David Eagleman

Exactly right. So there may or may not be a next step. That's right.

Exactly right. So there may or may not be a next step. That's right.

Exactly right. So there may or may not be a next step. That's right.

Great. Thanks, Jordan.

Great. Thanks, Jordan.

Great. Thanks, Jordan.

The conscious mind just gets access to the very top little bit, the newspaper headlines. And the reason is, you know, you've got almost 100 billion neurons. Neurons are the specialized cell type in the brain. These are doing incredibly complicated things.

The conscious mind just gets access to the very top little bit, the newspaper headlines. And the reason is, you know, you've got almost 100 billion neurons. Neurons are the specialized cell type in the brain. These are doing incredibly complicated things.

The conscious mind just gets access to the very top little bit, the newspaper headlines. And the reason is, you know, you've got almost 100 billion neurons. Neurons are the specialized cell type in the brain. These are doing incredibly complicated things.

And by incredibly complicated, I mean things we haven't even scratched the surface of yet in terms of the algorithms that they're running that make us up. I don't think we could even function at our scale of space and time if we had access to that level of detail. I mean, you can't keep 100 billion things in mind and each one of these neurons is talking about 10,000 of its neighbors.

And by incredibly complicated, I mean things we haven't even scratched the surface of yet in terms of the algorithms that they're running that make us up. I don't think we could even function at our scale of space and time if we had access to that level of detail. I mean, you can't keep 100 billion things in mind and each one of these neurons is talking about 10,000 of its neighbors.

And by incredibly complicated, I mean things we haven't even scratched the surface of yet in terms of the algorithms that they're running that make us up. I don't think we could even function at our scale of space and time if we had access to that level of detail. I mean, you can't keep 100 billion things in mind and each one of these neurons is talking about 10,000 of its neighbors.

I mean, just look at riding a bicycle. If you really pay attention, okay, how exactly am I moving my, you'll probably crash.

I mean, just look at riding a bicycle. If you really pay attention, okay, how exactly am I moving my, you'll probably crash.

I mean, just look at riding a bicycle. If you really pay attention, okay, how exactly am I moving my, you'll probably crash.

If you play a musical instrument, you know that if you start paying attention to what your fingers are doing, you're dead, you can't do it anymore because what's happening is so fast and sophisticated that you can't possibly address that with this slow, low bandwidth consciousness. This has to be something that the rest of your brain takes care of and just does for you.

If you play a musical instrument, you know that if you start paying attention to what your fingers are doing, you're dead, you can't do it anymore because what's happening is so fast and sophisticated that you can't possibly address that with this slow, low bandwidth consciousness. This has to be something that the rest of your brain takes care of and just does for you.

If you play a musical instrument, you know that if you start paying attention to what your fingers are doing, you're dead, you can't do it anymore because what's happening is so fast and sophisticated that you can't possibly address that with this slow, low bandwidth consciousness. This has to be something that the rest of your brain takes care of and just does for you.

These are all zombie routines, they're just completely automatized. Most of them we'd never even have access to. The vest is probably our best bet for the next 50 years or something, until we figure out better ways to get deeper in there and plug things directly into the brain, but that is not as easy as people think.

These are all zombie routines, they're just completely automatized. Most of them we'd never even have access to. The vest is probably our best bet for the next 50 years or something, until we figure out better ways to get deeper in there and plug things directly into the brain, but that is not as easy as people think.