Episode: 6 Xenogenesis - Dawn: II: Family Chapters 5 & 6

Show Notes

In Episode 06, Richard and Michael discuss the wonderous organ that the brain is, the problems and quirks associated with it, and how beautifully Lilith told Kahguyaht off.

Timestamps

00:00:32 - Intro
00:02:40 - Predictions of Chapter 5
00:03:17 - Chapter 5 introduction starts
00:11:10 - Like in a human family - close the door and don’t get involved in others argument
00:13:00 - Kahguyaht being condescending
00:15:14 - The best response that Lilith could give back to Kahguyaht
00:17:00 - Memories and memorising things [1 - 4]
00:19:40 - Extracting images from brain [5, 6]
00:22:48 - Brain development and consciousness [7 - 9]
00:24:29 - Chapter 5 introduction restarts
00:26:35 - Richard and Michael’s interpretation of Kahguyahts behaviour
00:30:26 - English language hard
00:33:08 - Michael discusses a book “Do Not Harm” by neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, MD
00:41:00 - Split brain experiments [11, 12]
00:42:45 - Alien hand syndrome [13, 14]
00:46:08 - Chapter 5 introduction restarts again
00:47:31 - Hyperthymesia and Eidetic memory [15, 16]
00:50:25 - We talk about what we remember well and what we can’t remember at all
00:52:40 - Neurological syndromes affecting facial recognition [17, 18]
00:54:55 - Predictions to Chapter 6
00:55:19 - Chapter 6 summary
00:58:55 - Lilith is tough piece of a human being
01:03:30 - Chapter 6 summary finishes
01:03:50 - Chapter 6 predictions
01:04:55 - False memories and false confessions [19 - 22]
01:14:24 - Outro

References

Emotions and memories:

• [1] https://bcs.mit.edu/news-events/news/delicate-balance-between-positive-and-negative-emotion - Article talking about amygdala - a small piece of brain responsible for emotions.
• [2] https://www.neuroscientificallychallenged.com/blog/know-your-brain-amygdala - More information about amygdala

Types of memory:

• [3] https://human-memory.net/episodic-semantic-memory/ - Episodic vs semantic memory
• [4] https://www.sparknotes.com/psychology/psych101/memory/section2/ - Brief description of different types of memory

Extracting images from your brain:

• [5] https://news.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/ - 2011 article about reconstructing images shown to people based on their brain activity.
• [6] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02207-1 - Nature article about reconstructing images from brain.

Brain development:

• [7] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989000/ - Review article on the basics of brain development.
• [8] https://www.nature.com/articles/pr200950 - A very good article from 2009 about the Emergence of Human Consciousness.
• [9] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.863.4999&rep=rep1&type=pdf - A link to scientific report mentioned in the article speaking about baby consciousness: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/04/when-does-your-baby-become-conscious
• [10] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-consciousness/ - What is consciousness - some reading for a starter.

Split brain experiments:

• [11] https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/roger-sperrys-split-brain-experiments-1959-1968 - Roger Sperry and his experiments on cutting the corpus callosum.
• [12] https://www.nature.com/news/the-split-brain-a-tale-of-two-halves-1.10213 - Another article talking about the subject of split brain experiments.

Alien hand syndrome:

• [13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome - Wikipedia article on the syndrome.
• [14] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4059570/ - Short case article on the syndrome.

Hyperthymesia and eidetic memory:

• [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia - What is hyperthymesia.
• [16] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4720782/ - article discussed by Richard on the topic of memory.

Failure to recognise faces:

• [17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion - Wikipedia article about recognising faces of close people as imposters.
• [18] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia - Wikipedia article about the failure of recognising people faces.

The issue with brain - creating false memories:

• [19] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24286258 - BBC article about the topic of false memories.
• [20] https://www.businessinsider.com/science-of-false-memories-2017-12?r=US&IR=T - Another article on the false memories.
• [21] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/psychologist-explains-why-people-confess-crimes-they-didn-t-commit - Science article about why people confess to crimes they did not commit.
• [22] https://www.wisconsinwatch.org/2017/07/common-interrogation-technique-suspected-of-causing-false-confessions/ - Article about interrogation technique causing false confessions

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