Ep105 "What if AI is not actually intelligent?" (with Alison Gopnik)
Is AI an intelligent agent, or is there a different way we should be thinking about it? Is it more like a piece of cultural technology? What in the world is a piece of cultural technology -- and how w...
19 Maj 20251h 10min
Ep104 "What is your internal world really like?" (with Russell Hurlburt)
If you had to give a detailed description of what flits through your mind, how good would you be at it? Might you be surprised at how many of your thoughts don't involve language? Are your thoughts ch...
12 Maj 202542min
Ep103 "Could you ever know what it’s like to be someone else?" (Part 2)
What would it take to get inside someone else's head, and could new brain technologies ever help us get there? Will there be dream celebrities, in which uploads go viral? What does consciousness feel ...
5 Maj 202539min
Ep102 "Could you ever know what it’s like to be someone else?" (Part 1)
What does it mean to stand in another’s shoes—and when are the gaps between us too wide to cross? This week, Eagleman explores bats, kicked robots, Helen Keller, empathy, storytelling, and the phrase ...
28 Apr 202535min
Ep101 "Why do people walk away from bad events with different outcomes?"
What enables some people to keep going when everything falls apart? We all know someone who’s been through hell and comes out standing. This episode is about resilience. Join Eagleman with guest Dr. J...
21 Apr 202559min
Ep100 "Why do brains love slow motion video?"
What does The Matrix tell us about the brain and time perception? And what does that have to do with champion bicyclists, hidden data, elementary particles, secret murderers, or time machines? Today’s...
14 Apr 202543min
Ep99 "Why do brains sometimes make things up?"
Your brain occasionally cooks up falsehoods that you believe entirely, but why does this confabulation happen, and how frequently? What does this tell us about memory, truth-telling, and your life as ...
7 Apr 202540min
EP98 "What's the future of AI relationships?" (with Bethanie Maples)
How many people are having relationships with artificial neural networks? Should we think of AI lovers as traps, mirrors, or sandboxes? Is there a clear line between relationship bots and therapist bo...
31 Mars 202548min
