Current Program
April 26, 2026 - The Brain
This upcoming Sunday, we will watch 2 different TED Talks about the brain.
Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience — and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it. How does this happen? According to neuroscientist Anil Seth (bottom picture), we're all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it "reality." Join Seth for a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your existence.
In the other video, Dr. Daniel Amen will discuss the importance of brain scans in medical practice. Many clinical providers do not get a chance to look at their clients’ brains, which can greatly impact diagnoses and treatment plans. Dr. Amen shares the importance of “how do you know unless you look”, and the importance of brain imaging for psychiatry. After 22 years and 83,000 scans, the single most important lesson he and his colleagues learned is that you can literally change people's brains.