Ache And Burn In The Thigh

you are me

What happens when you show an infant's tongue? - The chance is high that the child then returned the favor. If you a monkey that sings? - The monkey could agree with (see left). If you watch another accidentally touches a hot stove? - Man pulls a pained expression his hand to the body. And when you see sick people to put their own immune system on alert .

The cause of these feelings and reactions is the same: it is the only recently discovered so-called mirror neurons in our brain. Some describe it as the most important discovery in the Neurophysiology of late. In simple words there are nerve cells in our brain that simulate all the actions, feelings and moods of those around us. Diego Maradona to see us when dribbling towards goal, in our brains is a virtual Copy of the striker created. And we risk not only "a little bit with him," no, we are actually in that moment, Diego Maradona. Let us see how someone else is pricked with a needle, there is a corresponding response in our brains out, so that only the absence of pain we must be calm in order to show no defensive or escape behavior. Simply by watching so inevitably we put ourselves into the other person.

Why bother? - It's simple: because we understand our fellow human beings better. Evolution has provided us with actual brain cells that are responsible for empathy (the neuroscientist VS Ramachandran calls they like to publish also " Dalai Lama neurons "). Man as a social system from the ground up, they need to facilitate the interaction with others. He has the inner lives of others, their intentions, emotions, etc. guess not by logical conclusions from their external behavior, he feels just as if it were his own! Significantly, even in people with autism, people who have problems interacting with others, a weak mirror neuron activity been established. Even doctors' protect themselves "by a reduced sensitivity of the ongoing management of pain of others.

The less direct experience Empathy for another person but is just tied to immediate perception. We see a helpless people on the streets, we have a greater need to help him than when it comes to millions of starving Africans is that we have never seen. clear evolution from a theoretical point of view: We should worry only about the immediate past members of the tribe who were related to us many times, and not to people who do not concern us. Therefore agree in the famous trolley dilemma most respondents, a human sacrifice in an indirect way, by turning the switch, but not directly by pushing down from the bridge. The Dalai Lama neurons, to make his suffering as our own, to prevent it creates a hand.

Asians have traditionally distanced themselves from the idea of the individual. For it is one of the community, the association to which one belongs to, the unit under Miscellaneous. Mirror neurons give them right in a way. When I interact with others, I flipped on their heads and thus become a part of them. The boundaries between the individual and "the others" are resolved to some extent. It is, as long as you come into direct contact with other, never "alone". I'm also a bit of you, and not by deductive conclusions, but quite direct - thanks to the mirror in my brain.

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travel to nothing



Oh, if only it were that simple! Easy to put into the car, time and type losdüsen. 88 miles per hour - whoosh! - We have reached in the distant future - or in a dark past. But as easy as in the science-fiction classic "Back to the Future" time travel is not. Despite the lack of prospects, for example, the stock prices of today in the luggage did yesterday go public, would certainly not lacking. Or repeat the botched dream date with the woman this time and make sure that we not drill all too apparent in the nose. What is the travel time that is in the way? Time but, like space, just another dimension, right?

The brilliant physicist Stephen Hawking has joked times, if time travel were possible, we would have long since overrun by hordes of tourists from the future. But now seriously: One must first differentiate between the travel times in the future and such in the past. First, the simpler: the future. There are actually a relatively clear principle that allows us to look after 3 minutes of our grandchildren. You either climb into a rocket, with the darkest lichtgeschwindikeitsnahen speed through space, or to park the rocket on the edge of a gravity-dripping black hole (hineinzurutschen without, of course). For according to the special and general relativity time passes slower the more the faster you move, or the stronger the gravitational force acting on one. While passing on the earth for your remaining contemporaries a century, shows your own Clock only five minutes. Or even less. The cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev traveled during his 800 days in space in a whole Fünzigstelsekunde the future - but only because we can not produce higher speeds.

looks much more difficult it out when it comes to traveling back in time. There is one small and two large stumbling blocks. The small one is the logic. They argued that if past trips were possible, there would be an irreconcilable paradox:

You could kill his own grandfather,
would that even born never
so would have no one there who could kill the grandfather,
so that born but now would
and would go back in time to kill the grandfather ...

It turns always in a circle, and the universe does not like such contradictions. On this issue there is a surprisingly simple answer - the self-compliance principle . It states that only such course of events are possible, the not contain self-contradictions. When I was thus born, then I can indeed go back in time to kill my grandfather, but I will not make it in some way - either I meet him on or not someone else confused with him (and now know who the mysterious unsolved committed murder, has told the grandfather of the time). And when I travel back in time to find out what you have seen for a mighty unusual flash my neighbors two days ago, then the only explanation for the flash of light that I have caused him to travel through time itself. The causality loop is closed in this way, the world is again consistent.

