The Brain with David Eagleman

Six one-hour episodes that tell the story of the inner workings of the brain and take viewers on a visually spectacular journey into why they feel and think the things they do.

2015 HD 45min United States English

David Eagleman

Documentary

S1E1 - What is Reality? 2015-10-14

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.

S1E2 - What Makes Me? 2015-10-21

"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.

S1E3 - Who is in Control? 2015-10-28

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.

S1E4 - How Do I Decide? 2015-11-04

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.

S1E5 - Why Do I Need You? 2015-11-11

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.

S1E6 - Who Will We Be? 2015-11-18

In "Who Will We Be?" Dr. Eagleman journeys into the future, and asks whats 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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