David Eagleman: What Neuroscience Reveals About Your Brain and Human Nature | Human Behavior | YAPClassic
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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Yeah, fam, I have really exciting news.
What childhood experience sparked David Eagleman's interest in neuroscience?
After almost eight years of running this podcast, I finally was nominated for an iHeart Podcast Award, which is like the Grammys of podcasting. I'm heading up against the Diary of the CEO, Acquired, Earn Your Leisure, and all these amazing shows for the best business and finance podcast. If you love Young and Profiting and you love this show and you want me to win, the best way to help me is to write me a five-star review on Apple Podcasts and also to subscribe to my YouTube channel and engage on our videos. I also was nominated for an Indie Pack Award. It's the first ever independent podcast and creator awards.
How does the brain construct our perception of reality?
That's also happening in a couple of weeks and I was nominated for the best business and entrepreneurship podcast. I'm competing against Ice Coffee Hour and a number of awesome shows. And again, if you want to help me win these awards, please write me a five-star review on Apple Podcasts and follow our YouTube channel and engage on our videos. I appreciate any support.
What hidden senses do humans lack compared to other animals?
If you guys have been to my free webinars, if you learn from the podcast, and you guys know that I never ask you for anything. This is the one time I'm asking you guys to support the show by writing us a review or engaging on our YouTube channel. I hope to take home these wins and thanks again for supporting the show. What's up, Yap fam? Today, we're unlocking the archives for a powerful Yap classic that will completely change how you think about your brain and reality itself. We're rewinding to my conversation with Dr. David Eagleman, Stanford neuroscientist, best-selling author of LiveWired, and a true pioneer in brain science.
What is brain plasticity and how does it affect our learning?
David has dedicated his career to studying how our brains construct from our experience of the world, from time perception and dreams to neuroplasticity and sensory expansion. In this episode, we explore why time can feel like it slows down, why dreams may just be your brain's screensaver, and how humans could one day develop entirely new senses through technology. This episode was so cool. It totally changed the way that I see my own mind, and I know you're going to love this one. So sit back, open your mind, and enjoy this fascinating chat with Dr. David Eagleman. Welcome to Young and Profiting Podcast, David.
Thank you. It's so great to be here.
I'm super excited. I love to learn about the brain and so do my listeners. We've had a handful of episodes on the topic with renowned experts like Dr. Caroline Leaf, Dr. Daniel Amen, Jim Quick, and a few others.
How can sensory substitution expand human sensory experiences?
But I feel like we've still only scratched the surface on the topic. There's so much to learn about the brain. So David, let's open up this conversation with some background on your childhood. You had an accident when you were eight years old where you fell 12 feet from a roof. So tell us about that accident and how it influenced you to then learn about time perception years later.
Yeah, so I slipped off the roof and I ended up breaking my nose on the brick floor below. But the thing that really struck me about it was that it seemed to take a long time to fall from the roof. And so I was thinking about Alice in Wonderland as I was falling and how this must have been what it was like for her. And it felt like lots of time as I felt.
What psychological functions do dreams serve according to neuroscience?
And later when I got to high school and I took physics and I learned D equals one half A T squared, I realized, wow, the whole fall took place in 0.6 of a second. And I couldn't reconcile that. I couldn't figure out how those, how it had seemed to have taken so long. So I got really interested in perception. I grew up, I became a neuroscientist and I've studied a lot about time perception in my laboratory. And so one of the experiments I ended up doing then was dropping people from 150 foot tall tower backwards in free fall and they're caught by a net below.
How does David Eagleman relate science to spirituality and religion?
And I measured time perception on the way down and And I made a series of discoveries there. Essentially, the bottom line is we don't actually see in slow motion. Instead, it's a trick of memory.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:03–0:06
2
What childhood experience sparked David Eagleman's interest in neuroscience?
0:06–0:40
3
How does the brain construct our perception of reality?
0:40–1:00
4
What hidden senses do humans lack compared to other animals?
1:00–1:36
5
What is brain plasticity and how does it affect our learning?
1:36–2:27
6
How can sensory substitution expand human sensory experiences?
2:27–3:07
7
What psychological functions do dreams serve according to neuroscience?
3:07–3:41
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How does David Eagleman relate science to spirituality and religion?
3:41–1:06:27
Speakers
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