Circulation of the brain: Vivid quotes from the neurolinguist of Chernigov

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

“If you“stimulate”to chew or discuss the properties of stain removers with a mysterious, hot gaze, your brain will go out pretty quickly. And there is nothing to complain about"

Tatyana Vladimirovna Chernigovskaya - Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of St. Petersburg State University, Russian scientist in the field of neuroscience, psycholinguistics and theory of consciousness. At one time, Posner made an exception to his own rules and invited Chernigovskaya to his program twice. But everything is logical. Chernigovskaya is one of the smartest women of our time, who knows how to speak directly, simply and often with humor on complex and important topics. And he does it often: in open lectures, the scientist tells how to teach the brain to learn, in an interview with Forbes he explains how the brain of a millionaire is different, he does not mind speculating about the vector of the development of gender relations with gloss.

In this material, we have collected vivid quotes from a neuropsychologist - about the brain, good and bad genes, intuition and money, which can push you to new thoughts about your plans for the future.

1

Since we have got such a perfect companion, or enemy, or accomplice, I don’t know how the brain is, then let’s not use it in the way it is metaphorically described in the famous work “The Prince and the Pauper”. Remember, there the prince and the beggar were the same and accidentally changed places. And the beggar who was in the place of the prince got the royal seal. He did not know what it was, and pricked her nuts. Of course, you can crack nuts with a seal, because it is heavy, of a suitable shape. But she was not created for this. So, we got the brain for a complex, exquisite, virtuoso work. You shouldn't use it to read stupid books, interact with stupid people, and waste your life. It's just a shame. He is so powerful, he is able to learn to a ripe old age. And this is not a common phrase, but a scientific one.

2

Plasticity is the ability of the brain, the neural network, to form new connections, that is, to learn. It used to be said that plasticity is characteristic only of a very young brain, that is, small children, and then it fades away. Yes, of course, it becomes less powerful, but it never fades away. And it lasts longer if our brains are working with complex things. If he engages in all sorts of rubbish, he will very soon turn into rubbish. If we want this - everyone's business. And if we don’t want to, we read the complex, listen to the complex, watch the complex. Difficult for us. We live such a difficult life. This will help us postpone our brain extinction for years. It's true. I said scientific fact.

3

We are 100 percent dependent on our brain. Yes, we look at the world with our own eyes, hear something, feel something. But how we understand this all depends only on the brain. He decides for himself what to show us and how.

4

We live like madmen, as if we have a spare planet. Second, societies in all countries take little account of the knowledge already acquired by science when making decisions. The danger of what the technological and soulless society in which we now live on this planet can get up is great.

5

It is impossible to stop science. This has never been possible for anyone. But it is worth remembering that the deeper we plunge into the ocean of knowledge about the world, the more dangerous this journey becomes and the greater the responsibility for the starry sky overhead and for the moral law within us.

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I am agnostic. And it helps me personally. I have no illusion that we will ever be able to study what the brain is. I'm sure this won't happen.

7

The brain is infinitely more complex than the one in which it is located. And this is even insulting.

8

If you add up all the nerve fibers in the brain, you get an infinite number of millions of kilometers. You can fly to the moon eight times and come back. And this is all in one of our poor heads.

9

Whoever wants to keep the brain in a combat-ready state for a longer time must give it hard work. If you "stimulate" to chew or with a mysterious hot gaze to discuss the properties of stain removers, the brain will go out rather quickly. And there is nothing to complain about!

10

I hate IQ. I don't understand what it shows at all.

11

Genes by genes. But if it turned out unsuccessfully, then this number will not work. And a lot of work is needed.

12

A person does not owe anything to anyone. But it's good when he understands what he really wants.

13

The fool understands that everyone needs money: they provide life. But at what cost? Maybe you don't really have plans to buy a yacht and go on a trip around the world, but you have a plan to sit at home by the fireplace and knit a scarf. And around so that dogs and cats walk. And this is happiness, only you did not understand it.

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People are born different, of a different psychophysiological type. And that's genetics. And there is nothing you can do about it.

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Genetics is not necessarily fate. But this is a big player. We cannot treat this information as secondary. Some people are sanguine, others are active, and still others are “depressants”. They are born that way. We cannot "turn it off".

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Genes are potency. If the genes do not work out very well, we are lamentable. But if good genes have gotten, this is not enough: you need to get to good parents no longer in a biological sense. It is important that you teach correctly, that you find yourself in a good environment, that you are surrounded by interesting people.

17

Not many people are able to be aware of how they are behaving. This is called reflection in science. And this must be learned.

18

Dolphins clearly have abilities that we (humans) can only dream of.

19

A genius can only be born. Another question - what's next? Because even such absolute, undoubted geniuses as Mozart, Bach, Beethoven were pounded on the fingers so that they could play the harpsichord. Genius is also lazy. How much pressure do you need to put out his genius? Or should he be left alone? This is a very serious question.

20

Comprehending facts does not make a person smart. The question arises, do I need to have this wild heap of knowledge in my head? Here I learned the tables of logarithms or Newton's binomial. Good God, have you ever met this binomial of Newton - even on Tverskaya, even on Nevsky? I never saw him alive.

21

We need a balance. On the one hand, do not bother with things that can be found anyway. On the other hand, it is important that we do not turn into a society that trains only amateurs. We definitely don't need this. We are in a difficult situation.

22

“Intuition is a sacred gift. Reason is a submissive gift,”Einstein writes. Don't underestimate things like insight. But discoveries come to a prepared mind. They don't come to anyone.

23

I often hear the question, when will we know how the brain functions? The answer is: never. Because our brains are not in our brains. It's too complicated a story.

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The brain of a woman is different from that of a man. In some things, the man's brain is more efficient. In some things, a woman's brain is more efficient. But more important is another thing: what is a man's brain and what is a woman's brain? This is some kind of non-existent average. What is the average man? Or is the average woman who? This is idiocy.

25

A lot of myths exist in the public consciousness: for example, that mathematicians are smart and ballerinas are stupid. Well, where did you get this from? I specifically dealt with what happens in the brain of a dancer. So there is something going on there that it is still unknown who has more serious processes going on: the engineer or this ballerina.

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We have to decide for ourselves who we are: we are the ones who are the fastest, bend better than everyone else, think better than everyone else..? If we are talking about this, then we have already lost. Our civilization is over. Because artificial devices will definitely do it better than we do.

27

Freud did a bad thing. He put an entire planet on his own for the entire XX century. Put sex at the head of all possible angles. Everyone began to look for Oedipus complexes in themselves, to read dreams in a special way … At the same time, I in no way underestimate the significance of what he said about the subconscious. He actually opened up the subconscious as a very good player.

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In people, I love not only the mind. But also decency, honesty, loyalty.