Why do brains need friends?

Why do human brains in particular need social interaction?

And how does that interaction affect the brain?

Are AI chat bots enough to scratch the social itch?

Why or why not?

And what do we love so much about real human touch,

in-person interaction?

And for that matter, why do we love dogs?

From empathy to introversion to social media, to isolation,

and what to do about it, we've got it all this week

with guest Ben Rain.

Welcome to Inner Cosmos with me, David Eagleman.

I'm a neuroscientist and author at Stanford.

And in these episodes, we seek to understand why and how our lives look the way they do.

Yeah. This is an I-Heart podcast.

When news broke earlier this year that baby KJ, a newborn in Philadelphia, had successfully received

the world's first personalized gene editing treatment, it represented a milestone for both

researchers and patients. But there's a gripping tale of discovery behind this accomplishment and its

creators. I'm Evan Ratliff, and together with biographer Walter Isaacson, we're delving into the story

of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Dowdna, the woman who's helped change the trajectory of humanity. Listen to Aunt

CRISPR, the story of Jennifer Dowdna with Walter Isaacson on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. People called them murderers. Ten years later, they were gods.

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