Maria Popova
speaker
931 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Maria Popova’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I knew you were going to say that.
Yes, I mean, because it's the truth.
He has scarred us to the bone, you know, with this extraordinary Western dualism of the mind being separate from the body and higher up somehow.
It is so damaging.
We spend our lives discovering over and over that it is not true.
When we feel joy, it's a full body experience.
When we suffer, it's a full body experience.
When we create, it's a full body experience.
Everything.
There's no clear demarcation between thought and feeling.
Feeling is an instrument of thinking.
I really recommend philosopher Martha Nussbaum's book, The Intelligence of Emotions.
One November day, I was walking through Brooklyn Bridge Park in the rain, and I saw a night heron sleeping on a branch perched over the pond, its head tucked into its chest.
And I thought, is it dreaming?
Do birds dream?
And I thought, surely you can Google that.
Turns out you couldn't.
So I found myself on a three-week rabbit hole in these obscure scientific journals, kind of alarmed to discover that we've only been studying the avian brain and sleep in the avian brain for about 20 years, if that, and there's only a handful of published fMRI and EEG studies of what happens when they sleep.
And I was so surprised by what I found that I ended up writing about it.
I wrote a piece for the New York Times about REM and the evolution of sleep.
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