TED Review:

After watching the video of Keith Barry marvelously fooling the audience, I was fascinated how human brains work. He successfully managed to prove that our brains are often tricked, and these cryptic tricks remain as unexplained enigmas. After watching this video, I became a zealous fanatic of neuroscience.

           So, how did he demonstrate that our brains are much more fascinating and exciting to explore than we think? He asked for two volunteers, and he showed the audience how he can fool one of them using the other. After covering one of the volunteers’ eyes, Keith Barry manipulated her sensations, and when he touched the other volunteer’s body, the first volunteer reacted. Even though it looked amateurish and fallacious, it was true; Keith Barry was able to fool the first volunteer’s brain. After watching the first volunteer saying how Keith touched her back when he only touched the second volunteer’s, I started to doubt: maybe, the things we see, hear, smell, and touch around us are all hallucinations our brains engendered. Maybe, there is someone out there who is controlling all of our sensations so that we believe this world to be real.

           Not only that, Keith demonstrated psychokinesis too. The volunteer was able to break a glass bottle using a single glass shard without exerting any force in it. According to Keith, the volunteer transmitted all the negative forces and sensations into the shard, granting it force that can break the bottle. Even though seeming impossible, the glass bottle, which did not break when dropped, separated into pieces by the shard. At first, I was full of disdain when Keith talked about psychokinesis. I mean, who would not be dubious when someone talks about brain power which is neither tangible nor visible? According to the internet, psychokinesis is power that is generated by the brain; it cannot be explained by physics as it is not a matter. It does not have any mass, and it I am highly skeptical whether it can be explained by neuroscience either. 

Keith was not just being pretentious; he did not just try to be extolled with his saccharine voice. This neuroscience experience was not just an ephemeral demonstration that can be condoned. His exemplary experiments proved that neuroscience is not just a hypothetical, tentative idea. This video was a revolution. It was a novel idea that was just too esoteric.