474: David Eagleman | The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
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Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
David Eagleman (@davideagleman) is a neuroscientist at Stanford, CSO of sensory substitution technology company NeoSensory, host of Emmy-nominated PBS/BBC series The Brain, and author of Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain.
What We Discuss with David Eagleman:- Like organisms in a forest, the multicellular components of your brain are as much in competition with one another as they are in cooperation.
- How your sensory landscape adapts to utilize what's useful and discard what's not as you learn new skills.
- Why David believes the nature vs. nurture debate is dead (and that Darwin might owe Lamarck a bit of an apology).
- How neglect can irreparably shape the brain of a child, and what this can teach us about the way different generations learn about, process, and behave in the world.
- How senses like sight and hearing can be translated by technology for people without a native ability to process them, and why we'll be able to invent entirely new senses with the help of technology.
- And much more...
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| 1:45.0 | Today on the show, returning guests to my friend, Dr. David Eagleman. He is a brilliant neuroscientist author of many books, |
| 1:51.6 | The Latest is entitled Live Wired. It's about how our brain wires and rewires itself. So you've heard that neurons that fire together, wire together. |
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