Psychology: How the Brain Works
NOVA: How the Brain Works
The description pretty much describes this video well. In essence, it’s a look into the complexity of the human brain. Trying to understand how we perceived the world around us and showing some of the experiments that try to explain how the process works. If you want to spend an hour with quirky but interesting approach to the topics of how illusions work, how our brains are affected by electro-magnetic impulses and what is the current status of artificial intelligence, you may find the time a pleasant diversion that was not wasted.
In the end, the brain is obviously still a wonderful mysterious organ that we are just scratching the surface of understanding. Would have been great to see how the brain works when it have been disrupted either through a medical condition or through some form of accident. How does the brain repair itself, follow-new avenues to completes tasks or how the traumatic brain injury survivor adjusts to never to never being able to do things like he/she used to.
It explores some frightening realms as well especially several tests which were designed to reduce our ability to consciously select moral imperatives over immoral. It might read like a rant but pay attention to the documentaries playful presentation on the issue of criminality treating blatant crimes like they’re entertaining or appropriate. What makes it worse is that they’re using neuroscience as the excuse.
1) The first segment is slight of hand artists doing the three cup shuffle with a ball under one cup. This trick was done too many times and turned off some higher level reviewers and they bailed out early and give bad reviews. The cup segment point was subtle. No matter how attentive we are, our involuntary protective reflexes are stronger –the trick involved either facial contortions or the opposite hand moving in a waving motion above and away from the cup actions thus interrupting the brains visual perception. It is involuntary protective
The description pretty much describes this video well. In essence, it’s a look into the complexity of the human brain. Trying to understand how we perceived the world around us and showing some of the experiments that try to explain how the process works. If you want to spend an hour with quirky but interesting approach to the topics of how illusions work, how our brains are affected by electro-magnetic impulses and what is the current status of artificial intelligence, you may find the time a pleasant diversion that was not wasted.
In the end, the brain is obviously still a wonderful mysterious organ that we are just scratching the surface of understanding. Would have been great to see how the brain works when it have been disrupted either through a medical condition or through some form of accident. How does the brain repair itself, follow-new avenues to completes tasks or how the traumatic brain injury survivor adjusts to never to never being able to do things like he/she used to.
It explores some frightening realms as well especially several tests which were designed to reduce our ability to consciously select moral imperatives over immoral. It might read like a rant but pay attention to the documentaries playful presentation on the issue of criminality treating blatant crimes like they’re entertaining or appropriate. What makes it worse is that they’re using neuroscience as the excuse.
1) The first segment is slight of hand artists doing the three cup shuffle with a ball under one cup. This trick was done too many times and turned off some higher level reviewers and they bailed out early and give bad reviews. The cup segment point was subtle. No matter how attentive we are, our involuntary protective reflexes are stronger –the trick involved either facial contortions or the opposite hand moving in a waving motion above and away from the cup actions thus interrupting the brains visual perception. It is involuntary protective