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Ep99 "Why do brains sometimes make things up?"

Ep99 "Why do brains sometimes make things up?"

Update: 2025-04-07
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Your brain occasionally cooks up falsehoods that you believe entirely, but why does this confabulation happen, and how frequently? What does this tell us about memory, truth-telling, and your life as a story that drifts? And what does this have to do with a paralyzed Supreme Court judge, a blind person who insists she can see, whether Nelson Mandela did or did not die in the 1980s, or whether Curious George had a tail?

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Ep99 "Why do brains sometimes make things up?"

Ep99 "Why do brains sometimes make things up?"

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