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

The topic, but not this exception, is touched on in “Your Brain: Who's in Control? | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS“ Episode 2 of a two-part series, premiered May 24, 2023. Both episodes are fascinating and eye opening. 08:36 Anesthesia and the Brain [VIDEO] [LINK]

Perception Deception: Nova [LINK] Your Brain - Who's in control: Nova [VIDEO] 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 at any given moment. I believe it's the Perception Deception episode that shows us how little of our vision is actual HD quality and that an external observer doing eye tracking on you can present a different reality to you than a 3rd party looking at the same object you are (on a screen at least, little bit harder in the real world).

When talking about vision and what you see and don't I like bringing up the Your Brain: Perception Deception Nova PBS episode. [LINK] Also Your Brain: Who's in control Nova PBS [VIDEO]

PBS: Your Brain: Perception Deception [LINK] PBS: Your Brain: Who's in Control? [VIDEO] Rationalization is mostly post ad hoc.

I think the title suggests larger questions. What is Flow? How many different kinds of flow states are there? To what extent are they equal? I recently listened to "Your Brain: Who's in Control?" [1], a PBS documentary that looked at a musician in an MRI rapping a memorized piece vs an ad-hoc rap. They found the musician's prefrontal cortex was inhibited when doing the ad-hoc exercise. The prefrontal cortex is used as a "filter" center, to predict and evaluate the potential outcome of actions and basically to tell you when something is a bad idea. When developers are in flow, and they are creating brand new code - do their prefrontal cortex'es also become inhibited? Is that the same kind of flow state? I believe there are multiple types of flow state: - gardening/choirs, time drops away and you lose yourself in the trimming, edging and mundane gardening tasks - gaming, when I was younger and after an approx 16 hour binge of Civilization, my mind was still in the game. I was asleep and was still thinking in-game, solving problems, and wondering "where is the end turn button." Being in that level of flow state, the thoughts of 'end turn', 'move unit' - just occurred, my mind's connection to the game through my body was erased, the motor movements to click, hotkeys, all gone from conscious thought and just automatic. - music: Type (A) - playing a well known piece, it just happens. Type (B) Improv, jazz musicians do this all the time for hours on end. - biking/exercise: after a f