The Thinking Game

Alexei, a neurophysiologist from St. Petersburg, sees the activity of his own brain on a screen in real time for the first time. "Is that me?" he whispers, watching neurons fire as he recalls the smell of his grandmother's pie. The 2025 documentary immerses viewers in the world of cognitive science through the personal stories of scientists probing consciousness. We witness experiments in labs from Moscow to Zurich to Tokyo, where the boundaries between thought and matter gradually dissolve. The director weaves rigorous scientific data with almost poetic meditations on the nature of the self, painting a portrait of the human mind at the intersection of biology and philosophy.