Inner Cosmos with David EaglemanInner Cosmos with David Eagleman

Ep1 "Does time really slow down when you're in fear for your life?"

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When he was a child, Eagleman fell off a roof and time seemed to run in slow motion. When he became a neuroscientist, he grew curious about the experience and collected hundreds of similar stories from others. But is it true that your brain can actually see in slow motion, like Neo in the Matrix? And how would you test that? Hear how he dropped volunteers from a tower to put the science to the test, and what the answer reveals about our perception, memory, and experience of the world.

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Neuroscientist and author David Eagleman discusses how our brain interprets the world and what that  
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