S1 Ep39: David Eagleman - The Inside Story of Your Ever Changing Brain

David Eagleman has dedicated his life to understanding the brain, people and society… as well as teaching neuroscience at Stanford University, he’s written hundreds of academic articles and text-books, plus award-winning, bestselling, fiction and non-fiction that has inspired students, readers and artists around the world. His Book Sum Tales from the Afterlives, was made into an Opera by Brian Eno and his book The Brain, The Story of You was made into a Emmy nominated TV series. Specialising in brain plasticity, sensory substitution, time perception, Synethsesia and neurolaw, he also sits on the boards of several science foundations and non-profits and is the CEO of NeoSensory, a company which translates the unheard and the unseen into feelings. In this episode of the Bookomi podcast, he takes Richard Kilgarriff into the dark vault of the skull to reveal his new concept of "liveware" which challenges the notion of neural networks as a vast computer.