The Brain with David Eagleman(2015)

Name: The Brain with David Eagleman
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2015-10-14
Rating: 4.0

October 14, 20151 Season · 6 Episodes

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Overview

Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores the interior of the brain to reveal why people feel and think the way they do. Episodes examine how personality, emotions and memories are encoded as neural activity; the unconscious brain; and how the brain navigates thousands of conscious decisions every day. Dr. Eagleman ponders the darker side of humanity and why the brain drives people toward certain actions and behaviors. The series also looks at the future, considering what may be next for the human brain and for the human species.

Seasons

Season 1

6 Episodes

2015

E01

What is Reality?

10/14/2015·45m

Dr. David Eagleman takes viewers on an extraordinary journey in "What is Reality?" He explores how the brain, locked in silence and darkness without direct access to the world, conjures up the rich and beautiful world we all take for granted.

E02

What Makes Me?

10/21/2015·45m

"What Makes Me?" explores how we are our brains, how our personality, emotions, and memories are encoded as neural activity. The process of becoming someone continues through our lives. We change our brain, and our brain changes us.

E03

Who is in Control?

10/28/2015·45m

In "Who is in Control?" Dr. Eagleman explores the unconscious brain, and reveals that everything from our movements, to our decisions, to our behavior is largely controlled and orchestrated by an invisible world of unconscious neural activity.

E04

How Do I Decide?

11/4/2015·45m

In "How Do I Decide?" Dr. David Eagleman explores how the brain navigates the tens of thousands of conscious decisions we make every day, and the many more unconscious decisions we make about everything from who we find attractive, to what we perceive.

E05

Why Do I Need You?

11/11/2015·45m

In "Why Do I Need You?" 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.

E06

Who Will We Be?

11/18/2015·45m

In "Who Will We Be?" Dr. Eagleman journeys into the future, and asks what's next for the human brain, and for our species. He reveals that in the future our descendants may be so different to us that we will be strangers to them.

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Cast

David Eagleman

Self - Presenter

Seán Patrick Judge

Father

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