StarTalk Podcast: Science of the Brain with Neil deGrasse Tyson
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- Psychedelic drugs, dreams, mental health awareness, understanding our reality, and more - Neil deGrasse Tyson, neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD, and first-time comic co-host Jackie Hoffman answer fan-submitted questions about neuroscience.
You’ll learn how male and female brains differ. We explore the colorful world of psychedelic drugs. Find out why taking psychedelics is like putting your brain into a dream state. We discuss how psychedelic drugs allow unfiltered information from the world to enter your brain. Heather shocks Jackie by revealing that everyone is hallucinating most of the time as we try and break down the nature of our reality. We also discuss the idea that some people claim to see insight into the universe and beyond when experimenting with psychedelics.
Next, investigate our reality and if it’s possible that everything we experience is a figment of our imagination. As part of the discussion we take a look back at movies like The Matrix and Total Recall. You’ll explore turning certain sensory information into different sensory information, like when a blind person turns visual information into audio information for the brain to process. You’ll also discover more about synesthesia.
Finally, we explore the current state of mental health awareness. Dive into dreams as we break down the importance, or non-importance, of what your dreams are about. Neil and Heather point out the merit and flaws of Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. You’ll find out what it means to “focus” on something. We ponder whether or not brain transplants will ever become a reality. We also wonder if you’ll be able to implant memories. All that, plus, we ask, “Do you need a brain to feel pain?”
This episode originally aired on March 22, 2019.
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How have you used your brain today?
I planted a lime tree this morning
I havent.....yet
i woke up drank some water then got on youtube.
StarTalk
Thinking about cosmos season 2
We need chuck!
Neil, I want to thank you. I know more about biology, physics, astronomy from last two years on youtube, than from many years in school.
Łukasz Chojnacki I think you choosing to listen this helps you learn
Agree, and I'm really grateful to this man
Also I recommend watching Big Brains at BAM
I agree with Sam. This is a casual forum on a subject that interests you. Nothing forced here. Makes a big difference in how well it's retained. Although... you may very well have failed to comprehend any of that without the fundamental knowledge gained from prior years. I think we sometimes forget the importance of things we learn at the early stages.
I really miss the old co host., Charlie I believe hes great co star niel makes the show but Charlie brings it to another lever
Dummy
"The brain is the most important organ in the body!"
-according to the brain
boy thats trippy!
Dummm
The brain is biased like that.
Heart: Yeah, sure buddy.
Lungs: How's that oxygen?
The arrogance 😒
I love having a personal astrophysicist.
seeing Chuck would have been Nice
☝️I see what you did here!
@UCXzXmkp1VXyw1POd-x5SLLw what exactly is your problem / question / point?
my point was not this foggy. some humans exist out there who understood it
Jeeez im slow, well got it eventually lol
@@ilarious5729 His name is Chuck Nice
WhatchasaynuhChuck?!!!
I love Heather she knows her stuff and has a Great sense of humor great show thanks Neil!
...I would actually marry her right on the spot.
What an incredible woman!
As someone who has had shared dreams with people, as well as conversations in these dreams that we were able to confirm in waking reality, I think the answer to what dreams are is a lot more complex than just random firing of neurons.
not even 10 minutes in and I'm already a fan of the co-host "now for a question thats close to my heart; "how do psychedelics work in the brain?""
I am one of these people who is very open about my personal experiences with my mental illness diagnoses. I think it goes a long way with helping people understand me and others like me. I also feel it helps to educate people and removes fear and stereotypes. Knowledge is a powerful thing and it should be shared. If people want to judge me for my brain being broken, that's on them, not me. Those of us who suffer from mental illness should not be afraid to be honest with themselves and others about it. It's not our fault, but it is our responsibility to seek help for it, as difficult as it can be at times. No matter what your personal situation though, there are resources for you.
It’s crazy how basic or even advanced chemistry somehow became biology. I mean when you boil things down to the basics it’s just chemical reactions but for some reason these sets of chemical reactions come together to form life as we know it truly truly amazing.
