I've been singing in choirs for over a decade and I absolutely love the feeling of being part of a harmony. Singing choir music and choir with orchestra is an amazing feeling! This episode helped me understand my love for it. Thank you! I very much enjoy your work and I'm thrilled to have found your podcast! What was my UA-cam algorithm showing me for the last year??? I had seen your Ted Talk long ago, but Inner Cosmos is new to me! I am subscribed now and will bring you along to my commute to work every week :)
When I drive a car. ..my body expands to include the vehicle!!? That's amazing but the way you explain it.. yeah...I have wheels! If I get a flat it feels like something happened to disable me!
"You're wired up by the world that you happen to be in." My hypothesis is that that concept is partly related to the Greek notion of fate or "moira." Think of it this way: An individual has a certain character/personality that biology and the environment have shaped. David Eagleman has a certain David-Eagleman-ness. That "I" and "me" interact with the "world you happen to be in" to make your behavior predictable to some degree. The tragedy of life is if "I" and "me" take you down destructive life-paths (e.g., one becomes an alcoholic, or has PTSD because of being in an accident one had no control over. My hypothesis is congruent with Robert Sapolsky's new book, Determined.
I was thinking the exact thing when he was talking about the cane. I drove a semi tractor trailer and i used to say that the truck could back up by itself i don't know why I'm even there i guess to talk on the cb radio to describe the way the truck had become a part of myself. When it was in the repair shop I felt like my child was in the hospital. This video is describing feelings I have had but never understood before put into easy to understand concepts
Thank you for this episode, I am very interested in nonduality and found that fascinating. If anyone is interested, Douglas Harding's works cover some similar ground, but from a philosophical and spiritual perspective.
I'm reading a book of Kevin Mitchell and he speaks about how the first and simple living unicelular beings get togheter and form bigger organisms and thrive..
so why do we kill each other and sometimes ourselves? I wish you would talk about the ‘drive’ to destroy vs the drive to create. Is it genetics combined with luck? Nature and nurture; early good mothering or the traumatic caretaking in infancy - like the Roumanian orphans? I wish you would talk with a psychodynamic psychotherapist? As a psychoanalyst I find your ideas fascinating and wish there could be a merger of neuroscience and the unconscious. Jaak Panskeep’s opus on affects using animal research I’m sure you would be interested. Thank you David! you have stretched my aging brain!
another so excellent episode. note to self at bedtime: remember to set the alarm and power down my avatar so I don't accidentally damage the Empire State building if I happen to dream of King Kong.
There was a new bridge over the Thames in London where people were feeling queezy and sick, this was due to people walking in regular step and making the bridge move with the resonance
That’s a nice idea and philosophy, I suppose, but speaking as a person who is totally blind from birth, I can tell you that whether I use a cane, had a guide dog, or a sided person, there was no sense of me being merged with the mobility aid. It’s a tool for finding out information about the world, and you have to use one, especially outside otherwise you could be hurt. You need it to check out your immediate surroundings, but it’s not a part of you. More than a computer is or a car is. I’m sure most of you don’t feel that your car is an extension of yourself. It’s a tool by which you get from .8 point B. Same thing with with the cane or the stick if you wanna call that.
Kind of interesting but takes an unnecessarily binary view of “self”. Would have been good to consider the “self” in terms of “degrees of association” and also to differentiate between the “self” as one’s mind and “self” as one’s body. These are very different concepts of self. The self is much more interesting when considered as our view of our own mind and decision making capabilities.
Are there by any chance, creationist or intelligent design, positive folks on here? Because I never wonder why I don’t feel like the zillion cells I made of because I look at everything from a design perspective. Before I even think of all of those billions of cells that make up me, I’m thinking of a designer who had me in mind. Each part fits into the hole because I am plainly designed. I think we all are. But I guess if you see the world as being brought about by nothing other than chance and a primordial soup, I suppose you would be able to imagine a machine made out of thrown together bits. It’s a fascinating difference really and shows how each brain and each person frames things differently. Because I start off with a designer, I imagine the end product as being a whole unit designed for some purpose. Maybe if I were into evolution, I would wonder about a lot of cells and atoms and compare that to a machine made from thrown together bits of this and that.
