Do We All Experience the Same Color?

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Donald hoffman: Do we all experience the same color? And how much of our subjective reality comports to objective reality? We can't give you a solid answer. That's just how it works, and we probably never will be able todo. So what we suggest is that dreaming is the brain protecting the visual cortex against takeover from neighboring senses. It's unbelievably specific tree at the circuit where underlying dreaming takes place.

In this episode we sit down with neuroscientist David Eagleman to learn how brains turn noise into signal, chaos into order, electrical spikes into meaning, and how new technology can expand subjective reality in ways never before possible.

In his new book, Livewired, Eagleman explores how brains come into the world "half baked" so they can create reality itself out of the inputs and experiences available. And now, thanks to that plug-and-play plasticity, with the latest tools, not only can we return senses to people who've lost them, but we can add to any brain senses we can't imagine.

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