Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
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Ep176 "Where Does Your Mind End and AI Begin?" with Steven Johnson
Ep176 "Where Does Your Mind End and AI Begin?" with Steven Johnson
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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 wild questions that illuminate new facets of our lives and our realities.
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- Ep176 "Where Does Your Mind End and AI Begin?" with Steven Johnson · 1 h 3 min · Episodio 176When a machine can remember your intellectual life and propose the next connection, is it still a tool or has it become part of the mind doing the thinking? In other words, who…
- Re-Release " What is Color? Part 2: Why royals wear purple" · 38 minThis week we reach into the archive for one of the most popular episodes of Inner Cosmos. Are there new colors you could see? And why are they impossible to imagine before you've…
- Re-Release "What is color? Part 1: Why hunters wear orange" · 38 minThis week we reach into the archive for one of the most popular episodes of Inner Cosmos. Why do birds and bees choose different flowers? Why do mammals' eyes seem to be…
- Ep175 Who Are You When Your Brain Changes? with Robert Kolker · 43 min · Episodio 175Is your personality written into the circuitry of your brain? With brain disease, can someone lose who they are without realizing it? What happens when the person changing is the…
- Ep174 "Can Evolution Teach AI?" with Athena Aktipis · 53 min · Episodio 174How do you get trillions of cells to collaborate as the single organism that we call you? Does that kind of cooperation create opportunities for hijacking -- for example, is…
- Re-Release "Why Do Brains Dream" · 52 minThis week we reach into the archive for one of the most popular episodes of Inner Cosmos. Why do brains dream, and why are dreams so bizarre? Why doesn't your clock work in your…
- Ep173 "Why Do We Have Emotions?" with Robert Kurzban · 54 min · Episodio 173What's a feeling for? What is jealousy measuring and motivating? Why do both awe and grief slow us down? What happens when ancient emotions meet dating apps and like buttons?…
- Ep172 "Can You Quantify Yourself to Improve Health?" with Michael Snyder · 1 h 3 min · Episodio 172Can your smartwatch detect subtle changes before you feel them? Might a continuous glucose monitor pick up on things you didn’t know about yourself? Could a drop of blood map…
- Ep171 "Why Do Some Urges Feel Irresistible?" with Paige Gordon · 46 min · Episodio 171Why do two people facing the same choice feel different urges? How much effort hides behind resisting a cookie? Why can the brain keep wanting something long after pleasure…
- Ep 170 "Will Mars Create a New Species of Human?" with Scott Solomon · 49 min · Episodio 170What happens when we start birthing babies on Mars? Might a Martian human become unable to survive on Earth because of differences in microbes and gravity? How much of your body…
- Ep169 "What Is Claude Thinking But Not Saying?" with Jack Lindsey · 1 h 21 minIs AI thinking things it never says aloud? How would we know if a large language model were having a subjective experience? Is there a way to read the 'thoughts' of an LLM? Human…
- Ep168 "Will it Someday Make Sense to Elect an AI President?" · 46 min · Episodio 168Could there be a better form of government than the one we have now? As we enter an AI-powered world, when might we choose an AI leader? Will your grandchildren ever vote for a…
- Ep167 "What Happens With Stone Age Brains + Godlike Tools?" with Steven Kotler · 39 min · Episodio 167What happens when old brain circuitry collides with modern tech? Are we heading into an age of abundance, and can abundance create its own psychological problems? Do we need…
- Ep166 "Could the Next Brain Interface Get Sprayed Up Your Nose?" with Tetiana Aleksandrova & Scott Meek · 48 min · Episodio 166A brain computer interface (BCI) is any technology that allows you to connect your 3 pounds of wetware to a computer. But instead of implanting electrodes via neurosurgery, might…
- Ep165 "What's a Doom Loop & How Do You Escape It?" with Jonathan Downar · 60 min · Episodio 165Have you ever spent hours with a thought cycling around in your head? What happens when the brain continuously worries, craves, or replays something without finding the exit?…
- Ep164 "Why Do We Act Differently Around Different People?" With Claude Steele · 1 h 11 min · Episodio 164Does your identity and performance change in different situations? What does this have to do with wondering how you’re being judged? What if polarization grows from uncertainty…
