What can you do with your own stem cells? Join medical pioneer Jeanne Loring to learn how the future of medicine will be about replacing cells in your body. eagleman.com/podcast/162

What can we accomplish by putting your own stem cells back into your brain? Hear about the near-future of medicine from stem cell pioneer Jeanne Loring. eagleman.com/podcast/162

Why is some brain activity experienced? "What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain we call 'thought'" - David Hume

What is regenerative medicine? Join Inner Cosmos this week with stem cell pioneer Jeanne Loring to discover what medicine will look like in 5 years. eagleman.com/podcast/162

What's a stem cell? How can we get a cell to travel backward in time, & how will that change medicine? New Inner Cosmos drops now with stem cell pioneer Jeanne Loring. Join us to discover what medicine is going to look like in 5 years. eagleman.com/podcast/162

How does the brain implement algorithms that are now used in reinforcement learning? And is dopamine more than a pleasure molecule? Join me with neuroscientist Read Montague to learn what happens inside neural networks, biological and artificial. eagleman.com/podcast/161

Why is anticipation of the future one of the most important moves in evolution? Join me this week with neuroscientist Read Montague to learn what reinforcement learning is & how it operates inside real and artificial neural networks. eagleman.com/podcast/161

Why doesn't "hot" or "fall" or "pain" mean the same thing to an LLM as it does to you? Join me with computational neuroscientist Read Montague to learn what reinforcement learning is & how it operates inside real and artificial neural networks. eagleman.com/podcast/161

How can reinforcement learning open doors to alien landscapes? Join Inner Cosmos this week with neuroscientist Read Montague to learn what reinforcement learning is & how it operates inside real and artificial neural networks. eagleman.com/podcast/161

What is reinforcement learning & how does it operate in neural networks -- biological or artificial? Join me with neuroscientist Read Montague to learn about the modern importance of an ancient algorithm. eagleman.com/podcast/161

What do ancient brains and future AIs have in common? Join Inner Cosmos this week with computational neuroscientist Read Montague as we explore what runs inside neural networks (real and artificial). eagleman.com/podcast/161

New ep of Inner Cosmos drops at now o'clock. Join me on Inner Cosmos this week with computational neuroscientist Read Montague as we explore what ancient brains and future AIs have in common. eagleman.com/podcast/161

What is consciousness? Is it irreducible? Join Inner Cosmos this week with guest Sam Harris as we explore the self, dreams, movies, and more. eagleman.com/podcast/160

How should we think about the self, given that brains are built of different vying drives? Join Inner Cosmos this week with guest Sam Harris as we explore the self, dreams, movies, and more. eagleman.com/podcast/160

What is consciousness like, prior to being captured by thought? Join Inner Cosmos this week with guest Sam Harris as we explore the self, attention, meditation, dreams, movies, and more. eagleman.com/podcast/160

"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon." - Pablo Picasso

Now that we're in a global civilization, can we outgrow our deep evolutionary tendencies that helped us survive then, but possibly not now? Join Inner Cosmos this week with guest Sam Harris as we explore the self, dreams, movies, and more. eagleman.com/podcast/160

What does it take to disappear (lose your self) while reading a book? Join Inner Cosmos this week with guest Sam Harris as we explore the self, dreams, meditation, movies, and more. eagleman.com/podcast/160

Is the self an illusion? Join Inner Cosmos this week with guest Sam Harris as we explore the self, dreams, meditation, movies, and more. eagleman.com/podcast/160

New ep drops at now-o'clock: Is there a thinker behind your thoughts? Join Inner Cosmos this week with guest Sam Harris as we explore the self, dreams, meditation, movies, and more. eagleman.com/podcast/160

"No thrill can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success." - Nikola Tesla

What can we learn from changes to the brain and corresponding changes in personality? Join Inner Cosmos this week with Masud Husain (masudhusain.bsky.social) to dive deep on questions of the self. eagleman.com/podcast/159

Can you lose the ability to link words to concepts? And why does this normally happen invisibly to you? Join me with Masud Husain (masudhusain.bsky.social) to see when brain damage leads to personality changes. eagleman.com/podcast/159

Could changes in the brain change your sense of empathy? Join Inner Cosmos this week with Dr. Masud Husain (masudhusain.bsky.social) to understand why studying brain disorders gives us a deeper understanding of the self. eagleman.com/podcast/159

Could a stroke rob your attention to one side of the world? And how would your friends interpret your behavior? Join Inner Cosmos this week with Masud Husain (masudhusain.bsky.social) to see when brain damage leads to personality changes. eagleman.com/podcast/159

Do memory problems in Alzheimer's sometimes go beyond loss to a misunderstanding of memories? Join me with Dr. Masud Husain (masudhusain.bsky.social) to dive into case studies of people whose brain damage leads to personality changes. eagleman.com/podcast/159

Why do we have a sense of the continuity of self? Join me with Masud Husain (masudhusain.bsky.social) this week to dive into fascinating case studies of people whose brain damage leads to personality changes. eagleman.com/podcast/159

Why might AI benchmarks fall short? Join me this week with computer scientist Melanie Mitchell (melaniemitchell.bsky.social) as we explore 'alien' intelligences. eagleman.com/podcast/158

How do we know whether AI gets the right answer bc it (a) understands, (b) has seen the question before, or (c) is just interpolating? Join me this week with computer scientist Melanie Mitchell (melaniemitchell.bsky.social) as we explore 'alien' intelligences. eagleman.com/podcast/158

Can AI nail an answer but really not understand what it's doing? What the difference between performance and competence? Join Inner Cosmos this week with computer scientist Melanie Mitchell (melaniemitchell.bsky.social) as we explore 'alien' intelligences. eagleman.com/podcast/158