The human brain is still one of the most mysterious things on the planet, and it never ceases to pose new and difficult questions for scientists. Doctor of Biological Sciences and a scientist in the field of neuroscience and psycholinguistics Tatyana Vladimirovna Chernigovskaya has devoted her life to the study of this amazing part of the human body and can at least slightly open the veil of secrecy that envelops this complex organ.
We have collected quotes from Tatyana Vladimirovna from her lectures and interviews that will easily make you believe how amazing and multifaceted thing is hidden in each of us.
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People have to work with their heads, it saves the brain. The more it is turned on, the longer it is saved. Natalia Bekhtereva wrote a scientific work "Smart people live long" shortly before leaving for a better world.
Some people still say that nerve cells do not regenerate, but this is not true. It all depends on whether you force your brain to work constantly - it must be difficult for you regularly. If you do not give the muscles a load, they atrophy, and the same with the brain. He should not relax, otherwise there will be trouble.
The brain runs at maximum speed precisely because it has to do the hard work. Hard work for the brain is medicine.
Great literature, especially great poetry, vividly demonstrates the possibilities of language that people simply do not want to use. The language is incredibly rich, but it is only a tool. The most powerful instrument to learn to play.
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The brain is a mysterious powerful thing, which for some reason we call "my brain" by a misunderstanding. We have absolutely no grounds for this: who is whose is a separate question.
The brain makes a decision 30 seconds before a person realizes this decision. 30 seconds is a huge amount of time for brain activity. So who, in the end, makes the decision: the person or his brain?
A really frightening thought - who is really the boss in the house? There are too many of them: genome, psychosomatic type, a lot of other things, including receptors. I would like to know who this decision-maker is. Nobody knows anything about the subconscious, it is better to close this topic right away.
The fact that the brain ended up in our cranium does not give us the right to call it "mine". He's incomparably more powerful than you. "Are you saying that the brain and I are different?" - you ask. The answer is yes. We have no power over the brain, it makes the decision itself. And that puts us in a very awkward position. But the mind has one trick: the brain itself makes all decisions, in general it does everything itself, but it sends a signal to the person - you, they say, do not worry, you did it all, it was your decision.
We have to take the brain seriously. After all, he is deceiving us. Think about hallucinations. The person who sees them cannot be convinced that they do not exist. They are as real to him as the glass on this table is to me. The brain is fooling him, feeding all the sensory information that the hallucination is real. So what reason do you and I have to believe that what is happening now is real, and not inside our hallucination?
The discovery cannot be done according to plan. True, there is an essential addition: they come to trained minds. You see, the periodic table was not dreamed of by his cook. He worked on it for a long time, the brain continued to think, and simply "clicked" in a dream. I say this: the periodic table was terribly tired of this story, and she decided to appear to him in all its glory.
Now we know for sure: a genius can only be born. Another question is that, having been born a genius, you can not become one.
The brain stores all the information that it passed by, smelled, tasted, drank, etc., everything is there. If you do not remember this, it does not mean that it is not in the brain. Therefore, I constantly say: you cannot read stupid books, communicate with assholes, listen to bad music, eat poor-quality food, watch incompetent films.
If you are bored with life, you are a complete fool.
Creators really have different brains: CT scan data show that some parts of it work more actively for them than for other people. I am sure that every young child needs to be taught music, because this is a fine and sophisticated neural network tuning - and it does not matter if he becomes a professional or not.
If the brain reads idiotic magazines, communicates with fools, listens to light, meaningless music, and watches stupid films, then there is nothing to complain about. A book that may be easy for some, but difficult for you. A movie you don't understand. This means you will think, read criticism. Or a performance where it is not clear what the director wanted to say. In this case, the brain will be busy with work.
The brain is networks, pulsating networks. There are no “places” where one thing works separately. Therefore, even if we found zones of sacrifice, love, conscience in the brain, it would not make life easier for us.
People are divided into those who have no pace at all, and those who have a high pace.
The brains of people who know more than one language take precedence over the brains of those who know only one. Learning languages is beneficial for brain development, and it is also one of the ways to "push back Alzheimer's."
Most people act like life is a rough draft. Life begins from the moment of conception - I ask you to receive this extraordinary news. She is already walking and she is alone. Why is it necessary to live as if there will be an opportunity to fix something later? Nobody fixes anything.
I always frighten everyone by the fact that the time is not far away when artificial intelligence realizes itself as a kind of individuality. At this moment, he will have his own plans, his motives, his goals, and, I assure you, we will not enter into this sense.
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