The science of imagination - Andrey Vyshedskiy
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
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Imagine, for a second, a duck teaching a French class. A ping-pong match in orbit around a black hole. A dolphin balancing a pineapple. You probably haven’t actually seen any of these things. But you could imagine them instantly. How does your brain produce an image of something you’ve never seen? Andrey Vyshedskiy details the neuroscience of imagination.
Lesson by Andrey Vyshedskiy, animation by Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat.
A video about brains, made by brains, and watched by brains.
My Delicious Morsel our brains are learning about themselves
My Delicious Morsel mind blown
Neptus TV no, brain blown
Nicole Barajas OhShitWaddap
Welcome to the meta-brain.
I love brains. They're so complicated and we know so little about them. I'm excited to see what we'll discover about brains in the next 50 years that I'm alive. We're only just starting out on what I'm sure will be an incredible explosion of knowledge about the brain.
the brain is egocentric. Stupid Brains
Byron Hart
and it is delicious
+Sami Mas I can confirm, as a cannibal, brains are delicious
+Khorps
That is disgusting and wrong.
Unless you are a zombie. Then I understand that is a part of your culture.
Bruce Dunn stop oppressing me you bigot
This is why I love neuroscience.
Neuroscience loves you too.
Me too 😃
Same!
Of course the brain loves the people who study it
@@charmaci haha! The brain’s so biased to itself!
I DID A PROJECT LAST YEAR FOR MY SCIENCE CLASS CALLED "THE SCIENCE BEHIND IMAGINATION AND CREATIVITY" AND MY TEACHER ACTUALLY ENDED UP CALLING MY MOM TO TELL HER HOW AWESOME IT WAS
Edit: sorry bout the yelling, I was an eighth-grader with no self control. I’m graduated now lol
Pls dont yell at us
WHY ARE YOU TYPING LIKE THIS
don't yell... quq but I'm glad congrats!
the caps are cool, whatever
@@Quon omg really?? I have the same project tomorrow !😅
This channel never fails to impress me.
Me too
i wonder what does a person born blind imagine about
boy638 I would believe they would use descriptions from others along with their other senses. However, I am not blind (still need glasses to see three feet infront of me though :) )
ua-cam.com/video/XpUW9pm9wxs/v-deo.html You should check this out! It's a video with a blind man explaining what he dreams about.
What sight must sound like.
If someone who is blind from birth due to structural difference or damage in Primary Visual Cortex (V1, which is the visual sensory area of brain) then that person will not have any vision at all. They wouldn't even have visions in their dreams.
Or in which language does a person born deaf think
"Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known." - Napoleon Hill
So that's what happened in Pen Pineapple Apple Pen.
Sur Sr You must of not been listening
:)
shut the fuck up
Lol 😂
I absolutely loved the animation. It's strange but it has character, simplicity and it does a perfect job illustrating the narrative.
is that why it's hard to imagine an alien creature that doesn't have features like a terrestrial creature or doesn't look like a terrestrial creature?
Good point.. If we've never seen anything like that before, we can't imagine it. The same happens when we try to imagine a 4th dimension, we're not able to create anything that we could not see with our eyes, right??
@Hey Imagination - by definition - is the cognitive process that creates new images and projects based on previous experiences. So you're mostly right, but from what I know there are other factors as well that stop us from experiencing a 4th dimension.
Hey, that's very interesting. As an artist I think I can agree, even the most "creative" pieces of art seem to be a complex collage of things you have seen before. It seems simply impossible to draw somethings you have never seen in the slightest. Even though I never have seen a dragon, I can draw one based of wing structures and reptiles I'm familiar with, but I'd never be able to draw a flower like a bee sees it, I may be able to recreate the viewing angle, but I could never draw the flower with acruate ultra violet.
Oh thank you for the response, and what are those factors?? I have to search more information about this, it's so intriguing.
