All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 What Is Reality?

    • October 14, 2015
    • PBS

    How the brain constructs multisensory reality within the darkness of the skull, enabling people to understand the world around them.

  • S01E02 What Makes Me?

    • October 21, 2015
    • PBS

    Personality, memories and sense of self emerge from neural activity.

  • S01E03 Who Is in Control?

    • October 28, 2015
    • PBS

    Unconscious neural activity controls much of who we are and what we do.

  • S01E04 How Do I Decide?

    • November 4, 2015
    • PBS

    The human brain is the most complex object we’ve discovered in the universe, and every day much of its neural circuitry is taken up with the tens of thousands of decisions we need to make. ‘How do I decide?’ is a journey through the unseen world of decisions, and how they get made.

  • S01E05 Why Do I Need You?

    • November 11, 2015
    • PBS

    In ‘Why Do I Need You?’ Dr. David Eagleman explores how the human brain relies on other brains to thrive and survive. This neural interdependence begins at birth. Dr. David Eagleman invites a group of babies to a puppet show to showcase their ability to discern who is trustworthy, and who isn’t.

  • S01E06 Who Will We Be?

    • November 18, 2015
    • PBS

    In ‘Who will we be?’ Dr. David Eagleman journeys into the future, and asks what’s next for the human brain, and for our species. Mother nature has evolved a brain that is eminently flexible, able to rewire itself according to whatever environment it finds itself in, which means that as technological advances continue apace, our technology is on a crash course with our biology.