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 Writer Sunday, November 4, 2012 Details Memory 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 Psychologist Sunday, November 11, 2012 Details Wiring 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 Psychologist Sunday, November 18, 2012 Details The 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 Teacher Sunday, November 25, 2012 Details Extraordinary 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 Futurist Sunday, December 2, 2012 Details Higher Consciousness Monk Matthieu Richard Buddhist Monk Justin Barrett Psychologist Karen Armstrong Writer Christof Koch Neuroscientist Susan Blackmore Psychologist Sunday, December 9, 2012 Details