Why do brains love stories?

How do brains move so easily from assessing reality out there

to slipping into totally made up worlds that you know are made up?

What do authors of great literature have in common with stage magicians and comedians?

And what does any of this have to do with cognitive shortcuts or how the brain is a prediction

machine or Marcel Proust or Tony Morrison or Jane Austen?

Or why jokes always come in threes.

Welcome to Intercosmos with me, David Eagleman.

I'm a neuroscientist and an author at Stanford,

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

to uncover some of the most surprising aspects of our lives.

This is an I-Heart podcast.

Are there any pictures of you online?

Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.

Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts.

I'm Dexter Thomas, host a Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting

us right now.

Police, they are

trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect. In this episode,

we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition and sometimes getting it wrong and

putting innocent people behind bars. So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told that it was

used, let alone given any of the details about how it works. Listen to KillSwitch on the IHeart

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