Surely not the weirdest thing conceived in a late-night New York City cab ride.
"It might be hard to believe, but the term cognitive neuroscience—born out of a late-night New York City taxi ride (Gazzaniga 2014)—is now 50 years old."
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-devpsych-121318-085124