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 Okt 202442min
Ep79 "Does everyone have different mind's eyes, mind's ears, and mind's tongues?"
When you imagine something -- like the sun peeking over a mountain during an early morning rainstorm -- do you see it with rich visual detail, or instead with very little internal picture? In an earli...
7 Okt 202439min
Ep78 "Does your brain have one model of the world or thousands?"
Why do you see a unified image when you open your eyes, even though each part of your visual cortex has access to only a small part of the world? What is special about the wrinkled outer layer of the ...
30 Sep 202452min
Ep77 "What is Life?"
How do you define what things are living and dead? You might look at a sprinting cheetah and say it's clearly alive, whereas a chunk of rock is not -- but where do we draw the line? What might we expe...
23 Sep 202450min
Ep76 "How do you decide?" (Part 2)
Do brains time travel? What is a prediction error? What does any of this have to do with the 2008 crash of the economy, how we keep internal price tags, or a rational approach to drug addiction in soc...
16 Sep 202441min
Ep75 "How do you decide?" (Part 1)
When you make a decision about what food to order, what's happening in your brain? How do you clinch long-term decisions, like hitting the gym instead of doomscrolling? And what does any of this have ...
9 Sep 202432min
Ep74 "Why do we laugh?"
From the brain’s point of view, what is humor? When something is funny, why do we breathe in and out rapidly? Do other animals laugh? Why do most jokes come in threes? What do mystery novelists, magic...
2 Sep 202442min
Ep73 "How do we fool ourselves in the stock market?"
What does neuroscience have to do with investment, and what does that have to do with Isaac Newton, the Dutch East India company, Kodak, the way zebras herd, our emotions, and almost 200 cognitive bia...
26 Aug 202450min
