Mind Your Body

### Cold Open

Jason Silva: "Every day, with every movement, you get to experience how well your brain and body work together. Most of the time, your brain is so in sync with your body, it requires little to no thought to do things like walking, tying your shoe, or riding a bike. But then there are times where your brain has to consciously tell your body what to do, like now(Riding a bike really fast). And even though this system works pretty flawlessly most of the time, every so often your network gets hacked, and you wind up with some pretty surprising results."

## Games

### Game #1: Not a Good Look

An upside-down photo. Do you recognise it?

Result: You recognise these celebrity faces, but not the creepy looking features.

Let's try again with a house.

Result: You can see the roof is upside down despite the fact that's it upside down.

Why: The reason for this because hundreds of thousands of years ago, survival depended on identifying friends from foe. Due to this, the fusiform gyrus, which recognizes faces, recognized the features, but didn't put them all together or their relation to the other features.

### Game #2: UFC Fighters Round 1: Back and Forth

Point your pointer-finger at your other thumb with the hand with the thumb in a fist formation. Switch hands as you do this. Who will win?

Result: The faster you do it, the harder it is.

Why: When your hands have to do opposite tasks that are unfamilliar, one hand has to shut down for the other to succeed. This is called bimanual interference. Your brain simply pauses since it needs to figure out what you need to do.

Nobody gets a point.

### Game #3: Statue Scare

Can your body handle a jumpscare? A statue will jumpscare people at the park.

Result: Their primal reaction becomes to flee, 90% of the time in their "fight or flight" response. But they're not making that decision. It happens instinctively.

Why: Your hypothalamus sends messages to your body to trigger physical responses in an instant.

Will anyone choose to fight?

Result: Even when they chose to fight, no one got hurt.

So: If you fight, you're more to likely to not have eaten recently, or you have high levels of testosterone.

### Game #4: Good Reflexes, Right?

Catch a dollar bill between your two fingers to make money.

Result: There's no trick to it. It's just a hard game.

Why: Your brain takes the blame, not your reflexes. It takes 200 to 400 milliseconds to move a response to your brain. But gravity is simply faster.

#### Mini-game: Itch

Thinking about itching makes you want to itch.

Result: You want to stop itching.

### Game #5: UFC fighters Round 2: Locked Hands

Cross your hands, wrap your arms, and lock your fingers together. Try to lift certain fingers.

Result: The opposite finger seems to lift.

The left hand is for the left side, and vice versa. By flipping the hands around, your internal body map is messed up.

No points.

### Game #6: Touchy-Feely Bin

3 contestants must find objects without their sight. How will they do having to find 6 items? If they grab something incorrectly, the item loses them a point.

Result: By using their other senses, they can still succeed. But what was the secret to the winner's success? Using her taste to figure out what certain objects were.

Why: By using stereognosis, which is when you use your non-vision to identify an object.

### Game #7: UFC fighters Round 3: Good Reflexes, Right?

Time for them to play the same game that volunteers did. Will they do any better?

Result: Nope.

So: There are no points on the board, and no winner.

## List of Experts

* Michael Bisping(Guest)
* Forrest Griffin(Guest)
* Max Darwin(Guest)
* Amy Bastian