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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 3h

What happens to your brain under anesthesia? And what happens to the elapsed time? Is time passage simply paused and restarted? Tune in to this week's Inner Cosmos: "Why don't we notice gaps in time?" wherever you get your podcasts.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 1d

Why can you see other people's eyes moving... but not your own eyes move in the mirror? What does this have to do with gaps in your perception in time? Tune into Inner Cosmos this week to get your mind bent, wherever you get your podcasts.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 1d

New episode drops now: "Why don't we notice gaps in time?" Is your life like a flame that continually snuffs and re-lights? How does this relate to sleep, anesthesia, comas, amnesia, and theoretical mega-ancient empires?
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 3d

Why should students learn to write? Join me & Paul Bloom (@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social ) as we dive into our near future with AI.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 4d

Might AI companions be problematic for young people but life-saving for the elderly? Join me & Paul Bloom (@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social ) as we dive into AI & relationships on this week's Inner Cosmos.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 5d

Will AI kill writing? Or is there another possibility? Join me & guest Paul Bloom (@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social ) as we dive deep into the future of AI & society on this week's Inner Cosmos.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 6d

What if a young person wants an AI companion instead of a real one? Join me & psychologist Paul Bloom (@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social) as we dive deep into AI & relationships on this week's Inner Cosmos.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 7d

Join me for this week's Inner Cosmos with Paul Bloom (@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social ) as we explore the future of AI companions. Will they make us less lonely but more alone? Or is there hope they can train us to be more effective socializers? Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 7d

What is the future of #AI companions, friends, and romantic partners? Does sentience matter for scratching the itch of loneliness? Join me & psychologist Paul Bloom (@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social) as we dive deep in this week's Inner Cosmos.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 8d

New ep of Inner Cosmos out now: Will AI cure loneliness? AI companions can rectify isolation, but might loneliness serve a biological function? Does everyone have the same need for companionship? Join this week with guest Paul Bloom (@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social).
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 10d

Why do police states squelch protests, and what does this have to do with common knowledge? Find out this and much more in this week's episode with Steven Pinker, wherever you get your podcasts.

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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 11d

This week I speak with Steven Pinker about his new book on common knowledge: when we all know that we all know something. We also discuss how we come to believe (often erroneously) that other people believe what we believe.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 12d

Why don't we say what we mean? Find out what this has to do with common knowledge, euphemism, and innuendo in this week's Inner Cosmos with guest Steven Pinker, wherever you get your podcasts.

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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 13d

Why do humans blush, laugh, cry, and what does this all have to do with common knowledge? Find out this and much more in this week's interview with Steven Pinker.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 13d

What does our desire to belong to a group have to do with bullies, cancel culture, or Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"? Find out this and much more in my interview this week with Steven Pinker, wherever you get your podcasts.

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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 15d

Why do people on a date speak in innuendo? Join this week's Inner Cosmos with guest Steven Pinker as we dive deep into why humans laugh and blush, why dictators squelch protests, and why we so rarely say what we mean.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 17d

If your personalized AI agent does something illegal, is it responsible or are you? Tune in to this week's Inner Cosmos to dive deep into our AI decentralized future with Ramesh Raskar.
eagleman.com/podcast/121
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 18d

What will the web look like once we have personalized AI agents? Will there be any point in having websites and keyboards anymore? Join me with Ramesh Raskar this week for a peek into the near future.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 19d

Why is it critical for AI to become decentralized? Hear Ramesh Raskar's mission to make sure we don't end up in a world where a few companies control all the #AI #agents.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 20d

How will AI follow the same evolution as computing? Tune into this week's Inner Cosmos with guest Ramesh Raskar. eagleman.com/podcast/121
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 21d

What will it mean when everyone has personal AI agents? Get a peek into the next decade on this week's Inner Cosmos ("What’s the secret to intelligence in brains and AI")? with guest Ramesh Raskar.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 22d

Could you have millions of little AI agents looking at healthcare & improving the system this way? Hear how my colleague Ramesh Raskar is thinking about this with his Project Nanda.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 23d

Is AI going to go the same way as computing: from colossal LLMs owned by a few companies to billions of networked AI agents? How does that move parallel one of the great underappreciated secrets of the human brain? Join me and guest Ramesh Raskar on Inner Cosmos.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 24d

What does the movie Arrival have to do with #AI expanding our ways of thinking? Join this week's Inner Cosmos podcast to see how AI might just stretch our brains.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 25d

Why is my wife happy that I have a full self-driving car? Tune in to this week's Inner Cosmos to see why #AI might just make us into better humans.
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