The more engrossed you are, the easier it is to forget that this is assimulation. You can be as engrossed in a virtual reality as you are when you're watching a film on a big screen. I'm old enough to remember sharry lewis and her hand puppet, lambchop. At no time did i think lambchop was real. Try never work for me at any age. It ain't easy being green. This is o con we can no longer mask it in our allegorytred corri stories,. We sas have totoaa aa, all right. Ok. Give me another questionrieo, missus.
What does your brain do when watching movies? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discover the field of neurocinematics and the difference between fiction and reality with neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD.
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