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The other thing that religions know is we're not just brains, we are also bodies.

Now those parts are also physical parts, of course, brains, bodies and legs and things, but they aren't so important, actually.

And in my research and my teaching, I found that these students, no matter how happy they were with their original success of getting into the school, two weeks later their brains were focused, not on the privilege of being there, nor on their philosophy or physics, but on the competition, the workload, the hassles, stresses, complaints.

If we can find a way of becoming positive in the present, then our brains work even more successfully as we're able to work harder, faster and more intelligently.

We need to be able to reverse this formula so we can start to see what our brains are actually capable of.

We find that meditation allows your brain to get over the cultural ADHD that we've been creating by trying to do multiple tasks at once and allows our brains to focus on the task at hand.

And that was the brains and the nervous system of those communities.

And the next steps, like nervous systems and brains, took a few hundred million years.

So this is just one example of a new era really in cognitive neuroscience where we're beginning to understand psychological processes like how you remember or imagine or even think in terms of the actions of the billions of individual neurons that make up our brains.

So we trick our brains, because our brain simply doesn't accept the fact that it doesn't really make sense.

Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

As we go through our everyday lives, visual and experiential things exert this invisible authority over our brains at all times.

But we're not going to record my brain or your brain or your teachers' brains, we're going to use our good friend the cockroach.

Not just because I think they're cool, but because they have brains very similar to ours.

So if you learn a little bit about how their brains work, we're going to learn a lot about how our brains work.

I'm going to put away the clicker for a second because I want to engage your brains in this.

Electrical pulses form the thoughts in our brains.

Now Edward de Bono argued that our brains are pattern matching machines.

Condition our brains to malfunction at the sight of success.

I started doing some research then, and this was the 25-year journey, and started finding out that actually human beings as primates have far smaller stomachs than should be the size for our body weight and far larger brains.

They wanted to know: Do these guys have brains that are somehow structurally, anatomically different from the rest of ours?

There was, however, one really interesting and telling difference between the brains of the memory champions and the control subjects that they were comparing them to.

When they put these guys in an fMRI machine, scanned their brains while they were memorizing numbers and people's faces and pictures of snowflakes, they found that the memory champions were lighting up different parts of the brain than everyone else.

They work because they're based on some pretty basic principles about how our brains work.

So Steve and I, through mathematical analysis, propose that there's actually a very simple phenomenon at the root of this, which lies in our brains.

Because when you think of how much data's coming into our brains, we're trying to take in as much data in a day as people used to take in in a lifetime.

It happens moment by moment in their real lives, and their minds are being formed and their brains are being specialized in something other than what is happening with their typical peers.

It's so easy to think of technology as a metaphor for memory, but our brains are not perfect storage devices like technology.

And I rather think of our brains as biased curators of our memory, you know?

You know, if this is so, it occurred to me that maybe, just maybe, the primary objective of our brains is to serve our dignity.

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