Live Wire, a New Book by David Eagleman

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David eagleman is the head of the centre for science and law at stanford University. He's also a gugenheim fellow, founder of brain check and co-founder of neo censory. In this episode, we're going to talk about live wire, his new book on how the brain never stops re wiring itself. And what follows is just a long, meandering, multiple tangent conversation between him and i.

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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