Its crazy how with all the advanced technology and knowledge we have its still a complete and utter mystery. We can do gene editing, cloning, split an atom, land on the moon etc but cannot make chemistry become biology and begin to self replicate. We may never know how this happened
A 2 hour podcast with her would have been nice.
junior25760. : HOW MUCH PROPAGANDA & LIES , CAN U STAN .? . 😎😂🤣😂😎🔥🚀🚀🚀🚀.....
THANK U 🙏🏾 .!!!!!! . SMART , THATS WHO U ARE .!!!!! . 👍...
@@belkys120 Idiot.
Love the shows about understanding the brain. Please do more of these.
Watching this on acid, in fact I’ve been watching for the past 5+ hours straight of star talk, Neil has both grounded me and allowed my mind to expand
Edit: I thought a lot less time was happily passed with Startalk than I have actually spent… Neil Degrasse Tyson, my personal trip sitter rofl
GIVE. 👏 ME. 👏 COSMOS.👏 SEASON. 👏 TWO.👏
*Or I swear to God...*
"There is no God - you need to rip that band-aid off quick!" - Rick Sanchez, "Rick and Morty".
Or we burn the Hayden planetarium to the ground..
@@carlosalba7790 ;)
Does anyone know when season 2 expected to air? I trust the commentors over google search for this kind of thing. Thanks
Didnt he say in the Spring
3 awesome hosts and a fascinating topic - I could listen to this stuff all day
Some time ago, I stopped watching Star Talk because I couldn't stand Chuck Nice, but I'm really getting into this show now. I really hope they continue making it :)
Heather Berlin is so interesting, I want to see her more on Star Talk. Also did she write a book, I need to read her books.
We’ve had her on a bunch of times! Search for her on our website for more.
36:11 I actually just had a nightmare of getting caught out in the woods with a bear, thinking I could sneak past, but it saw me and started charging me and I realized that there was absolutely nowhere for me to hide or escape. i woke up in fear and with a deep sense of dread all over my body. I'm pretty sure I'll never make such a mistake in real life after that terrible experience
This man has the loveliest voice for a podcast
Everything Neil Degrasse Tyson does is super interesting
Because of Star Talk, my commute home is bearable! Thank you! 🖤🌌🌠👩🔬
I hope you visit this topic another time soon. New information is coming down the pipe at an incredible rate. Please consider doing a show on research tools such as FMRI, PET, fluorescent proteins, genetic contribution and meta studies.
Awareness never changes, No matter the happenings going on. Only tye activity of the self-contraction deludes us into other perspectives. Consciousness is what we truly are.
usually I like chuck but jackie is hilarious, lol id like to see her more on here
This was an informative and fun episode at the same time. Always charming and smart Heather Berlin and Jackie Hoffman with a very subtle but very funny humor.
Love Heather's hair.
get rid of the lightning round thing. i'd rather hear one question fully explored than a bunch of quick questions with short answers.
DragonHunterG ehh, I think its fine personally. Allows them to cover a lot of subjects in little amount of time. like getting a Snapple fact.
It's become like star talk's thing feels like a bonus round for me! I get excited in seeing what will come about with the intelligent answer when rushed.
Maybe they can do a query addition on previous sound bits?
Cosmic addition lighting round?
Disagree. If they're out of time may as well go hard.
Please bring doctor mike as a guest to this show and have a section of medicine! Please, please, please...please:(
Get dr. Mike fans tweet this to them en masse, i don't have twitter and im lazy but would like to see this 😱
Being AWARE is not brain activity!?? Here I am being Aware of the happenings around me, i pinch myself and am Aware of the pain.
My dream understanding (I took several psychology and a neurobiology at UCF) is that if you wake up from the REM stage of sleep and consciously recall the dream, you'll remember it again. You dream in REM, after stages 1&2 light sleep, 3 deep sleep, in REM your body is paralyzed to keep safe while dreaming. Sleep paralysis, an anxiety symptom in which you wake up before you can move and end up falling back asleep, can be scary or frustrating. For me, after looking at my arms thinking "I really need to get up now" I'd end up oversleeping. Luckily, this only seemed to happen when I slept at my parents' house while my primary home was my college apartment, so I assume it was some sort of away-from-home thing. Knock on wood the problem hasn't continued. Our brains are amazingly intricate systems.
It's so amazing to listen Heather. She's explaining everything so well and interestingly. It's for sure that she's a great scientist but she's also a great speaker.
