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Livewired

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Sep 7, 2026

David EaglemanHOST
35:26
And we could end up in a very different environment and the biology just figures it out because every experiment that we do seems to indicate that same sort of thing.
David EaglemanHOST
35:36
In my book, LiveWired, I talk about lots of examples of this.
David EaglemanHOST
35:38
My colleague, Mike Levin, has beautiful examples of the way that you just change the environment or change the genome of things, and it just figures it out and says, OK, cool, I'll build this without a problem.
David EaglemanHOST
35:49
So it is certainly imaginable that you could have a Martian species that we would at some point no longer call the same species

14 MINS LATER

David EaglemanHOST
50:03
But that's another interesting one.
David EaglemanHOST
50:05
Something as fundamental as dreaming.
David EaglemanHOST
50:07
I suggested in my book LiveWired that it may turn out that we are some of the only dreamers in the cosmos.
Scott SolomonGUEST
50:13
Oh, that's really fascinating.

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