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Why do people with schizophrenia hear voices? (via RealClearScience blog) www.r

Why do people with schizophrenia hear voices? (via RealClearScience blog) www.realclearscience.com/blog/2012/08...

Would leadership that operates on generational timescales be better than brains

Would leadership that operates on generational timescales be better than brains that think in local political cycles? Join me this week to explore the pros and cons of an AI president. eagleman.com/podcast/168

Are societies more complex that a human mind can wrap around? If so, why would w

Are societies more complex that a human mind can wrap around? If so, why would we hope a person could do a better job than AI? Catch Inner Cosmos this week to explore the pros and cons of an AI president. eagleman.com/podcast/168

Awesome. Thomas Edison's to-do list. www.brainpickings.org/index.php/20...

Awesome. Thomas Edison's to-do list. www.brainpickings.org/index.php/20...

Will it someday make sense to elect an AI president? Do we want to always choose

Will it someday make sense to elect an AI president? Do we want to always choose between humans (e.g. Kamala & Donald), or might we vote for a system w/a jaw-dropping capacity to extract patterns from vast data & simulate billions of possible futures? eagleman.com/podcast/168

What are the dark sides of abundance & how can we best steer things? Join me thi

What are the dark sides of abundance & how can we best steer things? Join me this week with author and researcher Steven Kotler as we discuss the ideas in his new book "We Are As Gods". eagleman.com/podcast/167

Why is it important to write the first draft in the age of AI? Join me this week

Why is it important to write the first draft in the age of AI? Join me this week with author and researcher Steven Kotler as we discuss the ideas in his new book "We Are As Gods". eagleman.com/podcast/167

What is the state of flow? Join Inner Cosmos this week with author and researche

What is the state of flow? Join Inner Cosmos this week with author and researcher Steven Kotler as we discuss the ideas in his new book "We Are As Gods". eagleman.com/podcast/167

Thought for the day: A good idea not turned into action stays confined to the ti

Thought for the day: A good idea not turned into action stays confined to the tiny, poor neurons that spend all their energy on it.

Is the world getting more abundant? Join me this week with author and researcher

Is the world getting more abundant? Join me this week with author and researcher Steven Kotler as we discuss the ideas in his new book "We Are As Gods". eagleman.com/podcast/167

Does our technology deliver miracles? Join me this week with author and research

Does our technology deliver miracles? Join me this week with author and researcher Steven Kotler as we discuss the ideas in his new book "We Are As Gods". eagleman.com/podcast/167

Neuroscience Confirms Your Subconscious Shapes Your Reality -- via @bigthink bi

Neuroscience Confirms Your Subconscious Shapes Your Reality -- via @bigthink bigthink.com/ideafeed/neu...

Are our brains carved by evolution for a different world than we're living in no

Are our brains carved by evolution for a different world than we're living in now? Join me this week with author and researcher Steven Kotler as we discuss the ideas in his new book "We Are As Gods". eagleman.com/podcast/167

New ep of Inner Cosmos drops at now-o'clock: What do we become with stone age br

New ep of Inner Cosmos drops at now-o'clock: What do we become with stone age brains + godlike tools? Join me this week with author and researcher Steven Kotler as we discuss the ideas in his new book, co-authored with Peter Diamandis, "We Are As Gods". eagleman.com/podcast/167

Ten older books that are wonderful. eagleman.com/latest/ten-b...

Ten older books that are wonderful. eagleman.com/latest/ten-b...

Would a nanoparticle brain-computer interface be unaffordable by most of the wor

Would a nanoparticle brain-computer interface be unaffordable by most of the world... or might it be quite inexpensive? Join me with guests Tetiana Aleksandrova & Scott Meek of Subsense to hear about the future of brain computer interfaces. eagleman.com/podcast/166

Scientists Learn How to Teach Synesthesia (Let the Weirdness Begin) -- via @bigt

Scientists Learn How to Teach Synesthesia (Let the Weirdness Begin) -- via @bigthink bigthink.com/surprising-s...

