The Curious Mind

We explore the apparently very simple question: What is your brain? This is something humans have been struggling to understand for millennia and science for several decades.

The traditional narrative is that humans are selfish. In this episode, we see how modern neuroscience has blown that myth apart.

Our brain is always making decisions - Nigel explores how it does this, and if we can help it to make better ones? Is it possible to change our brain to a supercharged brain?

For most of human history our brains dealt with pretty straight forward problems. We now use our brains in an amazingly complex world our ancestors could never have imagined.