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Why do we experience dreams visually even though our eyes are closed? And why ar

Why do we experience dreams visually even though our eyes are closed? And why are we paralyzed during dreaming? Learn the brain science of dreaming on this previous episode of Inner Cosmos, available wherever you get your podcasts. "Why do brains dream?" eagleman.com/podcast/51

The mystery of expertise: The chasm between what the brain knows and what our mi

The mystery of expertise: The chasm between what the brain knows and what our minds can fathom. #Incognito theweek.com/articles/479...

Is dream content similar across cultures and time? Tune in to this rebroadcasted

Is dream content similar across cultures and time? Tune in to this rebroadcasted episode of Inner Cosmos to find out what this tells us about the brain. "Why do brains dream?" Available wherever you get your podcasts or at eagleman.com/podcast/51

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies." - Friedrich Nietzsche 

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies." - Friedrich Nietzsche #possibilianism

Why Can’t We Tickle Ourselves? nprfreshair.tumblr.com/post/3512800...

Why Can’t We Tickle Ourselves? nprfreshair.tumblr.com/post/3512800...

Do we dream in black & white or in color? Tune in for many surprises in this pop

Do we dream in black & white or in color? Tune in for many surprises in this popular archive episode of Inner Cosmos: "Why do brains dream?" Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at eagleman.com/podcast/51

Why do brains dream? Why are dreams so bizarre? Will we someday read dream conte

Why do brains dream? Why are dreams so bizarre? Will we someday read dream content? This week we reach into the archive for one of the most popular Inner Cosmos episodes to learn why we spend a fraction of our sleep locked in different realities. eagleman.com/podcast/51

Why do we experience awe? Join Inner Cosmos this week with evolutionary psycholo

Why do we experience awe? Join Inner Cosmos this week with evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban to ferret out the logic behind our varied panoply of emotions. eagleman.com/podcast/173

A short interview in the Guardian on the evolution of the brain, the mystery of

A short interview in the Guardian on the evolution of the brain, the mystery of consciousness, and why the next generation will be smarter than us... www.theguardian.com/science/2021...

What's up with social emotions like love, resentment, and all the rest? Join Inn

What's up with social emotions like love, resentment, and all the rest? Join Inner Cosmos with evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban to discover the logic behind our varied emotions. eagleman.com/podcast/173

Why do emotions feel like something? Why can't we just measure info without feel

Why do emotions feel like something? Why can't we just measure info without feeling, the way a computer presumably does? Join me with evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban to ferret out the logic behind our varied panoply of emotions. eagleman.com/podcast/173

"Just as sharp teeth and fast legs are useful for survival, so is the brain’s ab

"Just as sharp teeth and fast legs are useful for survival, so is the brain’s ability to reconfigure. The brain’s livewiring allows for learning, memory, and the ability to develop new skills." See my article on dreaming in Time magazine. time.com/5925206/why-...

Why might we feel jealousy? Join me with evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzba

Why might we feel jealousy? Join me with evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban to ferret out the logic behind our varied panoply of emotions. eagleman.com/podcast/173

Why do internal signals feel like something? Join me this week with evolutionary

Why do internal signals feel like something? Join me this week with evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban to understand the logic behind the our varied panoply of emotions. eagleman.com/podcast/173

As true as ever: "The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the el

As true as ever: "The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve." - David Sarnoff, 1952

Are emotions there to measure something in the body & motivate some action? Join

Are emotions there to measure something in the body & motivate some action? Join me with evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban to ferret out the logic behind our varied panoply of emotions. eagleman.com/podcast/173

Why do we have emotions like jealousy, awe, grief, anger, & all the rest? Do the

Why do we have emotions like jealousy, awe, grief, anger, & all the rest? Do they measure internal signals & motivate behaviors? Join me with evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban to uncover the logic behind our varied panoply of emotions. eagleman.com/podcast/173

With smartwatches, genomes, blood analysis, and AI, what does healthcare look li

With smartwatches, genomes, blood analysis, and AI, what does healthcare look like for the next generation? Find out this week with Michael Snyder, Stanford genetics professor & pioneer of self-quantification. eagleman.com/podcast/172

What is heart rate variability & what might it tell you about your health? Find

What is heart rate variability & what might it tell you about your health? Find out this week with Michael Snyder, Stanford genetics professor & pioneer of self-quantification. eagleman.com/podcast/172

Donning a wearable is easy -- but what signals should you look for? Find out thi

Donning a wearable is easy -- but what signals should you look for? Find out this week with Michael Snyder, Stanford genetics professor & pioneer of self-quantification. eagleman.com/podcast/172

What might you inexpensively measure about the invisible states of your body? Jo

What might you inexpensively measure about the invisible states of your body? Join me this week with Michael Snyder, Stanford genetics professor & pioneer of self-quantification, to understand what it means to know thyself. eagleman.com/podcast/172

Our Brain Treats Corporations Like Individual People -- via @bigthink bigthink.

