622: David Eagleman | Making Sense of The Brain

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🗓️ 1 June 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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David Eagleman (@davideagleman) is a Stanford neuroscientist, host of Emmy-nominated PBS/BBC series The Brain, and author of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain and The Brain: The Story of You. The Cheat Sheet: Why our conscious brain should be grateful for its separation from the subconscious brain. What is sensory substitution, and how might it allow the blind to "see," the deaf to "hear," and create completely new, superhuman senses altogether? Your umwelt is not my umwelt: a shared environment is several realities, depending on how it's being sensed. Alien hands, intellectual flexibility, zombie routines, and smartphone symbiosis. How might technology augment our brains in the not-too-distant future? And so much more... Want to wash two loads and dry two loads of laundry at the same time? The new Wi-Fi enabled Samsung FlexWash and FlexDry washer and dryer pair can do it -- and you can get it now at The Home Depot! Whether you're a lady or a gent, you don't need to know what MicroModal fabric is to enjoy the comfort of MeUndies; you just need to wear them -- support this show (and yourself) with MeUndies here for 20% off! Save money on travel and get a free Amazon gift card every time you use Upside! Enter the code FORBES at checkout here and you're guaranteed a free $200 Amazon gift card your first time (minimum purchase required)! Stop wearing shirts that don't fit. Start looking your best. Go to propercloth.com/charm and enter gift code charm to save $20 on your first shirt! Does your business have an Internet presence? Now save a whopping 50% on new webhosting packages here with HostGator by using coupon code CHARM! Free yourself from typing notes, reports, and documents by going with the transcriptionists we trust here at AoC: TranscriptionOutsourcing.net -- 99% or higher accuracy guaranteed! Find out more about the team who makes The Art of Charm podcast here! Show notes at https://theartofcharm.com/622/ HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming!

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0:00.0	These are issues involved in, for example, nanorobotics,
0:03.1	getting super tiny little robots into every neuron in your brain.
0:06.3	Things like this so that we can actually read lots of brain activity in a useful way
0:11.8	and eventually write to the brain activity also.
0:20.6	Welcome to The Art of Charm, I'm Jordan Harbinger.
0:23.0	On this episode we're talking with my friend David Eaglement.
0:26.0	He's a neuroscientist, Ted Fellow, a Stanford professor.
0:29.8	He's known for his work on brain plasticity, time perceptions,
0:32.7	synesthesia, neuro law.
0:34.4	He's a council member in the world economic form
0:36.4	and a New York Times bestselling author published in 28 languages.
0:39.6	So if you're not impressed yet, that's you.
0:41.9	It's not me.
0:42.8	And it's certainly not him.
0:44.0	David has an amazing knowledge of the brain, really.
0:46.6	Has some of the most interesting insights into how our brain is and how it works
0:50.5	that I've read in a long, long time.
0:52.5	But it's his way of combining that insight with an exceptional ability to articulate
0:56.4	those same insights and making them useful to you and me is one of the main reasons
1:01.2	why I wanted to have him on the show today.
1:02.8	I could not wait to have David on the show.
1:05.2	We're going to discuss how our brains construct our reality and my favorite part of this
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