David Eagleman

you know, can you see things that you think are relevant to your life?

And you say, oh yeah, that looks like, you know, this is sort of a blob that's telling me that I should go change careers and whatever.

We can do that with our dreams as well.

It's just random activity.

And you can say, yeah, that, you know, I really thought of something here, whatever, but yes, it's all, it's all random activity.

And what we do is we impose meaning on it.

My general feeling on it is the world is...

full of mystery.

The amount of stuff we know in science and have written down in big fat textbooks is a tiny fraction of, of what's going on out there.

Actually, I wrote an article in discover magazine back in 2004 called 10 unsolved mysteries of neuroscience.

And they're still unsolved.

I mean, we are in deep mysteries all around us.

Um,

And yeah, take consciousness.

I mean, consciousness, somehow you put together all this physical stuff of the brain and you experience qualia, as we talked about, you know, you experience pain and the beauty of a sunset and the taste of cinnamon and, you know, the smell of lemon pie and all these things that we experience, but we have no idea how to build pieces and parts.

We can't build

you know, with transistors, a computer and say, oh yeah, it's enjoying this, you know, even though I'm laughing at this YouTube video that I'm watching, the computer presumably is just moving around zeros and ones and not entertained by it.

But somehow our brains, we, we,

think we're just made of cells and yet we are feeling stuff.

So there's lots of mystery around us.