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Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

Neuroscientist and author David Eagleman discusses how our brain interprets the world and what that means for us. Through storytelling, research, interviews, and experiments, David Eagleman tackles wild questions that illuminate new facets of our lives and our realities.

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All Episodes

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Ep85 rebroadcast - "What is a Thought?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/06/23

Brains bear thoughts like apeach tree bears peaches. Even for meditators it's almost impossible to stop the firehose of words and images and ideas. But what in the world is a thought, physically? How can you hear a voice in your head when there's no one speaking in the outside world? And what does any of this have to do with a small marine animal who eats its own brain? Join Eagleman for this week's deep dive into our inner life.

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42:39

Ep109 "Are you one mind or many drives?" with Jordan...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/06/16

Is your brain a one-person show or an ensemble cast of rivaling neural networks? How do we manage the conflict between different drives, and what does this have to do with literature, deities, maturation, and what Nietzsche meant when he said “every drive wants to be master, and it attempts to philosophize in that spirit”? Join Eagleman this week with Jordan Peterson as we examine the way lives are built on conflicting wants.

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39:03

Ep108 "Can brains increase their happiness?" (with...

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2025/06/09

Is it possible to become happier? How much of yourhappiness has to do with genetics, social connection, comparison to other people, your balance of optimism vs pessimism, and whether it would be useful to keep a journal of your life? Join Eagleman this week with Bruce Hood, experimental psychologist and author of “The Science of Happiness”.

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49:23

Ep107 "Why do brains love stories?" (with Joshua Landy)

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/06/02

How do brains slip so easily from the real world into made up worlds? What do authors of great literature have in common with stage magicians and comedians? What does any of this have to do with cognitive shortcuts, prediction machines, Marcel Proust, Toni Morrison, Jane Austen, or why jokes are always structured in threes? Join Eagleman this week for a conversation with his Stanford colleague Joshua Landy as they discuss brains on story.

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48:09

Ep106 "What happens when brains watch movies?" (with...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/05/26

Why do movies work so well? What does film reveal about the way the brain processes reality?What does any of this have to do with omniscience, simulation, jumping around in time, or why dogs don’t do story? Join Eagleman with guest Jeffrey Zacks, cognitive scientist at Wash U, as we dive into thepeculiar magic that happens when the lights go down, the screen glows to life, and we find ourselves pulled into the world of a film.

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Ep105 "What if AI is not actually intelligent?" (with...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/05/19

Is AI an intelligent agent, or is there a different way we should be thinking about it? Is it more like a piece of cultural technology? What in the world is a piece of cultural technology -- and how would re-thinking this change our next steps? What does any of this have to do with the myth of the Golem, printing presses, Socrates, Martin Luther, or the story of stone soup? Join Eagleman this week with cognitive scientist Alison Gopnik for a new take on a new tech.

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42:29

Ep104 "What is your internal world really like?"...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/05/12

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 thoughtsdon'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.

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Ep103 "Could you ever know what it’s like to be...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/05/05

What would it take to get inside someone else's head, and could new braintechnologies ever help us get there? Will there be dream celebrities, in which uploads go viral? What does consciousness feel like from the inside, and why do movies always get this wrong? Why don't you see your own blinks? What would it be like if exactly 1/2 of your brain was numbed to sleep? And what would it be like to become a horse?

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Ep102 "Could you ever know what it’s like to be...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/04/28

What does it mean to stand in another’s shoes—and when are the gaps between us too wide to cross? This week, Eagleman explores bats, kicked robots, Helen Keller, empathy, storytelling, and the phrase “I know exactly how you feel.” We'll weave through neuroscience, philosophy, literature, and technology to ask: Can we ever truly understand another’s inner world?

