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122. David Eagleman (neuroscientist) – Your Creative Brain
122. David Eagleman (neuroscientist) – Your Creative Brain
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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Oct 28, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
Jason Gots: It’s 150,000 years ago. You’re a Homo sapiens, hanging out in a really cozy clearing protected from behind by a cliff wall. It’s a great spot. Temperate, isolated, pretty safe. Lots of good fruits and tubers nearby. Should you just hang out here forever? Well…you could…but something’s nagging at that medial frontal cortex of yours. There’s a hill in the distance. What’s beyond it? Something different, maybe! Something new and shiny! Maybe today you’ll just take a quick look. My guest today is neuroscientist David Eagleman. In The Runaway Species, How Human Creativity Remakes the World, David and his co-author Anthony Brandt explore that ancient tension between mastery and curiosity - the known and the unknown. And how the human imagination exploits it to make new things. Surprise conversation-starter clips in this episode: Isaac Lidsky on how going blind showed one man the light, Michael Slaby on a 30-hour work week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Oct 28, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode Zero – Think Again - Curiouser and Curiouser . . .: Starting June 20th, 2015, each week on Think Again we'll surprise some of the world's brightest and most energetic minds with ideas they're not at all prepared to discuss. Join Host Jason Gots and special guests including Bill Nye, Henry Rollins, Jason Si by Think Again – a Big Think Podcast