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217 - Livewired - David Eagleman (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

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Is There a Subjective Reality?

The brain has these electrical spikes generated by these paripls eyes and ears. And at the moment of detonation, against the retina, the photon becomes an electro chemical signal. So just like you don't notice the pressure waves hitting your ear, you just, you hear the us of the symphony. When this becomes a peripheral for creating that sort of experience, you no longer feel it on your body. You feel it as if it is out there, because it's becoming part of that subjective virtuall thing. That blows me away. Sa, let me back up for the listeners. Sow we did in my lab some years ago,. We started getting interested in this idea

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