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.

Ep142 "Do breakthroughs require rule-breakers?" with Eric Weinstein
1:32:59

Ep141 "What do brains and weather systems have in common?" with Nicole Rust
36:41

Ep140 "How does your brain decide what’s true?" with Sam Harris
1:20:32