Science of Perception Box is Back with a New Season

Why do two people witness the same event and walk away with entirely different experiences of what happened? Dr. Heather Berlin and Dr. Christof Koch return for Season 2 of Science of Perception Box, exploring the invisible framework, the Perception Box™, that shapes how your brain constructs reality, interprets experience, and defines your sense of self. Each week, they sit down with guests including Mel Robbins, Andrew Huberman and Sam Harris to unpack how perception is built, and how you can gain more agency over your own. New episodes weekly. Dr. Heather Berlin is a neuroscientist, clinical psychologist, and Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Dr. Christof Koch is Chief Scientist for the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation and the current Meritorious Investigator and former President of the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Join us for new episodes of Science of Perception Box every Thursday. Follow the show on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts. Love Science of Perception Box? Write us a review on your podcast app, or tell a friend. You can even do both! Visit unlikelycollaborators.com for more information.

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• 0:01Heather Berlin?

  Have you ever wondered why two people can experience the same event and walk away with completely different versions of what happened?

• 0:08Speaker 01

  Why do your thoughts feel like reality and not mere interpretations?

• 0:12Heather Berlin?

  And why what feels obvious to you can feel impossible to someone else?

• 0:17Speaker 01

  It's thanks to something that we call a perception box.

• 0:20Heather Berlin?

  Our perception box, a term created by Elizabeth R. Koch, is an invisible framework your brain and mind uses to construct the world you experience and your experience of yourself.

• 0:30Speaker 01

  On Science of Perception Box, we explore the science behind how the brain creates your inner world and how you can gain agency over your interpretations.

• 0:39Heather Berlin?

  In order for a human being to change, which we are designed to do, you have to push against that natural wiring in your brain. Each episode, we sit down with leading scientists, researchers, and thinkers across neuroscience, psychology, and consciousness studies.

• 0:54Speaker 01

  To examine what's really happening inside the walls of the perception box.

• 0:58Speaker 02

  If people don't feel a big shift with something the first time, they're very unlikely to go back to it.

• 1:04Heather Berlin?

  I'm Dr. Heather Berlin.

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  And I'm Dr. Christoph Koch.

• 1:07Heather Berlin?

  And this is Science of Perception Box, new episodes released weekly.

• 1:11Speaker 01

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