Sophie Scott

It's a heavy stack.

We're leaning on that debate between Sam Harris, the physicist Roger Penrose, and cognitive neuroscientist Sophie Scott.

Right, and we're also pulling in arguments from Adina Roskies, Robert Sapolsky, and Alfred Mele.

Heavy hitters across the board.

You're identical to whatever experience is happening this millisecond.

There isn't an author sitting in a control room directing things.

You know, that connects with that story Sophie Scott brought up in the debate about the continuity of the self.

Oh, the diary story.

As soon as people are slipping over on the stage and they pull out the big plastic, there's going to be something worth watching, isn't there? Also, I think the notion of...

We conducted at Told by an Idiot an experiment a few years ago with a neuroscientist, Sophie Scott.

And the title of the experiment is Why We Still Laugh When People Hurt Themselves.

And we took ourselves into the east end of London and we had two performers.

people also just don't laugh much, but it's the thing to look for is the contagious laughter.

Sophie Scott said that you might be a

psychopath because you don't laugh.

But it's like quite eerily when you...

It's been amazing.

And I always leave with one last question, which I always feel is maybe people's interpretation of the word success, because I find that not the best reference in the Oxford Dictionary of how it's described.

So what does Live Well, Be Well mean to you, Sophie Scott?

I...

Know what?

There's a cognitive neuroscientist from the University of London named Sophie Scott-

Time out.

A cognitive neuroscientist is a person who studies the brain and thinking.