David Perry: Wouldn't it be fascinating if we could get some insight into our audiences in the way you're talking about, haptically through through these sensations while we're in the midst of communicating? We've actually done a version of that that would only work for really, really big speakers. But we have done this version where we can scrape twitter in real time for any hash tag, and then do an automated sentiment analysis. And on the fly, you can feel what thousands of people are experiencing.
In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, lecturer and podcast host Matt Abrahams sits down with David Eagleman, a neuroscientist and the host of the PBS series The Brain, to discuss why our brains are wired for storytelling and how new senses might impact our connection and communication with others. “I’ve always been really interested in this idea of how we can pass information to the brain via unusual channels," Eagleman says. "We’ve got our eyes or ears or fingertips and our nose, we’re very used to this and we sort of think these are fundamental, but of course, this is just what we’ve inherited from a long road of evolution... It turns out you can push information in the brain in other ways.”
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