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Dr david eagleman considers some emerging questions relating to law and neuroscience, challenging longheld assumptions in criminality and punishment and predicting a radical new future for the legal system. The story of you by david eagleman the brain is an excellent companion piece to the sixpart pbs series of the same title. It would be impossible to take in if we didnt all possess that impossibly extraordinary thing, a brain. The story of you is a fun and informative cursory exploration. The secret lives of the brain, mines the circuitry of inner space. Bbc four the brain with david eagleman episode guide. The brain with david eagleman dvd,neuroscientist david eagleman explores the wonders of the human brain in an epic series that reveals the ultimate story of us, why we feel and think the things we do. The brain with david eagleman coming october 14 pbs. For most of us, myself included, our assessment of burglars, murderers, and other deviants is that they have made a choice to act this way to break the law. With this new book, eagleman dispenses with fiction. Just a few lifealtering nuggets from baylor neuroscientist david eagleman, whose fascinating new book, incognito. Sum, his bestselling collection of short fables you will not read a more dazzling book this year tweeted stephen fry asked us, in the. With david eagleman, sam raffal, matthew graham wagner, alden eckman. D avid eagleman is much possessed by ideas of salvation.