Exploring the healing power of prayer and belief, Dr. Joshua Brown interweaves cognitive neuroscience with faith-based experiences.
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This week on Mindrolling, Raghu and Joshua explore:
- Joshua’s fascination with the brain as a machine
- How a medical crisis shifted Joshua’s life path
- The impact of the spiritual on our physical selves
- Living between the worlds of neuroscience and faith
- How we form beliefs and how those beliefs affect our health
- The power of community and seeking out unique experiences
- Joshua’s own experience witnessing miracles
- Choosing hope and accepting the risk of disappointment
- How Artificial Intelligence is trained through predictions
“Practically, you are what you eat, and your beliefs reflect the experiences that you have. If you want to develop more nuanced beliefs in a certain direction, you have to immerse yourself in experiences that match those beliefs.” –Joshua Brown
About Joshua Brown, PhD:
Dr. Joshua W. Brown is a professor of Psychological and Brain Science at Indiana University, where he directs the Cognitive Control Lab. He also co-founded the Global Medical Research Institute. With decades of experience in computational neuroscience and over 79 peer-reviewed publications, he brings the same rigorous scientific methodology to extraordinary claims of healing that he applies to understanding the brain. His book, Proving a Miracle, will be released on May 12th of 2026.
“From about the year 2000, you start to get this increase in cognitive neuroscience studies of how our beliefs influence our brains and how those beliefs in turn influence not just the brain but the body and our health. I think that combination of events has turned in the culture the rapprochement of religion and science.” –Joshua Brown
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