Sean Carroll's Mindscape David Eagleman on Tapping Into the Livewired Brain (Season 1, Episode 122)
Podcast Episode | 77 min | Talk-Show

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape

David Eagleman on Tapping Into the Livewired Brain (Season 1, Episode 122)

Podcast Episode | 77 min | Talk-Show

Imagine you were locked in a sealed room, with no way to access the outside world but a few screens showing a view of what's outside. Seems scary and limited, but that's essentially the situation that our brains find themselves in - locked...See moreImagine you were locked in a sealed room, with no way to access the outside world but a few screens showing a view of what's outside. Seems scary and limited, but that's essentially the situation that our brains find themselves in - locked in our skulls, with only the limited information from a few unreliable sensory modalities to tell them what's going on inside. Neuroscientist David Eagleman has long been interested in how the brain processes that sensory input, and also how we might train it to learn completely new ways of accessing the outside world, with important ramifications for virtual reality and novel brain/computer interface techniques. See less

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Sean Carroll Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	Earth to Echo (2014)
David Eagleman Self - Guest Self - Guest See fewer	This Giant Beast That is the Global Economy (2019)

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