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TED2015 | Truth and Dare

Session 2: What Are We Thinking?

  • Introduction: Chris Anderson
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    Session introduction
  • Laura Schulz
    0:01:27
    Developmental behavior studies spearheaded by Laura Schulz are changing our notions of how children learn.
  • Jason Padgett
    0:23:13
    After sustaining a head injury, Jason Padgett sees the world as a mesh of fractal shapes. Now he shares his visions with eye-popping geometric drawings.
  • Jay Herratti (TEDx)
    0:37:06
    TEDActive host and TEDx director Jay Herratti recognizes TEDx events happening every day, all over the world.
  • David Eagleman
    0:41:59
    David Eagleman decodes the mysteries of the tangled web of neurons and electricity that make our minds tick -- and also make us human.
  • "Wiggly things"
    1:04:55
    Short video interstitial
  • Donald Hoffman
    1:06:11
    Donald Hoffman studies how our visual perception, guided by millions of years of natural selection, authors every aspect of our everyday reality.
  • Daniel Kish
    1:29:44
    Daniel Kish expands the perceptual toolbox of both blind and sighted humans by teaching echolocation -- the ability to observe our surroundings via sound.

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