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Episode 31 - Dr Mark Changizi
The Reclaim Pod
English - February 22, 2021 13:00 - 2 hours - 85.8 MBSociety & Culture News Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Alex talks to theoretical cognitive scientist Dr Mark Changizi about why governments around the world has pursued a policy as destructive as lockdown with such determination and alacrity. In this wide-ranging interview, they discuss lockdown as a psychological phenomenon and compare is to other mass-hysterias that have taken public consciousness hostage.
Dr Mark Changizi is a multi-disciplinary theorist who has worked in a number of different fields in a fascinating and career including cognition, physics, maths, neurobiology, answering questions as diverse as why we see illusions, why we like music and why we get pruny fingers in the rain.