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Sergey Golubev:

German multiplier Rudi Hurzlmeier



it's Vasya of the 3 bogatyrs
only 2 humps and with horns - ready for winter

 

Neurolinguist Tatiana Chernigovskaya on the surprises of the brain, subconscious and psyche

Professor Tatiana Chernigovskaya, Doctor of Biology and Philology, Head of the Cognitive Research Laboratory of St. Petersburg State University, gives interesting and useful lectures about the brain, consciousness and the unconscious, psyche, artificial intelligence, thinking, etc. Sometimes they slip in truly sensationalist and frightening statements about the unfathomable secrets and surprises of our most powerful computer. Some are simply impossible to believe.

  1. The brain is a mysteriously powerful thing, which for some reason we mistakenly call "my brain". There is absolutely no basis for this: whose is a separate question.
  1. The brain makes a decision 30 seconds before a person realises the decision. 30 seconds is a huge amount of time for brain activity. So who makes the decision in the end: the man or his brain?
  1. A really frightening thought - who is really the master of the house? There are too many: the genome, the psychosomatic type, a host of other things, including receptors. I would like to know who the decision-making entity is? No one knows anything about the subconscious mind at all, it is better to close the subject right away.
  1. We must take the brain seriously. After all, it deceives us. Think about hallucinations. A person who sees them cannot be convinced that they don't exist. They're as real to him as the glass on this table is to me. His brain is messing with his head, giving him 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?

  1. To keep you from being torn up inside, you need to speak out. That's what confessors, girlfriends and therapists are for. A splinter, if not taken out in time, will give you blood poisoning. People who keep quiet and keep everything to themselves are not only at serious psychological or even psychiatric risk, but also at somatic risk. Any professional will agree with me: it all starts with a stomach ulcer. The body is one - both psyche and body.
  1. People have to work with their heads, it saves the brain. The more it is switched on, the longer it is saved. Natalia Bekhtereva wrote a scientific paper "The Smart Live Long" shortly before she left for the better world.
  1. Discovery cannot be made according to plan. True, there is an essential addition: they come to prepared minds. You see, Mendeleev's table was not a dream for his cook. He worked on it for a long time, his brain kept thinking, and it just "clicked" in his dream. I say so: Mendeleev's table got terribly fed up with the story, and it decided to appear to him in all its glory.
  1. People have wrong attitudes, they think that, for example, a chef is worse than a conductor. That's not true: a brilliant chef will outshine any conductor, I'm telling you as a gourmet. Comparing them is like comparing sour and square - the question is misconstrued. Everyone is good in their place.
  1. I always scare everyone that the time is not far off when artificial intelligence will realise itself as a kind of individuality. At that point, it will have its own agenda, its own motives, its own goals, and I assure you, we will not get into that sense.
  1. Just because the brain has ended up in our skull does not give us the right to call it "mine". It is 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 its own decisions. And that puts us in a very delicate position. But mind has one trick: brain makes all decisions by itself, in general, it does everything by itself, but it sends a signal to a man: "Don't worry, you did all this, it was your decision.
  1. We pay a great price for the existence of geniuses. Nervous and mental disorders are on the first place in the world of diseases, they are beginning to outnumber cancer and cardiovascular diseases, which is not only a general horror and nightmare, but, among other things, a very great dynamic burden for all developed countries.
  1. We are born with a very powerful computer in our heads. But programs have to be installed in it. Some programs are already in it and some need to be downloaded and you have to keep on downloading until you die. It is pumping all the time, you are changing all the time, rebuilding.
  1. The brain is not just a neural network, it is a network of networks, a network of networks of networks. The brain has 5.5 petabytes of information - that's three million hours of video viewing. Three hundred years of continuous viewing!
  1. The brain does not live like Professor Dowell's head on a plate. It has a body - ears, hands, feet, skin, so it remembers the taste of lipstick, remembers what "itchy heel" means. The body is an immediate part of him. The computer does not have that body.
  1. The ability to get a high-class education can become an elitist privilege, available only to the "initiated". Recall Umberto Eco's suggestion in his novel "The Name of the Rose" that only those who are able, who are ready to perceive complex knowledge, should be allowed into the Library. There will be a division between those who are able to read complex literature and those who read signs, who grab information from the internet in this clipped way. It will be pushed further and further apart.
 

Czech Republic Prague, Central Railway Station, right now:

Czech Republic Prague, Central Railway Station, right now

 
Why did I used to struggle so much to find music and didn't know about iTunes? How easy it has become to use music now!
 

Christmas in Florida today

 

Christmas in Trafalgar Square, London (hour ago)

 
Sergey Golubev:

Christmas in Trafalgar Square, London (hour ago)

What Christmas? An hour ago? Have you tried looking at the calendar?
 
Yuriy Asaulenko:
What Christmas? An hour ago? Have you tried looking at the calendar?

The Christmas photo was taken an hour ago.

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I'm not celebrating yet - it's still early.

It's my birthday at 12 noon on New Year's Eve! So no one's giving me any presents... Everybody's celebrating New Year's Eve... not my birthday...

 
Yuriy Asaulenko:
What Christmas? An hour ago? Have you tried looking at the calendar?

They have something (some historical events) linked to that Christmas tree there (can't remember what, but they treat the Christmas tree in that square as a real event there).

PS. read - they say there that the tradition of a Christmas tree in the square was renewed in 1947 after the Second World War with a Christmas tree from Norway, which was a symbol of the beginning of peaceful life.

 
Sergey Golubev:

They have something (some historical events) to do with this Christmas tree (can't remember what, but they treat the Christmas tree in this square as a real event).

Well, it's closer now, either Robin Hood or King Arthur.
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