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The Brain with David Eagleman
Who Is in Control?
Season 1
Episode 3
Dr. David Eagleman explores the great deception that greets us each morning when we awake: it feels as though we are in conscious control of our lives but the truth is that we are not. Instead almost every action, every decision, every belief that we hold is driven by parts of the brain that we have no access to.
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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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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.