Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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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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52:14

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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42:41

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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49:18

Ep91 "What is love?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/02/10

What are we talking about neurobiologically when we talk about love? What does it have to do with how you were raised, the symmetry of someone's face, or the smell of their underarms? What do we learn from heartbreak, rom-coms, and little rodents called prairie voles? And what is the future of love & AI? Join Eagleman for a Valentine's Day special to learn what unseen sparks in the skull set the heart ablaze.

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56:12

Ep90 "What's the future of connecting our tech to our...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/02/03

A brain's 86 billion neurons are always chattering along with tiny electrical and chemical signals. Buthow can we get inside the brain to study the finedetails? Can weeavesdrop on cells using other cells? What is the future of communication between brains? Join Eagleman with special guest Max Hodak, founder of Science Corp, a companypioneering stunning new methods in brain computer interfaces.

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35:42

Ep89 "Why do you love some flavors and not others?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/01/27

Why do you like the taste of things that your friend doesn't? Why do kids not like coffee but adults do? What does any of this have to do with smelling people’s armpits, whether women really synchronize their menstruation, whether your culture eats a lot of spicy foods, and how animals sense theworld? Join Eagleman this week to understand why there's no accounting for taste.

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Ep88 "Might there exist very different kinds of minds?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/01/20

Why is it so difficult to define intelligence? What does this have to do with being a fish in water trying to describe water? Might we humans possess one kind of intelligence in a constellation of many other types? And what does this have to do with empathy, AI, and our search for extraterrestrial life? Join Eagleman with guest Kevin Kelly as they dive intowhether there might exist very different kinds of minds.

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Ep 87 "How do we operate in the present when we...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/01/13

Because visual signals take time to process, we live slightly in the past. So how do we ever catch a baseball? And what does this have to do with certain visual illusions, or the view in New York City, or the things you were never taught in school, or the warp drive in Star Trek? Join Eagleman this week for a mind blowing look at the strange relationship between vision and time.

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Ep86 "What are emotions?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2025/01/06

Are emotions something that happen to you, or are they bodily signals we interpret? Does everyone show emotions in the same way -- that is, are there particular markers of the face or the body that always mean anger, sadness, or joy? And what does this have to do with Charles Darwin, the truth about facial expressions, or the movie Inside Out? Join Eagleman with this week's guest, neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, author of hundreds of papers and "How Emotions are Made", for a deep dive into the

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Ep39 rebroadcast "What is the future of AI...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2024/12/30

Why are our brains so wired for love? Could you fall head over heels for a bot? Might your romantic partner be more satisfied with a 5% better version of you? How does an AI bot plug right into your deep neural circuitry, and what are the pros and cons? And what will it mean when humans you love don’t have to die, but can live on in your phone forever? Join Eagleman for a deep dive into relationships, their AI future, and what it allmeans forour species.

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Ep10 rebroadcast "Why is it so hard to spot a...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2024/12/23

What do charlatans have to understand about human perception? Why are you so bad at recognizing a real penny among fakes? What did Eagleman have to do with the redesign of the Euro, and why did he campaign to the European Central Bank that all their bills should be blank with a single hologram in the middle? In this episode, explore the crossroads ofperception and deception. Brief appearance from special guest Adam Savage.

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Ep85 "What is a Thought?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2024/12/16

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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Ep84 "Why do brains love music?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2024/12/09

How can we understand music's effect on human brains? Is music universal or does it rely on your experiences? How is music similar to a language? Can music be leveraged to help anxiety, dementia, or Parkinson's disease? What does any of this have to do with Stevie Wonder on the high hat, or the relationship between music and color? Join Eagleman with guest Daniel Levitin -- neuroscientist, musician, and author of This Is Your Brain on Music and I Heard There Was A Secret Chord.

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Ep83 "Why Do Your 30 Trillion Cells Feel Like a...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2024/12/02

Does our sense of self emerge from our brain's skill at lumping things into unchanging categories? What can we learn watching a caterpillar brain transition to a butterfly brain? Can we think of a memory as a pattern that stays alive and has its own life? Does an ant colony have a sense of self? Join Eagleman and biologist Michael Levin at Tufts – one of the most energetic and original thinkers in the field -- to dive into new territories of the self.

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Ep82 "Why Do Your 30 Trillion Cells Feel Like a...

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2024/11/25

Every cell in your body changes, so why do you have a sense of continuity of the self – as though you're the same person you were a month ago? What does this have to do with the watercraft of the Greek demigod Theseus, or the End-of-History illusion, or why you go through so much trouble to make things comfortable for your future self, even though you don't know that person? And if there really were an afterlife, what age would your deity make everyone for living out their eternities? Join this week

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52:42

Ep 81 "How close are we to longevity?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman ·

2024/11/18

Two certainties are death and taxes; a third is that people will work hard to avoid them both. But why is it so difficult to extend our lifespan? We know how to do it in worms and mice; why is it tricky in humans? Why do so few companies study longevity? What does the near future hold? What would it be like if everyone lived a much longer life? Join Eagleman this week with longevity expert Martin Borch Jensen to discuss the hopes and challenges of longevity science.

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