Thanks again DR. Tyson! I always enjoy Dr. Berlin. Ms. Hoffman was a fun guest.
Dreams...I am a disabled veteran who is dealing with PTSD. I was a Paralegal in the Army and I had a case where a man from my unit murdered a friend of mine. I dealt with nightmares for quite a while running through how she was killed. And it has been quite a while since I had a nightmare about this but I still remember it distinctly to this day. But since then I don't believe I have had a dream, either. Since summer of 1991, I have not slept longer than 5 hours a night.I am sorry that there is a lot to deal with in this post.
This is awesome. Feel completely at home here.
Love this episode, very insightful and thought provoking
I just started watching startalk.. I gotta say this one of my favorite. It's super interesting how are brain works! I wish then can do another one with her.
"Yes, everything is a brain experience in your life, and you couldn't have had a plausible plot in the movie The Matrix unless that was true..." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
This has to be some of his best scientific reasoning.
Truly great episode! Enjoyed it very much indeed! Thanks Neil and co!
11:32 great answer on how things you hallucinate are all coming from you, it's only that you can no longer tell it's internal and not external
I'd like to know the truth about what stage and how many days or weeks it takes for a fetus to feel pain. Some say it's very soon after conception while others say it's longer. I'd rather hear from a true expert like the guest in this podcast rather than from people who think the know but don't and not from people with an agenda.
As soon as the babies nervous system is developed..... It could feel pain
Ohh, bring them every week please! thank Neil! Always love the neuroscienc topics! Big shout out from Portugal
Neuroscience is hefty ficionado tooic
I wanted to share an experience. I watched a live version with your neuroscience panel that included actress Mayim Bialik. I watch all of your panel discussions and Cosmic Queries. Getting to the point, on this one discussion the topic of people in comas came up. And I was a little miffed at the pragmatic attitude regarding the subject of some people defying the coma and coming out,,, Recently my sister's stepson was in a horrific vehicle accident. The result of course was that he was on life support, in a coma, the doctors were saying he had no brain activity and no chance of recovery. My sister and her family are filled with Faith, I told her, pleaded with her to NOT pull the plug on this boy. Well at this point he is in rehab, working on his motor skills and speech, he is fully aware and suffers only from the neurological path of recovering his skills. All the doctors could do is shake their heads. They had no answer of course. My message? Stop telling families to kill their loved ones. Doctors are NOT always right. Some may thank Faith and God, regardless of the reasons for recovery I shudder at the amount of people killed because no one questions the doctors. And in this particular case it was the direct result of the live panel discussion and the remarks made during it. Neuroscientists may be able to flippantly dismiss the rare recovery,,,but each patient has a family and all the statistics in the world mean NOTHING to these families. It's a life, it's a son or daughter, wife or husband that means EVERYTHING to these families. And my sister's stepson is a PRIME EXAMPLE. I am glad I convinced her to stay the course. It took weeks and weeks of staying the course despite doctors saying he was brain dead. Well he's not.
This is one of the most interesting CZcams contribute I ever experienced. Thanks a lot.
Neil, glad to see you again. Very interesting episode with very good guests and questions. I like your jokes, thank you that you keep things understandable with them. Keep it up
Most of my dreams nowadays that I remember are just random events taking place where I work, which sometimes causes me to not know if I dreamt something or if it actually happened. Other dreams have been either nonsense or awesome. I've had lots of zombie dreams, and the things that I've seen in my dreams are so detailed.
I once had a dream about Digimon, and the monsters were in my dream and they were more realistic and it was amazing.
Sometimes people know they are talking to themselves and do so to relieve stress. I would like to hear more about that.
These ladies are great ❤❤❤❤
Go Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. Awesome as always Neil
Heather is always a great guest.
Ok someone needs to make an animated short of Neil fighting a lobster 😂
oml this would be pleasing in every possible way
I like how she called him sadistic lol... I got the thought of NDT taking this as his most manliest thing to for his wife besides opening the pickle jar
BRING OUT THE DANCING LOBSTERS!!!!
This was definitely one of the best episodes of Star Talk. Very great information!!!
Really love this episode, I think this might be one of the best StarTalk session.
