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

NOVA PBS Official · documentary · Watch on YouTube

Neuroscience & the brainConsciousness & cognition

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2023, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “Both episodes are fascinating and eye opening.”

    NOVA documentary episode touching on anesthesia and the brain.

    lloydde, 2023-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Consciousness and Anaesthesia”

  2. “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”

    Great resources on how much of reality the brain fills in.

    pixl97, 2024-03 · Strong recommendation · in “Visualization 'demonic' face distortions in a case of prosopometamorphopsia”

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Topics: subconscious, consciousness, anesthesia, perception, nova, brain

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