The World You See Is a Guess | Brain vs Reality

In 1984, a young woman studied her attacker's face so she could identify him later. She picked a man out of a lineup and swore to it in court. She was wrong, and an innocent man spent more than ten years in prison. Her eyes didn't fail her. Her brain did. This film shows how your brain edits what you see, hear and remember, every single day, and lets you catch it in the act with simple tests: the blind spot in your own eye, the stopped-clock illusion, two squares that are secretly the same color, the dress that split the internet, an invisible gorilla, a sound that changes when you watch someone's lips, memories that can be rewritten with one word, and split-brain patients whose brains invent reasons on the spot. At the end: why your brain works this way, and three simple ideas for living with it. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:47 I. The Woman Who Was Certain 2:46 II. The Hole in Your Vision 4:42 III. You See What You Expect 6:25 IV. What You Don't See 7:56 V. When Your Senses Argue 8:53 VI. The Memory Rewrite 10:42 VII. The Storyteller in Your Head 12:18 VIII. A Controlled Hallucination RESEARCH REFERENCED Jennifer Thompson-Cannino & Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo, "Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption" (2009) Innocence Project — mistaken eyewitness identification in DNA-based exonerations in the U.S. Yarrow, Haggard, Heal, Brown & Rothwell (2001), "Illusory perceptions of space and time preserve cross-saccadic perceptual continuity", Nature — the stopped-clock illusion Edward H. Adelson, MIT (1995) — the checker shadow illusion Lafer-Sousa, Hermann & Conway (2015), "Striking individual differences in color perception uncovered by 'the dress' photograph", Current Biology NASA Viking 1 (1976) and later Mars Global Surveyor images of Cydonia — the "Face on Mars" Simons & Chabris (1999), "Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events", Perception Simons & Levin (1998), "Failure to detect changes to people during a real-world interaction", Psychonomic Bulletin & Review McGurk & MacDonald (1976), "Hearing lips and seeing voices", Nature Botvinick & Cohen (1998), "Rubber hands 'feel' touch that eyes see", Nature Loftus & Palmer (1974), "Reconstruction of automobile destruction", Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior Loftus & Pickrell (1995), "The formation of false memories", Psychiatric Annals Neisser & Harsch (1992), "Phantom flashbulbs: False recollections of hearing the news about Challenger" Michael S. Gazzaniga & Joseph E. LeDoux, "The Integrated Mind" (1978); Gazzaniga, "Who's in Charge?" (2011) Johansson, Hall, Sikström & Olsson (2005), "Failure to detect mismatches between intention and outcome in a simple decision task", Science — choice blindness Raichle & Gusnard (2002), "Appraising the brain's energy budget", PNAS Anil Seth, "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness" (2021) #brain #opticalillusion #psychology #neuroscience #illusion #perception #mindblown #documentary #PlatosServer