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I'm passionate about

Unknown, under-researched and undiscovered things. Among others, I have particular interest in one of the most recently discovered lands - cyberspace.

An idea worth spreading

We have overemphasized the role of a single individual. Let's try to think communities now. At least in some cases this might be the most efficient way to do things.

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  A comment on Talk: Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability

  Mar 26 2013: Great talk.
  After rediscovering it very recently again, whenever I feel anxiety, frustration or fear these days, I simply watch this talk from 14:40 (so it does not take too long to do it) and it helps me remember that it's really OK to feel this way and it makes me human and that I have to embrace this vulnerability. This helps to rearange the situation in my head and see it as a blessing, not a punishment.
  Thanks!

• A reply on Talk: Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

  Mar 14 2012: Yes, I was thinking something along these lines too, but then religion can not be explained only as result of group selection. Well, probably satisfying several human needs is what makes the religions so successful.
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  A comment on Talk: Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

  Mar 14 2012: I liked the talk a lot, the theory seems to explain a lot of things including even nationalism and, yes, I guess sports is an interesting idea too.
  But I wonder if it is only a coincidence of different traits of the human nature, but the religious "grouping" and the self-transcending experiences of climbing the ladder seem to happen the more effectively if there are some kind of miracles or unknown and mysterious things involved.
  One would think that if it's just about grouping around one idea, humans would do it almost about anything. But there are simply some ideas that attract us more. And religions with their miracles are among them most powerful ones.
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  A reply on Talk: Paul Zak: Trust, morality -- and oxytocin?

  Nov 3 2011: I understand your point. However, I think we do need this kind of discoveries and scientific explanations for our behavior.
  
  This explanation gives different perspective to the idea that people are either good or bad, moral or immoral. We either produce oxytocin easily with ordinary stimulation or not. Once you try thinking this way, you start believing that even if you feel like hurting someone, or doing something mean, it's just lack of some chemical, not your "personality". You just go around and hug someone to become a better human being. Like taking a pill.
  At the same time, if someone else is unfriendly, you just think that you need to show some trust and his body will start producing necessary chemicals.
  
  Detaching this from our personality and attaching to physiology makes it less personal and less complicated.
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  A comment on Talk: Joshua Walters: On being just crazy enough

  Jun 27 2011: Nicely done!
  In addition, he voices an idea which, although we all know about, needs repeating, especially on TED. The idea, that geniuses are often crazy, that absolute sanity is overrated. We all see these amazing inventions and people with that burning passion for extraordinary things, but we forget how much does it often cost them to have a brain like that.
  At the same time, we put normality as a very important standard in our society. If a person does not act more or less like we imagine she/he should, we leave her alone. This makes the lives of these extraordinary people so much more complicated...
  I have a few examples among my friends as well, when the pressure to hide a big part of their personalities inside themselves was so great that they remained those amazing geniuses, stars in their field, and then totally broke some years later. I believe, they did not even think of getting help (not necessarily medical) earlier, since it's so shameful to be diagnosed with a mental disorder...
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  A comment on Conversation: The Man who tasted shapes! Have you ever experienced synesthesias?

  May 9 2011: I did not know that this is called somehow, but I too have certain strange associations. Numbers have colors, and some letters and numbers are interchangeable. This actually was a bit of a problem in school since I had to try very hard not to mix up letters and numbers in an assignment that had both. For instance b was always the same as 5 to me, 2 equaled a, and c, if I remember correctly was 7. These associations are not as pronounced now as they were then, but I think it's because I don't work with numbers anymore.
  I also have strange associations of smells and tastes. Some smells remind me of tastes that are not associated with the smell itself. And I usually can literary feel the taste of a particular thing, when I smell it. But this, I think, is not the same. Some colors invoke some tastes as well...
  However, my impression is that this all is somehow connected to my childhood. At least when I have that kind of association I feel that there is some kind of very logical connection between these things that I have long forgotten. Sometimes very random things can remind me smells and tastes from the past and having the number-color association or color-smell association feels somewhat similarly.
  It's a very interesting topic! Our minds are simply amazing and I this is one of the reasons it's so interesting being human :)