Who you are has only a little bit to do with your diane. Your brain changes as we experience new things. If you were to take some of your exact danda and teliported your baby self into like, the cave man times, and then they lived all the way up until your current age, the differences would be enormous.
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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