Overall, what we as a species know about ourselves is limited. It is possible to say, that we are limited by our current mental capacities, or in other words – our brains. In fact, the brain is an organ that is not wholly understood. Iain McGilchrist, a renowned psychiatrist tackles the common misconceptions concerning the division of brain into hemispheres and introduces new ideas concerning their functions.
1. Did you find the presentation interesting? What was the most interesting part?
2. Do you think McGilchrist’s findings will change the way people perceive the functions of the brain?
3. Do you think that in the future we will be able to improve our brains?
1. Did you find the presentation interesting? What was the most interesting part?
2. Do you think McGilchrist’s findings will change the way people perceive the functions of the brain?
3. Do you think that in the future we will be able to improve our brains?
Comments
Frankly, I don't think McGilchrist's findings will affect broad range of people, because people really don't care about the way their brains really work or about science in general.
I think we will be able to improve our brains, we try to do this all the time.
I think that the part about hemispheres was very interesting. However, I already knew before that we used only some percent of our brain and that brain is the organ that is responsible for our possibilities.
2. Do you think McGilchrist’s findings will change the way people perceive the functions of the brain?
They are very fresh and creative, however I don't know if they are enough game-changing in order to change people's view of how the brain functions. Also, I do not know if regular people are very much interested in that kinds of subjects.
3. Do you think that in the future we will be able to improve our brains?
I think technology is growing so rapidly that we would be able to implement some kinds of enhancements to our brains that will stabilize our emotions, stir our brain activity and neural transmissions and so on.
I didn't like the presentations' visuals and the voice for me is badly recorded for this type of video. It's hard to focus on the topic by itself.
2. Do you think McGilchrist’s findings will change the way people perceive the functions of the brain?
Maybe, I'm not the guy, that is good in foresightedness in biological topics. But it's still one of the most mysterious topics in science.
3. Do you think that in the future we will be able to improve our brains?
Definitely yes, but not only by the mental exercises but mainly with the help of the technology.
I think that this presentation itself is interesting, but the main problem is in sound - I think that the voice quality was quite bad.
2. Do you think McGilchrist’s findings will change the way people perceive the functions of the brain?
I don't know. Those kind of things are not in my "interesting things" list, so it's hard for me to predict things like that.
3. Do you think that in the future we will be able to improve our brains?
Yes. I think that people do evolve, we are learning a lot of new things every day and we can pass it for the future
Certainly, once technology will become so much so that we will be able to improve our brains. Maybe we will live to a time when such a technological breakthrough will occur.
In my opinion that findings don’t change anything in the people way of thinking in the next few years. People, like me, don’t care about the way their brains work.
We are improving our brains right now: what’s the difference if we storage knowledge inside our head or in our computers? In the future, if we will be able to connect with our smartphones with sth placed inside our heads… that will be improvement.
He got my attention. I don't know how could we react to this actually but I think it's important to be aware our brain is not so primitively divided as they usually teach us.
Maybe. I think medical improvements or rather avoiding and/or healing mental diseases will be at the first plan but then we will see.