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The Brain with David Eagleman
Why Do I Need You?
Season 1
Episode 5
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.
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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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How the brain gives rise to our thoughts, emotions, our memories and personality.
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The brain constructs our multi-sensory reality from within the darkness of the skull.