spontaneous thoughts
1 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 2, 2021 by Sendhil Mullainathan · across every show →
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Feb 2, 2021 negative
Mullainathan: People mistakenly assign profound meaning to random neurological noise
“I think this is this crazy view we have of the brain is that like, we know that we belch and fart, and we don't attribute deep meaning to belches or farts. But the same belches and farts produced by the firing of our neurons are like, oh, I thought about that.…”