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.

Ep136 "Why do we care about mattering?" with Rebecca Goldstein
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Ep135: What does neuroscience mean by hypnosis? with David Spiegel
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Ep82 Re Broadcast "Why Do Your 30 Trillion Cells Feel Like a Self?" Part 1
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