Conversations On Wisdom: Podcast with Dr. Shannon Heald & John Veillette by Center for Practical Wisdom

What experiences can make someone more wise? Can objects hold solutions for problems we don’t know we have?

As a cognitive neuro-psychologist at the University of Chicago, Dr. Shannon Heald focuses on understanding how our experiences shape and guide how we perceive the world, how we communicate with one another, and how we think and behave. John Veillette is a doctoral student and National Science Foundation graduate fellow in the Integrative Neuroscience Program at the University of Chicago working with Center for Practical Wisdom founder Dr. Howard C. Nusbaum.

As researchers in the Attention, Perception, and Experience Lab, their work utilizes methods from multiple disciplines including behavioral research methods, analytic methods of linguistics, electrophysiology/electroencephalography (EEG), and fMRI as well as specializing in systems-level neuroscience methodology and neuro-forecasting.

In this podcast of Conversations on Wisdom, we discuss their current work in creativity, mathematical models of the brain, and what we could potentially see in terms of brain states associated with wisdom and artificial wisdom.