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This is the best show on television right now!


It's the only show I actually get excited about when a new episode pops up. Endlessly fascinating, brilliant analogies, Eagleman is an adept science educator.

Science can't explain everything, but religion can't explain anything.

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I completely agree. The third episode on how much of our waking activity and awareness is routinely managed by our unconscious minds provided a great illustration of the foundational argument made almost forty years ago by Julian Jaynes in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.

It’s really interesting that with improved monitoring of brain function, neuroscience seems to be confirming now that ’consciousness’ apparently isn’t what we’ve been accustomed to believe it is. And as you say, Dr. Eagleman brings it all within reach. I’m very much looking forward to future episodes.

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I concur (with myself).

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