Alex O'Connor

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2,073 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 25 May

Alex O'Connor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Alex O’Connor: #1 Shift That Stops Endless Overthinking (FINALLY Get Unstuck) · 25 May 2026 podcast

I didn't see anything.

I don't know what you're talking about.

And then the experimenter gives them a pencil in their left hand and tells them to draw something.

and they draw a cowboy hat because the right hemisphere saw it.

And so the left hand can draw it.

But if you ask them, they'll say that they didn't see it because the left hemisphere, which controls speech broadly, that's a bit of an oversimplification, but broadly speaking, didn't see it.

And so they can't tell you that they saw it.

So they saw it and they didn't see it at the same time.

So fascinating, right?

It means you've kind of got these two brains that are both doing different things and

And I think the most significant experiment of this kind is where, and bear in mind, these people are agreeing and thankfully so, they've already been through a traumatic experience and now they're agreeing to do these experiments.

They're waiting instructions, right?

So you can flash an instruction to the right hemisphere of the brain and the instruction will say something like, get up and walk over to the window.

So the patient stands up and they walk over to the window.

And then the instructor says, why did you just do that?

And do you know what they say?

It would be weird enough if they said, I don't know, right?

But they don't.

They make something up and they believe it.

It's called confabulation, right?

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