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Your Brain: Who's in Control? | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

NOVA PBS Official · 11.7M views · 2023-06-01 · 53:33

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A NOVA documentary with neuroscientist Heather Berlin exploring the subconscious and what drives our decisions. It uses sleepwalking, anesthesia, improvised rap in an MRI and game theory to probe how much of the brain's work is hidden.

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Recommended in threads on consciousness, anesthesia and perception as a fascinating look at how much of experience the brain constructs.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2023–2025

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Neuroscience & the brainConsciousness & cognition
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pixl97 · 2024-03 · Strong recommendation

Perception Deception: Nova [LINK] Your Brain - Who's in control: Nova [VIDEO] Both of these videos are great resources on how much of what you experience of reality is made up or filled in by your brain at any given moment. I believe it's the Perception Deception episode that shows us how little of our vision is actual HD quality and that an external observer doing eye tracking on you can present a different reality to you than a 3rd party looking at the same object you are (on a screen at least, little bit harder in the real world).

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lloydde · 2023-06 · Strong recommendation

The topic, but not this exception, is touched on in “Your Brain: Who's in Control? | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS“ Episode 2 of a two-part series, premiered May 24, 2023. Both episodes are fascinating and eye opening. 08:36 Anesthesia and the Brain [VIDEO] [LINK]

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pixl97 · 2025-10 · Recommendation

When talking about vision and what you see and don't I like bringing up the Your Brain: Perception Deception Nova PBS episode. [LINK] Also Your Brain: Who's in control Nova PBS [VIDEO]

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