Tatyana Chernigov about what we do not know about the brain

We know so little about the brain, the processes occurring in it, and their relation to our perception of reality. Tatyana Chernigov, biologist, professor and head of the Laboratory for Cognitive Studies tells the amazing facts about the brain.

Our brain is a universal and the most powerful computer, we just do not know how to use it correctly. Mankind tends to the stars, but to the study of the internal space is almost not to proceed.

The more we learn about the structure of our brain, the more questions arise. One philosopher said that the system can learn the system more complex themselves. And we dig in, and the end of the rabbit hole to be seen.

In 1866, in his essay "Reflexes of the Brain" Ivan Sechenov wrote that the basis of all mental processes is physiology. And despite the passage of time mankind has not yet been able to answer the deepest questions.

Where does consciousness? And if there is a permanent place of residence at the memory? How realistic is it that we see, because the information is processed by our brain, and we do not know that it is working properly, and that periodically fails? Who are we and what are we? Can consciousness come from artificial intelligence? Is there a "free will" in our neural network and we are born with certain qualities already sewn and functions?

Wachowski Brothers (now brother and sister), creating a matrix, have created a masterpiece, because we really can not say with precision what it taste the chicken, and whether our settings messed up? Maybe there really is no spoon?

And a little more food for thought and wonder.