The middle two sections make up our limbic brains, and our limbic brains are responsible for all of our feelings, like trust and loyalty.

Eventually, these technologies will become so powerful that we will use them to know ourselves by deconstructing and reconstructing our own brains.

Al Seckel says our brains are mis wired

Our arteries can clog. Our brains can gunk up with plaque, and we can get Alzheimer's.

You have to look in our brains to understand why they re sweet.

But the real problem is our brains work in the opposite order.

But science might also offer more direct ways of influencing our brains.

There will be invisible capacity. Invisible capacity in our bodies, in our brains, and in the air.

It turns out that our brains are actually wired for throwing things and, like muscles, if you don't use parts of your brain, they tend to atrophy over time.

It is really hard for democracy to make its way to our brains!

Because, if you don't know yet, everything that we use to define what human nature is comes from these storms, comes from these storms that roll over the hills and valleys of our brains and define our memories, our beliefs, our feelings, our plans for the future.

Some people say, brains can't understand brains.

And after all, we are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain.

Good metaphors are those that set off the right intuitive connections in our brains.

For the sake of our health, our wealth and our collective security, it's imperative that we keep the independent decision making parts of our brains switched on.

So what happens when we pay attention is that the prefrontal cortex, the sort of executive part of our brains, sends a signal that makes a little part of our brain much more flexible, more plastic, better at learning, and shuts down activity in all the rest of our brains.

So if you came here to talk about how French coffee will spread happiness in our brains, that's a go.

But it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

MADRID Our brains are like a dense forest a complex, seemingly impenetrable terrain of interacting neurons that mediates cognition and behavior.

One side note on the collection of brains because of the way that we collect, and because we require consent, we actually have a lot more male brains than female brains.

Instead, our EEG scans revealed very specific problems hidden within their brains that couldn't possibly have been detected by their behavioral assessments.

And indeed, the popular press loves headlines like, Anorexic brains are wired differently, or Autistic brains are wired differently.

The brains remain hardwired for music.

It is easier to move brains than it is to move tacit knowledge into brains, and not only in Mexico.

So let me show you how quickly our brains can redefine normality, even at the simplest thing the brain does, which is color.

For a few years we managed to circumvent that part of our brains that told us we couldn t tickle ourselves to greater wealth.

I'm actually interested in how the brain learns, and I'm especially interested in a possibility of making our brains smarter, better and faster.

We use it everyday. We use it in our everyday lives now in our private lives, in our business lives.

Well, this is actually four rappers' brains.

Daniel Wolpert The real reason for brains

Doug Hofstadter wonders, well, maybe our intelligence just isn't great enough to understand our intelligence, and if we were smarter, well, then our brains would be that much more complicated, and we'd never catch up to it.

Most scientists today subscribe to a mechanistic view of the mind we're the way we are because our brains are wired up as they are our hormones are the way they are.

First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw dropping feats of brain magic.

Pawan Sinha on how brains learn to see

One more. Get those brains working. Come on.

Now when we look at being able to slash our product use, slash our transportation use, slash our building energy use, all of that is great, but it still leaves something behind.

What we need to be able to do is to reverse this formula so we can start to see what our brains are actually capable of.

Not all species on our planet have brains, so if we want to know what the brain is for, let's think about why we evolved one.

So that's a very good reason beyond curiosity to justify what we're doing, and to justify having some interest in what is going on in our brains.

Sebastian Seung is mapping a massively ambitious new model of the brain that focuses on the connections between each neuron. He calls it our connectome, and it's as individual as our genome and understanding it could open a new way to understand our brains and our minds.

Our company makes use of the Internet.

When we walked through the savanna a thousand years ago we made linear predictions where that animal would be, and that worked fine. It's hardwired in our brains.

So why don't we have a good theory of brains?

You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains.

He who writes such lyrics is someone with good brains.