217 - Livewired - David Eagleman (rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 17 October 2021

⏱️ 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 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	Closer eyes for a pretty good bit of the day because the earth is in darkness and we adapted to that and we sleep, which means
0:06.8	There's the potential for a period of time during the day where other parts of the brain would encroach
0:12.5	Yeah, great and by the way the reason you never heard about it before us because this is brand new my student and I came up with this and we
0:19.6	It's under review right now for publication. The idea is this
0:24.9	Right if you're not using let's say your visual system
0:28.4	Because you're blindfolded that'll start getting taken over by touch and hearing within about you know 16 to 90 minutes
0:35.1	So what we realized is because the planet rotates and wait, wait, did you say 60 to 90 minutes?
0:40.9	Yeah, you start seeing activity in FMRI
0:44.8	within 60 to 90 minutes
0:47.2	In response to a sound or a touch you start seeing activity in the visual cortex
0:52.7	This is first shown in 2007. Yeah, so it's unbelievably rapid and that's the part that really
0:58.2	You
1:18.9	Welcome to the you are not so smart podcast episode
1:24.9	2017
1:27.9	Hmm
1:41.3	This is a very special episode of the you're not so smart podcast because my guest is famed
1:47.9	Beloved prolific
1:49.7	Neuroscientist and entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author David Eagleman
1:55.2	He just released a new book called live wired which is all about brain plasticity
2:00.0	But it's a lot more than that it explores how with technology that he has helped develop we can expand our senses expand our
2:08.5	consciousness
2:09.7	Expand the very range of what the mind can conceive
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