Ep19 "How far can you trust your memory?"
How good is your memory, really? Why do we feel so certain about our memory, even while it is so suspect? Can something told to you after an event change your memory of the event? Why is it so hard to...
31 Jul 202344min
Ep18 "Could you upload your brain to live forever?"
How would we know if we were living in a simulation? What if you were a butterfly having a dream it was a human? What does any of this have to do with John Lennon, or Renee Descartes, or freezing your...
24 Jul 202338min
Ep17 "What is consciousness?"
How do your billions of tiny brain cells build consciousness as they chatter away with electrical spikes and chemical signals? And why is your laptop, with its sophisticated algorithms and billions of...
17 Jul 202341min
Ep16 "Why is everyone who disagrees with you misinformed?"
Why is there so much polarization, and what does this have to do with neuroscience? Why do people on all sides of the political spectrum feel that if they could shout loudly enough in all caps on Twit...
10 Jul 20231h 1min
Ep15 "What should happen when someone with a brain tumor breaks the law?"
When does neuroscience overlap with the legal system? Do we have free will or don't we? Did changes in Charles Whitman's brain have something to do with him becoming a mass shooter? Why was the heir t...
3 Jul 202355min
Ep14 "Why do we have so little access to what’s happening under the hood?"
Who is doing the choosing when you make a choice? Is there someone in your head but it’s not you? What is a chicken-sexer, and what do they have to do with British plane spotters during WWII? Do we ha...
26 Jun 202338min
Ep13 "Will you perceive the event that kills you?"
How far in the past do you live? Why are live television shows not actually live? What does any of this have to do with nuclear bombs, car accidents, plane crashes, volcanos, or the last episode of th...
19 Jun 202332min
Ep12 "Can we create new senses for humans?"
Can a blind person come to see through her tongue? What would it be like to smell with the nose of a dog? How can we perceive streams of information that are normally invisible to us? And what does an...
12 Jun 202350min
