Who will we Be?
Dr. David Eagleman journeys into the future and asks what’s 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.
Episodes
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Who will we Be?
S1 E6 - 54m 41s
Dr. David Eagleman journeys into the future and asks what’s 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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Why Do I Need You?
S1 E5 - 55m 11s
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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How Do I Decide?
S1 E4 - 55m 11s
Dr. David Eagleman takes a journey through the unseen world of decisions and how they get made inside your brain. Your emotions, your energy level, and your memories all come together in concert to help you neural networks decide what to do next.
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Who Is in Control?
S1 E3 - 55m 11s
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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What Makes Me?
S1 E2 - 55m 11s
Dr. David Eagleman explores memory as an important pillar of self, and reveals that rather than being a faithful record of our past, memory is fallible and often unreliable, making our life of memories more personal mythology than digital recording.
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What is Reality?
S1 E1 - 55m 11s
Dr. David Eagleman takes viewers on an extraordinary journey, exploring how the brain, locked in silence and darkness without direct access to the world, conjures the rich and beautiful world we all take for granted.
Extras + Features
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Episode 6 | Expanding Our Sensory Horizons
S1 E6 - 1m 21s
Although we come to the table with the senses that we have evolved with, like our eyes, ears, and our sense of touch, in theory there is no limit to the number of new senses we may create in the future. The brain is so flexible that it may be possible that, for instance, we develop new sensory channels that allow us to perceive weather data or stock market data.
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Episode 6 | Digital Life
S1 E6 - 2m 46s
Imagine life inside a computer, in a simulated world. Could we be there already?
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Episode 6 | The Connectome: Mapping the Brain
S1 E6 - 3m 12s
Sebastian Seung explains how he and his team are beginning to build a three dimensional map of the brain’s connections, starting with a mouse brain.
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Episode 6 | The Chinese Room Thought Experiment
S1 E6 - 2m 19s
Dr. David Eagleman demonstrates the Chinese Room thought experiment, which exposes the enduring mystery of how physical pieces and parts give rise to our experience of the world.
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Episode 6 | Take Control of Your Future
S1 E6 - 1m 54s
Science and technology are giving us the tools to push the boundaries of the human life cycle.
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Who will we Be? | Preview
S1 E6 - 30s
Dr. David Eagleman journeys into the future, and asks what’s 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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Episode 6 | Brain Uploading
S1 E6 - 2m 50s
It may be the case that the software of the brain can run on different platforms. Swapping out cells for circuits; oxygen for electricity it may be possible for the mind to one day exist digitally.
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Episode 6 | Emergence: What Ants can Teach Us
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Dr. David Eagleman visits the Houston Zoo to see how a colony of ants, working together, can give rise to something much greater than the sum of its parts. And so it may be with the brain.
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Episode 6 | Cryonic Preservation of the Brain and Body
S1 E6 - 2m 6s
David visits Alcor Life Extension Foundation where CEO Max More explains that the team’s aim is to give people a second chance at life.
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Episode 6 | Attempting to Create Artificial Intelligence
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David meets iCub, a humanoid robot that is designed to interact and learn from the world.
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Episode 5 | The Massacre of Srebrenica
S1 E5 - 3m 27s
David meets Hasan Nuhanovic who describes his harrowing experiences of genocide during the Bosnian war. Can genocide be understood as a neural phenomenon?
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Episode 5 | Discerning Babies
S1 E5 - 2m 12s
One of the ways we navigate the social world is by judging other people’s intentions. David hosts a puppet show for babies to demonstrate that humans come equipped with social antennae.
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