{"id":131221,"date":"2021-11-25T14:24:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T22:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/neuroscience-explains-exactly-why-we-should-be-grateful-forour-brains"},"modified":"2021-11-25T14:24:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T22:24:37","slug":"neuroscience-explains-exactly-why-we-should-be-grateful-forour-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/neuroscience-explains-exactly-why-we-should-be-grateful-forour-brains","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscience explains exactly why we should be grateful for\u2026our brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroscience-explains-exactly-why-we-should-be-grateful-forour-brains3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All these bequests of your bigger brain cortex mean you can gather four generations around a meal to exchange banter and gossip, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EvSA1qhBq4M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">turn information into knowledge<\/a> and even practice the art of what-not-to-say-when.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EvSA1qhBq4M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You may even want to be thankful for another achievement of our neuron-crammed human cortices: <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/human-advantage-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All the technology<\/a> that allows people spread over the globe to come together in person, on screens, or through words whispered directly into your ears long distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All these bequests of your bigger brain cortex mean you can gather four generations around a meal to exchange banter and gossip, turn information into knowledge and even practice the art of what-not-to-say-when. You may even want to be thankful for another achievement of our neuron-crammed human cortices: All the technology that allows people spread [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}