David Eagleman

And they're each chattering along, you know, 10 to hundreds of spikes per second.

We're nowhere near that kind of technology, but eventually we will get there and that will generate a

completely different kind of understanding of how the brain actually works.

We're still missing really most of how the brain is actually doing what it does.

And when we get to that point, we'll be able to read and write from the brain and to the brain, and that's going to change everything.

Right now, the brain is really locked in this armored bunker plating of the skull, and we can't do much with it except for

I can try to read your intentions and you mine by our words and by our behavior, but it's pretty limited.

So there may be in the distant future straight brain-to-brain communication, which is a very different sort of bandwidth

of communication.

So that's one thing.

I think another thing is that we'll be experiencing completely new senses.

It'll just be trivial for everybody to experience, you know, whatever, infrared and stock market data and what's going on on social media.

You know, these things will just be like getting eyeglasses for a kid.

We'll have all that.

So I think we have more in common with our ancestors of 5,000 years ago

than we have in common with our descendants of 100 years from now.

Seek novelty.

So the key is doing things that you're not already good at because that's how you exercise the brain and build a stronger brain is by doing things you have not done before.

relationships.

It's all about other people.