Dr. Alok Kanojia

Most of our memory is stuff that didn't happen, actually, technically.

First thing is I don't try to convince anyone of anything.

So convincing is not...

an objective that I have.

So I love research, consume a bunch of research, but there's a basic problem with science, which is when we do a randomized controlled trial, we learn about a population.

We don't learn about a person.

So we can say that SSRIs improve major depressive disorder by about 50%, let's say.

But if a patient walks into my office,

I have no idea if an SSRI is going to help them.

Does that kind of make sense?

There's a basic problem of external validity of all of our science, all of our medical science anyway.

I'm not sure about opto or neuroscience.

But when you apply it to a person, some stuff works and some stuff doesn't work.

So my focus is on helping like a person.

And then you don't need the woo-woo stuff.

I think the important thing is like understand your ego.

Like that's a fundamental thing that is missing from Western psychology.

But we all intuitively understand it.

This person is egotistical, right?

Second thing is like things like perception.