Ep5 "How is your brain like a team of rivals?"
Would you kill one person to save the lives of five others? Why do you find yourself on the horns of a dilemma when someone offers you a chocolate cake? How can you believe different things at once? F...
24 Apr 202340min
Ep4 "Do people experience different realities?"
Do you see blue the same way I do on the inside? Why do some people think the northern lights make noise? Why do you think the low note on the piano is larger, and the high note brighter? Join Eaglema...
17 Apr 202353min
Ep3 "Could animals learn to speak human?"
What is intelligence? Why don’t gophers write novels? Why didn't crows invent the internet? And what does any of this have to do with brain algorithms, finding aliens on earth, and why World War 5 cou...
10 Apr 202334min
Ep2 "What would you do with robotic wings? (or How to get a better body)"
How is it possible for a dog to become a champion surfer? Why does the world’s best archer have no arms? Why might someone come to believe that her leg doesn’t belong to her? How can we build robots t...
3 Apr 202353min
Ep1 "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...
27 Mar 202330min
Introducing: Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
Neuroscientist and author David Eagleman discusses how our brain interprets the world and what that means for us. Through storytelling, research, interviews, and experiments, David Eagleman tackles wi...
20 Mar 20231min
