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Ep92 "Why is it hard to keep a secret?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
Episode • Feb 17, • 42m

How are secrets in the brain like Abraham Lincoln’s political cabinet? Will AI in the near future hide things from you? And what does any of this have to do with political hierarchies, the formula for Coca-Cola, or deceptive chimpanzees? Join Eagleman to understand what neuroscience tells us about secrets: what they are, why they weigh on us, and how they sometimes grow into tangled webs we never meant to weave.

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