Kameko Dai yeah, that was exactly what I meant! I've always loved drawing too and I love imagining things, but I kind of realized that they are never entirely new, they're just variations and combinations of things... I don't know.
I’ve lived in my head most of the time for a long time and over time I’ve been able to make an entire fictional world. It functions exactly like this one but with different people (people I’ve created in my head). This way I can escape from life. Problem is I’m unable to use my senses while I’m fully focused on that world… it takes a lot to snap me out of it before my mind lets me out on its own. My mind releases me back into reality once the trigger or stressor is gone. I started this as a kid to numb the pain of physical abuse. It worked. It took a lot of pain for me to notice it.
Oh, I understand you. I was alone when I was a child and my brain created that imaginary friends, with whom I had conversations inside of my head. I talked with them about everything and this became a habit that ruined my life. Even now, when I spend time with real friends I still have conversations with imaginary friends. And realizing this hurts so much
The music for this was gorgeous.
Yeah , really!...it was amazing!
Omggg i was getting coraline circus vibes from the music
@@larissakwok4439 righttt
I have ADHD, so my imagination can go a little wild at times, but I've always pictured it as a third eye.
Adhd what?
And then there is me... with maladaptive daydreaming
@@jvmeel7454 yeah man😂
It sucks
Its like i cant even turn it off
I have to be playing games and keep myself sometimes to shut it off
@@btsarmy-cw2nc google it
@@TrekkieTardis armiiiii
Sometimes I feel like other people can see vivid, clear pictures when they imagine things.. is it just me who only 'sees' abstract thoughts and kind-of exsisting images??
Same here. I can’t see vivid images
It’s probably because you don’t do it often, if you are a chronic daydreamer you’re imagination imagery is more clear and vivid and not all over the place
I cannot see anything at all... In the beginning of the video he started creating sceens and say it's so easy to imagine them.. And I'm like, no it is not. I have afantasia or some bulshit like that. I would really like to know whats wrong with my brain, because I try so hard to imagine things and fail.
Yeah I get what you're saying. I can *think* images in my mind, like I know how this thing looks but I can't *see* it. I can *think* of a pineapple being balanced on a dolphin's nose but I can't *see* it (in minds supposed eye??)
Thats called aphantasia. It means not being able to visualize. There are a lot of videos on aphantasia.
Is this why I can imagine love even though I'm lonely
Are u still lonly?I Bett u are not lonly anymore
jesus why u gotta say that dude 💀
It's so weird, I have a hard time retaining anything I learn about the brain or thought, because while the information keeps coming I'm thinking too much about my very process of thinking.
Metacognition interfering with cognition....not a drawback man...thats highly cool!
yeah i does that all the time. which is like, some1 is accessing another tab while im in the midst of fhe 1st tab in front of me. and it hinders my.. engagement of the current reality. in other words, ADHD like.
@@seeexy It's like having a super power. Diversifying ourselves is probably an evolutionary adaptation for survival. that's, like, entropy, right? We're IT.
The brain is truly amazing. Everything about it truly leaves me in awe.
This animation style hurts my eyes, but I can sacrifice them if its for Ted-Ed :)
Snowcold ikr
Snowcold me2
True. The headache was worth it.
i'm migraine prone but I didn't have any problems with this video. is it the constant flashing?
I need to know where this music is!!!
So next time you dream in class you could just tell 'em about this?
I don't think that would work too well in a History class.
Chopperdragon39 Or in any other class, for that matter :)
Your teacher would be pretty impressed if you explained to him why your brain is able to dream in class :D
Probably will work better in a psychology class.
I'm so baffled when ever I force my self to imagine it doesn't really work.
you might have aphantasia! that means that you cant see thing/imagine things in your head
I had an imagination that Ted-Ed released a new video, went to check and voila:
NKD Piano Sheets hey I've seen u before. Ya know, ur youtube channel is so good. ur transcriptions and arrangements are very simple and cool.
