David Eagleman

When you and I wanted to know something, we would ask our mothers to drive us down to the library and we would thumb through the card catalog and hope there was something on it there that wasn't too outdated.

When you and I wanted to know something, we would ask our mothers to drive us down to the library and we would thumb through the card catalog and hope there was something on it there that wasn't too outdated.

My mother was a biology teacher and my father was a psychiatrist. And so they had all kinds of good information. I'm just super optimistic about the next generation of kids. Now, as far as how we teach, things got complicated with the advent of Google. And now it's twice as complicated with ChatGPT. Happily, we already learned these lessons 20 years ago.

My mother was a biology teacher and my father was a psychiatrist. And so they had all kinds of good information. I'm just super optimistic about the next generation of kids. Now, as far as how we teach, things got complicated with the advent of Google. And now it's twice as complicated with ChatGPT. Happily, we already learned these lessons 20 years ago.

My mother was a biology teacher and my father was a psychiatrist. And so they had all kinds of good information. I'm just super optimistic about the next generation of kids. Now, as far as how we teach, things got complicated with the advent of Google. And now it's twice as complicated with ChatGPT. Happily, we already learned these lessons 20 years ago.

What we need to do is just change the way that we ask questions of students. We can no longer... Just assume that fill in the blank or even just writing a paper on something is the optimal way to have them learn something. But instead, they need to do interactive projects like run little experiments with each other.

What we need to do is just change the way that we ask questions of students. We can no longer... Just assume that fill in the blank or even just writing a paper on something is the optimal way to have them learn something. But instead, they need to do interactive projects like run little experiments with each other.

What we need to do is just change the way that we ask questions of students. We can no longer... Just assume that fill in the blank or even just writing a paper on something is the optimal way to have them learn something. But instead, they need to do interactive projects like run little experiments with each other.

And, you know, the kind of thing that you and I both love to do in our careers, which is, OK, go out and find this data and run this experiment and see what happens here. That's the kind of opportunities that kids will have now.

And, you know, the kind of thing that you and I both love to do in our careers, which is, OK, go out and find this data and run this experiment and see what happens here. That's the kind of opportunities that kids will have now.

And, you know, the kind of thing that you and I both love to do in our careers, which is, OK, go out and find this data and run this experiment and see what happens here. That's the kind of opportunities that kids will have now.

Like every curious person trying to figure out what we're doing here, what's going on, it just feels like there are two stories. Either there's some religion story, or there's the story of strict atheism, which I tend to agree with. But it tends to come with this thing of, look, we've got it all figured out. There's nothing more to ask here.

Like every curious person trying to figure out what we're doing here, what's going on, it just feels like there are two stories. Either there's some religion story, or there's the story of strict atheism, which I tend to agree with. But it tends to come with this thing of, look, we've got it all figured out. There's nothing more to ask here.

Like every curious person trying to figure out what we're doing here, what's going on, it just feels like there are two stories. Either there's some religion story, or there's the story of strict atheism, which I tend to agree with. But it tends to come with this thing of, look, we've got it all figured out. There's nothing more to ask here.

There is a middle position, which people call agnosticism. But usually that means, I don't know, I'm not committing to one thing or the other. I got interested in defining this new thing that I call possibilianism, which is, to try to go out there and do what a scientist does, which is an active exploration of the possibility space. What the heck is going on here?

There is a middle position, which people call agnosticism. But usually that means, I don't know, I'm not committing to one thing or the other. I got interested in defining this new thing that I call possibilianism, which is, to try to go out there and do what a scientist does, which is an active exploration of the possibility space. What the heck is going on here?

There is a middle position, which people call agnosticism. But usually that means, I don't know, I'm not committing to one thing or the other. I got interested in defining this new thing that I call possibilianism, which is, to try to go out there and do what a scientist does, which is an active exploration of the possibility space. What the heck is going on here?

We live in such a big and mysterious cosmos. Everything about our existence is sort of weird. Obviously, the whole Judeo-Christian tradition, that's one little point in that possibility space, or the possibility that there's absolutely nothing and we're just atoms and we die. But there's lots of other possibilities. And so I'm not willing to commit to one team or the other evidence.

We live in such a big and mysterious cosmos. Everything about our existence is sort of weird. Obviously, the whole Judeo-Christian tradition, that's one little point in that possibility space, or the possibility that there's absolutely nothing and we're just atoms and we die. But there's lots of other possibilities. And so I'm not willing to commit to one team or the other evidence.

We live in such a big and mysterious cosmos. Everything about our existence is sort of weird. Obviously, the whole Judeo-Christian tradition, that's one little point in that possibility space, or the possibility that there's absolutely nothing and we're just atoms and we die. But there's lots of other possibilities. And so I'm not willing to commit to one team or the other evidence.