Your Brain Has Two Minds | NOVA | PBS
Neuroscientists are uncovering how communication between different parts of the brain creates the experience of being “you.”
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@jeppe-321
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
Is anyone else reminded of Carlos Castaneda "The Active side of infinity" and our two minds ?
@michaelteegarden4116
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
We are a strange loop going on in our brains. Cut the C.C., and then you are two strange loops going on in your brain.
@Stretchnrest
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
What about amnesia and that man with a 7 second memory. He writes every few minutes consciousness. Is he aware ? Is he brain dead?
@geondy2
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
nothing new just old news
@Ilovehoneydrops
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
Cool show but what’s up with the doctor? Did he go to school with Ben Carson? Lol
@Newstatejournal1
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
I wonder if medication or a technology can help voice hearers and prevent visual hallucinations by blocking left right communication?
@Newstatejournal1
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
Excellent!
@Liam-d1v4o
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
So your saying i`m a schizophrenic?
@donaldf.switlick3690
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
===== Dual Brain Psychology
Many organisms have two hemispheres and can be conscious. On the other hand, self-consciousness, like a mirror, is the recognition of ourselves, by reflection, from the mind in our brain's other hemisphere. Much like examining the inner workings of a radio, that cannot be understood until experiencing its result, that is, greater than the sum of its parts.
@artswri
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
Great presentation great info. Thanks !
@williamfisher1339
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
I wonder if a person who has trained and is proficient in asynchronous left/right hand movements, I 'm thinking of a piano player or drummer, would perform any better on the drawing test than someone who is not proficient with such movements? Thank you for an interesting show.
@aquaticnstuff7666
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
you think you are you but you are only you because your body factutally creates you
@HotHeadHoney
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
What a difficult way to live 😭
@TheBuddhaandHisDharma
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
There is no 'I' 🙏☸🪷
@stevebausch2782
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
The anesthesiologist never has a problem with me; the process is essentially a light switch. Pretty amazing
@hyperduality2838
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
Conscious is dual to unconscious.
Alive is dual to not alive — Schrodinger's cat.
"Always two there are" — Yoda.
@CATANOVA
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
What you do when you are really drunk can be far more interesting than being fully anesthetised because it is right in the sweet spot between being conscious and unconscious. For example do you corkscrew clockwise or counterclockwise whilst staggering around.
@V4VestA
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
Funny how you didn’t even try to pronounce the word EEG stands for 😅
@ricksantana1016
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
I recently had my very first surgery and It was recommended to me not to sleep the night before the surgery, I’am glad that I didn’t because the next morning all I heard was the anesthesiologist saying goodnight and then a complete blackout two hours later I was welcomed back by a surgical nurse I was very groggy but felt fine It was a very strange and surreal experience…
@blclaar
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
One of me loved this video.
@superbonedespotozo3502
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
As far as science goes, how the brain creates consciousness is pure speculation and nothing more. The 'brain bridge' has been severed in people, on purpose and accidentally, without creating 2 separate consciousness. Yes, there are strange effects when it's severed but it has nothing to do with consciousness.
@jascres
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
I'm of two minds about this.
@smercer216
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
Been under GA over a dozen times. Fun everytime! I love it!
@tallman431
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
Does this produce two personalities in these types of people?
@saammahakala
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
4:50
Barring religions and mysticism., the mind, soul and body are three distinct variations of condensed-light-consciousness, one is the observer and the other two are vessels, of which one is cyclical and therefore briefly (seemingly) immortal.
@just_kos99
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
I loved the series "The Body Human," where I learned that in many major brain surgeries, the patient is actually awake and conscious.
@vonSchnellenstein
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
I and I
@Psycandy
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
are ambidextrous people (who can also draw or write two things at once) able to modulate the data sharing between hemispheres or is there a learned mechanism at play? it's interesting that awareness is both a result and a function of consciousness, meaning our brains are recording far more detail than we're aware of, to be revealed once we become aware of it. It's also interesting the lack of information transfer doesn't create its own noise, as do all our senses when faced with no input.
@TG-wf6ln
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
That reminds me… when does Severance come back? But seriously, thank you as always Nova/PBS!
@SkyHuntress-z5w
May 12, 2026 at 5:55 pm
As someone who is tired all the time sometimes I wished I could sleep with half my brain active like some animals.