- Ep163 "How Quickly Does AI Become Smarter Than Humanity?" with Ben Goertzel · 1 h 9 min · Episodio 163What is artificial general intelligence (AGI) and how close are we to getting there? What defines the next step, called artificial superintelligence (ASI), and why might the gap…
- Ep162 "What Does Medicine Look Like in Ten Years?" with Jeanne Loring · 34 minFor all of medical history, we’ve tried to persuade sick cells to behave better. What if instead we just swapped them out? Can we insert new brain cells grown from your own skin…
- Ep161 "What Do Ancient Brains and Future AIs Have in Common?" with Read Montague · 1 h 3 min · Episodio 161What do honeybee brains have in common with human brains -- and with the AI that beat the world's best Go player? What simple algorithm has been hiding inside brains for 100s of…
- Ep160 "Do You Really Have a Self?" with Sam Harris · 1 h 6 minre you the author of your thoughts or just their witness? Do we simply watch our thoughts like we watch unfolding dream plots? What if the most familiar thing you experience —…
- Ep159 "If Your Brain Changed Slightly, Would You Still Be You?" with Masud Husain · 1 h 12 min · Episodio 159Could a tiny injury to your brain change your personality? If your friends didn’t know something had happened in your brain, would they just think you're choosing to act…
- Ep158 "What do babies, animals, and AI have in common?" with Melanie Mitchell · 45 min · Episodio 158When AI gets the right answer, how do we know it got there the right way? Why do we assume that fluent language means intelligence? What do infants and chatbots have in common?…
- Ep157 "Where Did the Letter "A" Come From?" with Danny Bate · 54 min · Episodio 157How can we use 26 symbols to capture everything in the cosmos of human experience? Where do our written symbols in English come from? What ancient ghosts are still hiding inside…
- Ep156 What Do We Learn About AI by Dancing with Robots? with Catie Cuan · 1 h 12 min · Episodio 156Why do we read so much into how a robot moves, and what does that tell us about human brains? Why did our history make us so sensitive to movement? Why do we trust graceful…
- Ep155 "Why Can’t Some People Stop Thinking Certain Thoughts?" with Jon Hershfield · 1 h 2 min · Episodio 155Why do brains generate strange thoughts sometimes? And why do some brains refuse to let go of those thoughts? Today we'll talk about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) with…
- Ep154 "Can a Depressed Brain Find Its Way Out?" with Jon Nelson · 1 h 30 min · Episodio 154What if your brain got stuck in sadness and never reset? What does it feel like when joy disappears completely? Can a person love their family deeply and still want to die? What…
- Ep153 Can You Unlearn Anxiety? with Judson Brewer · 59 min · Episodio 153Week 2 of Mental Health Awareness month: Anxiety is close to everyone’s experience, either because you've had it or someone close to you has. Does your brain accidentally teach…
- Ep152 "How do you survive your own thoughts?" with Jewel · 1 h 5 min · Episodio 152What do you do when your own mind stops feeling safe? How does a person sing on stage while panicking inside? How do you catch your thoughts before they catch you? Join Eagleman…
- Ep151 "Can One Be a Rational Optimist About the World?" with Matt Ridley · 57 min · Episodio 151Why do we generally feel like the world is getting worse, when by almost all measures it’s getting better? How do ideas "have sex”, and why does that matter for innovation? Why…
- Ep150 "Can We Engineer Dreams?" with Adam Haar Horowitz · 1 h 7 min · Episodio 150Can you influence what you dream about tonight? Are you spending years of your life in a world you don’t recall? Can nightmares be manipulated as a therapy? Are dreams sometimes…
- Ep149 "What makes a brain grow up resilient?" with David Sussillo · 51 minHow can a brain grow up in chaos but find its way to order? There are many ways to have a bad childhood, but why do some children break while others bend and keep going? How much…
- Ep148 "How can we improve political dialog?" with Saul Perlmutter · 55 min · Episodio 148How can we improve political dialogue, and what does this have to do with the discovery that the universe behaves differently than expected? Why do we cling to beliefs even when…
- Ep147 "Can we engineer human thought?" with Tom Griffiths · 50 min · Episodio 147Can the mind be captured with math? Modern AI seems to have burst out of the gate recently, but is it actually the latest chapter in a 300-year project to turn thought into…
