How our brains mirror the history of human evolution: Min W. Jung on the neuroscience of imagination and abstract thinking
EPISODE 1885: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Min W. Jung, author of A BRAIN FOR INNOVATION, about the neuroscience of imagination and abstract thinking
Min W. Jung is the author of A Brain for Innovation: The Neuroscience of Imagination and Abstract Thinking. He is a vice director of the Center for Synaptic Brain Dysfunctions at the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea and a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine. His primary interests are the neural mechanisms of memory, imagination, and decision making.
Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.
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