Click above to listen to Part 2 of Perpetual Emotion Machine, featuring Robert Sapolsky, professor of neuroscience at Stanford University, and author of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, discussing why we do what we do, and the sparse control we have over it.

Perpetual Emotion machine:
Part 1: Rosalind Picard / Empathetic Electronics​
Part 2: Robert Sapolsky / Biology of Behavior​
Part 3: Robert Sapolsky / Free Will​
Part 4: Rosalind Picard / Emotional Transaction​

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