Memory & Perception
Find out how mental factories work on memory and perception.
4.4 (30)
63 mins
Journey through the wonders of the human brain by understanding its uniqueness, evolutionary strides, and the power of physical exercise. Discover how instincts and early learning shape our world, and why our minds crave causal connections that all help in enhancing our memory and worldview.
Ep 1:
Welcome to the Decade of the Brain
Step into the 1990s neuroscience explosion that rewired everything we knew—discover how infant brains build trillions of connections, and why movement itself may be the secret root of thought.
Ep 2:
Wired From Birth: Genes, Movement, and the Infant Mind
Your genome holds four billion years of wisdom, but it doesn't control everything—explore how instinct and learning collaborate, and why babies are secretly brilliant physicists testing reality from birth.
Ep 3:
When Illusions Rule the Mind
From frenzied gull chicks to bananas that make you nauseous, uncover how supernormal stimuli, hidden associative thinking, and visual illusions reveal a brain that constructs—rather than records—reality.
Ep 4:
Memory's Hidden Architecture and Chemistry's Revolution
Trace memory's fractured architecture through the haunting case of a man who couldn't remember, then follow a mystical dream that sparked the chemical revolution transforming psychiatry forever.
Ep 5:
Nature, Nurture, and the Infant Scientist
Are we shaped by genes or experience? Explore the delicate Baldwin Effect balancing instinct and learning, then meet the infant scientists conducting spoon-dropping experiments to decode gravity itself.
Ep 6:
Hijacked Instincts and the Journey's Final Synthesis
Modern food and media exploit ancient evolutionary wiring built for scarcity—then this journey's final chapter weaves together memory, perception, and instinct into one unified portrait of the human mind.
Discussions (21)
Andrew
Level 5 · 10 mo agoEating its own brain. Wild.
Dustin
Level 4 · 10 mo agoThat sea squirt eating its own brain is wild. Shows why you gotta keep moving. If you stop grinding you basically lose your mind. Movement is the only thing keeping us from being plants.
Harry
Level 8 · 10 mo agoSea squirts are better GMs.
