HeyJaredThis is Your Brain On
Neuroscientist at Stanford, NYT bestselling author, 1 science podcast in US: Inner Cosmos.
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Will it someday make sense to elect an AI president? (opens the original)
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As we move deeper into the age of AI, might we someday hand the reins of government to a machine? Will your grandchildren ever again vote for a human president? Or will they prefer a system that has a jaw-dropping capacity to extract patterns from vast pools of data and simulate millions of possible futures, governing with a deeper understanding of patterns than a human could ever have?In our current reality, we ask voters to make binary choices (do you want Kamala or Donald, or maybe do you wan
Online Meetup Tues Aug 11 @ 9:30 am PT (opens the original)
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Thanks for being a paid subscriber to This is Your Brain On. I’m just now flying back from speaking in Brazil, and looking forward to the upcoming online meeting where we can discuss any questions/ideas/thoughts on your mind.Our scheduling poll triangulated Tuesday, August 11 from 9:30 - 10 am PT as the optimal time for this month’s meeting.Just click o… Read more
Remembering Francis Crick (opens the original)
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As a young post-doc at the Salk Institute, I got to work with one of the greats. On this 21st anniversary of his passing, I wanted to share the obituary I published at that time.Francis Crick, one of the premier biologists of the 20th century, passed away July 28, 2004, in San Diego. Six weeks before, on his 88th birthday, I brought him chocolates and spent the day with him in his home in La Jolla, California. As with all our meetings, he jumped straight into a discussion of theories about brain
The Unstoppable Soccer Kick (opens the original)
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by David Eagleman and Vidar Wendel-HansenIn a Man City vs Arsenal game in 2024, referee Michael Oliver laid on his whistle to signal the play was over. But just afterward, as if in defiance, Leandro Trossard kicked the ball. From the sidelines, it looked like a deliberate act of insubordination.The Premier League had just launched new rules to increase effective playing time, so referees could now yellow card players when they committed deliberate actions that delayed the restart of play, such a
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