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David Eagleman

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The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

but all the rest of it is what's happening in your brain. It's on your experiences, yeah. That would all be like noise in this machine. Yeah, exactly. We couldn't possibly understand what it is because let's imagine that I don't know that you have a brother and that something happened to you last week that you need to tell him about.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

but all the rest of it is what's happening in your brain. It's on your experiences, yeah. That would all be like noise in this machine. Yeah, exactly. We couldn't possibly understand what it is because let's imagine that I don't know that you have a brother and that something happened to you last week that you need to tell him about.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

but all the rest of it is what's happening in your brain. It's on your experiences, yeah. That would all be like noise in this machine. Yeah, exactly. We couldn't possibly understand what it is because let's imagine that I don't know that you have a brother and that something happened to you last week that you need to tell him about.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

If I don't know that, there's no way for me to establish a correlation in the neuroimaging.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

If I don't know that, there's no way for me to establish a correlation in the neuroimaging.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

If I don't know that, there's no way for me to establish a correlation in the neuroimaging.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Okay, you can imagine a scenario a thousand years from now where there's so much cameras and things and everything that every moment of your life is tracked. And then in theory, you've got to be a lot closer, but still you might have thoughts that are remixing things that you've experienced.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Okay, you can imagine a scenario a thousand years from now where there's so much cameras and things and everything that every moment of your life is tracked. And then in theory, you've got to be a lot closer, but still you might have thoughts that are remixing things that you've experienced.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Okay, you can imagine a scenario a thousand years from now where there's so much cameras and things and everything that every moment of your life is tracked. And then in theory, you've got to be a lot closer, but still you might have thoughts that are remixing things that you've experienced.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

I wouldn't know that if you think, wait, I saw this piece of architecture over here and then I saw this other thing over here. And what if I put that on a Euro bill? I wouldn't be able to read that because I've never... Seeing you experience that, you're remixing it.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

I wouldn't know that if you think, wait, I saw this piece of architecture over here and then I saw this other thing over here. And what if I put that on a Euro bill? I wouldn't be able to read that because I've never... Seeing you experience that, you're remixing it.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

I wouldn't know that if you think, wait, I saw this piece of architecture over here and then I saw this other thing over here. And what if I put that on a Euro bill? I wouldn't be able to read that because I've never... Seeing you experience that, you're remixing it.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

And by the way, people ask me sometimes like, hey, could we do mind reading technology so we could know in an airport as people are walking through, if somebody's thinking about bombing a plane.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

And by the way, people ask me sometimes like, hey, could we do mind reading technology so we could know in an airport as people are walking through, if somebody's thinking about bombing a plane.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

And by the way, people ask me sometimes like, hey, could we do mind reading technology so we could know in an airport as people are walking through, if somebody's thinking about bombing a plane.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Yeah. But something specific like a bomb on an airplane. But of course, Half the people in the airport are thinking about a bomb because they're thinking, I hope there's not a bomb on the plane. And so it doesn't tell you. Yeah.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Yeah. But something specific like a bomb on an airplane. But of course, Half the people in the airport are thinking about a bomb because they're thinking, I hope there's not a bomb on the plane. And so it doesn't tell you. Yeah.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Yeah. But something specific like a bomb on an airplane. But of course, Half the people in the airport are thinking about a bomb because they're thinking, I hope there's not a bomb on the plane. And so it doesn't tell you. Yeah.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Lie detection is a very fascinating thing because you can actually measure things in neuroimaging when somebody is doing a lie because essentially a lie requires two things. One is... squelching the truth. Let's ask you a question. You know what the truth is. I say, hey, what's your wife's name?

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Lie detection is a very fascinating thing because you can actually measure things in neuroimaging when somebody is doing a lie because essentially a lie requires two things. One is... squelching the truth. Let's ask you a question. You know what the truth is. I say, hey, what's your wife's name?