Marc Berman

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

So you can see all these examples of, you know, lots of car accidents happening, people talking on the cell phone, even if it's hands free.

Absolutely.

And that's why behaviorism failed in psychology.

So Skinner and Watson, they were frustrated with late 19th century psychology and maybe early 20th century psychology that was all about introspectionism, that we just look within ourselves.

and report a subjective experience, that would be enough.

And they thought, you can't build a science around that.

It's non-verifiable.

So they went all the way to the other extreme and said, basically, we can explain all behavior, and even all human behavior, just mapping stimuli to responses.

but that turned out to be way, way too simple.

There's a lot that's happening in the mind or the brain, a lot of processing happening there and you can't ignore it.

So I think now we've kind of settled more in the middle ground to say, you know, there's so much the brain is doing, interpreting these different signals from the environment and then producing outputs, even though it's very difficult to directly measure everything that's going on in the brain.

Yeah.

I mean, I think we can do it, and I do a lot of neuroscience in my lab.

What I'm trying to do is merge the environment with the neuroscience together, but it's challenging for a number of reasons.

I don't know how many of your listeners have been in an MRI machine, but we do a lot of brain imaging in MRI machines.

We call it functional MRI because we basically make a flip book of your brain to see the dynamics.

It's such an uncomfortable and arbitrary environment.

It's hard to give people a nice nature experience being in the MRI scanner.

There is now new technology that we're starting to use now called functional near infrared spectroscopy, which is a little cap that people can wear.

It looks kind of like an EEG cap.

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