EPISODE 96 | Inside Out: Neuroscience & Memory (Because Reasons 7)

Guest: Dr. Gary Simonds, neurosurgeon, professor and author of Death's Pale Flag

What happens when a lauded neurosurgeon starts thinking about ghosts and the scientific approach to the paranormal? You get a novel like Death's Pale Flag. This is the fictional work by Gary R. Simonds, who spends a lot of his time thinking about the brain, how it works, how it doesn't work, and areas that still need to be explored with open minds. 

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SECTIONS

1. 02:45 - Physician, heal thyself
2. 05:01 - The brain is a computer, sort of, but not really
3. 12:14 - The subjectivity of the inner voice
4. 17:00 - Not a free for all
5. 22:07 - Internal-extrenal confabulation
6. 27:00 - Death's Pale Flag
7. 36:35 - Science and the paranormal

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info:

• Gary R Simonds website
• Death's Pale Flag by Gary Simonds
• Building Resilience in Neurosurgical Residents: A Primer by Gary Simonds
• Thriving in Healthcare: A Positive Approach to Reclaim Balance and Avoid Burnout in Your Busy Life by Gary Simonds
• The Thriving Physician: How to Avoid Burnout by Choosing Resilience Throughout Your Medical Career by Gary Simonds
• How Human Memory Works on How Stuff Works
• Neural Plasticity and Memory at the National Library of Medicine
• Unreliable Memory in Psychology Today
• The Science of Ghosts in Science News Explores
• Ghost Busted: When Science Meets the Supernatural in Discover Magazine
• Ghosts Aren't Real: 4 Scientific Explanations for Paranormal Activity video by SciShow
• Brilliant Scientists Are Open-Minded about Paranormal Stuff, So Why Not You? in Scientific American
• A scientific approach to the paranormal TEDx video by Carrie Poppy
• The Dangers of Keeping an Open Mind on the Ratio Scientiae Blog

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