Ep99 "Why do brains sometimes make things up?"
Ep99 "Why do brains sometimes make things up?"  
Podcast: Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
Published On: Mon Apr 07 2025
Description: Your brain occasionally cooks up falsehoods that you believe entirely, but why does this confabulation happen, and how frequently? What does this tell us about memory, truth-telling, and your life as a story that drifts? And what does this have to do with a paralyzed Supreme Court judge, a blind person who insists she can see, whether Nelson Mandela did or did not die in the 1980s, or whether Curious George had a tail?