Ep2 "What would you do with robotic wings? (o...

What do honeybee brains have in common with human brains -- and with the AI that beat the world's best Go player? What simple algorithm has been hiding inside brains for 100s of millions of years? When babies throw food from a high chair again and again, are they being mischievou ...  Show more

re you the author of your thoughts or just their witness? Do we simply watch our thoughts like we watch unfolding dream plots? What if the most familiar thing you experience — yourself — isn’t really there? If that’s the case, why does the experience of the self feel so solid tha ...  Show more

Can science give us the wings we've always envied in birds? Can plastic surgery elevate us to a higher human form? In this episode, Robert and Julie discuss Joseph Rosen's posthuman philosophy and ponder what we'd have to do to transform arms into wings. Learn all about it in ...

Anne Muir and Liz Waid tell about a group of people who explore the relationship between the human body and technology. Would you want to see sound? Would you want to hear colors? Would you want to unlock doors just by approaching them? People can put technology into their bodies ...  Show more

In this episode Benny and Mal discuss having implants inside our bodies. What if our brains could have computers inside? What would the world be like if everyone was super intelligent? Could we be hacked and would everyone cheat in exams by downloading the answers into their brai ...  Show more

It’s easy to think yourself a mere brain within a human body -- a cognitive machine making sense out of all the incoming sense data from outside world. But what if other parts of the body and even objects beyond the body serve a vital role in our cognition? In this episode of ...