This is extremely interesting for sure!! I have 2 selfs, I have Autism/ADHD and I have 2 separate thought processes and have 2 thought processes to speech. My autism thinks as i speak and causes me to stutter snd stammer and my adhd speaks fluidly no stuttering. I feel where my autism is coming from and it's the right side of my thoughts and my adhd thought to speech comes from the left side i don't have to think to speak it just speaks on stored knowledge i guess is a good descriptor word. Your hypothesis makes total sense on the DID progression that can be exasperated if someone is on the spectrum because the way monotropic thinking can run through an identity issue especially leading up to and early teen years when we all start going through hormonal changes. Our minds can easily get attracted to the identity issue and begin to hyperfocus on that inner turmoil. If you get 1 or 2 friends you confide in validates your feelings it will become a hyperfixation and the correlation in my mind is highly compelling with my thoughts as a teen. Also having a transgender neice in a family of autism becomes crystal clear when i internally rationalize my feelings and get a scientific perspective because that's my special interest. It's easy to psycoanalize my inner feelings of those feminine feelings of nurturing were so strong. Happens to me also having empath abilities i was feeling their emotions and wanted to tend to their needs. I've forgotten what i started rambling about. Inner self is the fused electricity in the core of our brain simply put. For someone to claim all is an illusion of untruths is false. My empath abilities are keen and i have many times been able to hear their thoughts, so it's a reality we have some kind of self being. My inner most thoughts on that. Great topic i enjoyed exploring my thoughts!!👻🤪🌶🤘😎♾️
At 33 you mention all religions have synchronized rituals, but that is not true in sanatana dharma (called Hinduism by colonizers). Each person can independently pay or not as it suits them and there are no rituals practices on any synchronized way or neither is there any congregation
Love your work and the topics you explore.
Thank you so much for this excellent lecture detailing how our brain encodes peripersonal space. I love this science of neurobiology.
Mr Eagleman, your ideas, your spectacular neurophilosophy has already become part of myself, part of my heart, my brain, my life. Love you so much
Thank you and your books are great, too.
Thank you for existing ❤
I would be truly fascinated if you and Robert Sapolsky could have a conversation and create a video discussing "free will in our brain."
I've been singing in choirs for over a decade and I absolutely love the feeling of being part of a harmony. Singing choir music and choir with orchestra is an amazing feeling! This episode helped me understand my love for it. Thank you! I very much enjoy your work and I'm thrilled to have found your podcast! What was my UA-cam algorithm showing me for the last year??? I had seen your Ted Talk long ago, but Inner Cosmos is new to me! I am subscribed now and will bring you along to my commute to work every week :)
When I drive a car. ..my body expands to include the vehicle!!? That's amazing but the way you explain it.. yeah...I have wheels! If I get a flat it feels like something happened to disable me!
Thank you very much! This ideia of we as a grater organism it's very interesting! The strength of a moving crowd is truly extraordinary!
Very interesting. Me encanto
Wow, this is so provocative for me. I know we all 'need' connection but this takes it to a whole new level. Super cool!
Fascinating
Thank you for existing❤,
Love your work, David :)
My favourite part of the day is watching your videos❤
Thank you for your beautiful explanations
"You're wired up by the world that you happen to be in." My hypothesis is that that concept is partly related to the Greek notion of fate or "moira." Think of it this way: An individual has a certain character/personality that biology and the environment have shaped. David Eagleman has a certain David-Eagleman-ness. That "I" and "me" interact with the "world you happen to be in" to make your behavior predictable to some degree. The tragedy of life is if "I" and "me" take you down destructive life-paths (e.g., one becomes an alcoholic, or has PTSD because of being in an accident one had no control over. My hypothesis is congruent with Robert Sapolsky's new book, Determined.
I was thinking the exact thing when he was talking about the cane. I drove a semi tractor trailer and i used to say that the truck could back up by itself i don't know why I'm even there i guess to talk on the cb radio to describe the way the truck had become a part of myself. When it was in the repair shop I felt like my child was in the hospital. This video is describing feelings I have had but never understood before put into easy to understand concepts
Great episode
Thank you for this episode, I am very interested in nonduality and found that fascinating. If anyone is interested, Douglas Harding's works cover some similar ground, but from a philosophical and spiritual perspective.
I'm reading a book of Kevin Mitchell and he speaks about how the first and simple living unicelular beings get togheter and form bigger organisms and thrive..
so why do we kill each other and sometimes ourselves? I wish you would talk about the ‘drive’ to destroy vs the drive to create. Is it genetics combined with luck? Nature and nurture; early good mothering or the traumatic caretaking in infancy - like the Roumanian orphans?
