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00:01a firewalker free of pain by controlling his mental state a blind man able to creep maps in
00:10his mind by using the power of sound and a plane crashed deep in the jungle where a single survivor
00:18was guided by an inner voice the human mind it is the home of all our thoughts hopes dreams
00:27and memories the organ we call the brain not only keeps us alive it allows us to interpret and
00:34experience the incredible world we live in but are there people who are wired differently than most
00:43of us can unique circumstances permit some to tap into extrasensory abilities that defy nature
00:55or do we all have extraordinary mental skills that can come to our rescue
01:00with a power that we never knew we possessed well that is what we'll try and find out
01:21san pedro manrique spain june 23rd 2018 here as they have for centuries villagers gather for an evening
01:33festival to celebrate the summer solstice they engage in singing dancing wearing elaborate costumes
01:43but for a select group of villagers the festivities aren't so conventional because their evening also
01:53has to include something out of the ordinary a dangerous walk over a fire
02:02now i've seen many fire working rituals in many different contexts in a variety of countries
02:07but i've never seen a fire as fierce as the one in san pedro
02:11this is by far the most important event in the life of this community
02:16they have this amphitheater around the the place where the actual fire is then these men walk on the
02:25embers it's five or six steps from one side to the other and they do it barefoot and usually carrying
02:33someone on their shoulder
02:37people often wonder is the fire walk really hot and the answer is yes once the wood is first laid
02:44out
02:44the overall temperature is between a thousand and twelve hundred degrees that's really hot more than
02:52enough to burn flesh certainly so imagine a carpet that is 20 feet across and several inches deep
03:04and it's burning at a temperature that is hot enough to melt aluminum if you look at the temperatures
03:12involved you're typically talking temperatures over a thousand degrees fahrenheit and skin burns at a
03:17hundred 160 degrees fahrenheit walking on fire is very very dangerous i mean you're barefoot
03:25this one wrong move and you can be severely burned people ask me all the time whether fireworkers
03:32have any kind of special trick whether they're some kind of special drug that prevents them from
03:38feeling pain or getting burned the answer to all of these is no there's no special trick
03:49walking on fire and at temperatures hot enough to turn metal into liquid
03:55no one in their right mind would do this and expect to emerge unharmed right
04:01and yet the people of san pedro menrique managed to do just that and on a yearly basis but how
04:11walking across hot embers is one of my favorite physics problems
04:15the trick is making sure the embers are hot enough that you actually get a very thin but very real
04:21layer of
04:22water vapor between your skin and the hot coals some of these same fire walkers one day they walk
04:31across unscathed another time they try it they do burn their feet my experience tells me the difference
04:40is in their mindset so at my fireworks once we've taken the group out to the fire and we're getting
04:48ready
04:48to walk first i like to remind them again about their intention and this helps motivate them and
04:55get them across and then we raise people's energy before a fire walk fire walkers around the world
05:04regardless of tradition religion they raise the group's energy before they walk so this can be done with
05:14meditation chanting singing dancing whatever the case you want to get your group into an excited
05:24pumped up state before the fire walk there is absolutely something about being in an excited
05:31uplifted state that helps you get across safely
05:37so what actually happens there psychologically is there is this emotional buildup there's this highly
05:45intense arousal that's happening and so you have cortisol and other sort of endocrine hormones flooding
05:52the system which will help to block some of the pain receptors
05:58water vapor mind control but can fire walking without pain or injury really be just a simple
06:06matter of willpower or does it require something even more we know we have the capability to redirect
06:16pain or even to numb pain just by putting ourselves in the right mindset but many of these fire walkers
06:22don't even have blisters or burns on their feet so when you look at physics that's impossible if
06:27you touch something that's hot you're going to get burned so the question is are we dealing with
06:32the magical force that we have yet to fully understand so in one study with the san pedro
06:38spent a fire walking ritual a team of anthropologists were curious what happens to a person's heart rate
06:45for the individual who's actually walking and for any individual who is close to them like a relative
06:53or a family member
07:00for this study my colleagues and i went to san pedro and used some devices that collected heart rate data
07:08and we placed those devices not only the fire walkers themselves but also members of the audience
07:18and what we found is that the ritual itself created an astonishing level of synchrony
07:23in the heart rates of the participants the surprising part is that you will still have a state of physiology
07:31that's similar to the individual as if you are walking over the coals when in fact of course you're not
