The successful podcast Hidden Brain, heard on many radio stations in the United States and popular as a podcast among millions of listeners, is the life project of journalist and broadcaster Shankar Vedantam, as well as his attempt to understand the unconscious patterns that influence our behavior. Every week he looks for answers to questions such as: how voluntary are the choices we make? How do you encourage multitasking? Does such a thing as casual sex even exist?
Thanks to his sympathetic approach, you will find the human brain almost touching; a controlled system that makes all kinds of clumsy choices based on uncertainty and trauma. And that works wonderfully relative. Because what can we actually do about it, that we are programmed that way?
A version of this article also appeared in NRC Handelsblad on 5 March 2022
A version of this article also appeared in NRC in the morning of March 5, 2022
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