Ep85 "What is a Thought?"

What do honeybee brains have in common with human brains -- and with the AI that beat the world's best Go player? What simple algorithm has been hiding inside brains for 100s of millions of years? When babies throw food from a high chair again and again, are they being mischievou ...  Show more

re you the author of your thoughts or just their witness? Do we simply watch our thoughts like we watch unfolding dream plots? What if the most familiar thing you experience — yourself — isn’t really there? If that’s the case, why does the experience of the self feel so solid tha ...  Show more

Where does our thinking come from? And what are the generators of our thoughts? An episode that will bring enlightenment to the table and leave you with a greater knowledge of your brain. 

Your thinking is the beginning and end of your suffering. This episode will give you answers to questions you've had your entire life. We can only feel what we think, how is that possible? What is the core of overthinking? This episode will take you on a journey of discovery of t ...  Show more

Sometimes my mind can be like an untamed animal running loose, and wreaking havoc with its wild thoughts.  It creates so much noise and clutter in my mind.  For, that is the nature of the mind.  To think.  To analyze.  To assess.  To calculate.  To judge.  And so we have ...  Show more

What is a mind? Can we pin it down? To what do the pronouns "I" and "you" really refer? Is the mind different to its contents? What do we know and what are we struggling still to understand?