#146 The Most Complicated Thing in the Universe: What is the Brain?
3/8/20262 hr 25 min
Matthew Cobb is a British zoologist and Emeritus professor of zoology at the University of Manchester.
Get his book, The Idea of the Brain: A HistoryCloser to Truth's Map of Consciousness: loc.closertotruth.com/mapTIMESTAMPS:0:00 The Heart or the Head?4:13 Medicine in the Ancient World12:25 Why Don’t We Accept Evidence?18:34 From Ancient to Modern Understanding29:29 When Did We Reach a Consensus on the Brain?37:41 Electricity in the Brain39:58 Our Metaphors for the Brain44:15 Is the Brain Segmented or Whole?01:05:20 Why is Speech Governed by the Left Hemisphere?01:18:55 Why is the Brain Split Into Two Hemispheres?01:23:06 Where in...
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Alex O'Connor· Host1:00
Matthew Cobb, welcome to the show.
Matthew Cobb· Guest1:01
Great to be here, Alex. Thanks for the invitation.
Alex O'Connor· Host1:04
Tell me, where is fancy bred? [laughs] In the heart or in the head?
Matthew Cobb· Guest1:10
Yeah, so for viewers who don't know, that's from Shakespeare, and it's one of the things that I, I thought was really interesting that in one of these Shakespeare plays, there's one of these songs in the middle of it, those bits you skip over at school, in which, uh, somebody sings, "Tell me where is fancy bred: or in the heart or in the head?" And