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Unlocking the mysteries of our brain | David Eagleman

The TED Interview

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The Evolution of the Spectral Frequencies

consciousness is something like an operating system that continually abstracts and makes higher and higher level things. Nowadays, exactly, you project id out here, even though it's all happening inside there. You think, i'm out here, and you're just hearing sort of the the high level voiceness of it, rather than the frequencies here. Soadmit that that is the only way for the brain to efficiently make sense of it. Many animals are up in the ultrosonic frequency, having whole conversations that we're not picking up on. It there's all kinds of communication going on around us that we have no access to. Since i s each species as has acted a tiny

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