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59:55

Ep101 "Why do people walk away from bad events with...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/04/21

What enables some people to keep going when everything falls apart? We all know someone who’s been through hell and comes out standing. This episode is about resilience. Join Eagleman with guest Dr. Jonathan Downar to discover what happens in the brain when we face adversity. Is resilience something you’re born with, or is it something your brain can develop? What does any of this have to do with The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, using magnetic fields to zap the brain, the less famous

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43:52

Ep100 "Why do brains love slow motion video?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/04/14

What doesThe Matrix tell us about the brain and time perception? And what does that have to do with champion bicyclists, hidden data, elementary particles, secret murderers, or time machines? Today’s episode is about slow motion: what’s going on in the brain, and why we are so mesmerized by it. Whether watching a sword battle, basketball dunk, or sprinters, we're pulled to slow motion like moths to flame... but have you ever wondered from a neuroscience perspective what that’s all

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Ep99 "Why do brains sometimes make things up?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/04/07

Your brain occasionallycooks up falsehoods that you believe entirely, but why does this confabulation happen,and how frequently? What does this tell us about memory, truth-telling, and your life as a story that drifts? And what does this have to do with a paralyzed Supreme Court judge, a blind person who insists she can see, whether Nelson Mandela did or did not die in the 1980s, or whether Curious George had a tail?

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EP98 "What's the future of AI relationships?" (with...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/03/31

How many people are having relationships with artificial neural networks? Should we think of AI lovers as traps, mirrors, or sandboxes? Is there a clear line between relationship bots and therapist bots? And what does this have to do with Eliza Doolittle, a doll cabinet in your head, loneliness epidemics, or suicide mitigation? Join Eagleman with guest researcher Bethanie Maples to discover where we are and where we're going.

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Ep 97 "Can we rewrite the human code?" (with Trevor...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/03/24

You're defined in part by the genome you arrive with -- so what does it mean when you can edit it? What does this have to do with viruses, copy-pasting, and whether we will modify the story of our own species? Join Eagleman with guest Trevor Martin, CEO of Mammoth Biosciences, for this week's episode about the remarkable situation we find ourselves in,now that we know how to read and write our biological inheritance.

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Ep96 "What’s the future of education in an AI world?"...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/03/17

Now that we’re careening into our AI future, what are the most important things for our students to learn? Do we keep teaching as we always have, do we drop ourheads on the desk, or are there clever ways to steer and optimize education? What would Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, say about all this? Find out in this week's episode.

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Ep95 "What's the future of education in an AI world?"...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/03/10

How can we rethink schools to meet the future? What does this have to do with the invention of the printing press, the prevalence of desk calculators, or the spread of Google? And how is this connected to the writer Goethe, a digital replica of the philosopher Aristotle, or the two lasting bequests that we should give our children? Join Eagleman this week for surprises about what AI means for the next generation.

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Ep94 "How does the brain construct reality?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/03/03

Do you perceive red the same way I do? What is wrong with the textbook model of vision? Why do brains have so many internal feedback loops? And what does any of this have to do with Plato’s cave,Ernest Hemingway, or artificial neural networks that perceive dogs everywhere? Join Eagleman with guestAnil Seth, author of “Being You”, to explore the scientific problem of consciousness.

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David Eagleman on Joy A Podcast. Hosted by Craig...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/02/28

Meet David Eagleman - neuroscientist, author, and more. He is best known for his work on sensory substitution, time perception, brain plasticity, synesthesia, and neurolaw and is currently a neuroscientist at Stanford University.I thoroughly enjoyed picking his brain and I hope you enJOY too!

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Ep93 "Will AI kill our creativity or enhance it?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/02/24

How will creative people make a living in a world with AI? Is there a different way to think about the economy of the future -- and how might it involve mystifying and elevating humans?What does the term “data dignity" mean? Join Eagleman with guest Jaron Lanier -- computer scientist, artist, futurist -- as they discuss AI's boundless creative output and how we might thoughtfully navigate intothe future.

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Ep92 "Why is it hard to keep a secret?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/02/17

How aresecrets in the brain like Abraham Lincoln’s political cabinet? Will AI in the near future hide things from you? And what does any of this have to do with political hierarchies, the formula for Coca-Cola, or deceptive chimpanzees? Join Eaglemanto understand what neuroscience tells us about secrets: what they are,why they weigh on us, and how they sometimes grow into tangled webs we never meant to weave.

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