Why does our brain make us do what we do?

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Why does our brain make us do what we do?

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By: Caroline Lachowsky

50 mins

Why does our brain make us do what we do?

How do we justify our irrational behavior, our instinctive decisions and our moral dilemmas?

Does the brain have its reasons that reason ignores? 

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Let's ask ourselves about the functioning of an essential organ that we all have in mind: our brain, the great master on board our lives.

Why does he make us do what we do?

How can we justify our inappropriate or inappropriate behavior, our sometimes irrational decision-making and our moral or immoral judgments?

Does our brain have its reasons that reason ignores? 

With 

Stéphane Debove,

biologist and doctor of cognitive sciences, he runs the

Homo Fabulus

Youtube channel

which explores human behavior.

His book 

Why our brain invented good and evil 

has just been published by Humensciences. 

Mathias Pessiglione 

(Inserm Research Director. Co-director of the “Motivation, Brain and Behavior” team at the ICM - Brain and Spinal Cord Institute) for his book published by Odile Jacob 

Les Vacances de Momo Sapiens - Notre brain, between reason and unreason

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