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The Brain with David Eagleman
What Makes Me?
Season 1
Episode 2
Dr. David Eagleman explores memory as an important pillar of self, and reveals that rather than being a faithful record of our past, memory is fallible and often unreliable, making our life of memories more personal mythology than digital recording.
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Journey into the future and ask what’s next for the human brain, and for our species.
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How the human brain depends on other brains to thrive and survive.
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A journey through the unseen world of decisions, and how they get made.
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Learn how the unconscious brain controls much of who we are and what we do.
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The brain constructs our multi-sensory reality from within the darkness of the skull.