David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
- Published
- March 25, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 52m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jul 5, 2026
Discusses David Sussillo (Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind) is a technol…
Summary
David Sussillo (Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind) is a technologist, neuroscientist, and professor at Stanford University. David joins the Armchair Expert to discuss growing up with two parents that were addicts, experiencing extreme poverty throughout his childhood, and the joy of finding a best friend during that ti…
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David Sussillo (Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind) is a technologist, neuroscientist, and professor at Stanford University. David joins the Armchair Expert to discuss growing up with two parents that were addicts, experiencing extreme poverty throughout his childhood, and the joy of finding a best friend during that time. David and Dax talk about how the immersion and rules of video games amid the chaos of his life became the precursor to his research today,