Joseph LeDoux is a neuroscientist whose research is primarily focused on survival circuits, including their impacts on emotions such as fear and anxiety. His latest book "The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains" is now available.
here we go Joe thank you thank you for being here really appreciate it now it's pleasure to be here
this is a fascinating subject I've been really looking forward to talking to you because uh the
conscious mind and how we how we evolved our conscious mind how we have our conscious mind
I mean that is uh one of the more unique things about being a person it is how did it happen oh
well it's only a four billion year story is the subtitle we have some time good so shall I tell
you how I got sure into it and uh where how I ended up thinking about that problem so I've been working
on how the brain detects and responds to danger for most of my scientific career a little bit before
that I'd actually studied consciousness and these people who have their brains split apart to control
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