Series of lectures on cutting-edge topics in knowledge on brain-related subjects, from why plants do not have brains (José Feijó, University of Maryland, USA) to the existence of culture – the transfer of social information – in fruit flies (Susana Varela, Gulbenkian Institute of Science) and the use of artificial intelligence in artistic creation (Alaa Abi Haidar or ALAgrApHY, artist, France).