The guest is great
Hey Neil love your videos. Always learning new things.
Best episode to blaze and watch.
More with these ladies please
Interesting to see the different focus of viewers as they comment from visual cues rather than the discussion points???
One of my favourite subjects
My brother was diagnosed as schizophrenic over 20 years ago. He converses with people we can't see nearly every day. It is usually people he has actually known in real life. Sometimes he might have a heated argument with his girlfriend who is on the other side of town, sometimes it will be with our deceased Father.
Sometimes I wonder whether a different perception of space-time has something to do with it.
MrAnperm actually it’s the part of the brain that has recall. We all hear several voices in our heads but we recognize them as thoughts. Your brother hears those thoughts but he hears those thoughts as if they are outside of him.
Aneurysm survivor here, very lucky and had it clipped before it burst.
13:15 got me chills from there man
As a programmer I am totally behind the use of "reinstanciate" or whatever you spell that.
Lol same
Great Talk with Heather she's awesome!!!
Out of all the brainwitches... this is my favorite! She explains so well and is so honest...
I'm sure she'd love being called a brain witch...
Any data,internally or externally motivated,
quantifiable,specific,measurable,,must be reliable,verifiable,by replicated sources.So however you want to play with this,,,anchor it in science.One more time.Anchor it.Thats why,I love science.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one (even an animal) hears it, then no it does not make a sound. It makes a vibration. The vibration has to be picked up by a working ear and sent to the brain which translates it into the sensory experience we call sound. So if only a snake, which has no ears, or a totally deaf person is close enough, then the vibration is felt, not heard, so it is not a sound.
My dad was blind from birth AND deaf in 1 ear. Everything else was superhuman.
Superbaby? Poor grandma...
Really enjoyed this topic and the guests!
Very brave to have that conversation in the beginning, kinda sad that it needs to be had.
I love the fact that they did, largely because Neil had a gender theorist on a couple of years ago, and he seemed to have no problem with the things being said. I was afraid he'd betrayed the scientific method...
EXCELENTE!!! ame este programa super interesante
Love you Heather and Neil.
I find these so enjoyable.
Honestly, this was so good
I really like her please make More episodes with her she is intelligent
For the Nerds out there, live long and star talker.
Informative and engaging.
Dreams are a threat rehersal. This would explain why I constantly have nightmares due to PTSD.
9:10 keep wiggling your hands like that while talking about lsd please.
22:00 synesthesia is awesome. For me, music is like watching movies, or at least seeing trippy colors and motions. Best abnormality ever. Music without lyrics tell amazing stories!
Very interesting!! Thank you!!
Just now, I saw Bob Seger album in the left corner. Respect for that, he is a great musican :D
The Science talk is On!
Thank You!
That old lady a gangsta XDDD She's my new role model
Thanks the topic was stimulating 😃
7:34 I think another difference is that when a man is angry he's more likely to try hurt you physically, but if a woman's angry she's more likely to try to hurt you emotionally🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ that's just my experiences though
I like this, which one is more painful? Worst? Which one can we get over easier or are they both connected by the experience in the brain?
Awesome Sauce!! Two thumbs up G.. The G is for genius. ✌💜😎
22:04
1 is navy blue
2 is cool red
3 is orange
4 is cool red but warmer than 2
5 is a desaturated cyan
6 is lawn green
7 is orange
8 is chickpea yellow
9 is a richer yellow
10 is sky blue and white
11 is black
You the best Neil!
Hey! Thanks for the show!
I would love to see Eben Alexander come on the show to explore his near death experience in relation to his medical records.
Thank you
Everything has to be internally experienced if you believe that it is through your mind
All 3 of them. Stars!💗💗⭐⭐
2 Great stimulating movies everyone should watch! "Idiocracy" and "Dude where's my car?" (learn the secrets of the continuum transfunctioner) 🤯
Would love to see Science lovers like Jim Carrey, Micheal Stevens, Stephen Colbert (again because why not).
then this is likely why most of us actually hear the voice of authors we are familiar with when reading their work. Because at a very early age we were reading along with someone reading to us.
This was excellent!
Great content! Wow!
Super awesome episode.
Very interesting! I wanna know more!!!
Probably way too much talk about the sidekick, but, I like her!