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We are more complex than we realize. Or at least neuroscientist David Eagleman thinks so. In “Livewired: The Inside Story of Our Everchanging Brain,” Eagleman hammers home one overarching message: “Our machinery isn’t preprogrammed, but instead shapes itself by interacting with the world.” We humans, unlike most other mammals, are extremely helpless the first few years of our lives. When a foal is born, it doesn’t require a whole lot more development to become a horse. The young equines are able to walk around right after birth. On the flip side, we’re total...

That when they're in a situation with authority, they recognize the patterns in milgrim's experiments like you set up simple rules, you give people titles, like you're a teacher, or in other experiments, you're a guard, things like that. there's some sort of goal happening. you make the exit costs high. there is a diffusion of responsibility where you tell the person, i'm responsible, not you. all of these things are the necessary ingredients for a population to have blind obedience. >> frightening. thank you, david eagleman. coming up, this guy tries to reason with climate change protesters...

Changers, people pushing forward. they're the next scientists, physicians, poets. dreamers, teachers and geniuses. they are "the next list." today on "the next list." month electric car astronomist. but now he's wrestling with some of the most profound questions of our existence. >> there is not an area that david doesn't know something about, is not interested in. >> what is time, what is consciousness? how does the human brain construct reality? >> we dropped people from a 150-foot-tall tower. >> and he'll go to almost any length to test his theories. >> it's definitely an adventure workin...

Go on diets go on and off. you never heard anybody ever say, boy, i really enjoyed being on that diet. that was awesome. that just doesn't happen. we're trying to take the other approach. we want to give you food products like this waffle that tastes better than the real thing just because of the way it's made. and, you know, you swear you're ingesting tons of calories from sugar but there's nothing there. the big goal here is to redefine what we have at the grocery store level. i think that what we do in restaurants is great, it's fun, it's exciting. we get to test it out on our guests, but i...

Thanks to a group of volunteers. look at that cute little guy. we'll get all the details to you next. ♪ this week on "the next list" newer scientist david eagleman takes us inside the mind of a mass murderer. >> when you see somebody commit a very strange abnormal act like a school shooting or a massacre like the one in aurora, colorado, we can safely assume that there's something abnormal about that person's brain even before we know exactly what that is. >> how modern neuroscience is challenging our basic understanding of crime, punishment and personal responsibility. don't miss david ea...