Musical notes vanish quickly from the world, so how does the brain make sense of a tune? Join me this week to understand persistence -- from Roman concrete and sharks to DNA and religions.
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Musical notes vanish quickly from the world, so how does the brain make sense of a tune? Join me this week to understand persistence -- from Roman concrete and sharks to DNA and religions.
eagleman.com/podcast/143
Is there really such a thing as Universal Beauty?
nautil.us/why-beauty-i...
How do brains generate an endless stream of subjective experience? Why does it feel like anything to be alive?
See my review in the New York Times of Michael Pollan's new book about consciousness: "A World Appears".
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/b...
Why do you have childhood amnesia, and what does this have to do with learning a sense of self? Find out why small children don't recogize themselves in photos, and what any of this has in common with sharks, concrete, DNA, & civilizations.
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New ep of Inner Cosmos drops at now o'clock: "How do things last?"
To begin: What was the most important weapon in ancient history, and how did it vanish? Join Inner Cosmos this week for the story of persistence -- from sharks to Roman concrete to DNA.
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"When we're able to move beyond our flesh, deep space travel goes from impossible to possible" Enjoy this riff on whether we can emulate the software of the brain on a different substrate, and thereby run your consciousness on a machine of our own making.
bigthink.com/videos/david...
Are scientists participants in a larger game they don't always see? From Crick & Watson to nuclear bombs and AI, this conversation covers it all with physicist, mathematician, & iconoclast Eric Weinstein.
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Why Can’t We Tickle Ourselves?
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What happens when academic science and national security don't align? Join Inner Cosmos this week with physicist, mathematician, & iconoclast Eric Weinstein as we discuss what happens when they collide.
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Is science related to statecraft? Eric Weinstein and I don't agree on all points, but we have a great, wide-ranging podcast this week about big ideas, scientific cowboys, and the relationship between national security and modern science.
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Why does physicist Eric Weinstein think we're not playing science at an adult level? Join this week for a wide-ranging podcast about big ideas, scientific cowboys, and the relationship between national security & modern science.
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What's the relationship between science & national security? Are scientists playing in a larger game they barely see? From Watson & Crick to nuclear bombs and AI, we cover it all this week with Eric Weinstein.
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Why are brain cells so hard to decode? Join me this week with Nicole Rust (nicolecrust.bsky.social), author of "Elusive Cures", as we discuss work from David Anderson's lab (and others) that reveals the brain has to be understood as a dynamic system.
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Ten older books that are wonderful.
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Are memories in your brain distributed or local? How did early experiments in the late 1940s address this? Join me this week with neuroscientist Nicole Rust (nicolecrust.bsky.social), author of "Elusive Cures", as we discuss the modern emerging picture of the brain.
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Did scientists ever attempt to weaponize the weather? Why did they fail, and what does this have to do with the brain? Join me with neuroscientist Nicole Rust (nicolecrust.bsky.social), author of "Elusive Cures", as we discuss the challenges in modern brain science.
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Ever wondered whether open offices are here to last? And what they tell us about companies and creativity?
behavioralscientist.org/open-offices...
Why is it so difficult to nail down emotions in the brain? Are they continuous or compartmentalized? Join me with neuroscientist Nicole Rust (nicolecrust.bsky.social) , author of "Elusive Cures", as we discuss the challenges in modern brain science.
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What does the change from 'food chains' to 'food webs' have to do with teaching neuroscience more realistically? Join me with Nicole Rust (nicolecrust.bsky.social), author of "Elusive Cures", as we discuss how descriptions of the brain need to be improved.
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Has the hope of a simple arrow between genes and disease misdirected us? Join me this week with neuroscientist Nicole Rust (nicolecrust.bsky.social), author of "Elusive Cures", as we discuss how to understand the brain on its own terms.
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How often do drugs result from accident rather than understanding? Join Inner Cosmos this week with neuroscientist Nicole Rust (nicolecrust.bsky.social), author of "Elusive Cures", as we discover how brain science might require a new grand plan.
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Audio short story: Emily Blunt reads "The Cast" from my book SUM.
www.theguardian.com/books/audio/...
"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon." - Pablo Picasso
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Why does it matter if your brain believes something or doesn't? Join me this week with Sam Harris as we explore how your brain decides what's true.
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Why is it always appropriate to hold uncertainty about your beliefs? Join me this week with guest Sam Harris as we discuss how & why brains hold their beliefs.
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"Where does personality end and brain damage begin?" - Doug Coupland
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What do we look for in a good theory? Join me this week with guest Sam Harris as we explore why brains believe what they do. #InnerCosmos
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How do our different internal models of the world shape the facts we draw on? Join me this week with guest Sam Harris to talk about beliefs: how we see the world and what we take to be true about it.
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Which works of science fiction have influenced you? (Article in the Guardian includes Jennifer Doudna, Martin Rees, me, and others)
www.theguardian.com/science/2018...
How do the beliefs we hold about the world steer our morality? Join Inner Cosmos this week with guest Sam Harris as we drill deep into why brains believe what they believe.
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