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27: David Eagleman | How Your Brain Makes Sense of the World

2018/4/10
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David Eagleman (@davideagleman)) is a neuroscientist at Stanford, host of Emmy-nominated PBS/BBC series The Brain), author and co-author of several books including The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World), and CSO of NeoSensory), a company that specializes in sensory substitution technology.

What We Discuss with David Eagleman:

  • The science that encourages lifelong learning as a way to fend off the effects of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.

  • How the human brain processes senses beyond sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch -- and how we might upgrade our senses in the not-too-distant future.

  • What flipping a coin can tell us about the subconscious brain.

  • How our memories and self-identities are built from the brain's interpretation of reality -- which is quite different from reality itself.

  • Will we ever be able to download skills directly into our brains?

  • And much more...

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