Dr James Mannion

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1,455 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 12 Aug

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Going on research from as the people that you've mentioned, Mary Helen Imadino Yang.

her PhD supervisor Antonio Damasio, who was really the sort of the the front runner, wasn't he, in this field?

Lisa Feldman Barrett and practitioner frameworks from Nick Shackleton Jones, who you mentioned earlier, who wrote that amazing book.

Um this paper demonstrates that affect is biologically primary to all learning and memory and in turn actions and behaviour.

And there's one more little thing which is just like the the the takeaway.

We learn and remember what we care about, not what we're told.

The brain is a biological prediction machine.

Optimizing for survival and well being, not storing information.

And obviously we care about surviving.

And so that's why we're so good at surviving, because that's what we're wired to do.

Um that sets out the the broad strokes of this paper.

Um do you wanna do you wanna pick that up?

What what Yeah.

Yeah.

This is just so interesting.

And so so I wanna get into the three pillars, right?

So there's these th the three pillars, what you call three biological realities.

Um so we're gonna go deep into the science.

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