07:39it is so much more than just an individual ritual it is a community experience
07:47yes it is technically possible to cross a coal bed unharmed all by yourself but it is much easier
07:56to experience a fire walk surrounded by people who are there to support you your family your community
08:05crossing barefoot over thousand degree coals doesn't make any practical sense
08:11and even though i've personally crossed hundreds and hundreds of coal beds
08:14i still don't perfectly understand how and why it works like it does
08:22the ability to walk barefoot over open flames and end up unharmed might be a perfect example of mind over
08:29matter
08:30while it's clear that the human brain is capable of shielding us from pain while under stress
08:36can the same be said if we lose one of our senses
08:41perhaps clues can be found in the story of a young boy who was born blind and developed the ability
08:48to see
08:50using the power of sound
08:57pass the end of heights california 1968 two-year-old daniel kish just one year after having both eyes
09:04removed due to cancer sneaks out of his crib to explore his family's backyard
09:12far from being fearful or afraid daniel is as confident as he is curious
09:19because at just two years old he has developed an ability called echolocation which allows him to see
09:27by using his ears
09:30for those of us that study sensory systems daniel kish is a rock star
09:36he is clearly the most studied human that actively echolocates
09:43so he will emit sounds himself
09:47these sounds will go and bounce off objects and come back to his own ears and these noises provide him
09:53information on distance to a target what that target might actually be how dense it is how light it might
10:00be its shape i've been able to echolocate for as long as i can remember and for me it was
10:08as natural
10:08as breathing it was just my way of seeing i didn't really know it was echolocation per se
10:14i just knew that i was aware of my surroundings and that i could function with that awareness
10:21it was just sort of part of the process of learning to see which is very much what sighted kids
10:26actually
10:27do as they begin to calibrate their vision after that it was just sort of normal it was just a
10:34matter of
10:34course to click and scan and find things and not really be afraid of what was out there
10:42for most of us if you've ever had any experience with echolocation it's probably when you've been
10:47told about how bats work right bats amid a sound the sound bounces off objects and then comes back to
10:54them so they can actually determine how far away an object is what its size and shape may be and
11:00so
11:00forth and what daniel's done is he's taken this idea and basically turned it into something that humans
11:07can actually use without ultrasonic hearing without all of the advantages that bats have evolved humans
11:14are somehow able to do this and relatively easily so how why i believe that we can do this because
11:25we
11:26always have we've been doing it since man was prey and not predator since we had to hide in the
11:32dark
11:32so we don't have to develop these systems from scratch all we have to do is turn them on
11:39by making clicking sounds and then listening to how those sounds reverberate off what's around him
11:46daniel is able to create a virtual picture of his surroundings with astonishing accuracy
11:55neurobiologically i think this speaks to something that we call sensory substitution
12:00that his visual cortex has been appropriated if you like because it's not receiving visual information
12:10daniel's rare ability has made him the world's foremost echolocator but there are some in the
12:17scientific community who question the extraordinary nature of daniel's ability they argue that it's more
12:24likely that daniel's simply making lucky guesses when he claims to sense his environment but for daniel
12:31there's no question he sees a map in his mind and what's more he can prove it
12:41even though he's never seen he's clearly using his echolocation skills to construct
12:46some sort of map of the visual world although he doesn't have any experience with the visual world
12:51the way someone that's sighted does when i visit a new place i basically just look around and for me
12:59that involves of course using my sense of echolocation to scope out the environment i start out with
13:08what's most distinctive what stands out what's most unique what seems to define the space
13:16essentially it resolves into what i call three-dimensional fuzzy geometry so all of these features
13:24sort of coalesce into an actual image mapping it is part of the process drawing is a way of sharing
13:36what my relationship with the environment is it's a way of giving people a peek into my head
13:46so you've got a house here that's the most relevant feature there's a parked vehicle of some kind
13:51there and then trees and then just as i got to about here i was able immediately to tell okay
14:00this has
14:01got to be some sort of a patio area or maybe a grotto and then as i rounded the area
14:07this tree line
14:08became very obvious that bounds one edge of the garden daniel often says that you know he can see
14:17these things in his mind and skeptics would say oh that's impossible he must be hearing sounds or just
14:23making calculations and guesses that just happen to be true but he's actually able to prove it
14:28he's actually able to draw what he sees in his mind and it's accurate
