191 - Livewired - David Eagleman

You Are Not So Smart

Science, Psychology, Brain, Business, Mental Health, Culture, Neuroscience, Mind, Health

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🗓️ 18 October 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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In this episode we sit down with neuroscientist David Eagleman to learn how brains turn noise into signal, chaos into order, electrical spikes into meaning, and how new technology can expand subjective reality in ways never before possible. In his new book, Livewired, Eagleman explores how brains come into the world "half baked" so they can create reality itself out of the inputs and experiences available. And now, thanks to that plug-and-play plasticity, with the latest tools, not only can we return senses to people who've lost them, but we can add to any brain senses we can't imagine. - Show notes at: www.youarenotsosmart.com- Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart • The Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart • BetterHelp -- Offer code: YANSS -- www.betterhelp.com/YANSS • Omny: https://omny.fm/shows/you-are-not-so-smart • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/youarenotsosmart • Twitter: https://twitter.com/notsmartblog • Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/youarenotsosmart Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:00.0	Me. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
0:27.0	Episode 191. Oh, oh, oh, oh. And, um, and, uh, and, uh, This is a very special episode of the You're Not So Smart Podcast because my guest is famed, prolific neuroscientist and entrepreneur and New York Times
0:56.9	best-selling author, David Eagleman.
0:59.8	He just released a new book called LiveWired, which is all about brain plasticity, but it's a lot more than that.
1:06.0	It explores how with technology that he has helped develop.
1:10.0	We can expand our senses, expand our consciousness, expand the very range of what the mind can conceive, imagine, and do.
1:19.7	And this is hardcore neuroscience that we're going to be talking about here.
1:23.9	And we'll be talking about that in just a moment.
1:26.5	But first, let me mention two new things are happening,
1:29.5	starting with this episode.
1:30.6	One, you can watch this interview over on the You Are Not So Smart YouTube
1:35.0	channel. I'm going to start putting a lot more video content on that channel
1:39.8	starting in December so please help me kick that off by sharing this interview all over the place.
1:45.0	And two, if you are a patron of this podcast, or you become one, over at Patreon, at any level, you would have received this episode if you were already a patron, one week early,
1:56.0	and the video of the interview as well, one week early, both with no advertising, but I'll be doing more stuff like that more often with Patreon in the future early episodes extra features and such
2:07.0	But in addition for this episode if you're a patron at the $5 level a month or more,
2:13.8	along with all the other stuff you get at that level,
2:15.9	your name just got put into a hat
2:18.2	to win a copy of Eagleman's book, Live Wired,
2:21.3	what we're talking about on this episode.
2:22.8	So you'll get an email today saying that the book is on its way
2:26.0	if your name was drawn from that hat.
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