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Episode 1 | How the Brain Creates Reality
Clip: Episode 1 | 2m 42s
David explains how the brain experiences the outside world without ever having seen it.
Electrochemical signals travel through dense networks of neurons. The brain scans through this non-stop incoming stream of information in search for patterns which becomes your reality.
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Episode 1 | How the Brain Creates Reality
Clip: Episode 1 | 2m 42s
Electrochemical signals travel through dense networks of neurons. The brain scans through this non-stop incoming stream of information in search for patterns which becomes your reality.
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Explore the Brain with this Interactive
What's the story of one of our body's most complex organs? In this interactive, viewers can explore clips from each of the six episodes of The Brain with David Eagleman. Grades: 9-13+Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipDavid explains how the brain is tricked by the checker shadow illusion. (1m 7s)
Episode 1 | Alternate Realities: Synesthesia
Hannah describes her synesthesia, a condition that fascinates neuroscientists. (2m 34s)
The brain is a vast interconnected network of areas that communicate with each other. (1m 53s)
Episode 1 | Messing with Reality
David Eagleman experiences a new visual reality – with nauseating consequences. (4m 37s)
Episode 1 | Our Perception of Reality
David invites subjects to an experiment that demonstrates how much our brains leave out. (2m 18s)
Episode 1 | Why Time Seems to Slow When We Are in Extremes
Wingsuit pilot Jeb Corliss describes his agonizing experience of time distortion. (4m 17s)
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