Neuroscientists discover the tricks and shortcuts the brain takes to help us survive.
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Is what you see real? Join neuroscientist Heather Berlin on a quest to understand how your brain shapes your reality, and why you can’t always trust what you perceive. In the first hour of this two-part series, learn what the latest research shows about how your brain processes and shapes the world around you, and discover the surprising tricks and shortcuts your brain takes to help you survive.
Watch to Heather Berlin’s interview on the Particles of Thought Podcast:
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
03:59 The Science of Optical Illusions and Blind Spots
13:48 Is the Dress Blue and Black or White and Gold?
21:06 Yanny or Laurel? Auditory Illusions
24:46 Is Pain an Illusion?
30:28 What is Consciousness? Blind Spots and Babies
41:35 How is Consciousness Measured?
45:32 How the Brain Affects Memories
50:14 Conclusion
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The dress looked white and gold to me no matter the background color. But I am color blind, so there ya go 🤷♂️!!!
So at minute 40 I felt like I saw 'BREAD' or something related to that. Pretty close to BRAIN. Might not be coincidence
What appears as death is in Reality a change of residence.
Reality/Life/Truth Continuum:
Spirit = Innermost = Being = Life
Soul = Midmost = Knowing = Awareness
Body = Outermost = Doing = Experience
Life is what we are. Awareness is how we know what we are. Embodiment is how we experience what we are.
Every perception is to some extent memory. Every memory is to some extent imagination. Impressions are the outcome.
What we actually experience are our impressions of the narrative or story the brain tells us about what 'probably' just happened. To change the narrative, change perspective.
Inner/Outer
More/Less
Better/Worse
Yes/No
Every choice we make collapses the quantum wave function of infinite possibilities into a single timeline of experience, To 'reset the timeline', make a different choice – preferably, one that makes your Heart smile.
Ultimately, the most significant choice we can make at any time, is between unconscious compulsive reaction and conscious creative response.
It is the nature of Life to function as an undifferentiated diversified unity of infinite potential, eternally actualizing as a differentiated unified diversity or Uni-verse.
To actualize potential:
The abstract (Heaven) called Love by the Psyche (Firmament) can be expressed concretely (Earth) as a smile, hug, helping hand etc, thereby uniting Heaven and Earth.
Life functions consciously and unconsciously simultaneously. Therefore, consciousness is how something does something (adverb) – not what something is (noun). Reification is a popular logical fallacy.
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I don't hear either word from that high/low tone noise test… lol
I heard lanaryyy the whole time I can’t spell it but I heard both words combined somehow 🤷🏽♂️ maybe I’m aligned
I still see only blue and black 😵💫 20:18
At 27:13 I watched that part and had a thought experiment, if you separated the hot & cold felt each separately then felt pain when together it would make you flinch & pull away. So if you forced your self to not move away intell you feel as it would do damage. Then check if it does even a little damage, when ether hot or cold would not. It would prove that thought's could do physical damage to are self. Hmm
What is frustrating the most about the example they show about the colour of dress why not use real dress real person
Now this is something I am discerning in believing until I see a real blue dress and turn yellow until then be wise of what you are seeing in these examples they are using no real example
Brain is similar to antani Brain recieves and transmits invisible sensations . being watched is obvieous with out notice ect ect.
I saw blue and black both times
Brain needle
Yammy not yanny
You can only see 1 percent of your vosual feild in detail.
The human eye move about 3 times per movement
Your optic nerve is what effectivly connects your eye to your brain
Color is sn interpretarion of your brain.
When your brain is fueld with uncertainty it fills in the gaps with its best guess.
I heard Yanny so i guess i hear higher frequencies
31:00
Every time you recall an event the very act of recollection makes it vulnerable to change.
46:00
Color only exists through illumination.
once upon a time i got sick. schizophrenia. i realized something. all reality can be an illusion and at the same time that physical is the only way to success. i learned that you really can't even trust your own el3ctricity in your brain. a question remains! what is reality. i hope once upon a time we get a real answer to that❤
I have a question, a blind man who is congenital blind how is his consciousness and how his guess based on his memory?
When I was 3 I asked my uncle Ricky “is what I’m seeing on my eyes?” And I poked my finger at my eye.. “ or is it out there?” And I pointed away from me.. HR looked at me and shook his head No. And stuttered out a “I don’t .. I don’t… know. Don’t ask things like that”
Thank you, NOVA, and commentors.
I'm a 73 year "young" woman, no children, married later in life. The last few years I've been zoned about my cognition. Analyzi g and understanding what the narrative is, understands the page I just read. During this documentary I felt compelled to broach the question and Googled, "can a forcept delivery affect the vrain somehow?" Indeed I learned that a bad delivery just may have damaged, (my cortex is of special concern) a part of the developing brain of an infant. Perhaps, just maybe, my delivery was a bad one and all these years later am realizing why my cognition has been affected. Thoughts?
If someone is sleeping on the couch and they are in rapid eye movement you can speak to them and they will often answer you.
And if they are dreaming and then they open their eyes and they see this reality. Which one of those realities is the real one?
In a dream we can feel we can see we can use all of our senses and have no idea that we are dreaming.
This has been a question I have studied as a layman so I'm not confined to previous beliefs.
Why is it the we go back to being like a baby before we die most of the times?
When we refer to somebody who has passed away, we say they are gone. Gone from where?
It is in our language we passed away.
I have come to the conclusion that we live to illusions one that will share and then our own individual illusions.
Why is it that when people use hallucinogenics they see the same things and go on the same trip without even speaking?
Absolutely this is a dream. It's certainly couldn't be real how bad things are
The selfishness the disgusting behaviour and the negligence towards other people.
I have lived with abuse in Australia that would honestly match the Epstein files.
I have got so much trauma and I have survived integrity and usually functioning enough
People can't take one day of what I've been through.
I have said to so many people I have a way of coping with trauma and I'm exceptionally something all the other I'm not sure what it is but it is massive. Ultra aware.
THAT EXPLAINS WHY PEOPLE SO STUPIDLY OBSESS OVER THEIR WORLD WH ILE THE BIG PICTURE FALLS APART.
NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID. YOU GENERALISE ON BRAIN I WOULDN'T DO THAT.
THERE ARE SOME PRETTY EMPTY SHELLS AROUND.
EVERYTHING COMES FROM MEMORY??? BUT IF EVERYTHING COMES FROM MEMORY AND YET OUR BRAIN CREATES 90% OF THE WORLD AROUND US, THEN 90%OF OUR MEMORY DOESN’T EVEN EXIST!!
ALLI GOT FROM THIS EPISODE IS THAT NOTHING EXIST
While over dosed off fetty
21:50 Me: Brain needle
Nova is good. PBS and NPR not so.
So does that mean when we see people in human form we don't see the angels or demons on the side of them because of our brain perception? I think I said that right
Is it truly an accurate statement to believe that memory becomes lies the more you recollect it?
If this is true then explain Muscle Memory? or
The memory of how much it hurts to put your hand in fire?
Or what does wet feel like?
Or the texture of sand?
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