265: Moran Cerf | Hacking into Our Thoughts and Dreams
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Moran Cerf (@twtrdtcm) is a neuroscientist who strives to understand the underlying mechanisms of human psychology, behavior changes, emotion, decision making, and dreams.
What We Discuss with Moran Cerf:- What would a future in which we could connect our brains to the cloud and outsource parts of our thinking look like?
- Can we — or will we ever be able to — record and share our dreams like home movies of the most intimate kind?
- How teachers might use virtual reality attuned to our specific brain engagement patterns to ensure we're learning at an optimal rate.
- What happens when computers and machines can read our thoughts and know what we're thinking even before we do?
- What are the security risks of having our thoughts available to these kinds of networks?
- And much more…
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:05.8 | As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:08.7 | On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's |
| 0:12.6 | most brilliant and interesting people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that |
| 0:17.2 | you can use to impact your own life and those around you. |
| 0:20.8 | Today on the show, my friend Moran Serf and I talk about hacking humans. |
| 0:24.8 | That's how this all started for him. |
| 0:26.0 | This guy used to rob banks, literally and legally somehow, and we'll talk about some of |
| 0:30.7 | the social engineering principles at work, the human hacking at work. |
| 0:34.6 | His rise to fame happened because of the idea that you could record dreams, which made |
| 0:40.4 | international news based on what ended up being a little bit of a massive misunderstanding, |
| 0:45.2 | but it brought Moran and his work into the mainstream. |
| 0:47.8 | Today, we'll project a little bit into the future and discover how virtual reality teachers |
| 0:53.0 | might use our specific brain engagement patterns to ensure that we're learning at an optimal |
| 0:58.0 | rate and using optimal methodology. |
| 1:00.0 | I know that's just crazy, I just dove right in to turn it up to 11 here with the intro. |
| 1:03.8 | We'll also discover that we'll soon be able to add computer chips to our brains that |
| 1:08.0 | can outsource certain types of thinking. |
| 1:10.5 | Imagine your brain connected to the cloud in real time. |
| 1:13.7 | Of course, that opens us up to hackers and people with bad intentions. |
| 1:17.3 | What happens when hackers and bad code are literally inside our brains? |
| 1:22.5 | And can we record our dreams? |
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