Like the flora and fauna of an Amazonian rainforest, the neurons in your brain are constantly evolving, constantly changing, and constantly competing with one another in a microcosm of exquisite complexity that we’re only beginning to explore. Like this show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally! How senses like sight and hearing can be translated by technology for people without a native ability to process them, and why we’ll be able to invent entirely new senses with the help of technology.How neglect can irreparably shape the brain of a child, and what this can teach us about the way different generations learn about, process, and behave in the world.nurture debate is dead (and that Darwin might owe Lamarck a bit of an apology). How your sensory landscape adapts to utilize what’s useful and discard what’s not as you learn new skills.Like organisms in a forest, the multicellular components of your brain are as much in competition with one another as they are in cooperation.David Eagleman ( is a neuroscientist at Stanford, CSO of sensory substitution technology company NeoSensory, host of Emmy-nominated PBS/BBC series The Brain, and author of Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain.
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