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    • Brain Story

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      What is your first memory? Take a moment to think about what you ate for dinner last night. Recall the smell of a fresh apple pie baking in the oven, the sweet smell of cinnamon, sugar and apples. Now think about your favourite music group: their names, their instruments and three of their songs.

      Have you ever been curious how the brain functions, how in a matter of seconds it provides you with information that reminds you of a certain time or place. It quickly sends messages to parts of your body. The brain is faster and far more powerful than any computer, yet we sometimes have difficulty understanding it.

      In this series the BBC takes us deep into our brains. Top neuroscientist Susan Greenfield guides us through this adventure. She covers every aspect of contemporary neuropsychology. The documentary features interviews with major researchers. It explores new and old discoveries, techniques. It also chronicles patients who have been subjects of case studies that have contributed to the understanding effects of brain injuries.

      Brain Story is divided into six parts. All in the Mind, In the Heat of the Moment, The Mind’s Eye, First Among Equals, Growing the Mind, and The Final Mystery.

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      Published on January 4, 2009 · Filed under: Biology, Environment

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    • Tipsy

      Wow. A marathon of a documentary, but great stuff packed into every section.
      I don't particularly agree with how they presented consciousness in the first half of the last segment, but their definition seemed to change to something I felt was more 'correct'(if you can say something like that about consciousness at all) as it neared the end.
      Good stuff! I love brains!

    • Ruby

      Same here. I particularly didn’t like when they suggested that it could be that our subconscious makes decisions or choices for us before we are consciously aware and that somehow we justify it to be conscious decisions or choices. Implying in some way that we don’t have free will. Even if our thoughts and actions did originate from the subconscious, does it really takeaway our sense of freewill?

    • Zana

      I think that some pieces of repeated information can penetrate deeply into our subconsciousness and become our personal facts.

      Just like you develop habits through repetition of the same action or movement – after some time our movements are automatic. They occur almost naturally without you having to give a significant conscious effort to execute them. Try learning to do something certain way, become very good at it and do it that way for an extensive period of time. Then, try to teach yourself to do the same thing differently know. At the beginning, you will catch yourself many times doing it or starting to do it like learned to do it previously until you develop a new habit. The same with the thoughts – there are many deeply ingrained thoughts in our mind – i.e. notions, prejudice, biases that we don’t even notice having until someone challenges them. After brain stores some info into its subconscious part, it becomes a part of our identity. So, we develop habitual thoughts and feelings which we don’t question. In that sense, our choices are not always fully conscious, since we never really start processing our choices from the beginning, they are always influenced by the granted background data in our subconsciousness. They are just an extension of our sets of beliefs. While this feature of our brain serves a great purpose and helps us organize and make sense of the world around us, it has some limitations, too. That is why it is very hard to recognize our prejudices and question them every day, but it is something we all need to do every day to liberate ourselves and others from them.