Mindwandering - with Moshe Bar

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Do you often find your mind wandering? Did you know that mindwandering can actually stimulate creativity, increase focus and boost your mood? Watch Moshe's Q&A here: • Q&A: Mindwandering - w...
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Our brains are inherently noisy. Certain regions are always grinding away at involuntary activities like daydreaming, worrying about the future, and self-chatter. This is mindwandering.
Join internationally renowned neuroscientist Moshe Bar as he presents revelatory and exciting new research that highlights how mindwandering actually plays a vital role in solving problems and inducing happiness.
Moshe Bar is the former Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Harvard Medical School and an internationally renowned cognitive neuroscientist. His novel research has made revolutionary contributions to our understanding of perception, cognition and issues in psychiatry. He has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. For his outstanding research and academic achievements, he has received many awards and honors, including the prestigious 21st Century Science Initiative Award from the McDonnell Foundation, and the Hebb Award from The International Neural Networks Society. Moshe Bar currently lives in Israel where he heads the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University.
This livestream was recorded at the Royal Institution on 24 February 2022.
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@vans2548 Жыл бұрын

Ri: uploads a new video Us: *neuron activation*

@destinyglitches9519 Жыл бұрын

It seems like mind wandering is when we tap into our subconscious mind which is where we find creativity. Artists use psychedelics to do this on demand. Would love to hear you talk about that

@raffacasting Жыл бұрын

Great. For me in Ayahuasca effects although to much wandering can lead to get lost, there is a nuance in this process because actually one of the problems people also complain is about getting stuck thought loops. So I realize that sometimes when pushing for an insigth is not helping, so I set my consciousness deliberately into concentration mode by bringing my intention firmly into my visual field, sometimes actually creating the visualization of a circle( i simply make a silent inner invocaton as "Focus" ) and as soon as the focus is regained I let go and let mind free so make random associations, and doing this I catch amazing fish(insigths) Important is to not be afraid of mind, is all Mind Anyway.

@avg4015 Жыл бұрын

My mind wandered straight into dreamland. Going to have to watch this talk again. 😅

@pattoneill2402 Жыл бұрын

My mind has wandered all over the universe, tearing down the cognitive walls that surround me. Good info, Moshe.

@elizabethmilligan2197 Жыл бұрын

🥰pat o'neill love from Cambridgeshire lisbeth o'neill.

@appenginenode Жыл бұрын

I find this so interesting, I never thought to think about it like th... ooh, cookies 👀

@BookQuotesRedux Жыл бұрын

Inspiration! Amazing presentation. Thank you.

@TheRoyalInstitution Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@brucecampney465 Жыл бұрын

This ties together nicely with methodologies like Liberating Structures, Linking Your Thinking, Systems Thinking and other ideation techniques. Thanks for sharing this, it gives me more perspective on getting more value from my mindwandering.

@noonesbiznass5389 Жыл бұрын

Great talk, very interesting to see such a clear summary of some of the latest science on thinking.

@bentationfunkiloglio Жыл бұрын

AMAZING talk! So incredibly interesting and useful. Thank you.

@sebringb Жыл бұрын

I would love to see this same presentation focused on the neuro-atypical mind, like those on the autism spectrum.

@mindfuleats4517 2 ай бұрын

What about those who claim to have no inner dialogue? I'd love to see their brains

@raffacasting Жыл бұрын

Human Desing ang Gene Keys Profiles can help a lot in the issue of personalization of these tendencies. Generators, Manifestors,Projectors may have different ways to approach life and so on.

@Dr.RiccoMastermind Жыл бұрын

your really nice example if the attention stealing car is not really or only related to attention stealing. because even if you try hard to focus on the changes, ignoring the blue car and letting the commentator tell whatever he wants to, you will still miss out a lot of the more subtle changes of the street - but mainly because of the strobiscopic scene change which doesn't allow for our regular continuous reception of reality to identify swift changes popping into existence.

@AlokKumar-ym8bl Жыл бұрын

amazing information...please keep posting videos like this..Great God bless you all the scientists...you peoples are precious for sustainability and progress of mankind...pioneers.

@jonbigeffortthegoodness7437 Жыл бұрын

Good mentalism presentation poetic politely informative 🍔good job learned a couple good things

@savage22bolt32 Жыл бұрын

Mind wandering is never rewarded by school teachers.

@Boringpenguin Жыл бұрын

6:06 This is pure wizardry😵

@primemagi Жыл бұрын

A great informative talk. it has been a while since I enjoyed a RI talk from some one with real work, instead of fiction. I see there has been some progress past couple of decades, there is a great long way to go yet to comprehend brain. thank you. Ferydoon Shirazi. MG1

@ifell3 Жыл бұрын

This is awesome 👍

@matthewtaylor8876 Жыл бұрын

I love this. But I am kinda bais because I independently assume that creativity comes from the activity of anxeity and planning food in the very beginnings of human culture. The stage of creativity that developed old cultural icons and styles comes from the bored-anxiety of waiting for crops, migrations, and hunters to return. The issue why some folks don't think they can be creative or develop their creativity today is because time-spending-being-bored is stigmatized as being useless or a inapprorate use of time. I totally agree, creativity is a box of mental tools to deal with the brain's programmed need to always plan & inventory resources.

