655: David Eagleman | How Our Brains Construct Reality
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Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
David Eagleman (@davideagleman) is a Stanford neuroscientist, host of Emmy-nominated PBS/BBC series The Brain, and author of many leather-bound books, including Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, The Brain: The Story of You, and Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain. [Note: This is a previously broadcast episode from the vault that we felt deserved a fresh pass through your earholes!]
What We Discuss with David Eagleman:- 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 much more...
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| 0:11.9 | Oh wow. And that was a new discovery that they didn't expect. Nobody expected, but they just |
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| 0:21.8 | wavelengths, what kind of accidental discoveries I would make there about, oh wow, did you know? |
| 0:27.0 | If I'm seeing a person in this completely other range, I can tell this other thing or |
| 0:31.3 | the sky is the limit as far as the kind of discoveries we can make. |
| 0:35.2 | If we just strap these on humans and have them walk around and experience their daily life. |
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| 1:36.8 | We're talking with my friend David Eaglement, neuroscientist, Ted Fellow, |
| 1:40.7 | Stanford professor. He's known for his work on brain plasticity, perception, |
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