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Podcast: The Neurodivergent Professor
Episode: KEW Episode 152: The Mind is a Splendid Thing
Description: Have you ever thought about how complex our brains are? Or about how little we seem to really know about the way we think?Like, how can we simultaneously love our family but also they annoy us to no end? I think this dissonance, this capacity to hold to two seemingly oppositional thoughts at the same time is just something we are able to do. What’s weird it that we try to not do this. When we have two opposing thoughts we say we’re ‘confused’, or ‘demented’, or ‘senile’. We have all sorts of negative termi...