Live Wired - A Novel About Brain Plasticity

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"i've followed you forever, and people have always wanted us to talk to each other," he says. "This book comes along at a really coold time for me." His new book is all about brain plasticity - the flexibility of the brain to be able to adjust to any sort of body an for example. He has two friends who just got bionic arms: one with fingers that operate by flexing muscles.

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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