Podcast appearances and mentions of terry deacon

We're self-obsessed, preoccupied with what effort we should be making.  We rarely get around to the questions behind our obsessions: What is a self? What is effort? This is the first in a series that presents a new scientific approach to those big questions as proposed by Berkeley scientist Terry Deacon.

Neuroscience experts, practitioners, research and methods for making brain-friendly organizations and healthy individuals. Listen to Mind Your Noodles!   This is the 23rd episode of the Mind Your Noodles podcast. In this episode Tripp Babbitt interviews Dr. Terry Deacon of the University of California - Berkeley.  A download on how to build a brain-friendly organization is available at MindYourNoodles.com/overview.

This week on Brainwaves, the team discussed employment and mental health and the WISE Ways to Work program run by WISE Employment. The program is a new initiative that helps people living with mental illness prepare to enter the workforce and supports them throughout their journey to paid employment. Our guests this week were Elena Ashley, program manager at WISE Employment, and Terry Deacon, peer coach.To find out more information about the program or to register your interest, you can email wwtw@wiseemployment.com.au or call 0409 188 972. 

Humankind is fascinated by origin stories. We find them everywhere and they come in many forms... every religion has one, science has lots, they're in biographies, and they're even in superhero movies. In this episode, Dr. Terry Deacon, a biological anthropologist at UC Berkeley, guides us through a novel perspective on how life itself might have started. Music Attribution: Constellation - Podington Bear Dreamlike - Kevin Macleod Erratum: Soccer balls have both hexagons and pentagons!

Why is human thought so flexible? Although many features of human brains can be attributed to selection for novel cognitive functions (e.g., for symbolic language), relaxation of selection on other attributes has additionally contributed to de-differentiation of certain brain functions. Here a parallel process is described by Terry Deacon (UC Berkeley) involving domestication and birdsong. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 24978]

Why is human thought so flexible? Although many features of human brains can be attributed to selection for novel cognitive functions (e.g., for symbolic language), relaxation of selection on other attributes has additionally contributed to de-differentiation of certain brain functions. Here a parallel process is described by Terry Deacon (UC Berkeley) involving domestication and birdsong. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 24978]