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Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

Ep104 "What is your internal world really like?" (with Russell Hurlburt)

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

iHeartPodcasts

Mental Health, Science, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.6524 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

If you had to give a detailed description of what flits through your mind, how good would you be at it? Might you be surprised at how many of your thoughts don't involve language? Are your thoughts changed by paying attention to them? What does this have to do with getting surprised by a random beep and immediately writing down what you’re thinking? Join Eagleman this week in conversation with Russell Hurlburt, a clinical psychologist who developed a new method to probe inner life.

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you had to describe the details of what happens in your mind when you're just sitting around,

0:10.8

how good would you be at it? Does paying attention to what's happening in your thoughts change

0:17.6

your thoughts? How do we build language about our interior life when much of it doesn't

0:24.2

have any words at all? What does this have to do with getting surprised by a random beep and

0:31.3

immediately writing down what you're thinking? Welcome to Inner Cosmos with me, David Eagleman.

0:38.7

I'm a neuroscientist and author at Stanford.

0:41.5

And in these episodes, we sail deeply into our three-pound universe

0:45.3

to understand why and how our lives look the way they do.

1:01.9

Thank you. You're listening to an I-heart podcast.

1:10.0

I'm Soledad O'Brien, and on my new true crime podcast, Murder on the Tooth Path,

1:16.3

I'm taking you back to 1964 to the cold case of artist Mary Pinchot Meyer.

1:19.7

She had been shot twice in the head and in the back.

1:24.4

It turns out, Mary was connected to a very powerful man.

1:29.1

I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor promote aggression.

1:30.7

John F. Kennedy.

1:37.4

Listen to Murder on the Toothatch with Soledat O'Brien on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

1:43.4

We love learning about this extraordinary universe.

1:46.5

And we love sharing what we've learned.

1:48.2

And on our podcast, Daniel and Kelly's extraordinary universe, that's what we're going to do.

1:52.7

I'm Daniel.

1:53.2

I'm a particle physicist, and I think our universe is absolutely extraordinary.

1:57.2

I'm Kelly Weiner-Smith.

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