A person can explain a choice that he did not make and confidently recall an event that did not happen. How so?

This is because our brain can create a very convincing picture of what is happening. But how much can she be trusted?

In the first episode of our scientific video podcast “What Will It Be,” we decided to talk with biologist and science popularizer Alexander Panchin about how false memories arise, why we see patterns in random coincidences, and what experiments with our brains say about free will.

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