who you are is a combination of your genetics and every experience you ever had.

Neither of which, by the way, you had any choice over. I mean, the jeans came to

today with all the experiences you had as a child, the formative experiences.

Yeah, no choice over that, but that sends you off on a particular trajectory.

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason

DeFilippo. On this episode, we're talking with my friend David Eaglement. David is a sharp cat.

This guy, man, he has an amazing knowledge of the brain. And he has some of the most interesting

insights into how our brain works. These are the greatest insights I've read in a long time about

the old Noggin. And it's his way of combining that insight with an exceptional ability to articulate

those same insights and make them useful to you and to me is one of the main reasons why I wanted

to have him on the show today. This stuff fascinates me because our brains are a large part of what

makes us us. If we damage our hand, it's inconvenient. If we damage our brain, even a little

who we are changes in some way. So depending on who you ask, our brains kind of are us in some way.

And today, we're talking about senses. They're not what you think they are. You think you can see

with your eyes? Well, think again, it's your brain doing most of the work and the things you think

you see. Those are mostly illusions constructed by your brain. No, really, you won't need eyes.

And you might not need ears in the future either. In fact, we might, nay, we will one day have

technology that is so much better than our regular eyes and ears for what we're trying to do that

will all have superpowers. And David will tell us how this is going to work and how it already works.

I got to try out the bracelet and the vest that you're going to see in Westworld this month

if you're watching that show and that allows deaf people to actually hear using touch. And we'll

discover why not only are senses, but our memory and therefore our identity, our concept or ourselves

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