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Empire of the Invisible

David Eagleman

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This book by David Eagleman has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Andrew Huberman, Tim Ferriss. The people who brought it up: David Eagleman. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2023-05-27 and the most recent from 2026-01-26. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

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Guest's own workAndrew Huberman

Science & Tools of Learning & Memory | Dr. David Eagleman

“This is actually what my next next book is about. It's called Empire of the Invisible and it's about why we all believe our own internal models.”— David Eagleman

The guest here is David Eagleman: Stanford neuroscientist, best-selling author (Livewired), and science communicator. Founder of the former sensory-substitution company Neosensory and host of the Inner Cosmos podcast. Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains how the plastic brain learns, builds memory, warps time, dreams, and falls into us-vs-them polarization.

02:13:382026-01-26
Guest's own workTim Ferriss

Exploring Consciousness, Sensory Augmentation, The Lazy Susan Method of Productivity, and More

“the big one I'm working on is called Empire of the Invisible, and it's going to take me another few years to finish this”— David Eagleman

The guest here is David Eagleman: Neuroscientist, Stanford professor, New York Times bestselling author (Sum, Incognito, Livewired), TED speaker, and founder of the neurotech company Neosensory. Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains sensory augmentation, why we dream, consciousness, memory, and his Lazy Susan method for managing many projects.

01:27:252023-05-27