Mariano Sigman: Your words may predict your future mental health
Mariano Sigman: Vaše riječi mogu predvidjeti budućnost vašeg mentalnog zdravlja
In his provocative, mind-bending book "The Secret Life of the Mind," neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reveals his life’s work exploring the inner workings of the human brain. Full bio
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to know how the ancient Greeks dressed,
kako su se stari Grci odijevali,
aspects of human thought --
aspekti ljudske misli --
that have shaped our culture
oblikovale našu kulturu
the structural columns of human thought.
stupove ljudske misli.
opinions about this.
vezi toga.
philosophical debate.
već dugo traje.
even amenable to science?
znanosti?
how the ancient Greek cities looked
rekonstruirati izgled antičkih gradova
are the archaeological records,
snimke,
books of human culture,
ljudske kulture,
with a very wild and radical hypothesis:
vrlo divlje i radikalne hipoteze:
we would call schizophrenics.
nazvali shizofrenicima.
humans described in these books
ljudi opisani u tim knjigama
and in different places of the world,
mjestima na svijetu,
as coming from the Gods,
Bogova,
that they were the creators,
oni bili stvaratelji,
about their own thoughts.
vlastitim mislima.
danas,
of our own existence --
vlastitog postojanja --
and very specific examples.
vrlo specifičnih primjera.
history only about 3,000 years ago
povijesti prije samo 3.000 godina
and objective manner.
objektivan način.
to go about this is quite obvious.
.
and then he wrote,
i napisao:
a fully introspective consciousness."
svijest."
what is the essence of the problem.
srž problema.
of a concept that's never said.
koji nije nikada izgovoren.
does not appear a single time
niti jedan jedini put
is to build the space of words.
da napravimo prostor od riječi.
that contains all words
sve riječi
between any two of them
koje dvije riječi
closely related they are.
to be very close together,
budu vrlo blizu,
to be very far away.
budu jako daleko.
for any two words within the space.
dvije riječi u prostoru.
that we can construct the space of words.
prostor od riječi.
that when two words are related,
da su dvije riječi povezane,
just by pure chance.
and high-dimensional space,
visoko dimenzionalan prostor,
of how well this works,
ovo dobro funkcionira,
we analyze this for some familiar words.
kada analiziramo neke poznate riječi.
into semantic neighborhoods.
u semantička susjedstva.
the scientific terms and so on.
znanstvene izraze i tako dalje.
that we organize concepts in a hierarchy.
hijerarhijsku organizaciju koncepata.
break down into two subcategories
dijele na dvije podkategorije
tamo gdje je,
gdje bi i trebala biti,
at this for a while,
gledate u ovo,
a bit like doing poetry.
da pišete poeziju.
is like walking in the mind.
u umu.
what are our intuitions,
što su naše intuicije,
in the neighborhood of introspection.
susjedstvo introspekcije.
"reason," "emotion,"
"razum", "osjećaj",
"candle," "banana,"
"banana",
of introspection,
and somehow vague,
i nekako maglovitim,
znanosti.
of words as a trajectory
spends significant time
li ova putanja puno vremena
of introspection.
the history of introspection
available written record.
izvore.
knjige --
how close it is to introspection,
introspekciji,
as time goes on and on,
dalje,
and closer and closer
in the ancient Greek tradition.
tradiciji antičke Grčke.
in the Homeric tradition,
homerske tradicije,
getting closer to introspection.
koje se približavaju introspekciji.
to an almost five-fold increase
na čak peterostruko povećanje
and closer and closer
bliže i bliže
in a different, independent tradition.
nezavisne tradicije.
on the Judeo-Christian tradition,
židovsko kršćansku tradiciju,
for the oldest books in the Old Testament,
knjiga u Starom zavjetu,
had been recognized by scholars,
od strane učenjaka,
the father of modern psychology.
on otac moderne psihologije.
of being quantitative,
important conclusions
zaključaka
one of the beauties of science,
znanosti,
can be translated
of different domains.
druge aspekte.
about the past of human consciousness,
o povijesti ljudske svijesti,
we can pose to ourselves
si možemo postaviti
about the future of our own consciousness.
naše svijesti.
of where our minds will be in a few days,
za par dana,
are now wearing sensors
nosi senzore
help us prevent diseases,
spriječiti bolesti,
and analyzing the words we speak,
analiza riječi koje govorimo,
something may go wrong with our minds.
našim umovima.
the recorded speech of 34 young people
snimane govore 34 mlade osobe
of developing schizophrenia.
razvijanja shizofrenije.
we measured speech at day one,
govore prvi dan,
of the speech could predict,
govora predvidjeti,
information in semantics
organization of the mind.
organizacije uma.
of schizophrenics and a control group,
shizofrenika i kontrolne grupe,
for the ancient texts,
onset of psychosis.
was not so much what they were saying,
što su govorili
susjedstvu se nalaze riječi,
neighborhoods the words were,
to the other one.
u drugi.
of speech within one semantic topic,
govora unutar jedne semantičke teme,
that for this group of 34 people,
34 osobe,
coherence could predict,
povezanosti, predvidjeti
that could not be achieved --
ostvareno --
existing clinical measures.
kliničkim mjerama.
while I was working on this,
back in Buenos Aires,
Buenos Airesu,
he was living in New York.
because nothing was said explicitly --
nije bilo ničega eksplicitnog --
that something was going wrong.
da je nešto pogrešno.
and I called Polo,
through words, his feelings,
njegove emocije,
effective way to help.
efektivan način za pomoć.
close to understanding
that we all have,
svi imamo,
a very different form of mental health,
oblik mentalnog zdravlja,
and automated analysis
i automatskim analizama
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mariano Sigman - NeuroscientistIn his provocative, mind-bending book "The Secret Life of the Mind," neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reveals his life’s work exploring the inner workings of the human brain.
Why you should listen
Mariano Sigman, a physicist by training, is a leading figure in the cognitive neuroscience of learning and decision making. Sigman was awarded a Human Frontiers Career Development Award, the National Prize of Physics, the Young Investigator Prize of "College de France," the IBM Scalable Data Analytics Award and is a scholar of the James S. McDonnell Foundation. In 2016 he was made a Laureate of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
In The Secret Life of the Mind, Sigman's ambition is to explain the mind so that we can understand ourselves and others more deeply. He shows how we form ideas during our first days of life, how we give shape to our fundamental decisions, how we dream and imagine, why we feel certain emotions, how the brain transforms and how who we are changes with it. Spanning biology, physics, mathematics, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy and medicine, as well as gastronomy, magic, music, chess, literature and art, The Secret Life of the Mind revolutionizes how neuroscience serves us in our lives, revealing how the infinity of neurons inside our brains manufacture how we perceive, reason, feel, dream and communicate.
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