"Your brain is the mission control center, and it's three pounds," he says. "And as i said, it's locked inside this armored bunker plating of your skull." He calls motor babbling an analogy to verbal babbling that a baby does. The same thing with motor babbling: You try thing, you're larning how to ride a bicycle.
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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