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140 | Dean Buonomano on Time, Reality, and the Brain

2021-03-29 · 88 min · episode 140 · 9 entities

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"Time" and "the brain" are two of those things that are somewhat mysterious, but it would be hard for us to live without. So just imagine how much fun it is to bring them together. Dean Buonomano is one of the leading neuroscientists studying how our brains perceive time, which is part of the bigger issue of how we construct models of the physical world around us. We talk about how the brain tells time very differently than the clocks that we're used to, using different neuronal mechanisms for different timescales. This brings us to a very interesting conversation about the nature of time itself — Dean is a presentist, who believes that only the current moment qualifies as "real," but we don't hold that against him. Support Mindscape on  Patreon . Dean Buonomano received his Ph.D. from the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Texas Medical School, Houston. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA. His lab studies how the brain perceives time and constructs models of the external physical world. He is the author of  Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape our Lives  and  Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time . Lab web site UCLA web page Google Scholar publications Amazon.com author page Wikipedia Twitter