14:37i am a person who is naturally curious i've been an explorer since i've got out of my crib and
14:45started wandering around it didn't really occur to me that oh but wait i no longer have eyes
14:51my interest is in understanding the world knowing about the world and sharing whatever it is i think
15:01i've learned about the world with others to the extent that others may benefit from that it's not
15:07about seeing or not seeing it's about knowing it's about understanding and it's about sharing
15:14daniel's incredible ability to make his way through the world is truly a sight to behold but how did he
15:22unlock such an unusual and powerful sensory ability perhaps clues can be found in the stories of ordinary
15:30people who experienced traumatic events and saved lives by tapping into a superhuman strength
15:43melbourne australia august 1st 2013 high above the city 22 year old brad guy is excited to make his
15:52first skydiving jump the self-professed adrenaline junkie wants to push the limits but he'll soon find that
16:01this is going to be the fall of his life i was given the opportunity to choose which height i
16:09wanted to jump from and i decided to go as high as possible which was 15 000 feet very high
16:14so my
16:16tandem instructor ran me through how it would feel to jump and what i need to do to ensure maximum
16:22safety
16:22then he asked me if i had any final questions i think because i was so nervous i made the
16:28joke saying
16:29i hope my parachute opens i remember when that rickety door of the aircraft opened and my instructor
16:38just edging me closer and closer i was so terrified and eventually my instructor said three two one jump
16:47and he pushed us out
16:52i was moving so fast that i couldn't even comprehend just that four five seven seconds of free fall
17:00it's totally euphoric it's indescribable it's kind of like magic when a skydiver jumps out of a plane
17:07they're accelerated by gravity at a rate of 32 feet per second per second his speed would have been
17:12upwards over a hundred miles per hour brad's skydive is an even greater thrill than he expected
17:18but as he and his instructor plunged toward the ground something goes horribly awry there just was
17:26this point when as we're falling i was expecting a thrust of a parachute to come as per the safety
17:33instructions and it never came
17:37i felt a bit of a thrust uh from a parachute but it wasn't enough to slow us down
17:43and that's when i noticed that the first parachute it's being deployed but it hasn't opened
17:50and the emergency parachute got stuck in the original parachute and because they're tangled
17:56together we're not slowing down we were tumbling towards the ground from 15 000 feet
18:03i start freaking out i'm really panicking all i could really see was the earth getting closer and
18:08closer and i knew i was going to hit the ground and die
18:17the impact just smashed through my body
18:23it really didn't feel like a fall it almost felt like the earth just came and hit me
18:28and when i hit the ground i'm still strapped to my instructor he's unconscious eventually he did come
18:35too we were just strapped to each other screaming i remember i was just hysterically crying so confused
18:41having no idea what had happened partially still thinking that i was actually dead
18:48against all odds the two men survive a fall of nearly three miles
18:53brad and his instructor are rushed to the hospital where they both begin a long and miraculous recovery
19:01my physical injuries i broke my upper spine fractured my lower spine tore the ligaments in
19:06my neck cracked and bruised ribs mild head concussion i had suspected that i was a quadriplegic
19:15i was numb from the neck down it took me a long time to feel my body again you would
19:20think that after
19:22all these years and all the time i've had to reflect on it that i would be able to look
19:27at the situation and
19:28seriously ask myself was this luck or is it just all the odds being in my favor on a particular
19:34day
19:35i don't know i don't know i would love to know sometimes when humans face extreme danger the normal
19:45parts of our operating brain kind of get pushed aside and the sympathetic nervous system kicks in
19:51and can institute an adrenaline rush into the body which can do some amazing things
19:58it forces blood into the muscles and pumps them up and becomes hard to strengthen and protect your
20:05skeletal system and connective tissue was a surge of adrenaline responsible for protecting brad's body
20:12from the extreme impact or was there something even more incredible going on perhaps an explanation
20:21can be found by examining another case of survival one that involves an extraordinary feat performed by an
20:29ordinary man
20:33tucson arizona july 26 2006 tom boyle a supervisor at a local aerospace company is driving home with his wife
20:44the couple are about to exit a parking lot when another car pulls alongside them
20:49what happens next actually changes tom in ways that seem to defy the very laws of nature
21:01the driver he had taken upon himself to peel out out of the parking lot and as he did that
21:06he sucked in
21:07a bicyclist underneath the vehicle i jump out of the car i go running after the camaro and as i
21:14approached the camaro there was a boy underneath on a bicycle yelling for help and asking people to
21:20please get the car off him i just reacted as the boys cries ring out tom has no time to
21:27think a powerful
21:29force comes alive inside him a force that allows tom to do the impossible it just got me so i
21:40guess nervous
