Dr. David Eagleman

I met this person online that I'm following and he's following me.

And we really connect on all these points.

And oh, by the way, I then found out, interestingly, he's got a totally different opinion about Iran or abortion or whatever than I do.

But that's cool.

Now we're listening to each other.

This is the point.

We do eat salads much of the time because we're not just unconscious automata that are doing the cookies.

That's about the Ulysses contract and that'll come out in 2027.

Okay.

Oftentimes people will ask me, like an older person will say, hey, I do crossword puzzles.

Is that good?

Yeah, it's good until you get good at it and then stop and do something that you're not good at and constantly find the next thing that's a real challenge for you.

That's the key thing about plasticity.

Your brain is locked in silence and darkness.

It's trying to make a model of the outside world.

And if you're constantly pushing and challenging it with things it doesn't understand, then it'll keep changing.

Okay, great.

I mean, this was Mother Nature's big trick with humans was figuring out how to drop a creature into the world with a half-baked brain and then let the world wire up the rest of it.

And so, you know, 1953, Crick and Watts, and I worked with Crick at the Salt...

they burst into the Eagle and Child Pub and said, we've discovered the secret to life, because they figured out the structure of DNA.