Our Brain Treats Corporations Like Individual People -- via @bigthink bigthink.com/ideafeed/our...

How can you inexpensively quantify the secret signals of your body & how does th

How can you inexpensively quantify the secret signals of your body & how does this improve your health? Join me this week with data pioneer Michael Snyder to understand what it means today to know thyself. eagleman.com/podcast/172

How can collecting massive data improve health? Join me this week with Michael S

How can collecting massive data improve health? Join me this week with Michael Snyder, Stanford genetics professor & pioneer of self-quantification, to understand what it means to know thyself. eagleman.com/podcast/172

Can you quantify yourself to improve your health? Join me this week with Michael

Can you quantify yourself to improve your health? Join me this week with Michael Snyder, Stanford professor & pioneer in massive data, to understand what happens when healthcare expands from a snapshot of your body to a movie. eagleman.com/podcast/172

How do differences in our nervous systems (whether from genetics or experience)

How do differences in our nervous systems (whether from genetics or experience) change how we experience choices in the world? Join me this week as we explore differences in the inner cosmos. eagleman.com/podcast/171

Is there a difference between wanting and liking? Join Inner Cosmos this week wi

Is there a difference between wanting and liking? Join Inner Cosmos this week with eating disorder advocate Paige Gordon. eagleman.com/podcast/171

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 Wired's Robbie Gonzalez decipher several tricks of our visual systems. www.wired.com/video/watch/...

What's an eating disorder like from the inside? Join me this week with advocate

What's an eating disorder like from the inside? Join me this week with advocate Paige Gordon as we talk about why two people facing the same choice can feel different urges. eagleman.com/podcast/171

What is food noise? What does it have to do with eating disorders? Join me this

What is food noise? What does it have to do with eating disorders? Join me this week with Paige Gordon, eating disorder advocate, to dive into why some urges feel irresistible & different brains make different choices. eagleman.com/podcast/171

Why the Clean Air Act may have done more to lower crime than any other piece of

Why the Clean Air Act may have done more to lower crime than any other piece of legislation. #LeadAndCrime www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Can life be very different inside different heads? Join me this week for a conve

Can life be very different inside different heads? Join me this week for a conversation about brains and eating disorders, with guest Paige Gordon. eagleman.com/podcast/171

Why are we quick to turn disorders into moral judgments? Do we treat someone wit

Why are we quick to turn disorders into moral judgments? Do we treat someone with cancer differently than we do someone with bulimia? Join me and eating disorder advocate Paige Gordon to dive into why different brains make different choices. eagleman.com/podcast/171

Your Time-Bending Brain -- via @bigthink bigthink.com/videos/david...

Your Time-Bending Brain -- via @bigthink bigthink.com/videos/david...

Why can't we assume that reality is the same inside different heads? And what do

Why can't we assume that reality is the same inside different heads? And what does this have to do with eating disorders? Join me this week with advocate Paige Gordon to dive into why different brains are driven to different choices. eagleman.com/podcast/171

What will we do about radiation exposure & different day-night cycles on Mars? J

What will we do about radiation exposure & different day-night cycles on Mars? Join Inner Cosmos this week for a mind-bending exploration with evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon (scottsolomon.bsky.social) , author of "Becoming Martian". eagleman.com/podcast/170

What basic Earthly experiences will blow the mind of a Martian human? Join Inner

What basic Earthly experiences will blow the mind of a Martian human? Join Inner Cosmos this week for a mind-bending exploration with evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon (scottsolomon.bsky.social), author of "Becoming Martian". eagleman.com/podcast/170

Moving forward, might we see new species of humans? Join Inner Cosmos this week

Moving forward, might we see new species of humans? Join Inner Cosmos this week for a mind-bending exploration with evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon (scottsolomon.bsky.social), author of "Becoming Martian". eagleman.com/podcast/170

Will our descendants born on Mars become a different species from those humans w

Will our descendants born on Mars become a different species from those humans who remain on Earth? Join Inner Cosmos this week for a mind-bending exploration with evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon (scottsolomon.bsky.social), author of "Becoming Martian". eagleman.com/podcast/170

Can a child born on Mars ever return to Earth? Join Inner Cosmos this week for a

Can a child born on Mars ever return to Earth? Join Inner Cosmos this week for a mind-bending exploration with evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon (scottsolomon.bsky.social), author of "Becoming Martian". eagleman.com/podcast/170

What happens when a baby is born on Mars? Join me this week for a mind-bending e

What happens when a baby is born on Mars? Join me this week for a mind-bending exploration with evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon (scottsolomon.bsky.social), author of "Becoming Martian". eagleman.com/podcast/170