21:42and uh compelled to help that i just lifted the side of the car as i started lifting the car
21:48i could
21:49hear the bicyclist telling me higher higher mister please go higher so i did i just held it as long
21:56as i possibly could and i just thought don't let go and fortunately we got him up i'm 63 at
22:03that time
22:03i was 275 pounds and uh the most i've ever lifted i think was 800 pounds as i lifted the
22:14car i never
22:15thought about how much you read i just thought about saving this kid now tom's a big guy solid guy
22:21but we're talking about a car okay this is a car that weighs about 3 000 pounds and yet he
22:26just
22:27jacks it up bare hands lifts this thing up human beings can't normally just lift cars
22:34these situations where people manage to do superhuman feats of strength like lift a car
22:39off someone as often happens in science these are rare events we don't have detailed measurements and
22:44so really understanding the true biophysics and physiology of all the details that go in
22:49remain a bit of a mystery and an interesting area for us to explore going forward we don't use most
22:54of
22:55our muscles capability throughout the day it's capable of much more but for some reason only
22:59under these extreme circumstances if we can learn how to control our minds and use it at will that
23:07would be like being a super human a superhero that will that power is being driven both not only by
23:16the
23:16adrenaline but more importantly it's that energy is that type of thing in china that's called faging
23:21animal explosive energy it's a burst of absolute decision it's that unknown that unexplained energetic
23:33place that we all know about we talk about it we have feelings and vibes about these things so this
23:40was a once in a lifetime moment for me i've never done anything else like this again i think you
23:46could
23:46tap into some amazing power i truly do it's there we just have to have a reason to use it
23:57so where does this sudden surge of incredible strength come from is it something special and rare
24:05or is it simply adrenaline and an untapped ability that exists within all of us
24:11perhaps the answers lie in the chaos surrounding another life and death scenario and the surprising
24:19circumstances of an extraordinary rescue
24:28ho chi minh city vietnam november 1992
24:35banker annette herfkins her fiance and 29 other passengers board a small plane and head to the
24:43coastal town of natron for a vacation but what is supposed to be a short routine flight
24:52is about to turn into a nightmare
24:58when i saw the plane i didn't want to enter it because it was awfully small i was i am
25:03very
25:03claustrophobic and it's yeah i said there's no way i enter in the plane i'm not going to go in
25:08there
25:08it looks old but mostly small and my fiancee said well don't worry don't you have to it's only 55
25:15minutes
25:16and do it for us because i have this beautiful vacation planned and i knew you were gonna speak up
25:21about it but please please do it and then we entered from the back of the plane so we sat
25:29down
25:31and we were told to buckle our seat belts never going across and then i was restrained enough as
25:37it is and i did not buckle my seat belt and the flight took off for the next 30 minutes
25:44i just kept
25:45counting the minutes and the 50th minutes there was a gigantic drop and people were screaming and my
25:55fiancee looked at me he said well this i don't like
26:01and then another drop
26:08more people screaming and he reached for my hand and i reached for his
26:13and then everything went black i woke up to this eerie sounds of the jungle
26:24the plane broke in three pieces the wings the fuselage and the cockpit
26:30then i looked at my left and there i saw my fiancee still strapped in his seat
26:43in shock grief-stricken and with the legs and hips broken and that painfully pulls herself out of the wreckage
26:53only to find that every passenger on board has perished except her it all seems impossible
27:06in this plane crash annette was the only survivor
27:11of 31 people she's the only one that survived did it have to do with just the randomness of her
27:17being
27:17in the right seat that hit the ground in just the right place that had just the right structural
27:24integrity based on how they crashed or could it be something else
27:32miles from civilization injured and alone annette finds herself in an unbearable predicament
27:39but somehow from somewhere deep inside her she finds a way to survive
27:47i would just be quiet
27:52and listen to my instinct i just listened to that voice and i acted on it
27:58and it said make a plan divided in achievable steps
28:02and when you achieve one of those steps congratulate yourself that's exactly what i did
28:07i realized that i was going to need some water so i looked at the wing of the plane insulation
28:13material
28:14was some kind of foam so i figured that could work as a sponge
28:19and then i made seven little bowls and i lined them up for it to rain
28:27and then i was very happy to see these little balls filling up with walter they select the best champagne
28:40as you can imagine
28:44she was able to survive the plane crash but maybe what was even more remarkable is that she was able
28:49to survive
28:50eight days in the jungle with no prior jungle training or experience and no conditioning to be in the jungle
29:02on the afternoon on the eighth days out of nowhere
29:08men came up the mountain
29:12and they showed me a passenger list
