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The Brain with David Eagleman Season 1

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The Brain with David Eagleman

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Dr David Eagleman explores how the brain relies on other brains to thrive and survive. This neural interdependence underpins our need to group together, and our ability to do the very best and the very worst of things to each other.

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Journey into the future and ask what’s next for the human brain, and for our species.
Why Do I Need You?
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How the human brain depends on other brains to thrive and survive.
How Do I Decide?
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A journey through the unseen world of decisions, and how they get made.
Who Is in Control?
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Learn how the unconscious brain controls much of who we are and what we do.
What Makes Me?
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How the brain gives rise to our thoughts, emotions, our memories and personality.
What is Reality?
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The brain constructs our multi-sensory reality from within the darkness of the skull.
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