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Charan Ranganath

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Yeah, yeah. And it's like, so I'm actually like a very, one of the genres we used to play in was math rock, is what they called it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Yeah, yeah. And it's like, so I'm actually like a very, one of the genres we used to play in was math rock, is what they called it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Yeah, I guess it would be like, so instead of, you might go like, instead of playing four beats in every measure, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you go, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Yeah, I guess it would be like, so instead of, you might go like, instead of playing four beats in every measure, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you go, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Yeah, I guess it would be like, so instead of, you might go like, instead of playing four beats in every measure, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you go, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

you know and just do these things and then you might arrange it in weird ways so that there might be three measures of verse and then one you know and then five measures of chorus and then two measures so you could just mess around with everything right what does that feel like to listen to there's there's something about symmetry or or like patterns that feel good and like relaxing for us or whatever it feels like home and disturbing that can be quite disturbing yeah so is that

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

you know and just do these things and then you might arrange it in weird ways so that there might be three measures of verse and then one you know and then five measures of chorus and then two measures so you could just mess around with everything right what does that feel like to listen to there's there's something about symmetry or or like patterns that feel good and like relaxing for us or whatever it feels like home and disturbing that can be quite disturbing yeah so is that

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

you know and just do these things and then you might arrange it in weird ways so that there might be three measures of verse and then one you know and then five measures of chorus and then two measures so you could just mess around with everything right what does that feel like to listen to there's there's something about symmetry or or like patterns that feel good and like relaxing for us or whatever it feels like home and disturbing that can be quite disturbing yeah so is that

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

So, I mean, it depends. So a lot of my style of songwriting is very much like in terms of like repetitive themes, but messing around with structure because I'm not a great guitarist technically. And so I don't play complicated stuff. And there's things you can hear stuff where it's just like so complicated, you know?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

So, I mean, it depends. So a lot of my style of songwriting is very much like in terms of like repetitive themes, but messing around with structure because I'm not a great guitarist technically. And so I don't play complicated stuff. And there's things you can hear stuff where it's just like so complicated, you know?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

So, I mean, it depends. So a lot of my style of songwriting is very much like in terms of like repetitive themes, but messing around with structure because I'm not a great guitarist technically. And so I don't play complicated stuff. And there's things you can hear stuff where it's just like so complicated, you know?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Um, but often what I find is, is like having a melody or, and then adding some dissonance to it just enough, and then adding some complexity that gets, gets you going just enough. But I have a high tolerance for, for that kind of dissonance and prediction.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Um, but often what I find is, is like having a melody or, and then adding some dissonance to it just enough, and then adding some complexity that gets, gets you going just enough. But I have a high tolerance for, for that kind of dissonance and prediction.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Um, but often what I find is, is like having a melody or, and then adding some dissonance to it just enough, and then adding some complexity that gets, gets you going just enough. But I have a high tolerance for, for that kind of dissonance and prediction.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

And I think I have a theory, a pet theory that it's like, basically you can explain most of human behavior as some people are lumpers and some people are splitters, you know? Mm-hmm. And so it's like, some people are very kind of excited when they get this dissonance and they want to like go with it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

And I think I have a theory, a pet theory that it's like, basically you can explain most of human behavior as some people are lumpers and some people are splitters, you know? Mm-hmm. And so it's like, some people are very kind of excited when they get this dissonance and they want to like go with it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

And I think I have a theory, a pet theory that it's like, basically you can explain most of human behavior as some people are lumpers and some people are splitters, you know? Mm-hmm. And so it's like, some people are very kind of excited when they get this dissonance and they want to like go with it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

And some people are just like, no, I want to lump every, you know, I don't know, maybe that's even a different thing, but it's like, basically it's like, I think some people get scared of that discomfort. Yeah. And I really thrive on it. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

And some people are just like, no, I want to lump every, you know, I don't know, maybe that's even a different thing, but it's like, basically it's like, I think some people get scared of that discomfort. Yeah. And I really thrive on it. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

And some people are just like, no, I want to lump every, you know, I don't know, maybe that's even a different thing, but it's like, basically it's like, I think some people get scared of that discomfort. Yeah. And I really thrive on it. Yeah.