Brain cell

Like I said, we were talking about this earlier.

I just wish sometimes I could just have one brain cell.

There's been a lot of them around me lately.

I mean, people.

Life would be much

simpler because I wouldn't have to really function.

And the things that would come out of my mouth, even though they made no sense to anybody else, wouldn't matter because I had one brain cell.

Yeah.

[laughs] Oh my God.

What's your team name? Four Brain Cells.

Four Brain Cells, perfect.

Yours is Bock Sucker.

Bird or band? You think it's a band? It's a bird.

We're gonna start with the We Will Rock You stomp, stomp, clap as usual.

Okay.

In 41st place, it's 4 Brain Cells.

And I like to have fun doing it.

Welcome to the Filtered Through a Brain Cell podcast.

Hey, what is up thinkers? Kathy Gibbons here.

Okay, let's start off like we always do by reviewing a bias that we covered earlier in season two called the action bias.

Biology, of course, the study of life.

So molecular neurobiology, the study of the tiny masses that bring our brain cells to life.

Now, this ologist got a bachelor's in biochemistry at UC San Diego and later a PhD in molecular neuroscience at Caltech.

She's also a dancer, a gymnast, a violinist, a TEDx youth speaker, a tech strategist, and a TV host for Voice of America, Al Jazeera America, Seeker, Discovery News, and more.

Yeah, it's all of those good things.

It's all fats and proteins and carbohydrates all smooshed together into a collection of different types of cells.

There's, like, 80 billion neurons, and they're all sort of smooshed together, and there's different types of those neurons, those brain cells, and they're clustered together in different areas, and those different areas have specific functions that all have to work together, and that's sort of what we think of as that, like, the orchestra of the brain as an organ.

But that's, like, not even it.

And I like to have fun doing it.

Welcome to the Filtered Through a Brain Cell podcast.

Hey, what is up, thinkers? Kathy Evans here.

Okay, let's start off this episode by reviewing a type of media bias that we covered earlier in season two called the elite versus populist bias.

This is on only Spotify.

If you can figure out, you know, you can't do that overnight, but if you work at it and you are using your content well and like, you know, promoting, like there's no reason that you can't, create a call it middle class you know career something that would be fun like fulfilling maybe pay your bills like you know and you know you could you know there's a lot of artists out there a lot that are you know independent that are making low six figures and stuff and like you no one is you know they have a fan base but they're not like you know big names and a lot of them are saying now like why would i you know like they'll get offers from like labels like why you know like i just promote this myself and like tick tock decides which things are gonna like push hard and like whatever i mean there are reasons that labels are important but i just made that you know decision so i've put out um numb brain cells the following which are three that i put out under just it's so i i've also like a struggle i think i've been wanting to do this for like 10 years now and i have always struggled with monikers artist names and i've had a couple different ones over the years and they just you know two things i think like one know it's tough to choose one like and i just didn't have any like real luck choosing something that ended up and i ended up actually putting some songs out um you know and just didn't feel right and also you're starting new accounts that are starting from zero and you know we don't want to say that we care, but it's like, you know, it's tough if you're putting out stuff that you're like pouring your heart and soul into and you're getting like 10 views or like four likes, you know, it's tough.

And you know, if there's anybody out there that that's happening to keep going, like, like it's, that's your sign to like, Like, you know, everything in music or a lot of things is, like, trends.

Like, as long as you're trending upwards.

I like them.

They're older songs, if I'm being honest, like, you know, Numb was started in twenty eighteen.

I didn't finish it till this year and Brain Cells was written in COVID on Zoom.

The following was, again, probably 2017 or 18.

[upbeat music] Have you ever wondered how two people could look at the exact same thing and come away with two very different opinions on what it means? Or have you been baffled how someone could believe something that, to you, is obviously untrue? This kind of thing happens all the time, but how can you be sure you're the one seeing things accurately? Hi, I'm Cathy, a homeschool mom passionate about teaching critical thinking to the next generation so they're propaganda-proof and impossible to fool with bad arguments, and I like to have fun doing it.

Welcome to the Filtered Through A Brain Cell podcast.

Hey, what is up, thinkers? Cathy Gibbons here.

Okay, uh, welcome back to another episode as we are counting down, uh, to the last of the, um, biases that we are gonna be covering in this season.

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Why do brain cells not divide? The other type of cell that is unlike all the others is the brain cell, which, unlike all other cells in the body, does not divide.

Concerning the reason why it does not divide, Dr. Youssef says, it could not have come about through trial and error that the only cells that do not divide are the nerve cells from which the brain and the rest of the nervous system are formed.

If these cells were to divide like other cells, the results would be disastrous.

In this case, the brain cells would not be able to preserve a person's personality and all the features of his memory would disappear within a few hours.

Imagine if you have to reproduce your brain cells regularly.

So how much of that knowledge, of that experience, of that course, emotions you keep restoring? That's why subhanAllah, I mean, you think about these two things.

Who taught the human body that of all your cells, only two types of cells need to remain as is? Who taught the human body to do that? Who taught the brain to function in that? There is no way this is something considered, you know, a chance by chance or by random, by random selection now.

[upbeat music] Have you ever wondered how two people could look at the exact same thing and come away with two very different opinions on what it means? Or have you been baffled how someone could believe something that, to you, is obviously untrue? This kind of thing happens all the time, but how can you be sure you're the one seeing things accurately? Hi, I'm Cathy, a homeschool mom passionate about teaching critical thinking to the next generation so they're propaganda-proof and impossible to fool with bad arguments, and I like to have fun doing it.

Welcome to the Filtered Through a Brain Cell podcast.

Hey, what is up, thinkers? Okay, uh, we are counting down our final 10 of the biases that we are gonna be covering here in season two.

So let's start off by reviewing a type of media bias that we covered earlier in season two called the negativity bias.