15 sensationally frightening quotes by the neurolinguist Tatiana Chernigovskaya

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

Professor Tatyana Chernigovskaya, Doctor of Biology and Philology, Head of the Laboratory of Cognitive Research, St. Petersburg State University, gives interesting and useful lectures on the brain, consciousness and the unconscious, psyche, artificial intelligence, thinking, etc. Sometimes they slip into truly sensationally frightening statements about the incomprehensible secrets and surprises of our most powerful computer. Some are simply impossible to believe. We have collected the most unexpected ones for you.

1. The brain is a mysterious powerful thing, which for some reason we call "my brain" by misunderstanding. We have absolutely no reason for this: who is whose is a separate question.

2. 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?

3. A really frightening thought - who is really the boss in the house? There are too many of them: genome, psychosomatic type, a host 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.

4. We must 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?

5. So that you are not torn from the inside, you need to speak out. For this, there are confessors, girlfriends and psychotherapists. A splinter, if not removed in time, will cause blood poisoning. People who are silent and keep everything to themselves are not only at serious psychological or even psychiatric risk, but also at the risk of somatics. Any professional would agree with me: it all starts with a stomach ulcer. The body is one - both the psyche and the body.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. People have wrong attitudes, they think that, for example, a cook is worse than a conductor. This is not so: the ingenious chef will shut down all the conductors, I am telling you as a gourmet. Comparing them is the same as sour and square - the question is incorrectly posed. Everyone is good in their place.

9. 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.

10. The fact that the brain was in our skull 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.

11. We pay a huge price for the existence of geniuses. Nervous and mental disorders come out on top in the world among diseases, they are beginning to outstrip cancer and cardiovascular diseases in terms of quantity, which is not only a horror and nightmare in general, but, among other things, a very large dynamic burden for all developed countries.

12. We are born with the most powerful computer in our heads. But you need to install programs in it. Some programs are already in it, and some need to be uploaded there, and you download all your life until you die. He rocks it all the time, you change all the time, you rebuild.

13. The brain is not just a neural network, it is a network of networks, a network of networks of networks. In the brain, 5, 5 petabytes of information is three million hours of video viewing. Three hundred years of continuous viewing!

14. The brain does not live, like Professor Dowell's head, on a plate. He has a body - ears, arms, legs, skin, so he remembers the taste of lipstick, he remembers what it means "heel itches." The body is an immediate part of it. The computer does not have this body.