And our brains our celebrated brains reflect a drainage of a tidal marsh.

This is it's actually really this remarkable convergence between the devices that we use to compute in computers, and the devices that our brains use to compute.

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.

Play our brains are hardwired for play.

Because I know our brains are resilient.

The highest concentration is in our brains.

Al Seckel says our brains are mis wired

But in humans, we continue to grow our brains.

Well, it's ideas not worms that hijack our brains.

We cope with this pressure by having brains, and within our brains, decision making centers that I've called here the Actor.

We have used our brains to fashion ever more amazing technologies.

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.

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

Now Edward de Bono argued that our brains are pattern matching machines.

The unit of intelligibility of most of our brains is the story.

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.

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

But you know, sort of our brains have been manipulated we're all addicts.

We have bigger brains relative to our bodies by far than any other animal.

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

But I wanted to go further than to say our brains make us moral.

I learned that our own inner worlds our ideas, emotions and imaginations were, in fact, not bound by our brains and bodies.

Some people say, brains can't understand brains.

As we evolved from our ape like ancestors on the African savanna, what distinguished us was our larger brains.

We all know that as we form thoughts, they form deep channels in our minds and in our brains.

So actually, now the temes are forcing our brains to become more like teme machines.

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.

It packs a huge amount of data, and our brains are uniquely wired to decode it.

We take our children, we make them shut their brains down, and then we say, Perform.

Or are our brains so versatile and expandable that we can train ourselves to break out of the box of our evolution?

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.

Their brains are proportionate, in the same proportion as chimpanzee brains are.

Modern neuroscience is revealing that metaphors are intrinsic to creativity, for their use activates diverse regions of the brain associated with their multiple meanings. Good metaphors are those that set off the right intuitive connections in our brains.

Most of us don't have fungi or algae in our brains, so what is our brain going to do if we put that in?

I worked on a film called Apollo 13, and when I worked on this film, I discovered something about how our brains work, and how our brains work is that, when we're sort of infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness or whatever, it changes and alters our perception of things.

So now we're all these paleontologists that are digging for things that we've lost on our external brains that we're carrying around in our pockets.

And just a piece of context the societies in which our brains evolved had about 300 products and services.

And so it turns out we're so stereotypical, our brains have got dedicated neural circuitry to decode this stereotyping.

While some of these instincts may be innate, most are learned, and all of them are hardwired into our brains.

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

So the contributions of culture if culture changes us, as indeed it does, it changes us by changing our brains.

Because brains are expensive.

So my story is a tale of two brains, because it might surprise you, our gut has a full fledged brain.