29:15and i had to point out my name and i just realized how amazing it was that they actually found
29:22me
29:24it may have been random chance that allowed annette to live through the horrific crash
29:30but what was the so-called voice that gave her the guidance she needed to survive
29:38is it some kind of deep-seated electro bio chemical uh force that's that's innate in the brain that
29:47suddenly gets activated or is it something that comes from outside is it faith from an outside power
29:54that brings that energy to the person who's in desperate need whether or not you view yourself as
30:01strong and capable you have the potential to tap into these things and get in tune with these strengths
30:08with these capabilities whether you know it or not we all have that voice inside of us that we can
30:15listen to any extreme situations it's always there to help you just listen to that voice be silent it's
30:23there it's there
30:31kelso washington february 2nd 2020. 38 year old stephen pete attends to his sunday chores like yard
30:39work and cooking and tinkering with several projects in his basement all the same things that any person
30:46might do on a weekend but for stephen he has to do all this far more carefully than the average
30:53person because for him doing household chores is more than just a series of tasks it's actually
31:00dangerous i was born with a rare genetic condition called congenital analgesia at the time that was
31:07name given to it now it's called congenital insensitivity to pain so uh i can't feel any pain at all
31:17a life free of pain sounds like something many of us would pay dearly for
31:22but for people like steven death or severe injury lurks around every corner
31:31my parents first noticed something was different when i was teething and i chewed off half my tongue
31:38that definitely alarmed them to uh something serious going on so they took me to my pediatrician
31:43who uh did a couple of tests and determined that more than likely i didn't feel pain
31:49they ran needles up and down my spine poked my feet a couple of places i still didn't elicit
31:56a native response a painful response
32:00steven's gruesome injury provides a stark reminder that while most people probably don't think of pain
32:04as a sense it may actually be the most important sense of all congenital analgesia is an inherited
32:14form of insensitivity to pain congenital means it runs in the family and analgesia means that you don't
32:20feel pain you have no feeling of pain whatsoever there's some form of mutation in a gene that's
32:27essential for pain perception when people first hear that i don't feel pain they think it is the
32:33greatest thing in the whole world they're like wow i got super power but my childhood was spending
32:38good chunks of time in the hospital that stayed in between like four months to maybe a year and a
32:45half
32:45which isn't normal it's an extremely problematic condition pain protects us from self-harm and it's
32:54often the first time of disease so people who are pain-free often die very young it's actually rather
33:01amazing that he made it through life as far as he has i mean the classic example we always hear
33:07about
33:07is learning not to touch things that are hot pain alerts us when we're doing something in the external
33:12world that doesn't make sense and we should stop the one thing that i really have to keep an eye
33:19on
33:19is probably whenever i'm engaged in like a physical activity that's a little bit strenuous like doing
33:25the yard work it's stuff like that where i can injure myself and not immediately realize it that can cause
33:33serious repercussions down the road when we think about senses we always think about the classic five
33:39senses sight touch smell taste and hearing one thing that's really interesting though is we basically
33:47have another sense which is our pain our sense of pain we often just reject that as well that's just
33:53touch but that negates or doesn't think about the internal pains we often feel whether it's headaches
33:58or stomach aches or sore muscles which really isn't quite touch pain is another sense it's a sense we call
34:06it
34:06not exception it's conveyed by specific kinds of nerves get activated when for instance we might touch
34:14a hot stove or cut ourselves what's interesting is the brain can regulate pain dramatically but the basic
34:23drive that causes pain is from the peripheral nerves the nerves that send information into the brain don't
34:29work in congenital analgesia patients this loss of pain is caused by malfunctions in a very small number
34:37of genes that are extremely rare but one of them is involved in signaling in the peripheral nerves
34:42it's called nav 1.7 it's a protein that's called a sodium channel it's like an electrical switch and if
34:48that protein doesn't function properly then you can become pain free
34:54since stephen doesn't feel pain it begs the question what does he feel instead it's difficult
35:02for me to try to explain but even though i don't feel physical pain what i can feel is heat
35:07cold touch
35:09just like every other person what i do feel is probably a byproduct of pain is like these impulses
35:18almost like a nerve firing since 2012 i've had the opportunity of being able to participate in a
35:24couple studies with different universities i spent a good portion of my childhood in the hospital and
35:31during those stays it was usually with people who felt pain and seeing people especially that young who
35:38are going through such painful experiences that's really what prompted me to sign up for a lot of