What happens at the converging intersection of AI and brain-computer interfaces

What happens at the converging intersection of AI and brain-computer interfaces (BCIs)? Join me this week with guests Tetiana Aleksandrova & Scott Meek of Subsense to hear about the future of brain computer interfaces. eagleman.com/podcast/166

How might nanoparticles be used to 'write' activity in the brain of a person wit

How might nanoparticles be used to 'write' activity in the brain of a person with Parkinson's disease? Join me with guests Tetiana Aleksandrova & Scott Meek of Subsense to hear about the future of brain computer interfaces. eagleman.com/podcast/166

Old, sweet memory: When Brian Eno and I performed my book of stories, SUM, at th

Old, sweet memory: When Brian Eno and I performed my book of stories, SUM, at the Sydney Opera House. youtu.be/ZiFmEYjyvPs

How might nanoparticles work as a brain-machine interface? Join me this week wit

How might nanoparticles work as a brain-machine interface? Join me this week with guests Tetiana Aleksandrova & Scott Meek of Subsense to hear about the future of brain computer interfaces. eagleman.com/podcast/166

Instead of dunking electrodes into the brain, might the next revolution in brain

Instead of dunking electrodes into the brain, might the next revolution in brain computer interfaces use nanoparticles? Join me this week with pioneers Tetiana Aleksandrova & Scott Meek of Subsense to hear about the near future. eagleman.com/podcast/166

People you love become part of you — not just metaphorically, but physically. Yo

People you love become part of you — not just metaphorically, but physically. You absorb people into your internal model of the world. Your brain refashions itself around the expectation of their presence. www.brainpickings.org/2020/08/23/d...

New ep of Inner Cosmos drops at now-o'clock: "Could the Next Brain Interface Get

New ep of Inner Cosmos drops at now-o'clock: "Could the Next Brain Interface Get Sprayed Up Your Nose?" Join me to talk with the company Subsense about why the next neural interface might come from thinking small... like nanoparticle small. eagleman.com/podcast/166

Are loops in the heart like doom loops in the brain? Join me with guest Jonathan

Are loops in the heart like doom loops in the brain? Join me with guest Jonathan Downar as we explore depression, OCD, anxiety & more. eagleman.com/podcast/165

New ideas don't come from muses or lightning strikes; instead, every idea has a

New ideas don't come from muses or lightning strikes; instead, every idea has a genealogy. What happens in the brain to remix the world that comes to us? www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-gue...

What if you have no means of exiting a mental loop... and what might that have t

What if you have no means of exiting a mental loop... and what might that have to do with depression, OCD, PTSD, and anxiety? Join me this week with psychiatrist and neuroscientist Jonathan Downar as we talk about breaking out of doom loops. eagleman.com/podcast/165

Does transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) offer a way for people to get unstu

Does transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) offer a way for people to get unstuck from mental loops? Join me this week with TMS pioneer Jonathan Downar as we talk about breaking out of doom loops. eagleman.com/podcast/165

What's happening in the brain that puts our species on such an exponential traje

What's happening in the brain that puts our species on such an exponential trajectory? bigthink.com/videos/david...

Are obsessions or compulsions caused by the absence of a "done" signal in the br

Are obsessions or compulsions caused by the absence of a "done" signal in the brain? Join me this week with guest Jonathan Downar, psychiatrist and neuroscientist, as we talk about doom loops & how we might escape them. eagleman.com/podcast/165

People with depression often feel like their thoughts are downward escalators fr

People with depression often feel like their thoughts are downward escalators from which they can't get off. Join me this week with guest Jonathan Downar as we talk about possible interventions like transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). eagleman.com/podcast/165

Why is biological insight so useful for the legal system? I wrote this article i

Why is biological insight so useful for the legal system? I wrote this article in the Atlantic over a decade ago; this is the first reading in my neurolaw course at Stanford. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Have you ever woken up at 2 in the morning with washing-machine brain, where you

