David Eagleman (Stanford School of Medicine) - A Brainy Approach to Innovation

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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🗓️ 31 May 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman shares his passion for translating the complexities of cognition into mind-blowing inventions and educational material for the masses. The public-television host, bestselling author and Stanford adjunct professor speaks with Tina Seelig of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program about his decision to leave the lab and dedicate his life to bringing scientific discoveries into the world.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:17.2	On today's episode, we have neuroscientist and entrepreneur David Eagleman. He's an associate professor
0:23.1	at Stanford University and the author of the best-selling books, Some and Incognito, The Secret Lives of the Brain.
0:30.9	Based on his groundbreaking research on sensory perception, David Eagleman has launched several
0:36.2	companies, including neocensory and brain check.
0:39.9	He's also the creator and host of the PBS TV series, The Brain with David Eagleman.
0:49.3	I want to start out with a question for you about the role of science fiction in science.
0:56.0	Yeah, okay, good question.
0:58.0	First of all, thank you so much for being here.
1:00.0	I really appreciate it.
1:02.0	So I just mentioned to you earlier.
1:04.0	On Friday, I became the scientific advisor for Westworld, HBO show.
1:08.0	Does anyone watch Westworld here?
1:09.0	Okay.
1:10.0	So that really got me thinking about
1:11.7	this question about the, how close science fiction is to the practice of science in the laboratory,
1:17.4	because what's going on is Westworld is they think ahead 30 years and they think, okay, well,
1:22.8	pass Silicon, packs the next technology. You know, how would we build a brain? What would that be out of
1:28.5	and so on? And what's cool is they get to be rooted in what we know about science, but also to have
1:35.3	wings and to go and think a few steps beyond. And really, when practiced correctly, that's what
1:40.5	science is. Science is about making these leaps, leaps that are actually illegal to make,
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