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Preview: Season 50 Episode 9 | 29s | Video has closed captioning.
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. Learn the surprising tricks and shortcuts the brain takes to help us survive.
Aired: 05/17/23
- What's real?
Is what I see, what I hear, what I feel, right?
Your perceptive brain is deceiving you.
- At the very first moment, we are transforming reality.
- [Heather] Ow!
- Pain is a construct.
- We're effectively blind to the world around us.
- [Scientist] The dress.
- [Heather] Blue and black, and white and gold.
Are we a delusion?
- Your sense of who you are is an illusion.
- [Heather] "Your Brain: Perception Deception" on Nova.
(intense music)
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