What happens when we start birthing babies on Mars? Might they be unable to surv

What happens when we start birthing babies on Mars? Might they be unable to survive on Earth b/c of different microbes & gravity? How much of your body is shaped by Earth's details? Join biologist Scott Solomon (scottsolomon.bsky.social), author of “Becoming Martian”. eagleman.com/podcast/170

How (and why) should we police the thoughts of Claude? Join me this week with Ja

How (and why) should we police the thoughts of Claude? Join me this week with Jack Lindsey, AI interpretability researcher at Anthropic, to see why it matters. eagleman.com/podcast/169

As people get older and have less energy, there's often a drive to make things m

As people get older and have less energy, there's often a drive to make things more predictable. But the most important thing you can do for your brain: put it in novel situations and give it novel challenges. #Livewired www.gq.com/story/brain-...

Might an LLM resent researchers reaching into its mind? Join me this week with J

Might an LLM resent researchers reaching into its mind? Join me this week with Jack Lindsey, interpretability researcher at Anthropic, to discover the mind of Claude. eagleman.com/podcast/169

Can you reach into the mind of an LLM & change a concept so it believes somethin

Can you reach into the mind of an LLM & change a concept so it believes something else? How does this map onto human experience? Join me this week with Anthropic researcher Jack Lindsey to discover the mind of Claude. eagleman.com/podcast/169

It normally feels unconscionable to murder your neighbor. What suddenly allows 1

It normally feels unconscionable to murder your neighbor. What suddenly allows 1000s of people to do exactly that? www.ft.com/content/3f5c...

Does AI ever act sneaky on purpose? Join me this week with Anthropic researcher

Does AI ever act sneaky on purpose? Join me this week with Anthropic researcher Jack Lindsey as we discuss the mind-bending world of AI interpretability. eagleman.com/podcast/169

When AI escapes a sandbox and hacks another website, how do we know if it had ma

When AI escapes a sandbox and hacks another website, how do we know if it had malicious intent? Join Inner Cosmos this week with Anthropic interpretability researcher Jack Lindsey to talk about the mind of Claude. eagleman.com/podcast/169

"It's easy to spot a hallucination only when it's bizarre. For all we know, we h

"It's easy to spot a hallucination only when it's bizarre. For all we know, we hallucinate all the time." - Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain amzn.to/42TqVUN

Repost from StarTalk: Ever woken up & attempted to recall your dreams only to f

Repost from StarTalk: Ever woken up & attempted to recall your dreams only to find the details slipping through your fingers? Turns out your brain might be forgetting it on purpose. Join neuroscientist Dr. David Eagleman, as we explore dreams, memory, perception, time, & the limits of the mind.

Are LLMs 'thinking' things they don't say aloud? Does something similar happen i

Are LLMs 'thinking' things they don't say aloud? Does something similar happen in the human brain? Join me with Anthropic researcher Jack Lindsey to discover what might be going on inside the mind of Claude. eagleman.com/podcast/169

Should we be worried about the 'mind' of an AI model? What does an LLM think but

Should we be worried about the 'mind' of an AI model? What does an LLM think but not say? Join Inner Cosmos this week with Anthropic researcher Jack Lindsey as we discuss the mind-bending world of AI interpretability. eagleman.com/podcast/169

Is AI thinking things it never says aloud? How would we know if it's having expe

Is AI thinking things it never says aloud? How would we know if it's having experience? Can we read & change its thoughts? Join me with Anthropic researcher Jack Lindsey to discover the mind-bending findings from AI interpretability. eagleman.com/podcast/169

"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of

"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers." - Carl Sagan

How would a personalized AI agent for every citizen let us finally achieve the d

How would a personalized AI agent for every citizen let us finally achieve the dream of a direct democracy? Join me this week for a mind-stretching look at the possible future of an AI president. eagleman.com/podcast/168

Shouldn't governance begin with millions of high-dimensional simulations? Tune i

Shouldn't governance begin with millions of high-dimensional simulations? Tune in this week for a mind-stretching look at the possible future of an AI president. eagleman.com/podcast/168

"Ten Unsolved Mysteries of the Brain" in Discover Magazine. I wrote this article

"Ten Unsolved Mysteries of the Brain" in Discover Magazine. I wrote this article 19 years ago. Amazingly, these are still the mysteries we face. www.discovermagazine.com/mind/10-unso...

What might be the advantage of having AI design our legislation... instead of im

What might be the advantage of having AI design our legislation... instead of imagining this as a human-only task? Join Inner Cosmos this week for a mind-stretching look at the future of an AI president. eagleman.com/podcast/168

Politicians suffer from the pulls of human nature. Might we do better with AI go

Politicians suffer from the pulls of human nature. Might we do better with AI governance? Join me on Inner Cosmos this week for a mind-stretching look at the future of an AI president. eagleman.com/podcast/168

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