Academician, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, and founder of the Human Brain Institute, Svyatoslav Medvedev, discusses neurobiology from the perspective of the creative process, the nature of insight, and genius. What is the creative process? Do the criteria for creativity change? Why is it so important to switch between streams of information? Can the myth of hemispheric differences be debunked? How does creativity affect the functioning of the entire body? What is an error detector? Is there a difference between scientific and artistic creativity? Does brain mass matter? Does genius depend on IQ? Why do geniuses arise in groups? And how can you develop your creativity?
00:00:00 Teaser
00:01:53 Is the creative process a special mode of consciousness?
00:03:07 Three criteria of creativity
00:04:18 Scientist Svyatoslav Medvedev on how the brain works in a stressful situation
00:07:03 How the brain under stress is similar to the brain during the creative process
00:07:56 The difference between a smart, capable, and brilliant person
00:09:28 The brain only works at 10%
00:11:12 The brain as a ministry
00:14:20 What a worm thinks about and how dogs lie
00:16:04 Why we get younger when we are creative
00:19:53 How our world shrinks with age
00:22:30 Adult life is full of limitations
00:25:00 Physicists and mathematicians retire at 40
00:30:16 Genius is disease
00:32:07 Does size matter?
00:33:34 IQ — the ability to find patterns
00:36:02 Why geniuses appear in flashes
00:39:23 Insight — a lightning bolt that strikes the head
00:41:37 Insight — the result of systematic work
00:43:23 And meditation — reflection
00:44:02 The Dalai Lama explains the simplest meditation method
00:46:24 What is posthumous meditation
00:48:24 Buddhist monks — Medvedev's lab assistants
00:50:23 Why study the mechanism of meditation
00:53:46 The difference between the female and male brain
00:57:07 How sex stimulates creativity
00:59:39 How to train your brain
#neurobiology #insight #genius #professor #braininstitute #SvyatoslavMedvedev #creativity #creativity #flow #cerebralhemispheres #errordetector #brain #brainmass #creativitydevelopment
Academician, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, and founder of the Human Brain Institute, Svyatoslav Medvedev, discusses neurobiology from the perspective of the creative process, the nature of insight, and genius. What is the creative process? Do the criteria for creativity change? Why is it so important to switch between streams of information? Can the myth of hemispheric differences be debunked? How does creativity affect the functioning of the entire body? What is an error detector? Is there a difference between scientific and artistic creativity? Does brain mass matter? Does genius depend on IQ? Why do geniuses arise in groups? And how can you develop your creativity?
00:00:00 Teaser
00:01:53 Is the creative process a special mode of consciousness?
00:03:07 Three criteria of creativity
00:04:18 Scientist Svyatoslav Medvedev on how the brain works in a stressful situation
00:07:03 How the brain under stress is similar to the brain during the creative process
00:07:56 The difference between a smart, capable, and brilliant person
00:09:28 The brain only works at 10%
00:11:12 The brain as a ministry
00:14:20 What a worm thinks about and how dogs lie
00:16:04 Why we get younger when we are creative
00:19:53 How our world shrinks with age
00:22:30 Adult life is full of limitations
00:25:00 Physicists and mathematicians retire at 40
00:30:16 Genius is disease
00:32:07 Does size matter?
00:33:34 IQ — the ability to find patterns
00:36:02 Why geniuses appear in flashes
00:39:23 Insight — a lightning bolt that strikes the head
00:41:37 Insight — the result of systematic work
00:43:23 And meditation — reflection
00:44:02 The Dalai Lama explains the simplest meditation method
00:46:24 What is posthumous meditation
00:48:24 Buddhist monks — Medvedev's lab assistants
00:50:23 Why study the mechanism of meditation
00:53:46 The difference between the female and male brain
00:57:07 How sex stimulates creativity
00:59:39 How to train your brain
#neurobiology #insight #genius #professor #braininstitute #SvyatoslavMedvedev #creativity #creativity #flow #cerebralhemispheres #errordetector #brain #brainmass #creativitydevelopment