Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
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Ep161 "What Do Ancient Brains and Future AIs Have in Common?" with Read Montague
1 hour 3 minutes Posted Jul 6, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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What do honeybee brains have in common with human brains -- and with the AI that beat the world's best Go player? What simple algorithm has been hiding inside brains for 100s of millions of years? When babies throw food from a high chair again and again, are they being mischievous or are they running physics experiments? And what does any of this have to do with whether dopamine is more than a pleasure molecule, or whether there are laws of physics we have yet to discover, or whether large language models are going to get outdated in favor of a new approach? Join Eagleman with computational neuroscientist Read Montague to explore how very old systems in our brains map onto the future of AI.