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

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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