Wow thank you so much ((:
All ping pong tables are in orbit around a black hole
I don't even have to close my eyes to imagine. I can see them without seeing them?
had to pause “i may destroy you” to see if this was a real video. i’ll check the rest of this video out later
What a great era are we living, where you have almost ALL mankind knowledge easily displayed and explained in free platforms at any time. This could be the years of the "second discovery of fire".
Your accent is SOOOO relaxing and so calm
MC Paws IKR
BEAUTIFUL animation! What a blast!
Ewa Fabian (Sarcasam intensefies)
BlankWyry I LOVE it! Truly. It fits a modern art gallery more than the video but it is great art, if you ask me.
Ewa Fabian I guess everybody has a different taste or style(however u gonna call it)
BlankWyry U never know what the huge audience will like, in times of the Internet. I think the artist put a lot of effort into it, it is clearly visible :)
I agree with you,although it is not my preffered style :)
This reminds me of a song by Amy Lee from Evanescence she just released called "dream too much", which is filled with ramblings of his two year old son, revealing the most vivid and fun imagination of a child ♥
Nirvana- Aneursm
Interesting! I get the neuron ensembles with more than objects... when I read a book, I'll remember the scene my brain conjured months, years after reading it. In fact, I was reminded of such an image the other day, and was trying to remember where I'd seen it... then I remembered, it was of my own invention, from a book I'd read a year ago.
I love these videos! They take me to a new world altogether. I have never learned about this in such vibrant colors!
i have a dolphin, i have pineapple uuuh imagination
cool.
Арсен Карабаев this comment 😂👌
Nice one lol
Best comment ever. Hands down.
Ppap I see what u did there
We can criticize humans about a lot of subject but not about our brain. He is quite amazing
An Del your brain is a guy?
WOAH WOAH WOAH, ARE YOU ASSUMING MY BRAIN'S GENDER?
Khorps hahaha I thought my sentence in French and we put gender on object, I guess my brain needs more training
An Del I hope you aren't from quebec otherwise fuck you, quebec can fuck itself
Khorps Omg you must have a hurtful backstory with Quebec's people, I hope you will not become a Super villain
Anyway I'm from Switzerland so I'm kinda in peace with everybody, Canadian or not
can you physically see the pictures in your head ? because I can't , I see to blurrily , I'm afraid I can't imagine things visually😣😣😣
Liz smith Don't worry, you'll get it, just keep practicing. Btw drawing helps with this process.
You might have Aphantasia. A small percentage of people have it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
It's called being a woman.
Yes I can relate. I have a very bad imagination. It's always blurry.
Liz smith
i got the same thing too
my brain sometimes can imagine things perfectly and sometimes not
but i guess those kind of persons are not creative in real life because you need so much imainations to be creative right?
but when it comes on dreaming
im like watching a movie in HD while things are happening
Omg the french duck saying "cuac" killed me XD
What’s interesting is people who have smaller prefrontal cortexes as a result of neurology have amazing imaginations!
Hey Ted Ed, I really love the Videos you guys produce :)
I've got one question:
How do you explain the imagination hypothesis when dreaming? It is known that the prefrontal cortex is not active during dreaming, but there sure are imaginations or at least visual things u 'see' when you are dreaming. But when the prefrontal cortex is not active there should not be a connection between neurons and it...
thanks in advance and greetings from germany :)
the animation is beautiful
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
-Carl Sagan
So people with aphantasia (can't visualize) can't go nowhere?
They work with abstract representations instead of images. Our culture is predominantly visual, but other ways of synthesizing thought, and thus imagination, exist. Infinitely many probably.
Very interesting to learn how creativity and thickness of myelin is some how connected, even though it’s a theory, and much more to learn..
"Pineapple"... Now I am imagining that Japanese guy dancing with a pineapple.
So how does it work/not work if you have aphantasia? This is super interesting, but I want to know why it doesn't work in my brain.
If the cat is pink and the fish are blue I must be green and so must you.
Imagination activates creative thinking.
