I left my tape recorder at home.
The brain makes countless cognitive errors as a result of its complexity. Most everyday forgetfulness is normal.
Is our brain failing?
Yes, and more considering how we live today: carrying and managing a lot of information at high speed.
We are unable to remember in which corner of the house we left our glasses.
Because we have automated a very important part of the activities we do, and this implies that the minimum attention necessary to form a memory has not been deployed.
Sometimes we make up our minds about where the keys are and go there again and again.
The brain has become an organ specialized in making predictions. The world we see is not reality, it is an anticipation of reality, and the memories we build are not a photograph of what was, but a probability-based reconstruction of what happened. A large part of our memories are false.
What do I have to do to get the word off the tip of my tongue?
Stop looking for it and it will come. It is the TOT phenomenon, a failure in the recovery of the stored memory, very common.
Is it better to change the subject?
It often seems to us that that word starts with a letter, but that will not lead us to the word, it is better to let the system act as it was formed: automatically.
What happens behind the wheel that we become beasts?
We use a lot of cognition while handling something that is potentially lethal. Our primitive brain designed to survive can lead us to be hyperreactive and at the slightest advance, you shoot yourself.
Do hunches exist?
Yes, the human brain uses information, sensations and experiences preconsciously, which provide a kind of information to the nervous system, which sets in motion a series of sensations that help us make decisions without knowing it.
Don't they pass for reason?
No. If a man in a red shirt hit me and I don't even remember it, but one day I'm walking down the street at night and someone in a red shirt appears, something will tell me to change the sidewalk. That's the feeling.
Is it the same with intuition?
Yes, they are the kind of sensations that make us anticipate something without reason. "It's better not to come in here", intuition tells us. And it works because as a neurobiological process it exists, they are signals from the body that the brain uses for us to decide.
Between reason and emotion, who wins the battle?
It is very easy for emotion to take over reason, the amount of neurons that go from emotion to reason is much greater.
Is it time to invest?
These are billions of years in an environment that is nothing like the present.
And supernatural experiences?
They are fascinating, and the phenomenon exists. These are experiences that have always been explained in any culture, but there is a more or less deterministic explanation.
What is this explanation?
We explain some phenomena as biases or cognitive errors when reconstructing memories, and in other cases we know that something has failed at the brain level that has triggered the experience of having seen a ghost, leaving one's body, speaking an unknown language or live experiences of stasis.
explain it to me
In Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, it is very common for affected people to experience this kind of hallucination and they can even appear years before the disease has been diagnosed.
There are psychics who help the police find missing persons.
They don't find them. Confirmation bias means that we tend to forget what didn't produce a result and remember what did.
What is one of the most terrifying phenomena we can experience?
Sleep paralysis. It usually happens during the transition from wakefulness to sleep: you wake up and feel like you can't move any part of your body. This in itself is already scary, and perceptual experiences are usually added that add very supernatural and terrifying nuances.
what kind
You can have the impression that there is an evil presence in the room, see it and, not infrequently, have the real feeling that there is a being on top of your chest that prevents you from breathing. It's a normal thing that happens to healthy people and affects half the population. It happened to me. terrifying
