Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 104 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show, my former co-host, John Joseph Adams,

will be stopping by to tell us what he's been up to so far in 2014.

Also joining us for that conversation will be John's

longtime literary agent Joe Monti. But first up we've got an interview with

acclaimed physicist and futurist Michio Kaku. He often appears on TV shows like Profits of Science Fiction and

Future Skate. And he's the author of best-selling books like Hyper Space, Parallel Worlds, and physics of the future.

His latest book is called The Future of the Mind.

So Michio Kaku, welcome to the show.

Glad to be on.

All right, and so your new book is called The Future of the Mind.

And it deals with all these amazing technologies

that are in development or will be developed

in terms of things we can do with our minds. But for me one of the most fascinating things about this book was just learning about how weird our minds were to start with, how weird our minds have been this whole time.

For example, you talk about in the book how a person can be an atheist in one half of their

brain and a religious person in the other half.

Yeah, isn't that amazing that with MRI scans we can actually see that the left brain and the right brain

actually operates slightly differently. The left brain is a dominant brain so

what you consider yourself is you're basically your left brain but your right brain could be

separated surgically with epileptics and by cutting the link between the left

brain the right brain then the right brain can begin to reveal his personality and we begin to realize that the

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