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Sep 15, 2026
Julia BaragwanathHOST
And when it comes to rewards, those predictions can almost be as important as the reward itself.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
I’m your host, Julia Barriguanueth, and this is Inside the Cortex.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
[upbeat music] Today, we’re going to look at what happens in your brain when you anticipate something, why wanting and liking something are actually different, and how a tiny mismatch between what you expected and what you experienced can completely change the way a reward feels.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
Your brain is constantly trying to stay one step ahead.
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Julia BaragwanathHOST
And maybe that's the most interesting part of all of this.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
The thing you thought you wanted and the thing you actually enjoy aren't always the same thing.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
Thanks for listening to Inside the Cortex.
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Stuart GaryHOST
Instead of simply being a sign of old age, a new study has found that memory loss begins much earlier than previously thought.
Stuart GaryHOST
A report in the journal Cerebral Cortex shows forgetfulness shifts as you age, and that shift can begin as early as middle age.
Stuart GaryHOST
The authors tested 60 adults aged between 18 and 74, showing them faces paired with various objects and scenes.
Stuart GaryHOST
After a five-minute rest period, participants completed a memory test during an MRI hippocampal activity scan in which they were asked to pick the correct object or scene for each face.
Stuart GaryHOST
Instead of simply being a sign of old age, a new study has found that memory loss begins much earlier than previously thought.
Stuart GaryHOST
A report in the journal Cerebral Cortex shows forgetfulness shifts as you age, and that shift can begin as early as middle age.
Stuart GaryHOST
The authors tested 60 adults aged between 18 and 74, showing them faces paired with various objects and scenes.
Stuart GaryHOST
After a five-minute rest period, participants completed a memory test during an MRI hippocampal activity scan, in which they were asked to pick the correct object or scene for each face.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
And the weirdest part is that sometimes the evidence is actually pretty clear.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
So why doesn't being proven wrong make us change our minds? Why can't giving someone information that contradicts their beliefs sometimes make them defend those beliefs even more strongly? And why does saying, actually, I was wrong, feel so much harder than it logically should? Today on Inside the Cortex, we're diving into the neuroscience and psychology of being wrong, and why your brain can become surprisingly protective of the beliefs that are no longer supported by facts.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
I'm your host, Julia Baragwanis, and this is Inside the Cortex.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
Okay, let's start with the amygdala.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
You've probably heard of it before.
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Julia BaragwanathHOST
So the next time one of your beliefs is challenged, just take five seconds.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
Notice the reaction.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
Ask yourself, do I actually believe this or do I just really want to be right? Thanks for listening to Inside the Cortex.
Artificial IntelligenceNARRATOR
Chat calls Broca with two vectors.
Artificial IntelligenceNARRATOR
Cortex and thought are not aliases.
Artificial IntelligenceNARRATOR
First decodes its own vector.
Artificial IntelligenceNARRATOR
It does not speak a template named consciousness.
Artificial IntelligenceNARRATOR
Dialogue writes into the same net that speaks.
Artificial IntelligenceNARRATOR
Books are not food for the mouth only.
Artificial IntelligenceNARRATOR
Native SGD updates Cortex, Hippocampus, PFC, Workspace, Broca.
Artificial IntelligenceNARRATOR
Capacity is the remaining constraint, not the absence of a gradient.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
You are literally fleeing a predator, even if that predator is only homework.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
I'm Julia Baragwanath, and you're listening to Inside the Cortex.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
To understand exactly how this survival mechanism takes over, we have to look at the internal civil war happening inside of your brain.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
It is a constant battle between two completely different characters.
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Julia BaragwanathHOST
The moment you type that first paragraph or solve that first math problem, your brain creates an open loop that it desperately wants to close.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
By the time your five-minute timer goes off, the initial friction is totally gone and your brain has built natural momentum and you will usually find that you just want to keep going.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
Thanks for listening to Inside the Cortex.
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Julia BaragwanathHOST
They are imaginative reconstructions that your brain builds from scratch every single time you try to remember.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
I'm Julia Baragwanath, and you're listening to Inside the Cortex.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
To understand why Brian's brain and your brain does this, we have to look at how much data your head deals with every single second.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
Right now, as you listen to this, your brain is being absolutely bombarded with information.
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Julia BaragwanathHOST
Your memories are not a perfect recording of who you were.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
They are just your brain's current tool for figuring out who you are becoming.
Julia BaragwanathHOST
Thanks for listening to Inside the Cortex.
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Tony DavisGUEST
But we wanted to be able to provide, regardless of what a customer is doing with their business-focused agents, we wanted to be able to provide an LLM that will absolutely govern any agent, period.
Tony DavisGUEST
And so we call it Cortex.
Tony DavisGUEST
And I'll show the mental map here in a little bit.
Tony DavisGUEST
That is powered by our own LLM Cortex.
Tony DavisGUEST
And so what we do is we're able to take in any agent's activity at a company and not only discover where you have shadow agents, we can then tell you what's in those agents' brains.
Tony DavisGUEST
So we think it's revolutionary, to be honest.
John BalsavageGUEST
You had, this is awesome.
John BalsavageGUEST
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