Mind, Power, and Machine
Neuroscience, Cognitive Biases, and the Future of Human Behavior
6 learning paths · 20 modules · From Kahneman’s System 1 to AI ethics. Understand how your brain really makes decisions, how you’re influenced without realizing it, and what technology changes in this equation.
6 Learning Paths
The Deciding Brain
Kahneman’s System 1 and System 2, heuristics, cognitive biases, and dissonance. How your brain makes (and gets wrong) decisions.
4 modules →Social Influence
Conformity (Asch), obedience (Milgram), persuasion (Cialdini), and dark patterns. Why we follow the group.
3 modules →Behavioral Neuroscience
Neuroplasticity, dopamine, reward system, amygdala, and loss aversion. The hardware behind decisions.
3 modules →Behavioral Economics
Thaler, Ariely, nudge theory, mental accounting, and the paradox of choice. The end of Homo Economicus.
3 modules →Philosophy of Mind
Free will (Libet), the hard problem of consciousness (Chalmers), semiotics and imagination (Bruzzo).
3 modules →AI, Bias, and Ethics
Algorithmic biases, epistemic bubbles, digital polarization, and the human space in the age of automation.
3 modules →About this course
This course reveals how the human brain, social psychology, and behavioral economics really work. It goes from the classic experiments of Kahneman, Asch, and Milgram to contemporary dilemmas involving AI and algorithmic manipulation.
Inspired by the work of Marcus Bruzzo (@marcusbruzzo) and in primary sources on neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and philosophy of mind.
What you will learn
- ✓How System 1 (fast) and System 2 (slow) govern your decisions
- ✓Why you follow the group even when you know you're wrong
- ✓How dopamine and the amygdala hijack your behavior
- ✓How choice architecture manipulates financial decisions
- ✓Whether free will exists or the brain decides before you do
- ✓How AI inherits and amplifies human biases
Bibliographical references
Daniel Kahneman
Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)
Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein
Nudge (2008)
Dan Ariely
Predictably Irrational (2008)
Robert Cialdini
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (1984)
Marcus Bruzzo
We Will Be Data (2026) · One and a Half Minutes (2025)
David Chalmers
The Conscious Mind (1996)