Incognito

This book by David Eagleman has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. The people who brought it up: David Eagleman, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-08-26 and the most recent from 2023-05-27. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

"This book will shine light on some of the hard-to-reach places in the brain, showing the ways in which we are not the ones driving the boat. Why does the conscious mind know so little? What do visual illusions unmask about the machinery running under the hood? How much of our lives are determined by choices and behaviors that are hard-wired, unconscious, and beyond our control? Do we have any management over who we find gorgeous or repugnant? How is it possible to get angry at yourself: who exactly, is mad at whom? If the drunk Mel Gibson is an anti-Semite and the sober Mel Gibson is authentically apologetic, is there a real Mel Gibson?