The Real Thing — Season 1, Episode 5: The View from Within
Documentary • 21 min • 1 season, 6 episodes • ★ 8.3/10
Episode synopsis
Looks at the complexity of the brain handling the simplest activity. James Burke's consciousness steps out of his body for a while to demonstrate how it acts as 'Mission Controller' for his own private universe.
About The Real Thing
Asking how you tell what's real and what isn't sounds like an obvious question. But in this series of six programmes, James Burke shows that the more you think about it the harder it is to answer. After all, what have you got, apart from your five senses, to prove those senses are giving you the real thing?