Heard the word "ensemble" in this video more times, than I heard in my whole life before that.
I like how the brain can create its own simulations…
Like computers, they can simulate events but they can’t see it in the real world.
Like recently scientists have managed to make a quantum computer simulate an actual wormhole and proved that wormholes DO exist in real life.
I wonder if we can increase the thickness of thinner myelins, so we can have faster thought processing.
Like say, do neuro games in crease myelin strength or simply just widen our neural connections?
Very fascinating subject!
Iate reply, but I think they just increase are ability to put things together in a stronger way. meaning just are ability to imagine to different levels because the Merylin strength allows for more sync firings between ideas. So it would seem are imagination is determined partly by genetics, Childhood, and just brain chemistry. like intelligence is.
Neuroscience is by far my favourite branch of science
I've loved this lesson, but the animation was kinda creepy..
Love me some Ted Ed! All of your videos are so intriguing and unique. They are works of art and masterpieces of knowledge. Thank you for creating such amazing videos.
This is gold. Ive found this too late thats the only negative about it
Dreaming is in relation with imagination. Comes from the same realm.
Brains named itself, studies itself, watches itself ..... BRAIN BLOWNNN
Oh! I'd love to see a video on Misophonia or sound sensitivity!
This theory that, to imagine things we never seen like the dolphin holding a pineapple, we fire both the neurons for the dolphin and for the pineapple, does not explain how we can imagine things that we *actually* have not seen, like if you try to make up an extraterrestrial creature in your mind.
I think it's the same, we simply use different feature. We fir together Eyes+Green+Human+Baloon+ecc ecc
Nietez Dionísio It probably started with humans realizing the concept of self, and soon wondering about extraterrestrial beings, which then evolved bit by bit. The image that pops up in *your* mind is most definitely shaped by contemporary media, which portrays "aliens" as beings with green skin, black eyes etc.
Actually it seems like the same principle. If you imagine an extraterrestial creature you will still use features known to your brain, just much smaller and a lot more parts. You will imagine its skin maybe snake-like, its eyes maybe like those of a bird or a fly, its feet like those of an alligator. It will still be things you have seen before. It's just like not being able to imagine a new colour. You will always use things familiar to your brain.
You are missing the point. Humans have the capability of imagining things they have never seen or even had the slightest contact with, this is how we manage to think about abstract concepts for example, which many times can be very distant from reality and could not be explained by the firing of combinations of already existing connections of neurons in the brain.
You ignored the "abstract concepts" part. Many are fruit of a lot of philosophical thinking and can be very distant from the physical reality.
Hard to imagine seeing the dolphin balance a pineapple from the left of its body.
Imagination is made of magic, and runs on enchantment.
Now you understand why zombies love brains.
I'm imagining myself with 6 pack abs, even though my brain knows it is just a sad joke.
Brain signals are directed intelligently rather than physically. Intelligence has not only constructed its physically functional apparatus but has put together the brain that supposedly uses them. But physical systems are users only in the sense that they are being used by intelligently evolving energetic systems. Some call them algorithmic systems, which is especially correct as long as these systems use symbolism rather than digitalism! (I'm writing this for the record rather than for persuasion purposes.)
I'm working on a project for school, this got me ahead. Thank you very much!
Ted ed is so much better than ted it's not funny.
I unsubbed from reg Ted a while ago
Boy, I love imagination. I can think of stuff that doesn't, and will not ever exist. This is good for books.
Myelin sheaths are very important, there are actually diseases called Demyelinating diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, which is characterized by destruction of myelin, some clinical manifestations include sensory symptoms, like paresthesias, hypesthesia, etc, reduced sensation, numbness, etc.
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А если уже поздно?)
I like how we say perceive like we know what that is.
Well that explains why I was more creative as a kid (when I had access to TV shows) than as a teen (when I reduced TV time just to learn that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell).
I would imagine rocket launchers with faces and anime hair playing ping pong underwater but they use a pineapple instead of a ping pong ball.
