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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
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Signup to Generate a PitchWhen Life Gives You a Brain is a podcast featuring weekly readings from the When Life Gives You a Brain newsletter by neuroscientist Suzi Travis.
Recent episodes include "Is Seeing Really Believing?" (1 July 2025, 17 minutes), "Looking for Meaning" (17 June 2025, 21 minutes), and "Does the Mind Need a Body?" (10 June 2025, 25 minutes).
When Life Gives You a Brain publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 20 minutes across 61 episodes.
Booking probability for When Life Gives You a Brain is 21%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. When Life Gives You a Brain requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. When Life Gives You a Brain's contact route on record: public web form.
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When Life Gives You a Brain is a science podcast with 61 episodes published.
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Episode #1
<p>We move through the world assuming our senses are in sync. Sight, sound, touch—they usually agree. But flip just one of them, and the whole system starts to wobble. That’s exactly what happens with prism...
Episode #7
<p>We talk about meaning all the time — what things mean, what people mean, what life means. It feels obvious that meaning is something we have. Probably in the brain. Somewhere.</p><p>Neuroscientists even talk that...
Episode #6
<p>Most of us take it for granted that our thoughts have meaning. You can think about a dog, a holiday, or the square root of 144 — and somehow, your brain just gets it. Cognitive science has long explained this by...
Episode #5
<p>We might mistake a garden hose for a snake. There’s no snake — just a brain responding to the wrong thing in the wrong way. But somehow, we still say the our brain represents a snake. Even though there is no...
<p>When you see a dog, something happens in your brain. A pattern of activity fires, and somehow, that pattern feels like it means something. Cognitive scientists often say that your brain “represents” things — objects...
<p>We tend to think words get their meaning from the world.You see a dog, you learn the word “dog,” and now the word points to the thing.</p><p>But large language models don’t see dogs. Or anything at all.They’ve...
Episode #2
<p>Think about a sign. Or a symbol, an idea, a thought, a concept, or a representation. What kind of thing are you really thinking about?</p><p>In 1972, NASA pinned a message to a spaceship, hoping one day an alien life...
Episode #1
<p>We’ve all been chatting with machines lately — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude — and they sound impressively human.</p><p>It’s easy to wonder: do they just seem to understand, or is there something real going on...
When Life Gives You a Brain
<p>Brains predict. LLMs predict. But does that mean they’re doing the same thing? A short essay on functions, intelligence, and the trouble with words.</p><p>We used to think intelligence was all about reasoning.Then we...
Episode #7
<p>We know how to build things — houses, bridges, and bookshelves. And when we build, we follow instructions: blueprints and manuals.</p><p>But living things don’t follow fixed instructions. They grow. And that might be...
<p>We like to think that if a system gets complex enough, consciousness just kicks in -- the lights turn on. It’s a neat idea — and it shows up everywhere, from neuroscience papers to AI hype.</p><p>But the science...
When Life Gives You a Brain
<p>Complexity is all around us — in life, brains, weather, cities, economies... We know a brain is more complex than a rock, but good luck explaining why. Even scientists struggle to define it — we know it when we see...
Episode #4
<p>What if your conscious experience depends on the direction of time? This week I get speculative. Entropy is why cream swirls into coffee and eggs break — but never the other way around. Could that same arrow of time...
<p>Information isn't just an abstract concept—it has real, physical consequences. Physicists and engineers have long treated information in different ways: one as bits in a message, the other as something tied to the...
<p>The mind has puzzled thinkers for centuries—Descartes saw it as something separate from the body, while today, we tend to think of it as an information processor. Over time, our understanding has shifted, shaped by...
Episode #1
<p>This week, I explore the puzzle of why we need special sciences when physics theoretically explains everything. I ask how different scientific disciplines like psychology and economics might discover things that...
When Life Gives You a Brain
<p>Two coffee tasters at Maxwell House suddenly hate the coffee they once loved. One says he's just become more sophisticated, while the other insists his taste buds must be broken -- even though they're drinking the...
When Life Gives You a Brain
<p>False memories are incredibly common, even for everyday experiences like driving. Scientists have found that not only can memories be easily manipulated, but our brains regularly reconstruct past events based on our...
When Life Gives You a Brain
<p>Memories aren't stored like files on a computer - they're constantly being rebuilt every time we remember them. Scientists have discovered ways to manipulate these reconstructions in mice, blocking memories from...
When Life Gives You a Brain
<p>Our brains don't store memories like computers store files -- they recreate them every time we remember. When we recall something, different brain regions are involved in reconstructing the experience, combining...
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