Ep83 "Why Do Your 30 Trillion Cells Feel Like a Self?" Part 2

02/12/2024 1h 1min Episodio 83
Ep83 "Why Do Your 30 Trillion Cells Feel Like a Self?" Part 2

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Does our sense of self emerge from our brain's skill at lumping things into unchanging categories? What can we learn watching a caterpillar brain transition to a butterfly brain? Can we think of a memory as a pattern that stays alive and has its own life? Does an ant colony have a sense of self? Join Eagleman and biologist Michael Levin at Tufts – one of the most energetic and original thinkers in the field -- to dive into new territories of the self.

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