I wanto hit on one issue that you mention just briefly, but you've demonstrated to day, and that is the use of analogies. You use them a lot. In fact, in your latest book, the title live wireds is actually a an analogy too. So this is generally one of the special ways in which human brains function very differently from computers. But with human brains, romeo can say, juliet is like the sun. And we understand that he means she is bright and beautiful, an transforms darkness to daylight. Human brains are particularly good at understanding the structure of things and then understanding, aka, this is like this.
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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