Have you ever woken up at 2 in the morning with washing-machine brain, where your thoughts are going round and round in a loop? Join Inner Cosmos this week with guest Jonathan Downar, psychiatrist and neuroscientist, as we talk about doom loops & how we might escape them. eagleman.com/podcast/165

What are doom loops & how can we escape them? Have you ever spent hours with a t

What are doom loops & how can we escape them? Have you ever spent hours with a thought cycling around in your head? Where does the feeling of being “done” come from? Join me with guest Jonathan Downar to explore depression, OCD, anxiety & more. eagleman.com/podcast/165

"In the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidde

"In the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in what myriads rise!" - Alexander Pope

Why does building social trust between people matter? Join me this week to sit d

Why does building social trust between people matter? Join me this week to sit down with social psychologist Claude Steele to explore the hidden psychological forces that shape who we become under the gaze of others. eagleman.com/podcast/164

How do leaders use group dynamics to create a political constituency? Join me th

How do leaders use group dynamics to create a political constituency? Join me this week with social psychologist Claude Steele as we explore the brain science & psychology of ingroups, outgroups, prejudice, and how we can build better. eagleman.com/podcast/164

Why are races started with a gunshot rather a flash of light? There's a good re

Why are races started with a gunshot rather a flash of light? There's a good reason… www.realclearscience.com/blog/2016/08...

How can individuals connect & accept as opposed to focusing on concerns about pr

How can individuals connect & accept as opposed to focusing on concerns about prejudice? Join me this week with psychologist Claude Steele as we explore the brain science & psychology of ingroups, outgroups, and trust. eagleman.com/podcast/164

The exact number of computers needed to simulate the human brain is almost incon

The exact number of computers needed to simulate the human brain is almost inconceivable. -- via @bigthink bigthink.com/videos/david...

It may be tough to overcome prejudices... but building trust may be easier. Join

It may be tough to overcome prejudices... but building trust may be easier. Join us this week as we explore the brain science & psychology of ingroups, outgroups, prejudice, what goes wrong when everyone calls everyone a racist, and how we can build better. eagleman.com/podcast/164

Why is social uncertainty so hard on the brain? Join me this week to sit down wi

Why is social uncertainty so hard on the brain? Join me this week to sit down with social psychologist Claude Steele to explore the hidden psychological forces that shape who we become under the gaze of others. eagleman.com/podcast/164

"Where does personality end and brain damage begin?" - Doug Coupland

"Where does personality end and brain damage begin?" - Doug Coupland

Francis Crick, one of the greats of 20th century biology, died on this day in 20

Francis Crick, one of the greats of 20th century biology, died on this day in 2004. He was a mentor and friend in my postdoctoral years at the Salk Institute, and I feel infinitely lucky to have overlapped with him. "Remembering a trail blazer" eagleman.com/latest/remem...

What happens when people are in "churn", feeling aware of the stereotypes they m

What happens when people are in "churn", feeling aware of the stereotypes they might be under? Join me this week with social psychologist Claude Steele to explore the hidden forces that shape who we become when we worry how we're seen by others. eagleman.com/podcast/164

Does your identity change in different situations? Join me this week with Stanfo

Does your identity change in different situations? Join me this week with Stanford social psychologist Claude Steele to explore the hidden psychological forces that shape who we become whenever we're in the gaze of others. eagleman.com/podcast/164

Ever wondered whether open offices are here to last? And what they tell us about

Ever wondered whether open offices are here to last? And what they tell us about companies and creativity? behavioralscientist.org/open-offices...

How do we know whether modern AI is actually intelligent (or merely memorizes)?

How do we know whether modern AI is actually intelligent (or merely memorizes)? What new thing will artificial general intelligence (AGI) bring to the table? Join me this week with Ben Goertzel to examine the future just around the corner. eagleman.com/podcast/163

Why does Ray Kurzweil think we'll hit the AI singularity in 2029? And how did he

Why does Ray Kurzweil think we'll hit the AI singularity in 2029? And how did he come up with that prescient date back in 2005? Join me on Inner Cosmos this week with guest Ben Goertzel as we look at the big changes we're about to see. eagleman.com/podcast/163

Cognitive flexibility is paramount in navigating our fast-changing world, and co

Cognitive flexibility is paramount in navigating our fast-changing world, and companies are clamoring for innovators. But when the cultivation of creativity becomes limited to those with economic privilege, society stalls its own engines. www.edweek.org/ew/articles/...

