Mri T2 Of A Normal Brain Mid Sagittal View.

Crazy Logic

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 27, 2016

From crazy dreams to self-preserving impulses, the human brain reaches all sorts of conclusions for seemingly illogical reasons.

Eliezer Sternberg, a resident neurologist at Yale/New Haven Hospital and the author of NeuroLogic: The Brain's Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior (Pantheon, 2016), finds that the mind's most illogical symptoms follow the logic determined by the brain's coordination of conscious and unconscious thought.

Have you ever driven to work, only to get there + realize you have NO memory of the drive? @EJSternberg's explains. pic.twitter.com/x2Yjjlz1iT
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) January 27, 2016

@BrianLehrer Is the trick that Noah was the one with the ark, not Moses?
— Jesse Lansner (@Jesselansner) January 27, 2016

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