Comedians Interview Experts: Measuring consciousness with Asher Perlman and Weiji Ma

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This week Asher Perlman interviews Weiji Ma about how statistics helps us understand human decision-making and consciousness.

Asher Perlman is a comedian, television writer, and cartoonist based in Brooklyn. Until recently, he was a writer/performer on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. His cartoons regularly appear in publications such as The New Yorker and Playboy, and he is the bestselling author of two cartoon collections: Well, This is Me and Hi, It’s Me Again.

Weiji Ma is Silver Professor of Neural Science and Psychology at New York University. He investigates how people make decisions under uncertainty in the realms of planning, problem-solving, perception, attention, and memory.