Episodes (6)
Mar 20, 1980
A Los Angeles gumshoe leads the viewer and show how the body uses it's senses to tell a story. When he is blindfolded and tied up his perception changes to trick the brain. His sight returns but is brain getting the right picture?
Mar 27, 1980
James Burke presents the human race and how our brain signals allow us to manage on a daily basis and just take it for granted. It gives us the ability to see a moving world and know exactly what we should be seeing.
Apr 03, 1980
While the first two episodes showed that you can't be sure of what you see or where you'll see it but at least you can be sure when you can see it thanks to the speed of light. So how out of date is the information when you get it?
Apr 10, 1980
The longest on going mystery in living in memory is the memory. Why do we know there are things that will never change? Example the brain knows that if we leave toast on too long it will burn. This show asks how does the brain work?
Apr 17, 1980
Each of us lives in the confines of their brain, where each of us constructs their own personal view from within. We each have an internal model inside our head. Why are we aware that it exists? We think and we imagine so where can it be?
Apr 24, 1980
The first five episodes discusses how the brain searches for the real thing has it scans the world around it. If we make it as we go along then what is language? How does the brain decode noise from actual words?
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The Real Thing Season 1 (1980) is released on Mar 20, 1980. Watch The Real Thing online - the English Documentary TV series from United Kingdom. The Real Thing is directed by Mick Jackson and created by James Burke with James Burke and Kenny Whymark.
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