- Ep146 "Who Counts as Human in Your Mind?" with Lasana Harris · 1 h 7 min · Episodio 146When do you view another person like an object? This is what neuroscientists mean when they talk about de-humanization: your brain doesn't crank up its social circuitry to…
- Ep145 Why do we compulsively click on ragebait? with Angele Christin · 1 h 10 min · Episodio 145Do algorithms shape our lives? What did clickbait look like before the internet? Why do journalists start writing differently when metrics are introduced? What does any of this…
- Ep144 "How do things last?" Part 2: Millennia with Alexander Rose · 56 minWhat is a 10,000 year clock? What is the Y10k bug? What allows some organizations to last a millennium? What do ancient ceramics have to do with ball bearings in satellites? What…
- Ep143 "How do things last?" Part 1: neurons to civilizations · 44 min · Episodio 143What makes things last, and what do very different lasting things have in common? Why might a space alien not be able to understand music? Why do windows in medieval cathedrals…
- Ep142 "Do breakthroughs require rule-breakers?" with Eric Weinstein · 1 h 32 min · Episodio 142Why do revolutionary ideas so often come from outsiders? Do good scientists sometimes crowd out great ones? Do we still have room for scientific cowboys? And what is the…
- Ep141 "What do brains and weather systems have in common?" with Nicole Rust · 37 min · Episodio 141Does brain science need a new grand plan? Is the brain less like an assembly line and more like a weather system? What does this mean for what counts as explanatory, and how…
- Ep140 "How does your brain decide what’s true?" with Sam Harris · 1 h 20 min · Episodio 140Why do we believe what we believe? Why is changing our opinions so difficult, and why does a challenged belief so often feel like a personal attack? What if beliefs didn’t evolve…
- Ep139 "What does alignment look like in a society of AIs?" with Danielle Perszyk · 58 min · Episodio 139Is intelligence a property of individual brains, or is it something that emerges from many brains trying to align with one another? How can we build AI agents to improve our…
- Ep138 "Why do our political brains mistake opinion for truth?" with Kaizen Asiedu · 1 h 7 min · Episodio 138What if your confidence in your political beliefs does not correlate with their accuracy? Why does a pundit's outrage often feel so convincing and nuance so unsatisfying? Are…
- Ep137 "Do cures ever create the next crisis?" with Thomas Goetz · 47 min · Episodio 137Medications are among the most important advancements of science, but their social consequences are often complex. What if some of our most common diseases are design flaws of…
- Ep136 "Why do we care about mattering?" with Rebecca Goldstein · 42 min · Episodio 136What does it mean for your life to matter? We all talk a lot about happiness, pleasure, and meaning... but what if the real engine underneath it all is the need to feel we count?…
- Ep135: What does neuroscience mean by hypnosis? with David Spiegel · 55 min · Episodio 135What exactly is hypnosis? We’ve all heard of circus-like versions, but is there a real element to hypnosis that psychiatrists and neuroscientists are able to leverage? Can…
- Ep82 Re Broadcast "Why Do Your 30 Trillion Cells Feel Like a Self?" Part 1 · 29 min · Episodio 82Happy Holidays- New Episodes starting Jan. 5th Every cell in your body changes, so why do you have a sense of continuity of the self – as though you're the same person you were a…
- Ep70 Re Broadcast "Why do our memories drift? Part 1: The War of the Ghosts" · 34 min · Episodio 70Happy Holidays- New episodes starting Jan. 5th Why did lions look so strange in medieval European art? What does this have to do with Native American folklore, eyewitness memory…
- Ep134 "What do brains teach us about morality?" with Joshua Greene · 1 h 15 min · Episodio 134Why will you make different moral decisions in similar circumstances? Why do some people make different choices than you? What happens when ancient moral instincts collide with…
- Ep133 "Why do people hold misbeliefs?" with Dan Ariely · 47 min · Episodio 133Why do people sometimes buy into ideas that seem obviously false from the outside, as with conspiracy theories? Is this kind of misbelief a universal feature of human brains?…
- Ep132 "What will AI mean for the economy?" with Andrew Mayne · 51 min · Episodio 132If AI can do everything from writing novels to designing proteins, what remains that only humans can do? What's the human advantage in a world where machines can outperform us at…
