How is it possible for a dog to become a champion surfer? Why does the world’s best archer have no arms? Why might someone come to believe that her leg doesn’t belong to her? How can we build robots that simply figure themselves out? In this episode, Eagleman unmasks mysteries about the brain's shocking flexibility -- revealing how it comes to drive whatever body it finds itself in, how it determines what the "self" is, and what this tells us about our future as humans.

Ep163 "How Quickly Does AI Become Smarter Than Humanity?" with Ben Goertzel
1:09:29

Ep162 "What Does Medicine Look Like in Ten Years?" with Jeanne Loring
33:44

Ep161 "What Do Ancient Brains and Future AIs Have in Common?" with Read Montague
1:03:21