Ep83 "Why Do Your 30 Trillion Cells Feel Like a Self?" Part 2
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 mem...
2 Joulu 20241h 1min
Ep82 "Why Do Your 30 Trillion Cells Feel Like a Self?" Part 1
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 Gree...
25 Marras 202429min
Ep 81 "How close are we to longevity?"
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 tric...
18 Marras 202452min
Ep51 rebroadcast "Why do brains dream?"
Why do brains dream, and why are dreams so bizarre? Why doesn't your clock work in your dreams? And even though you spend much of your working day looking at your cell phone and computer – why do they...
11 Marras 202452min
Ep48 rebroadcast "Why do brains become depressed?"
What is depression? Why are brains able to slip into it? Is depression detectable in animals? Do animals have options beyond fight or flight? And what does any of this have to do with measuring depres...
4 Marras 202454min
Ep31 rebroadcast "Why do we see #TheDress differently?"
Why can you hear some sounds two different ways, depending on which word you’re looking at? Why do electrical outlets sometimes look like a face? How can you have rich visual experience with your eyes...
28 Loka 202454min
Ep1 rebroadcast "Does time really slow down when you're in fear for your life?"
When he was a child, Eagleman fell off a roof and time seemed to run in slow motion. When he became a neuroscientist, he grew curious about the experience and collected hundreds of similar stories fro...
21 Loka 202430min
Ep80 "What's it like to never forget?"
What would it be like to have a vastly better memory than you do now? What if you could remember what you were wearing on any day a dozen years ago? Or who you were with, what the conversation was, a...
14 Loka 202442min
