Mariano Sigman: Your words may predict your future mental health
Marijano Sigman (Mariano Sigman): Vaše reči mogu predvideti vaš buduće mentalno zdravlje
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,
koji nam omogućavaju
aspects of human thought --
da su najdublji aspekti ljudskih misli -
that have shaped our culture
koji su oblikovali našu kulturu
the structural columns of human thought.
strukturalnu osnovu ljudske misli.
različita mišljenja o ovome.
opinions about this.
philosophical debate.
filozofska rasprava.
even amenable to science?
uopšte pristupačno nauci?
how the ancient Greek cities looked
na koji možemo rekonstruisati
samo na osnovu nekoliko cigala,
are the archaeological records,
arheološke zapise,
books of human culture,
ljudske kulture,
with a very wild and radical hypothesis:
veoma smelu i radikalnu hipotezu
we would call schizophrenics.
danas nazvali šizofreničarima.
humans described in these books
opisani u ovim knjigama
and in different places of the world,
i na različitim mestima na svetu,
as coming from the Gods,
that they were the creators,
da su oni bili ti koji ih proizvode,
about their own thoughts.
o sopstvenim mislima.
of our own existence --
svojim postojanjem,
kulturološko razviće.
ali ima jedan očigledan problem,
nekoliko vrlo specifičnih primera.
and very specific examples.
history only about 3,000 years ago
pre svega 3 000 godina u ljudskoj istoriji
and objective manner.
na kvantitativan i objektivan način.
to go about this is quite obvious.
prilično je očigledan.
and then he wrote,
jednog dana i onda napisao:
a fully introspective consciousness."
potpuno introspektivnu svest.“
what is the essence of the problem.
o tome šta je suština problema.
of a concept that's never said.
koji nikada nije izrečen.
does not appear a single time
is to build the space of words.
jeste da izgradimo prostor reči.
that contains all words
between any two of them
između bilo koje od njih dve
closely related they are.
stoje vrlo blizu jedna druge,
to be very close together,
to be very far away.
budu veoma udaljene.
for any two words within the space.
za bilo koje dve reči u prostoru.
that we can construct the space of words.
na koje možemo konstruisati prostor reči.
otprilike onako kako radimo sa rečnicima.
that when two words are related,
kada su dve reči povezane,
u istim rečenicama,
just by pure chance.
da će se desiti pukom verovatnoćom.
i visoko dimenzionalan prostor,
and high-dimensional space,
o tome koliko to dobro funkcioniše,
of how well this works,
we analyze this for some familiar words.
kada radimo analizu za neku poznatu reč.
u semantička susedstva.
into semantic neighborhoods.
naučne termine i tako dalje.
the scientific terms and so on.
that we organize concepts in a hierarchy.
da koncepte organizujemo hijerarhijski.
dele na dve potkategorije
break down into two subcategories
at this for a while,
kao bavljenje poezijom.
a bit like doing poetry.
is like walking in the mind.
koje su naše intuicije,
what are our intuitions,
in the neighborhood of introspection.
u okolini introspekcije.
„razum“ i „osećanje“
"reason," "emotion,"
„fudbal“, „sveća“ i „banana“
"candle," "banana,"
of introspection,
and somehow vague,
apstraktno i nekako nejasno
je da uzmemo knjige,
of words as a trajectory
spends significant time
da li ta putanja provodi znatno vreme
of introspection.
istoriju introspekcije
the history of introspection
available written record.
najbolje dostupne pisane zapise.
koliko je blizu introspekcije
how close it is to introspection,
as time goes on and on,
and closer and closer
in the ancient Greek tradition.
u tradiciji Antičke Grčke.
u homerovskoj tradiciji
in the Homeric tradition,
getting closer to introspection.
koje se približavaju introspekciji.
to an almost five-fold increase
do skoro petostrukog porasta
and closer and closer
i više približavaju
je to što sada možemo da pitamo
i u drugačijoj, nezavisnoj tradiciji.
in a different, independent tradition.
on the Judeo-Christian tradition,
u judeo-hrišćanskoj tradiciji
u najstarijim knjigama Starog zaveta,
for the oldest books in the Old Testament,
had been recognized by scholars,
the father of modern psychology.
ocem savremene psihologije.
of being quantitative,
important conclusions
neke od najvažnijih zaključaka
one of the beauties of science,
jedna od lepota nauke,
can be translated
of different domains.
na mnogo različitih domena.
about the past of human consciousness,
o prošlosti ljudske svesti,
we can pose to ourselves
koje možemo postaviti sebi
about the future of our own consciousness.
o budućnosti naše svesti.
of where our minds will be in a few days,
gde će naš um biti za nekoliko dana,
are now wearing sensors
help us prevent diseases,
da sprečimo oboljenja,
i analiziranje reči koje izgovorimo,
and analyzing the words we speak,
something may go wrong with our minds.
da krene naopako sa našim umom.
the recorded speech of 34 young people
snimljenog govora 34 mladih ljudi
of developing schizophrenia.
obolevanja od šizofrenije.
we measured speech at day one,
of the speech could predict,
da li se svojstva govora mogu predvideti
information in semantics
dovoljno semantičkih informacija
organization of the mind.
buduća organizacija uma.
of schizophrenics and a control group,
od kontrolne grupe,
for the ancient texts,
sa antičkim tekstovima,
onset of psychosis.
budući nastanak psihoze.
was not so much what they were saying,
koliko su semantički bile bliske,
neighborhoods the words were,
to the other one.
of speech within one semantic topic,
u okviru jedne semantičke teme,
that for this group of 34 people,
da je u ovoj grupi od 34 ljudi
coherence could predict,
na semantičkoj koherentnosti
a kod koga neće.
that could not be achieved --
existing clinical measures.
postojećim kliničkim merilima.
while I was working on this,
koje je objavio Polo.
back in Buenos Aires,
u Buenos Ajresu,
he was living in New York.
because nothing was said explicitly --
jer ništa nije eksplicitno rečeno -
that something was going wrong.
and I called Polo,
through words, his feelings,
da osetim njegova osećanja,
effective way to help.
ali vrlo efikasan način da se pomogne.
close to understanding
that we all have,
tu intuiciju koju svi imamo,
a very different form of mental health,
vrlo drugačiji oblik mentalnog zdravlja,
and automated analysis
kvantitativnoj i automatizovanoj analizi
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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