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Ep159 "If Your Brain Changed Slightly, Would You Still Be You?" with Masud Husain

Could a tiny injury to your brain change your personality? If your friends didn’t know something had happened in your brain, would they just think you're choosing to act strangely? What if the self is nothing but a fragile coalition of neural processes? Join Eagleman today with M ...  Show more

Ep158 "What do babies, animals, and AI have in common?" with Melanie Mitchell

When AI gets the right answer, how do we know it got there the right way? Why do we assume that fluent language means intelligence? What do infants and chatbots have in common? What do AI’s mistakes teach us about our own minds? And what does any of this have to do with Frankenst ...  Show more

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