Bethany Ranes shares about..
- Becoming maternal as a stepmother, letting failure guide development
- How growing up in an era of shame helped her become a more attuned neuroscientist
- A quirky neuroscientist's intuition, interoception, and instinct
- Appalachian Granny Magick
- Rolling into a police station with derby gear and a mohawk–-for professional reason
s - Seeing the soul as the energy between the neurons
Chapters
00:00 "Sensations of the Past With the Thoughts of the Present"
07:48 Aha Moments and a Continuous State of Awe
12:46 Parenting and Learning from Mistakes
18:53 Rebelling In Favor of Boredom
21:15 Becoming Step-Maternal and Nurturing the Ability to Fail
26:29 Taking Things Apart But Not Putting Them Back Together
32:28 Growing Up in an Era of Shame..While Helping Those In Need
35:30 Depression as a Condition of Being
38:51 Your Body is Working as it Should
42:35 Being a Perennial Misunderstood
49:45 A Neuroscientist's Intuition, Interoception, and Instinct
01:15:56 Living in a Place, As What the Place Is
01:22:06 The Quirky People Who Let Me Embrace My Quirk
01:33:14 Being Loved Because I'm Like This
01:39:45 Continuity With My Family's Culture: From Other-ness to Us-ness
01:52:01 Exploring Abnormal Psychology (Because It's All Abnormal)
01:55:47 The Soul as the Energy Between the Neurons
02:05:10 The Symbols Only Available to Us Through Other Religions--Including Appalachian Granny Magic
02:11:20 Making Rules That Aren't "'Cuz I Said So"
02:20:00 Imagination, Creativity, and Solving SQL Challenges in a Dream
02:41:37 Embracing Curiosity and Self-Discovery
02:48:15 Debrief and Behind the Scenes
Show Notes
~14:40 Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Szent-Gy%C3%B6rgyi
John Wheeler’s Participatory Universe image (the J that is actually a U) https://www.organism.earth/library/docs/john-archibald-wheeler/participatory-universe.jpg
02:04:00 - Lisa Feldman Barrett and untranslatable foreign words: https://how-emotions-are-made.com/notes/Emotion_concepts_from_non-English_languages
02:08:41 - Appalachian Granny Magick https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/appalachian-folk-magic More on it here: https://youtu.be/ex_4tgyzWZ8
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Ep. 3 - Bethany Ranes' Conversational Portrait