Steve Levitt

So you've created this database of people who have the condition and you find a pattern that is completely and totally bizarre. And that's that there's a big bunch of people who associate the letter A with red and B with orange, C with yellow. It goes on and on. And then they start repeating it, G. In general, though, you don't see any patterns at all.

People can connect these colors and letters in any way. Do you remember when you first found this pattern and what your thought was?

People can connect these colors and letters in any way. Do you remember when you first found this pattern and what your thought was?

People can connect these colors and letters in any way. Do you remember when you first found this pattern and what your thought was?

So when you saw this, you must have been thinking, my God, this is important, right? Exactly right. The question is, how could these people be sharing the same pattern?

So when you saw this, you must have been thinking, my God, this is important, right? Exactly right. The question is, how could these people be sharing the same pattern?

So when you saw this, you must have been thinking, my God, this is important, right? Exactly right. The question is, how could these people be sharing the same pattern?

Now, I have to imagine that the way we teach in traditional classrooms with a teacher or professor at a blackboard lecturing to a huge group of passive students, as a neuroscientist, that must make you cringe, right?

Now, I have to imagine that the way we teach in traditional classrooms with a teacher or professor at a blackboard lecturing to a huge group of passive students, as a neuroscientist, that must make you cringe, right?

Now, I have to imagine that the way we teach in traditional classrooms with a teacher or professor at a blackboard lecturing to a huge group of passive students, as a neuroscientist, that must make you cringe, right?

And you want to contrast that with just-in-time information. Exactly. I need to know how to fix my car. And so the internet tells me, and then I can really remember it because I need it.

And you want to contrast that with just-in-time information. Exactly. I need to know how to fix my car. And so the internet tells me, and then I can really remember it because I need it.

And you want to contrast that with just-in-time information. Exactly. I need to know how to fix my car. And so the internet tells me, and then I can really remember it because I need it.

You were more ambitious than me. I would just ask my mother. And I have since learned that every single thing my mother taught me was completely wrong. But I still believe them. Because of this part of the brain that locks in things that you learn long ago, I still have to fight every day against the falsehoods my mother taught me. I wish I had told her to take me to the library.

You were more ambitious than me. I would just ask my mother. And I have since learned that every single thing my mother taught me was completely wrong. But I still believe them. Because of this part of the brain that locks in things that you learn long ago, I still have to fight every day against the falsehoods my mother taught me. I wish I had told her to take me to the library.

You were more ambitious than me. I would just ask my mother. And I have since learned that every single thing my mother taught me was completely wrong. But I still believe them. Because of this part of the brain that locks in things that you learn long ago, I still have to fight every day against the falsehoods my mother taught me. I wish I had told her to take me to the library.

David Eagleman is a professor, a CEO, leader of a nonprofit called the Center for Science and Law, host of TV shows on PBS and Netflix, and the founder of Possibilianism.

David Eagleman is a professor, a CEO, leader of a nonprofit called the Center for Science and Law, host of TV shows on PBS and Netflix, and the founder of Possibilianism.

David Eagleman is a professor, a CEO, leader of a nonprofit called the Center for Science and Law, host of TV shows on PBS and Netflix, and the founder of Possibilianism.

And so in support of Possibilianism, maybe a better name could be in order, you wrote a book called Sum, that's S-U-M. So it's Sum, 40 Tales from the Afterlives.