David Eagleman

You feel right now like you're just hearing my voice out there, even though it's all taking place in your head.

You've got spikes running around and you think, oh, yeah, that sounds like Eagleman's voice.

And then you attribute it to some source outside of you.

But that's what it becomes when you're listening through the wristband.

Yeah, qualia is the term we use for the private subjective experience we have of something.

For example, colors don't exist in the outside world.

There's just different wavelengths of light, of electromagnetic radiation.

But we perceive it as, oh, that's red, that's green, that's fuchsia, whatever.

That's a qualia.

That's a private subjective experience we have of what's going on out there, even though it's really just spikes in the dark.

So that's what I've been working on for a while now, which is given that all these other animals have other kinds of things they can pick up on, what does it mean if we feed in that information?

And the answer is yes, we can absolutely have sixth sense, maybe many more.

We don't have any idea yet what the limit is on that.

But the idea is what can we pick up on computationally or with any machine or whatever, and then feed that into you?

So for example,

you know, something I've been very interested in is perceiving infrared light.

So you can set up, we've, you know, set this up with the wristband very inexpensively for five bucks.

You set up these infrared bolometers, they're called, they're, you know, just picking up on infrared light and you can walk around and feel the,

the temperature of things around you.

And as I'm walking through a parking lot, I can feel which cars have been parked there for a while versus which have just arrived in the last 20 minutes.