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This post is a reprint of a post by Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich that originally appeared at WNYC's Radiolab.

Pardon the graphic pun, but hey! For this podcast Jad, a brand new father, wonders what’s going on inside the head of his baby, Amil. (And don’t worry, you don’t need kids to enjoy this podcast.) The questions here are big: what is it like to be so brand new to the world? None of us have memories from this time, so how could we possibly ever know? Is it just chaos? Or, is there something more, some understanding from the very beginning? Jad found a development psychologist named Charles Fernyhough to explore some of his questions.

Further reading from Charles Fernyhough:

A Thousand Days of Wonder
Baby In The Mirror

This post is a reprint of a post by Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich that originally appeared at WNYC's Radiolab.

After hearing our show about moments of death, filmmaker Will Hoffman went out in search of moments of life. What follows is what he found.

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This post is a reprint of a post by Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich that originally appeared at WNYC's Radiolab.

For meditation number fifteen we have a reading from David Eagleman’s book Sum. It’s a vision of the after life that’s both playful and… horrifying. Sum is read by actor Jeffrey Tambor.

This post is a reprint of a post by Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich that originally appeared at WNYC's Radiolab.

Another meditation on what happens after the moment of death, this time as Shakespeare envisions it. Ron Rosenbaum, author of The Shakespeare Wars, tells us about a very small variation in the text of Hamlet that makes a huge difference about how Shakespeare envisioned Hamlet’s dying moment. Then we pay a visit to Tony Award-winning actor Mark Rylance to get his take on encountering the edge of consciousness.

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