I wish you would talk with a psychodynamic psychotherapist? As a psychoanalyst I find your ideas fascinating and wish there could be a merger of neuroscience and the unconscious. Jaak Panskeep’s opus on affects using animal research I’m sure you would be interested.
Thank you David! you have stretched my aging brain!
got me thinking a lot! thank you :)
another so excellent episode. note to self at bedtime: remember to set the alarm and power down my avatar so I don't accidentally damage the Empire State building if I happen to dream of King Kong.
He’s talking about what it is to be human
When I was in the military, we walked in lock step because we were required to, there was no love for it.
Thank you sir💙
There was a new bridge over the Thames in London where people were feeling queezy and sick, this was due to people walking in regular step and making the bridge move with the resonance
The stairway becomes you after a single step
Sen muhteşemsin. Nokta.
Would you talk about the brain and authority? The need for it and the hatred of it.
That’s a nice idea and philosophy, I suppose, but speaking as a person who is totally blind from birth, I can tell you that whether I use a cane, had a guide dog, or a sided person, there was no sense of me being merged with the mobility aid. It’s a tool for finding out information about the world, and you have to use one, especially outside otherwise you could be hurt. You need it to check out your immediate surroundings, but it’s not a part of you. More than a computer is or a car is. I’m sure most of you don’t feel that your car is an extension of yourself. It’s a tool by which you get from .8 point B. Same thing with with the cane or the stick if you wanna call that.
Kind of interesting but takes an unnecessarily binary view of “self”. Would have been good to consider the “self” in terms of “degrees of association” and also to differentiate between the “self” as one’s mind and “self” as one’s body. These are very different concepts of self. The self is much more interesting when considered as our view of our own mind and decision making capabilities.
Episode on Free will
@eagleman Why aren’t humans considered to be super organisms like ants?
It's like pack mentality. The things I did as a kid with my buddies, I would never have done on my own.
It’s called a ‘cane’
Are there by any chance, creationist or intelligent design, positive folks on here? Because I never wonder why I don’t feel like the zillion cells I made of because I look at everything from a design perspective. Before I even think of all of those billions of cells that make up me, I’m thinking of a designer who had me in mind. Each part fits into the hole because I am plainly designed. I think we all are. But I guess if you see the world as being brought about by nothing other than chance and a primordial soup, I suppose you would be able to imagine a machine made out of thrown together bits. It’s a fascinating difference really and shows how each brain and each person frames things differently. Because I start off with a designer, I imagine the end product as being a whole unit designed for some purpose. Maybe if I were into evolution, I would wonder about a lot of cells and atoms and compare that to a machine made from thrown together bits of this and that.
That's what the human centipede must think 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ramana.
This is extremely interesting for sure!! I have 2 selfs, I have Autism/ADHD and I have 2 separate thought processes and have 2 thought processes to speech. My autism thinks as i speak and causes me to stutter snd stammer and my adhd speaks fluidly no stuttering. I feel where my autism is coming from and it's the right side of my thoughts and my adhd thought to speech comes from the left side i don't have to think to speak it just speaks on stored knowledge i guess is a good descriptor word. Your hypothesis makes total sense on the DID progression that can be exasperated if someone is on the spectrum because the way monotropic thinking can run through an identity issue especially leading up to and early teen years when we all start going through hormonal changes. Our minds can easily get attracted to the identity issue and begin to hyperfocus on that inner turmoil. If you get 1 or 2 friends you confide in validates your feelings it will become a hyperfixation and the correlation in my mind is highly compelling with my thoughts as a teen. Also having a transgender neice in a family of autism becomes crystal clear when i internally rationalize my feelings and get a scientific perspective because that's my special interest. It's easy to psycoanalize my inner feelings of those feminine feelings of nurturing were so strong. Happens to me also having empath abilities i was feeling their emotions and wanted to tend to their needs. I've forgotten what i started rambling about. Inner self is the fused electricity in the core of our brain simply put. For someone to claim all is an illusion of untruths is false. My empath abilities are keen and i have many times been able to hear their thoughts, so it's a reality we have some kind of self being. My inner most thoughts on that. Great topic i enjoyed exploring my thoughts!!👻🤪🌶🤘😎♾️
Good old homuncular flexibility.
At 33 you mention all religions have synchronized rituals, but that is not true in sanatana dharma (called Hinduism by colonizers). Each person can independently pay or not as it suits them and there are no rituals practices on any synchronized way or neither is there any congregation
You might have missed his point. Maybe listen next time