35:44studies when i was approached and the overall goal in a lot of these studies is to try to create
35:51a
35:51non-narcotic painkiller because the opioid crisis that our country is facing is one that other nations
35:57are facing as well so i've been asked quite a lot with all these studies i've been participating in
36:03if i had the chance to feel pain if they could figure out what activates or deactivates that switch
36:08would i myself want to feel pain um and my answer is just no um and that's only because i've
36:16damaged
36:16my body so much throughout my entire life that if i were to feel pain right now i'd just be
36:20in a
36:21constant state of pain all the time not only do i have a bad knee but my back is a
36:26little bit messed up so
36:27my quality of life would just be low and there's no way i could live like that
36:34the ability to feel pain is essential to our very survival but are there other senses in addition to
36:42familiar ones like touch or sight that go beyond our common understanding of what humans are capable of
36:51do we all possess an extrasensory perception
37:02as we continue to study the human mind will we one day be able to reveal certain extrasensory abilities
37:10for millennia there have been people who could sense an invisible presence whether it be a deceased loved
37:16one a spiritual energy or even something more sinister while it may sound a bit ooga booka a study
37:25published by scientists from caltech in 2019 suggests that humans can not only detect energy fields they can
37:33also sense the magnetic field of the earth the human brain has a lot of phenomena going on inside it
37:41that
37:41uses electromagnetic charges and electric fields and if you change the magnetic field around your brain
37:48it will impact what's going on inside your brain so small magnetic fields are most certainly detectable
37:57we just may not realize we're detecting them it wouldn't surprise me in any way if there aren't
38:03aspects of brain function that we are completely unaware of at the moment that we'll become aware of
38:10later when we understand more about how the brain actually works since it's already been proven that
38:16humans have more than five senses could there really be something to the notion that we have the potential
38:23to sense the world around us in what some would consider bizarre or even mystical ways according to some
38:30researchers the answer is yes and as evidence they point to an incredible phenomenon known as paroptic vision
38:40paroptic vision was first proposed by a surrealist writer called renee domal who was a teenager
38:47practiced seeing color through his fingertips so he'd put a different colored handkerchiefs inside a box
38:53and then he'd test to see if he could tell what color the handkerchief was that sounds quite fringe but
38:59i've done some experiments it's a rare ability but i did find one person who was able to detect the
39:05colors
39:06through the fingertips i can't explain it but she could detect color with 80 reliability through her
39:12fingertips it's been discovered that the skin has opsins embedded in them and opsins help the body
39:20calibrate to circadian rhythms to 24-hour rhythms so it's not too much of a stretch to think how opsins
39:27could not just detect light but they could also detect color many people believe that there are
39:33mysterious ways of sensing things that don't involve the traditional senses and i believe
39:38that there's perfectly reasonable expectation that may perhaps be true we don't really understand how
39:44the brain works at all as incredible as it is to discover new senses it's also a little unsettling
39:54because if our brain is just using our senses to constantly try and guess what reality is
40:01then how are we to know when it gets us wrong instead of right
40:06i like to think of perception as a kind of controlled hallucination because there's no light in the
40:11skull there's no sound in the skull all you've got to go on as a brain are these noisy and
40:16ambiguous
40:17sensory signals signals don't come with labels that i'm from a coffee cup or i'm from a cat
40:23and this is why for instance if you look up at the sky and there's some fluffy clouds sometimes you
40:28might see
40:30faces reality is not quite as real as people think we're often told that something looks red because
40:38it reflects more red wavelengths but there's no such thing as red wavelengths color is not a property of
40:45objects it's a property of brains it's simply the wonder that our brain is creating all of this
40:53and that we can agree on so much perception is about representing the world and the body and the self
41:01in the way that's most useful for the organism so if you see a color that's not right or wrong
41:08color
41:08is where the brain meets the universe in a way that's useful for us i think we can all agree
41:15reality
41:15exists we think therefore something exists but what it is and how we will know what it is
41:22is fun to explore it's thrilling to think that we may one day witness the next step in human evolution
41:30by unlocking our so-called extrasensory abilities could things like pain management physical strength
41:38and even the potential to heal ourselves be functions that already exist within us as we learn more about
41:47the power of mind over matter perhaps the answers will become second nature but for now the extraordinary
41:54capabilities of the human brain remain unexplained
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