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The Brain with David Eagleman | Preview

Preview: S1 | 30s | Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores why we feel and think the things we do. (30s)

Who will we Be? | Preview

Preview: Ep6 | 30s | What’s next for the human brain, and for our species? (30s)

Episode 6 | The Connectome: Mapping the Brain

Clip: Ep6 | 3m 12s | The team building a three dimensional map of the brain’s connections. (3m 12s)

Episode 6 | The Chinese Room Thought Experiment

Clip: Ep6 | 2m 19s | Dr. David Eagleman demonstrates the Chinese Room thought experiment. (2m 19s)

Episode 6 | Take Control of Your Future

Clip: Ep6 | 1m 54s | Our future lies in our own hands. (1m 54s)

Episode 6 | Expanding Our Sensory Horizons

Clip: Ep6 | 1m 21s | In theory, there is no limit to the number of new senses we may create in the future. (1m 21s)

Episode 6 | Emergence: What Ants can Teach Us

Clip: Ep6 | Cooperation can give rise to something much greater - and teach us about consciousness.

Episode 6 | Digital Life

Clip: Ep6 | 2m 46s | Imagine life inside a computer, in a simulated world. Could we be there already? (2m 46s)

Episode 6 | Cryonic Preservation of the Brain and Body

Clip: Ep6 | 2m 6s | One team’s effort to give people a second chance at life. (2m 6s)

Episode 6 | Brain Uploading

Clip: Ep6 | 2m 50s | Swapping out cells for circuits, it may be possible for the mind to exist digitally. (2m 50s)

Episode 6 | Attempting to Create Artificial Intelligence

Clip: Ep6 | A humanoid robot that can learn from the world.

Why Do I Need You? | Preview

Preview: Ep5 | 30s | How the human brain depends on other brains to thrive and survive. (30s)

Episode 5 | What Is Empathy?

Clip: Ep5 | 1m 58s | This ability to feel another’s pain explains why stories can be so powerful. (1m 58s)

Episode 5 | The Massacre of Srebrenica

Clip: Ep5 | 3m 27s | Can genocide be understood as a neural phenomenon? (3m 27s)

Episode 5 | The Amazing Case of John Robison

Clip: Ep5 | 4m 15s | One man's transformation reveals something that we all unconsciously do every day. (4m 15s)

Episode 5 | Social Pain Is Real Pain

Clip: Ep5 | 1m 6s | Social pain activates the brain’s pain matrix. (1m 6s)

Episode 5 | Mirroring Others

Clip: Ep5 | 3m 26s | Why do we mimic each other’s facial expressions? (3m 26s)

Episode 5 | In-Group/Out-Group

Clip: Ep5 | 2m 23s | David shows that a single word label can decide over how much you care for one in pain. (2m 23s)

Episode 5 | Discerning Babies

Clip: Ep5 | 2m 12s | Humans come equipped with social antennae. (2m 12s)

Episode 5 | Destroying Empathy

Clip: Ep5 | 2m 29s | Propaganda plugs directly into neural networks, enabling dehumanization. (2m 29s)

Episode 4 | The Trolley Dilemma

Clip: Ep4 | 3m 16s | Two scenarios that involve very different systems in the brain. (3m 16s)

Episode 4 | The Stroop Test

Clip: Ep4 | 1m 27s | What happens when messages from two brain networks clash? (1m 27s)

Episode 4 | The Iowa Gambling Task

Clip: Ep4 | 3m 33s | The science behind "gut" and "hunch" decisions. (3m 33s)

Episode 4 | The Conflict Within

Clip: Ep4 | 1m 41s | Every time you are faced with a decision, there is a storm of activity inside your brain. (1m 41s)

Episode 4 | How Willpower Is Like a Tank of Gas

Clip: Ep4 | 1m 56s | The brain has a finite amount of willpower to draw on. (1m 56s)

Episode 4 | Energy and Judgement

Clip: Ep4 | 2m 4s | How the brain’s energy levels can affect a prisoner’s parole hearing. (2m 4s)

How Do I Decide? | Preview

Preview: Ep4 | 30s | A journey through the unseen world of decisions, and how they get made. (30s)

Who is in Control? | Preview

Preview: Ep3 | 30s | Every decision we make is driven by parts of the brain that we have no access to. (30s)

Episode 3 | What If We Have No Free Will?

Clip: Ep3 | 2m 34s | Using a tank of ping pong balls, David demonstrates why we don’t need to worry. (2m 34s)

Episode 3 | The Role of Consciousness

Clip: Ep3 | 2m 40s | The unconscious brain is making some decisions on our behalf. So why are we conscious? (2m 40s)

Episode 3 | Steered by the Unconscious

Clip: Ep3 | 2m 41s | The unconscious brain picks up on sexual cues without you even being aware of it. (2m 41s)

Episode 3 | Ian Waterman’s Inspiring Story

Clip: Ep3 | 2m 13s | Imagine if you couldn't control your body without extraordinary effort. (2m 13s)

Episode 3 | Different People, Different Paths

Clip: Ep3 | 2m 1s | How our genes and our environment send brains off in very different trajectories. (2m 1s)

Episode 3 | David Takes on a World Champion

Clip: Ep3 | 4m 6s | Austin Naber is a world-record holder in cup stacking. How will David fare against him? (4m 6s)

What Makes Me? | Preview

Preview: Ep2 | 30s | Learn how our personality, memories and sense of self all emerge from neural activity. (30s)

Episode 2 | Your Job Can Reshape Your Brain

Clip: Ep2 | 2m 19s | The brains of London taxi drivers were tracked before, during and after their training. (2m 19s)

Episode 2 | Stuck in the Present

Clip: Ep2 | 2m 41s | The case of Henry Molaison reveals an important discovery for neuroscience. (2m 41s)

Episode 2 | Stressed Teens

Clip: Ep2 | 3m 16s | An experiment in a shop window demonstrates why teens feel far more stressed than adults. (3m 16s)

Episode 2 | Nuns and the Aging Brain

Clip: Ep2 | 3m 37s | A study of nuns’ brains shows us how to best protect our brains as we age. (3m 37s)

Episode 2 | Inside a Child's Brain

Clip: Ep2 | 1m 59s | The process of becoming someone is about pruning back the brain’s connections. (1m 59s)

Episode 1 | Why Time Seems to Slow When We Are in Extremes

Clip: Ep1 | 4m 17s | Wingsuit pilot Jeb Corliss describes his agonizing experience of time distortion. (4m 17s)

Episode 1 | Our Perception of Reality

Clip: Ep1 | 2m 18s | David invites subjects to an experiment that demonstrates how much our brains leave out. (2m 18s)

Episode 1 | Messing with Reality

Clip: Ep1 | 4m 37s | David Eagleman experiences a new visual reality – with nauseating consequences. (4m 37s)

Episode 1 | How the Brain Creates Reality

Clip: Ep1 | 2m 42s | David explains how the brain experiences the outside world without ever having seen it. (2m 42s)

Episode 1 | Brain City

Clip: Ep1 | 1m 53s | The brain is a vast interconnected network of areas that communicate with each other. (1m 53s)

Episode 1 | Alternate Realities: Synesthesia

Clip: Ep1 | 2m 34s | Hannah describes her synesthesia, a condition that fascinates neuroscientists. (2m 34s)

All Is Not as It Seems

Clip: Ep1 | 1m 7s | David explains how the brain is tricked by the checker shadow illusion. (1m 7s)

Episode 2 | Born Unfinished

Clip: Ep2 | 2m 3s | Human babies are born utterly helpless, compared to many newborn animals. Why? (2m 3s)