Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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Ep111 "Might we be surrounded with undetected minds?" (with Michael Levin)

What is intelligence? If we look hard, can we find it in unexpected places: not just in brains but in all kinds of structures? How should we recognize it? And what does any of this have to do with a bipedal dog born without front legs, or making small new organisms out of single cells, or   how Wikipedia might be like an axolotl, or why we are so blind to the vast variety of minds that might surround us? Join Eagleman with guest Michael Levin, professor at Tufts, about how we might discover intelligence all around us in ways we don't typically intuit.

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  Ep134 "What do brains teach us about morality?" with Joshua Greene

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  Ep133 "Why do people hold misbeliefs?" with Dan Ariely

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  Ep132 "What will AI mean for the economy?" with Andrew Mayne

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  Ep131 "What do brains tell us about politics?" Part 2: Rehumanization

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  Ep130 "What do brains tell us about politics?" Part 1: Polarization

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  Ep129 "Is utopia possible or do human brains preclude it?" with Paul Bloom

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  Ep128 "Would space aliens see the world as we do?" with Daniel Whiteson

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  EP127 "What happens when we marry brains to machines?" with Sergey Stavisky

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  Ep126 "Does science fiction shape reality?" with Bethanie Maples

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  Ep125 "Why do brains need friends?" (with Ben Rein)

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  Ep124 "Why don't we notice gaps in time?"

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  Ep123 "Will AI cure loneliness?" with Paul Bloom

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  Ep122 "Why do we so rarely say what we mean?" (with Steven Pinker)

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  Ep121 "What’s the secret to intelligence (in brains and AI)?" with Ramesh …

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  Ep120 "Will AI build us into better humans?"

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  Ep119 "Why do brains believe in the unbelievable?" with Bruce Hood