Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
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Ep159 "If Your Brain Changed Slightly, Would You Still Be You?" with Masud Husain
1 hour 12 minutes Posted Jun 22, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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Could a tiny injury to your brain change your personality? If your friends didn’t know something had happened in your brain, would they just think you're choosing to act strangely? What if the self is nothing but a fragile coalition of neural processes? Join Eagleman today with Masud Husain, a neurologist and neuroscientist at Oxford, to explore fascinating case studies about how changes in the brain lead to changes in the self.