Does modern AI recombine on a shallow level? Could it ever invent Duke Ellington

Does modern AI recombine on a shallow level? Could it ever invent Duke Ellington? Join me and guest Ben Goertzel as we discuss whether/when AI creativity will equal human creativity. eagleman.com/podcast/163

What's special about the human brain compared to our neighbors in the animal kin

What's special about the human brain compared to our neighbors in the animal kingdom? Join me on Inner Cosmos this week with guest Ben Goertzel to examine the near future of AGI. eagleman.com/podcast/163

Are you doing research at the intersection of science and the criminal justice s

Are you doing research at the intersection of science and the criminal justice system? Publish in one of the top journals in the field, the Journal of Science and Law. We're open for submissions for our next edition. jscilaw.org

What will we do with our time once artificial general intelligence (AGI) surpass

What will we do with our time once artificial general intelligence (AGI) surpasses humankind? Join me on Inner Cosmos this week with Ben Goertzel to examine the future just around the corner. eagleman.com/podcast/163

When we reach artificial superintelligence (ASI) will our computers hate humanit

When we reach artificial superintelligence (ASI) will our computers hate humanity or be indifferent to us? Join me to explore the future possibilities with Ben Goertzel this week on Inner Cosmos. eagleman.com/podcast/163

"Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one." - Vo

"Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one." - Voltaire #possibilianism

Why do we dream? Why do we experience a fraction of our lives inside an internal

Why do we dream? Why do we experience a fraction of our lives inside an internal, delusory picture show? My former student @DrDonVaughn and I have built a new framework to answer these old questions. Read the summary in Time Magazine. time.com/5925206/why-...

New ep of Inner Cosmos drops at now-o'clock. What is artificial general intellig

New ep of Inner Cosmos drops at now-o'clock. What is artificial general intelligence (AGI) & how quickly does it become smarter than all of humanity? Join this week with Ben Goertzel as we dive into the fast-approaching future of AI. eagleman.com/podcast/163

What's the right way to put stem cells back into humans? Join Inner Cosmos this

What's the right way to put stem cells back into humans? Join Inner Cosmos this week with stem cell pioneer Jeanne Loring to discover what medicine will look like in 5 years. eagleman.com/podcast/162

A crucial fact about the brain is missing from our public discussion about viole

A crucial fact about the brain is missing from our public discussion about violence - via @bigthink bigthink.com/videos/david...

What's a frozen zoo? Can we use cutting edge tech to help endangered animals sur

What's a frozen zoo? Can we use cutting edge tech to help endangered animals survive? Hear about this and regenerative medicine from stem cell pioneer Jeanne Loring on this week's Inner Cosmos. eagleman.com/podcast/162

Can stem cells cure Parkinsons? Join medical pioneer Jeanne Loring to learn how

Can stem cells cure Parkinsons? Join medical pioneer Jeanne Loring to learn how the future of medicine is about replacing your own cells when they go bad. eagleman.com/podcast/162

Is there really such a thing as Universal Beauty? nautil.us/why-beauty-i...

Is there really such a thing as Universal Beauty? nautil.us/why-beauty-i...

