David Eagleman is a Stanford neuroscientist, C.E.O., television host, and founder of the Possibilianism movement. He and Steve talk about how wrists can substitute for ears, why we dream, and what Fisher-Price magnets have to do with neuroscience.

SOURCE:David Eagleman • , professor of cognitive neuroscience at Stanford University and C.E.O. of Neosensory.

RESOURCES:Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain, • by David Eagleman (2020). • " Why Do We Dream? A New Theory on How It Protects Our Brains • ," by David Eagleman and Don Vaughn ( TIME, • 2020). • " Prevalence of Learned Grapheme-Color Pairings in a Large Online Sample of Synesthetes • ," by Nathan Witthoft, Jonathan Winawer, and David Eagleman ( PLoS One, • 2015). Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, • by David Eagleman (2009). The vOICe app • . Neosensory • .

EXTRAS: • " What’s Impacting American Workers? • " by People I (Mostly) Admire • (2024). • " This Is Your Brain on Podcasts • ," by Freakonomics Radio • (2016).