Is your personality really as stable as you think?
Watch this week’s #WalkerWebcast as @willywalk chats with @TedSchwartz13 about how advances in #neurosurgery are challenging our assumptions about identity, selfhood, and what it means to be “you.” https://t.co/3NwRAbgzcj
On this episode of the #WalkerWebcast, @willywalk sits down with renowned neurosurgeon and Gray Matters author @TedSchwartz13, live from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference, to explore the future of #neuroscience and modern #brainsurgery.
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Inspired by the curiosity and promise of the senior class @HVAHarlem at our annual neurosurgery lecture. Trying to recruit the best and the brightest into medicine.
The good people in golf.
@joshgoldenberg_ asked me to see if @Joel_Dahmen would play a practice round with him.
I text Joel, he replied almost immediately and told me to give his number to Josh.
The are playing a practice round tomorrow.
This is why Monday's are awesome. If Josh misses the cut by nine or finishes in the top-10, he's going to tell the story of this week 1000 times.
Awesome.
In March @joshgoldenberg_ started a job at Goldman Sachs. After nearly 6 years of chasing it, he figured it was time to start his business career. He thought his golf golf career was over. He worked till 7 or 8 every night. Played golf on the weekends when he could.
He had got to final stage of DP Q-school late last year and was able to sign up for the @RBCCanadianOpen qualifier because of his conditional status. Plus the qualifier was being held on Sunday, and if he missed he would be back at the office Monday morning.
In six years of his pro career has never played a KFT or PGA Tour event. He played Latin and Canada mostly.
That will change this week. He shot -2 in the blowing wind and cold. He told me it is a “dream come true”.
I would have tweeted this earlier but Josh had to call his boss and let him know he wouldn't be in for the week. He didn't want his boss learning from my tweet.
They approved his week off and Josh will play the Canadian Open this week. His first ever Pga tour event.
I love fucking Mondays. (Sundays in this case)
Theodore Schwartz is one of the world's leading neurosurgeons and an extraordinarily productive scholar. He's spent most of his career at Weill Cornell Medicine, where he pioneered new minimally-invasive surgical techniques, published over 500 academic articles, led a research lab studying epilepsy, and much much more.
As an undergraduate English and philosophy major, he brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective to questions at the frontier of neuroscience - from brain-computer interfaces that might someday enable telepathic communication to the effectiveness of treatments like deep brain stimulation and what they reveal about the machinery of our minds.
Here's @TedSchwartz13 on what looking inside other people's heads reveals about consciousness and free will: