#1327 Tommy Blanchard: Decorative Neuroscience, and the Neuro-Grifters
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Tommy Blanchard. He's a cognitive scientist and writer with a background in neuroscience, philosophy, and computer science. He writes about curiosity, understanding, and wonder through the lens of cognitive neuroscience and philosophy at cognitive wonderland. And today we're going to talk about several different topics uh in neuroscience, but the I mean the main Uh theme here will be
uh decorative neuroscience and we're going to talk about what that is as well. So uh Tommy, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Yeah, thank you so much for having me. Yeah, so um What is uh What is it that you call decorative neuroscience? What do you mean by that?
Yeah, so it's a term um partially stolen from uh so d Dean Burnett is a um Neuroscience writer. uh who at one point called um Uh
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