Brain Games Documentary (Persian Dub)

Bertrand Russell says that science has developed in a way contrary to expectation. Meaning that science first addressed things that are farthest from us and gradually submitted to examining matters that are closer and closer to us: human knowledge first dealt with metaphysical matters—such as heaven—then came down to earth and studied it, gradually became occupied with investigating animals and plants, after that turned to exploring the human body, and finally, in a very incomplete way, has addressed the study of the human mind. Has the question of how our minds work, what laws govern them, and what factors influence them ever occupied your mind?

Have you ever thought about how you recognize the nature and color of an object? Or how you recall your memories after many years? Have you pondered that when you decide to use the services of a particular insurance company, what factors were at play for you to choose that company, and not another? Probably when you recognize the color of an object, you are certain that your recognition is correct. People generally think that they remember their memories quite accurately and do not doubt the veracity of what they recall. They also believe that they make their choices completely rationally and are able to carefully consider the confounding factors in their decisions. In short, we trust our minds a great deal. But are our minds truly reliable? Professor Steven Novella writes in the introduction to his book Your Deceptive Mind (1): Most of what we remember and believe is either distorted or completely wrong. It seems that our brain is constantly producing misleading observations, memories, and beliefs; despite this, we still tend to take the correctness of our experiences for granted. If you find it fascinating how your mind might be deceived, watch the documentary Brain Games.

Brain Games is the name of a television series that addresses topics studied in cognitive science. Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field—including the disciplines of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, philosophy of mind, and artificial intelligence—that studies the fascinating subject of how the mind works. One of the most important things this documentary addresses is the errors of the mind; perceptual errors, memory errors, mistakes in reasoning, biases in decision-making, and so on.

Of course, this documentary is not limited to the errors of the mind. In this series, numerous psychological experiments are reported and examined, and extensive information about the nature of mental processing and the factors affecting it is provided to the viewer. For example, how the brain becomes angry, what effect competition has on the brain, whether physical health affects mental performance or not, whether women and men have different mental abilities, why humans believe in superstitions, what effect sleep deprivation has on the brain, how we can imagine, how the minds of animals work, how the brain has evolved, and many other topics that are all related to the mind. I hope you enjoy watching this series.

(1): Adapted from the book Your Deceptive Mind, written by Steven Novella, translated by Akbar Soltani and Maryam Aghazadeh, Akhtaran Publishing.

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Episode One: The Brain and Aging

Episode Two: Color Processing

Episode Three: Spatial Awareness Processing

Episode Four: Trust

Episode Five: Attraction Processing

Episode Six: Stress

Episode Seven: Brain Deceptions

Episode 8: Deceptions the Mind Creates in the Body

Episode 9: Imitation and Following Others

Episode 10: Risk and Risk-Taking

Episode 11: The Brain and Eating

Episode 12: Addiction

Episode 13: Language

Episode 14: Superstition

Episode 15: Patterns in the Brain

Episode 16: Compassion and Empathy

Episode 17: Anger

Episode 18: Differences Between the Male and Female Sex

Episode 19: Unconscious Processing

To be continued...

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Brain Games Documentary

Produced and dubbed by National Geographic Channel

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