@chillydickie Жыл бұрын

beginners mind - awesome concept

@badcrab7494 Жыл бұрын

Good content but RI as you are doing more remote talks can I set you a task to review how your presenters are recorded. I want to enjoy the content and not get distracted by audio issues and have these videos which may be watched for years to lack the quality of your institution. Some of these issues are due to the audio device so you could standardise to a USB microphone which you can send to presenter before. Some issues seem to be compression related due to the software (teams, Skype or zoom?) which could be ok for the live talk with low latency but you should have the host record the video locally with software like OBS to maintain the quality. There are alot of lessons you can learn from live content presenters on Twitch and KZfaq.

@jasonshapiro9469 2 ай бұрын

I enjoy when scientific experiments exhibit evidence in support of my natural intuitions based on personal observations. It encourages me to continue my research...lol

@nikhilsamy Жыл бұрын

Simply...wow 🎉😲🎉

@DenkyManner Жыл бұрын

The brain. Where is it? What is it for? We may never know.

@franciscojose6496 Жыл бұрын

Interesting information

@freddyjosereginomontalvo4667 Жыл бұрын

Excellent channel with awesome content and great quality as always say 🌍💯

@TheRoyalInstitution Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

@mikeg1368 Жыл бұрын

Took me a few watches to notice Moshe Bar drink a beer during the commercial ;-)

@destinyglitches9519 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful presentation Boshe. Thank you for your work. Do you see a relation between dreaming and mind wandering?

@MajidFouladpour Жыл бұрын

This was a great talk. It was accessible to someone with no prior knowledge of the field like myself. It would be nice to also have the Q&A if it is recorded. If I was present during the live stream and could participate in Q&A, I would have asked two questions: 1. Could you provide a short description of what subconscious is in light of all the development made since the introduction of this concept decades ago? 2. Since you obviously have a knack for explaining complex concepts to non-expert enthusiasts; could you elaborate a little bit on the recent research trying to explain consciousness using algebraic topology?

@TheRoyalInstitution Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed Moshe's talk! You can see the Q&A here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kM2ias97tNjOh5c.html

@VapidVulpes Жыл бұрын

Man I love this lecture! And useful requires context, that watering can is useful if what its use is, is an example of something that is not useful for its implied purpose, in that context it's extremely useful! LOL

@zbarczy Жыл бұрын

At 11:03 fantasizing is misspelled as "'fanaticizing".

@WildBillCox13 Жыл бұрын

Right brain FTW.

@fburton8 Жыл бұрын

I saw the h before it was shown. However, my eye seems to be particularly attuned to seeing h's e.g. if they flash up on screen for just a frame or two, and in my peripheral vision. I'm also attuned to the _word_ h. I have a party trick where I ask someone to give me a random fiction book and I riffle through the pages and usually find the word pretty quickly (although the word house will sometimes trigger falsely).

@mindfuleats4517 2 ай бұрын

Anyone know what the percentage is for being on autopilot???? I'd love to know if that's higher....is it different to mind wandering????

@raffacasting Жыл бұрын

At 39:41 , experiment changing the word Dog for God and see how you can Ruminate or Expand around the concept.

@Life_42 Жыл бұрын

Is it possible to be at both ends of states of mind? Like being able to see every tree and the forest at the same time?

@CultureAgent Жыл бұрын

Saw the horse right away; what does that mean? My theory is a tendency to critique photographs; especially my own, a process that perhaps makes me notice things more.

@drianmd Жыл бұрын

Where is the Q & A??

@TheRoyalInstitution Жыл бұрын

Oops, looks like we left it off the video description - that's added now! You can see Moshe's Q&A here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kM2ias97tNjOh5c.html

@sampirono8816 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Drlan for asking about this. Thank you The Royal institution for responding so fast with the update.

@intothevoid2046 Жыл бұрын

Um, what were you saying? It seems my mind wandered of there for a bit.... And then I got distracted by the noise the background in your flat. But seriously, I do not know any state of my mind not having a task. I have LLI and I long for a moment of quiet, no input, no thought, no task.

@dennistucker1153 Жыл бұрын

If we were to "codify" the information known by Moshe Bar, we could create a great A.I.

@_ARCATEC_ Жыл бұрын

💓

@a0um Жыл бұрын

My brain is wondering if worrying and ruminating are *always* bad? I do believe they are bad if they last days/weeks, but are a few hours or a couple of days of such activity really bad, or just unpleasant?

@sm00gzbear Жыл бұрын

No, fear keeps us alive.

@a0um Жыл бұрын

@@sm00gzbear I didn’t mention fear.

@Firqin1986 10 ай бұрын

Yes

@upstategrowmie8997 Жыл бұрын

Anyone else see the horse before he showed the original picture?

@skipugh Жыл бұрын

😯

@noamfinnegan8663 Жыл бұрын

WOW, that hurt my brain 🤕 Yeah, as if, this guy has brought the fodder for the masses. I laughed out loud. The real mystery is solved, he just doesn't want to dive in. Sad but true. Níl ach an madra 😉

@stupidas9466 Жыл бұрын

What exactly is this video going on about? For the life of me, i can't make heads or tails of it.

@guyh3403 Жыл бұрын

I should stop using RC's...

@a0um Жыл бұрын

32:01 “we, the scientific community, assumed that people’s brain is really resting in between tasks”. Then they discover that the mind is always active. So what were individual scientists thinking of themselves when they were conscious of their own mind’s activity in between tasks?! Did they never notice it? Did they think they were special? I suspect this would be a Philosophy of Science question …