What can you do with your own stem cells? Join medical pioneer Jeanne Loring to

What can you do with your own stem cells? Join medical pioneer Jeanne Loring to learn how the future of medicine will be about replacing cells in your body. eagleman.com/podcast/162

What can we accomplish by putting your own stem cells back into your brain? Hear

What can we accomplish by putting your own stem cells back into your brain? Hear about the near-future of medicine from stem cell pioneer Jeanne Loring. eagleman.com/podcast/162

Why is some brain activity experienced? "What a peculiar privilege has this litt

Why is some brain activity experienced? "What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain we call 'thought'" - David Hume

What is regenerative medicine? Join Inner Cosmos this week with stem cell pionee

What is regenerative medicine? Join Inner Cosmos this week with stem cell pioneer Jeanne Loring to discover what medicine will look like in 5 years. eagleman.com/podcast/162

What's a stem cell? How can we get a cell to travel backward in time, & how will

What's a stem cell? How can we get a cell to travel backward in time, & how will that change medicine? New Inner Cosmos drops now with stem cell pioneer Jeanne Loring. Join us to discover what medicine is going to look like in 5 years. eagleman.com/podcast/162

Mind-pops. Not a frozen snack, but an uninvited word/phrase from the unconscious

Mind-pops. Not a frozen snack, but an uninvited word/phrase from the unconscious. Try keeping a mind-pop diary. #oldiebutgoodie www.scientificamerican.com/article/mind...

How does the brain implement algorithms that are now used in reinforcement learn

How does the brain implement algorithms that are now used in reinforcement learning? And is dopamine more than a pleasure molecule? Join me with neuroscientist Read Montague to learn what happens inside neural networks, biological and artificial. eagleman.com/podcast/161

Why is anticipation of the future one of the most important moves in evolution?

Why is anticipation of the future one of the most important moves in evolution? Join me this week with neuroscientist Read Montague to learn what reinforcement learning is & how it operates inside real and artificial neural networks. eagleman.com/podcast/161

Can water coming out of a hose appear to flow backward? Why do car wheels someti

Can water coming out of a hose appear to flow backward? Why do car wheels sometimes spin the wrong way on TV? What do these illusions have to do w the camera? See me and Robbie Gonzalez decipher several tricks of our visual systems. www.wired.com/video/watch/...

Why doesn't "hot" or "fall" or "pain" mean the same thing to an LLM as it does t

Why doesn't "hot" or "fall" or "pain" mean the same thing to an LLM as it does to you? Join me with computational neuroscientist Read Montague to learn what reinforcement learning is & how it operates inside real and artificial neural networks. eagleman.com/podcast/161

How can reinforcement learning open doors to alien landscapes? Join Inner Cosmos

How can reinforcement learning open doors to alien landscapes? Join Inner Cosmos this week with neuroscientist Read Montague to learn what reinforcement learning is & how it operates inside real and artificial neural networks. eagleman.com/podcast/161

What is reinforcement learning & how does it operate in neural networks -- biolo

What is reinforcement learning & how does it operate in neural networks -- biological or artificial? Join me with neuroscientist Read Montague to learn about the modern importance of an ancient algorithm. eagleman.com/podcast/161

What do ancient brains and future AIs have in common? Join Inner Cosmos this wee

What do ancient brains and future AIs have in common? Join Inner Cosmos this week with computational neuroscientist Read Montague as we explore what runs inside neural networks (real and artificial). eagleman.com/podcast/161

The lines are not actually moving in the picture. Prove this by planting a finge

The lines are not actually moving in the picture. Prove this by planting a finger on the screen. When your motion detectors are tickled in the right way, you perceive movement. Always remember: what we assume to be reality out there ain't necessarily so. twitter.com/jagarikin/st...

What is deep brain stimulation (DBS) for depression, and what would induce someo

What is deep brain stimulation (DBS) for depression, and what would induce someone to undergo a brain surgery like this? Hear from guest Jon Nelson how it saved his life. eagleman.com/podcast/154

What is it like to suffer with clinical depression? Tune in this week for an int

What is it like to suffer with clinical depression? Tune in this week for an intimate view of the experience, and the complex path by which guest Jon Nelson eventually got out. eagleman.com/podcast/154

Audio short story: Listen to Jarvis Cocker read "Descent of Species" from SUM.

Audio short story: Listen to Jarvis Cocker read "Descent of Species" from SUM. www.theguardian.com/books/audio/...