Ep90 "What's the future of connecting our tech to our brains?"
A brain's 86 billion neurons are always chattering along with tiny electrical and chemical signals. But how can we get inside the brain to study the fine details? Can we eavesdrop on cells using other...
3 Feb 202556min
Ep89 "Why do you love some flavors and not others?"
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 synchroni...
27 Jan 202535min
Ep88 "Might there exist very different kinds of minds?"
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 man...
20 Jan 202547min
Ep 87 "How do we operate in the present when we perceive the past?"
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...
13 Jan 202534min
Ep86 "What are emotions?"
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 al...
6 Jan 202550min
Ep39 rebroadcast "What is the future of AI relationships?"
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 d...
30 Des 202437min
Ep10 rebroadcast "Why is it so hard to spot a counterfeit bill?"
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 cam...
23 Des 202436min
Ep85 "What is a Thought?"
Brains bear thoughts like a peach 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...
16 Des 202436min
