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

You can only grab three items.

But with our Hurst measure, we can distinguish those two.

We can tell if somebody is trying to remember three things out of three or three things out of six.

Because the Hurst exponent, the fractalness of the signal, is actually less fractal trying to remember three things out of six versus three things out of three.

So this...

This befuddles them a little bit because it seems like fruitless effort.

You can't grab that fourth item, you know, but but it seems like people are trying harder.

So that's that's kind of interesting.

Yes, by looking at the EG and looking at how fractal the signals, we can distinguish trials when people are trying to remember three things out of three versus as many as they can out of six, but they can only really remember three out of six.

Absolutely.

It's got wide-ranging implications.

There was another classic study done by Roger Ulrich in the 1980s where he looked at recovery from gallbladder surgery.

And then in the 80s, gallbladder surgery was not an inpatient surgery.

You had to stay – I'm sorry, it wasn't an outpatient surgery.

You had to stay at the hospital to recover.

And on this single hospital corridor in this hospital in Philadelphia, patients are in different rooms.

And some of the rooms have a window to nature, modest nature, like some trees and some grass.

Other rooms have a view of a brick wall, like the hospital kind of folding back around.

And what Roger was interested in was looking at recovery time from gallbladder surgery.

And what he found is that patients recovered about a day faster if they had the view of nature out of their hospital window and they used less pain medication compared to the patients that had the view of the brick wall.

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