What Is Reality?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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What is Reality?

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by US superstar neuroscientist David Eagleman, Professor Sophie Scott and comedian Bridget Christie to ask what is reality? Is our sense of the world around us a completely personal experience and a construct of our brains? How can we ever know whether what one person perceives is exactly the same as what another person perceives. Is your sense of the world around you an illusion constructed by this extraordinary organ, the brain, that has no direct access to the outside world that it is helping you to understand.

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0:00.0	You know on that stuff that we can't fit in?
0:02.0	Yeah, what you mean into the general recording
0:03.6	when it goes out and ready for?
0:04.6	Yeah.
0:05.6	Well, I think we should put it in something else.
0:08.6	What kind of format could we place
0:10.8	a longer version of a ready-of-all showing?
0:12.8	Well, you know those pod things.
0:14.7	Yeah.
0:16.0	Well, with aliens in them.
0:18.1	No, the ones that are like a thing that you can play,
0:22.0	that are knee-longated audio recording,
0:24.1	that you can deliver electronically to different devices
0:27.2	and then listen to it at your leisure.
0:29.0	Well, I've made that already.
0:30.2	Like, listen to it now.
0:31.6	I don't know why you've been dragging this down.
0:33.3	The Infinite Monkey Cage podcast.
0:35.7	Now, it's now.
0:37.7	They're hearing it now.
0:38.6	We're not now, because I'm still saying now.
0:40.0	No, there's no.
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