Your thoughts and feelings, your joy and sorrow…it’s all part of your identity, of your consciousness. But what exactly is consciousness? It may be the biggest mystery left in science.In this six-hour series, you’ll hear interviews with the world’s leading experts—neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, philosophers, writers and artists. You’ll be taken inside the brains of Buddhist monks, and across the ocean to visit France’s ancient cave paintings. You’ll find out how to build a memory palace, and meet one of the first scientists to study the effects of LSD.How do our brains work? Are animals conscious? Will we ever crack the mystery of how the physical “stuff” of our brains produces mental experiences? What does science tell us about the most personal question of all: Who am I?Mind and Brain David Chalmers Professor of Philosophy, New York University David Eagleman Philosopher Steve Paulson Journalist and Executive Producer, TTBOOK Sy Montgomery Science Writer Alva Noe Philosopher Vijay Iyer Composer, Pianist, Bandleader, Producer and WriterSunday, November 4, 2012 DetailsMemory and Forgetting Joshua Foer Science writer Jill Price Guest Eric Kandel Nobel Prize-Winning Neuroscientist Alison Winter Historian and Author André Aciman Memoirist, Essayist, Novelist Daniel Kahneman Nobel Laureate & Professor of Psychology, Princeton University Chris Moulin Cognitive PsychologistSunday, November 11, 2012 DetailsWiring the Brain Jill Price Guest Eric Kandel Nobel Prize-Winning Neuroscientist Alison Winter Historian and Author André Aciman Memoirist, Essayist, Novelist Daniel Kahneman Nobel Laureate & Professor of Psychology, Princeton University Chris Moulin Cognitive PsychologistSunday, November 18, 2012 DetailsThe Creative Brain Oliver Sacks Neurologist Charles Limb Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Rex Jung Neuroscientist Steve Paulson Journalist and Executive Producer, TTBOOK Alison Hawthorne Deming Poet Lynda Barry Cartoonist, Author, and TeacherSunday, November 25, 2012 DetailsExtraordinary Minds Daniel Tammet Writer Darold Treffert Psychiatrist Aubrey Ralph Audio engineer and Radio Producer Stanislav Grof Psychiatrist Maryanne Wolf Cognitive Scientist Ray Kurzweil Inventor and FuturistSunday, December 2, 2012 DetailsHigher Consciousness Monk Matthieu Richard Buddhist Monk Justin Barrett Psychologist Karen Armstrong Writer Christof Koch Neuroscientist Susan Blackmore PsychologistSunday, December 9, 2012 Details