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Academician, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, and founder of the Human Brain Institute Svyatoslav Medvedev can talk about neurobiology from the point of view of the creative process, the nature of insight and genius. What is the creative process? Do the criteria of creativity change? Why is it so important to switch between information flows? Is it possible to debunk the myth about the difference in hemispheres? How does creativity affect the work of the whole organism? What is an error detector? Is there a difference between scientific and artistic creativity? Does brain mass matter? Does genius depend on IQ? Why do geniuses appear in groups? And how can you develop your creativity? 00:00:00 teaser 00:01:53 Is the creative process a special mode of consciousness? 00:03:07 Three criteria of creativity 00:04:18 Scientist Svyatoslav Medvedev on how the brain works in a stressful situation 00:07:03 How the brain under stress is similar to the brain during the creative process 00:07:56 The difference between a smart, capable and brilliant person 00:09:28 The brain only works at 10% 00:11:12 The brain as a ministry 00:14:20 What a worm thinks about and how dogs lie 00:16:04 Why we get younger when we are creative 00:19:53 How our world shrinks with age 00:22:30 Adult life is full of limitations 00:25:00 Physicists and mathematicians retire at 40 00:30:16 Genius is a disease 00:32:07 Does size matter? 00:33:34 IQ — the ability to find patterns 00:36:02 Why geniuses appear in flashes 00:39:23 Insight — lightning that strikes the head 00:41:37 Insight — the result of systematic work 00:43:23 And meditation is reflection 00:44:02 The Dalai Lama tells the simplest method of meditation 00:46:24 What is posthumous meditation 00:48:24 Buddhist monks — Medvedev's lab assistants 00:50:23 Why study the mechanism of meditation 00:53:46 The difference between the female and male brain 00:57:07 How sex stimulates creativity 00:59:39 How to train the brain #neurobiology #insight #genius #professor #braininstitute #SvyatoslavMedvedev #creativity #creativity #flow #cerebralhemispheres #errordetector #brain #brainmass #developmentofcreativity