Why do we have so much circuitry in the brain devoted to faces? Why does your electrical plug seem to look like a little face? Did aliens plant a signal for us on Mars, or are we looking at a quirk of our own brains? What is face blindness and what is a super recognizer? What does any of this have to do with looking at a magazine upside down, or why computer algorithms sometimes think a jack-o'-lantern is a person? Join Eagleman for a deep dive into something so fundamental as to be typically invisible.

Ep174 "Can Evolution Teach AI?" with Athena Aktipis
52:59

Re-Release "Why Do Brains Dream"
52:12

Ep173 "Why Do We Have Emotions?" with Robert Kurzban
54:24