And what about stuff we made up? I can't give an example because I would have to describe it and that wouldn't count as made up but I hope someone gets my point
It still uses previous previous memories like you would normally, because things you make up is what we call your imagination (atleast according to this theory). And happy holidays :)
The thing is, our imagination, even when it seems original or really strange, is inspired from what one knows. And what one knows is from experience. It's the reason most aliens in movies are humanoid, for example. Having a head, torso, limbs, almost like human and also upright. A true alien is something one can not imagine.
That is why the movie 'Alien' was a success because it was really alien. But even then, the xenomorph, came from an artist whose genre of art is basically a creepy mashups of human and other stuff.
My point is, imagination is always inspired by what we know consciously or subconsciously.
***** Innovation or new things made by great people with great minds were or are usually inspired from what they know. Do I have to mention that what one knows comes from sensory experiences? Give me an example of any artist, even the post-modern abstract ones. Their inspiration is usually an answer to previous art. Give me examples of innovations of great people that you use for your argument.
the flute sound, its hard to hear, but its so good.
Anyone else who can't visualize any of this stuff in their head?
Our imagination is basically just photobashing in a nutshell
Further proof that good parenting is essential, and the answer to most of our world's problems. You don't need money, just love and time. Those are free.
rest in peace animation department.. salute
Very informative and interesting video! I've wanted to know about the neuroscience of imagination for a long time!
Neurons when watching this video:
Flat, movement, dull, colors, imagine, IMAGINE, IMAGINE GOD DAMMIT
when you have aphantasia and you get Thurley confuseded
Doesn’t anyone just smile when they talk about what is happening to the brain and you tell yourself my brain is doing it right now😂
Thanks for posting this. I'm putting together a livestream on research showing the importance of imagination (and play) and will mention this video.
You have no idea how far one's imagination can go
This video made me think of an anime Morgan Freeman clinging to a random guy, thanks for helping my imagination.
This is the first time I heard about multiple layers of myeline. Then, learn that the speed of chemical domino effect of "action potential" would increase with the thickness. My understanding was that the pulse was jumping between the node of xavier. The speed of transmission would be an exact multiple of these nodes. If a very long neuron body would be wrapped by just a few myeline/node of xavier length wise, it would transmit faster than any shorter one with more nodes.
The other doubt about that hypothesis is that memory is assumed to build "locally" by the precise connection of neurons in relatively close proximity. The myelinated bundles would be high speed communication path between distant brain region. It is surprising that they would contribute to memory/learning by increasing the thickness of myeline layers.
That's the most amazing thing I won't ever understand.
as if I am dreaming while watching this video.... just amazing
Actually not everyone can visualize their “imagination“.. Look up aphantasia
All your videos are excellent . Just a suggestion this video could have been better animated and put a little better music pls
I like the animation :3
I got a new perspective and learnt something new😁
Thanks🙌
Neurons that fire together wire together is what they say.
Neurons that fail to sync, fail to link is what I say.
The background music is really good
trying to imagine a million objects in one picture
I graduated pharmacy school in 1991. I learned where parts of the brain are and what a few of them do. Other than that, there is still little we know
I can’t imagine anything visually. I always thought imagination just meant making up random scenarios. Pretty scary all you can do it is be terrified if I can see with my eyes closed 😂
I have that too. its called aphantasia
The synapses connect different ideas in the brain to form a statement or a image
This is mental!
You have completely skipped visual binding problem??? It is the most interesting part.
I really liked the music in this!
Imagining a dolpin next to a pineapple is different from imagining a pineapple on a dolphins nose. Is there a place in the brain where the 2 images are positioned in the right place? If so, what is it called? Loved this video :)
"How big is your imagination?" is a good question to test on yourself
this is such a cute video
love the music and the flickering pictures
Ever since SciShow did an episode on people that can not visualize anything I've wondered why we can. There doesn't seem to be any advantage to it.