When Life Gives You a Brain

About When Life Gives You a Brain

When Life Gives You a Brain is a podcast featuring weekly readings from the When Life Gives You a Brain newsletter by neuroscientist Suzi Travis. Episodes cover topics at the intersection of neuroscience, consciousness, and AI. RSS: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/2198411.rss suzitravis.substack.com (https://suzitravis.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Neuroscience, consciousness, and artificial intelligence.

Category

science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Feb 2024

Latest episode

1 Jul 2025

Latest episodes

61 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Jul 2025

   Is Seeing Really Believing?

   Suzie Travis explores classic experiments with inverting goggles and how the brain adapts to conflicting signals, questioning what we are really doing when we say we're seeing in this episode.

2. 

   17 Jun 2025

   Looking for Meaning

   Suzie Travis explores the elusive concept of meaning, questioning its origins and neurological basis, to better understand how we interpret the world around us.

3. 

   10 Jun 2025

   Does the Mind Need a Body?

   This episode explores the debate in cognitive science around whether the mind derives meaning from internal mental models or from bodily interaction with the world.

Podcast Authority Score: 39 / 100

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