartesian dualism, which he called “the doctrine of the ghost in the machine”—the idea that our minds and bodies are separate substances. Ryle introduced a new term for the problem with this argument: Descartes was making a “category mistake.” But what exactly is a category mistake, and how bad is it to make one? If Cartesian dualism is false, what is the relationship between our minds and our bodies? And what does it have to do with the distinction between “knowing-how” and “knowing-that”? Josh and Ray turn their minds to Michael Kremer from the University of Chicago.

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Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (2025) extended

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Arvind Narayanan (2025) extended

The Examined Year: 2025

This week on Neurotalk, we talk to Cynthia Moss about her early experience working in a mental institute, the best way to catch a bat, and what bat place cells tell us about our own brains!

Cynthia Moss is a professor of psychology and systems neuroscience at the University of Maryland at College Park. 

To view the bat videos mentioned in the interview, visit Professor Moss's webpage here: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/batlab/movies.html

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Neurotalk, the interview series for Stanford University's week neuroscience seminar, and Brains & Bourbon, a casual cocktails and chat series featuring prominent members of our neuroscience community.

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