The Neuroscience of Memory, Morality & More | Yale Professor of Psychology Paul Bloom (Part 1)

What makes you, you? Join us for a riveting guide to all that we have learned since modern science began probing the mysteries of the mind.
As both one of the world’s foremost psychologists and a renowned teacher of the subject, Yale and Toronto professor Paul Bloom is well placed to take us through the mysteries of the human psyche. Nothing is more familiar and yet less understood than the human mind. It defines the experience of being human, and yet its workings contain some of the deepest mysteries ever encountered. How does a three-pound lump of grey-ish meat give rise to conscious experience? What is the function of emotions such as disgust, gratitude and shame? What makes us kind? What makes us cruel? What makes us happy?
Many of these questions now have answers; many others don’t yet; many widely accepted theories are probably wrong. This talk will take us to the very limits of what is known. It will shine new light on all that you take most for granted: everything you think and feel, everything you say and do, everything that makes you who you are.
Praise for Paul Bloom’s The Human Mind:
‘Paul Bloom can always be counted on to take your confident assumptions about humanity and turn them upside down’ - Susan Cain, author of Quiet
Explains the deep and lasting insights from the science of the mind, sifting them from the superficial and the unreproducible. And he does it with the tough mind and gentle style that make all his books such a pleasure to read’ - Steven Pinker
‘The story of the human mind as told by psychology’s best storyteller … From the neuron to the neighbourhood and all points between, Paul Bloom takes us on a fantastic journey - and delivers another gem of a book’ - Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness
Paul Bloom is Professor of Psychology at University of Toronto and the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University. His research explores the psychology of morality, identity and pleasure. Bloom is the recipient of multiple awards and honours, including most recently the million-dollar Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize. He is the author or editor of eight books, including most recently The Sweet Spot.

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I wonder how much of this is 20 years will be introduced as for the longest time we believed x but now we don't believe that at all and the current consensus says...