But the first big stumbling block: how us insignificant patent officer from Bern informed, has each object has its own time (otherwise it would not provide this journey into the future, which relates so well to only one object, possible ). So climb into the time machine to travel so only in the own past - that is, one is younger. The rest of the world, this does not matter, he remains, as it is. To travel into the past "within the meaning of the science-fiction stories, one would have reversed the whole rest of the world put in the time machine (and themselves remain outside), which obviously technically impossible (for more complications resulting from past trips here ).

The biggest problem to travel to the past is this: You can not go into something that does not exist. And time does not exist. Of course, we all have a clock, but time there are not as such. It is a mere construct of our consciousness, a calculating aid, a measure of changes in the world. The physicist Ernst Mach said again: "The time is ... an abstraction to which we go through the change of things", and he is right . , so it is also absurd to ask what it was before the Big Bang - da nothing existed, there was no time, no amount of change or movement of something. "Before the Big Bang" is thus an equally nonsensical sentence like: "North of the North Pole." Since time exists only in perception, one can moreover also measure how fast it goes by a particular sector. Happen in the brain computational processes 100 in 1 second elapses more slowly for this being the time than if the same processes take 10 seconds ("oops, only a short 10 seconds and already enjoys over !..."). Why is the time in old age, with decreasing speed of thought processes demonstrably slower . But if the only time a think of our minds and nothing more, you can not stay in it. One can only slow down the speed or sequence of events (so future trips), but never turn back.

Theoretishe Although physicists speculate about time travel by means of rotating universes or stable worm holes in the curved space-time, but all these are highly controversial and thought-structures, in reality, impossible. We are so caught up in the now. The very fast tomorrow, or "ten-years-later" is. And then the time for us because we think more slowly, too quickly passes. Gather therefore the day!

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I see something I tambien not see

Today there is a little trip into a magical world in which we perceive things visually, without seeing her, and vice versa, can stare directly at something, without realizing it. Where is this world, you ask? - In your head.



First, the horse they know: The fact that people perceive something without it "see" aware for some time is certain. People with a disorder of the visual area in the brain are de facto can blind, but because the eye still works perfectly, guess pretty good, coming from the direction that the light flash. Whether a can unconsciously influence for fractions of a second on a screen faded image a person is in dispute, which has the presidential campaign of George W. Bush in 2000 but not discouraged, in a campaign spot in this way, the Democrats no longer visually perceptible as " Council (rats) to call (shot so).

is much more interesting the last until the years the focus of research shifted property of the people not to see things that are in front of him. Great things. In good light. Without hassle. Welcome to the magic cabinet of visual perception!

It starts with the fact that no one who is staring at himself in the mirror in the eyes, the notice to any other obvious movement of their own eyes. Yes, they are always in motion and never stand still. Man, this tremor the eyes do not notice (try it out:), because the eye can see in the movement itself is nothing, because the image is blurred as in a camera. So there a picture at the end of the movement . And then the eyes are closed, yes. The movement is rationalized away from the visual impression also. It's kind of eerie to know that you do not see anything in the mirror, what everyone else who has your eyes look at it is obvious.

But that was only the prelude, the fugue's coming. The brain is in fact always confronted with a problem: it should be from the flood of signals, which it can filter out the most important and constantly create space for new sensations. And so it is often fatal - the visual perception is ridiculous trifles brought completely confused. One shows a man a picture and immediately afterwards the same photo with a significant change, he acknowledges that most immediately. But not when comes between the images for 100 milliseconds, a bare gray area instead of the photo. Here is an example. I bet you did not notice the difference between the photos. Although he - Indian word of honor! - pretty is striking. The reason: If the first image disappears and the gray spot is, the brain thinks: "Aha, the picture is gone, so I delete the appropriate memory, so a bit of room free will. "And if it reappears in modified form, the brain has forgotten the details of the first image long ago and has nothing to compare.

And if you, dear reader, look at something, you have indeed a field of about . 180 degrees, but believe not know that you are all that is there, really see. As I said, filter the brain, otherwise there is a data deluge. Professor Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois, who has a flair for the absurd showed subjects a video , in which several people threw a ball. Subjects were asked to count the number of throws. suddenly appeared among the players right in the picture a gorilla, pounded his chest and disappeared. 50% of the subjects have not noticed the gorilla. Too busy they were counting. Imagine the times can melt in your mouth: You have something not directly staring and seen.

Daniel Simons, however, had more sense of humor, and went on: In an experiment shown here noticed two thirds of the passers, was that the person with whom they spoke, was replaced in the course of conversation with another. The person they had originally asked for directions, after a brief distraction that did not last longer than a second and suddenly someone was completely different from the passers-by. This other person was dressed differently, had a different voice and was also different in size. Nevertheless, the passers-by the "new" party declared on the way to draw without the slightest suspicion.

So you can actually look directly at something without seeing it - and that just because something more important three inches right or left for the brain with its limited processing capacity ( here is another good example). And if you think you could thus pass a nonsense, then I highly recommend the following card trick-follow - to the end! Meanwhile, I go back to my magic world in which one occasionally sees a gorilla standing in front of you.