Quantas vezes você se viu fazendo alguma coisa sem ter consciência disso? Costuma-se dizer que isso é agir no “piloto automático” – e se isso é real ou não, é uma questão de 1.500 anos, desde que o filósofo Santo Agostinho se perguntou se a consciência é contínua ou se estamos conscientes apenas em certos momentos do tempo. Para um grupo de psicofísicos da Escola Politécnica Federal de Lausanne (EPFL), na Suíça, a resposta é: os dois.
A team of scientists, led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, report that a class of drugs used for a broad array of conditions, from allergies and colds to hypertension and urinary incontinence, may be associated with an increased risk of cognitive decline, particularly in older adults at greater risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
La tumba de Nasrudín tenía al frente una inmensa puerta de madera, trabada con barrotes y candados. Nadie podía entrar en ella, al menos por la puerta. Como broma postrera, Nasrudín decretó que la tumba no tuviese paredes a su alrededor…
Un hombre encontró al maestro secreto Khidr trabajando como barquero.
Khidr leyó sus pensamientos y le dijo:
Al oír que un hombre quería aprender el idioma kurdo, Nasrudín ofreció enseñarle. Su propio conocimiento de esa lengua se limitaba a unas pocas palabras.
“Comenzaremos con la palabra que en kurdo significa ‘sopa caliente’” dijo el Mulá. “En kurdo, se dice ‘aash’.”
“No entiendo muy bien, Mulá. ¿Cómo dirías ‘sopa fría’?”
“Nunca se dice ‘sopa fría’. A los kurdos, la sopa les gusta caliente.”
Las ocurrencias del increíble Mulá Nasrudín
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Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara had an extraordinary life for many reasons. For starters, the Japanese physician and longevity expert lived until the age of 105.
When he died, in 2017, Hinohara was chairman emeritus of St. Luke’s International University and honorary president of St. Luke’s International Hospital, both in Tokyo.
Perhaps best known for his book, “Living Long, Living Good,” Hinohara offered advice that helped make Japan the world leader in longevity. Some were fairly intuitive points, while others were less obvious:
People can learn to use the non-conscious content in their brains to make profitable decisions. Findings suggest a novel form of non-conscious metacognition.
Source: ATR Brain Information Communications Research Laboratory Group
We are conscious beings, yet most of the activity in our brains remains nonconscious. Can we harness this hidden pool of information? Notably, one important challenge is the astronomical vastness and complexity of such nonconscious information. How can the human brain ‘know’ what aspects of such complex activity may be relevant, given that it is by definition nonconscious and thereby ‘unknown’? There is no magic formula to solve this problem, and research in artificial intelligence suggests that even the best of our current algorithms struggle to handle this vastness of dimensionality in everyday, real-life problems.
