How to scientifically open a brain hole

As Marx said, brain holes play an important role in the development of human civilization. Without brain holes, human beings are struggling. However, with the development of society and the progress of science and technology, there is a social phenomenon of uneven brain holes: some people are born with brain holes and occupy the whole skull, while others don't even have brain holes. Many studies have shown that this phenomenon is obviously proportional to other social problems, such as the gap between the rich and the poor, the phenomenon of leftover men and women and so on. In recent years, this phenomenon has intensified, indicating that people with cerebellar holes and people without brain holes are gradually marginalized by society, and people with big brain holes account for 80% of the world's wealth. Feeling the urgency of this problem, I wrote this article with indignation, hoping to contribute to world peace.

If you want to open a brain hole, you must first know what a brain hole is. A casual search in Baidu can get some answers: some answers point out the origin of brain holes, that is, "brain holes are words derived from brain tonic." Strengthening the brain means nourishing the brain. Usually, it refers to adding some plots to your brain, imagining cartoons, novels, and plots that you hoped did not happen in reality. Some answers even give specific diagrams, such as:

After reading these, I feel that I haven't found the answer I want, and I can't help thinking about the derivative and real meaning of the word brain hole in modern life. After consulting a lot of historical materials, I noticed some rules. In order to prove the correctness of this law, I will give you a few examples here:

X-men, a player named Xue, can combine advertisements and jokes perfectly at his fingertips. At this time, we will say: this brain hole is very big.

Someone asked, "If Xiao Ming has super powers, he can lengthen his 1 second or 1 minute to one hour, and everything else is normal, what will happen?" At this time, we call this question (or the person who gives a wonderful answer) ingenious.

At a station, an up plays with thousands of cherry blossoms on the soles of its feet. At this time, we will say that kicking his sole is a sign of opening a brain hole.

From these three examples, we can roughly sum up the definition of brain hole, that is, what is produced by the combination of two or more things that have nothing to do with most people and has incredible effects after production is brain hole. After I give this definition, everyone should think that the previous examples have become clear. We can go back to the examples mentioned above: Case 1, the reason why a certain Xue surnamed Duan has a big brain hole is because he can find countless connections between his personal experience and advertisements that have nothing to do with others; In the second case, we say that a problem is ingenious and traceable because it combines all the possibilities that have not been combined before, resulting in an unexpected so-called "impossible"; Situation three, feet and thousands of cherry blossoms, I won't say much.

Having said that, we have a deeper understanding of brain holes. At this time, the representative of the world without brain holes questioned me: it's useless to say these things, I still don't know how to open a brain hole! Sure enough, the representative is the representative. This problem sharply points out a problem we are facing now: the so-called ideas and brain holes are abstract concepts. If we can't quantify them, it will be difficult for us to achieve our goal, that is, the scientific brain hole. Of course, wit is like I have prepared the answer to this question: our brain holes can be quantified. However, contrary to our intuition, the quantification of brain holes is not the diameter of the forehead, but the degree of confusion in the brain.

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To better explain the chaos in the brain, let's look at the concrete process of an idea. As we all know, most of the human brain is composed of neurons. There are about 1000 billion neurons in an adult's brain, and each neuron is connected with another 1000 neurons on average. These neurons communicate with each other through electrical signals and neurotransmitters. The process of neurons transmitting signals is popularly called "emission" by western scholars, which translates as "firing". What people call "idea" is essentially the effect of connection (discharge) between different neurons. At the moment when the brain hole was created, these neurons sparked in an unprecedented order and combination.

For a long time in the past, people thought that the brain worked like a machine: according to different inputs, the brain gave corresponding outputs. However, during a large number of experiments, the researchers found something unusual about the brain, that is, the confusion of the brain mentioned earlier. According to the experimental data, scientists have discovered two special working states of the brain:

Millions of neurons discharge together at the same frequency (called phase locking)

These neurons fire indiscriminately, which is the chaos in the brain, which is also commonly known as noise.

Experiments show that in these two modes, the brain switches back and forth regularly, making love well for a while and making love indiscriminately for a while. Then, as I said above, the degree of brain disorder is closely related to our brain holes. What is the connection? Let's look at an experiment. In order to further study these two special working conditions of the brain, Robert Thatcher, a brain scientist at the University of South Florida, conducted a series of experiments and found that the average duration of brain disorder was about 55 milliseconds, while the duration of brain disorder in children was obviously different. When comparing the IQ of these children with the duration of brain disorder, they found that their IQ would increase by 20 for every 1 millisecond of brain disorder, while it would decrease slightly for every 1 millisecond of normal time. This result excited the researchers. Although this phenomenon cannot be explained for the time being, Thatcher and other scientists speculate that the chaotic state allows the brain to try to connect neurons that are unlikely to be connected in daily life, and this process is the moment when brain holes are created.

Finally, since we understand the essence of the problem, the goal of opening a brain hole scientifically is much simpler. Below I will list two effective methods that have been proved by experiments and used by myself to help people with cerebellar holes and those without brain holes gradually improve their current situation. I believe that after several courses of treatment, the situation will be greatly improved:

Change the external environment and put yourself in a more mobile space. This method is very easy to understand after understanding how brain holes are produced. In a freer space, the chances of communicating with all kinds of people are increased, and the chances of different ideas colliding in the brain are also increased, resulting in brain holes. This concept has been widely used in today's office design, such as the No.20 building of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the office buildings of Microsoft and Apple. Through their own flexibility, these buildings give people who work and study in them a stronger ability to open their brains.

Start from the individual. Reading, sleeping. Reading is also easy to understand. The absorption of knowledge can be understood as adding more connectable neurons to the brain. When different knowledge from different disciplines is combined in unexpected ways, brain holes are created. This is why interdisciplinary ability is very important. I'm not kidding when I sleep. I told you there was a scientific basis, huh? Sleep can be roughly divided into rapid eye movement (REM) and non-rapid eye movement (NREM). During rapid eye movement, acetylcholine released from the brain stem stimulates the brain to connect memories stored in the brain in a chaotic way, which is why your primary school classmates often run to the wrong crew in their dreams. There are also many examples of opening brain holes in dreams, such as the discovery of benzene structure and the creation of the periodic table of elements. Why not take a nap next time you can't open your head?

Inspired by Steven Johnson's Where Good Ideas Come from, the whole book revolves around the core idea of adjacent possibilities, that is, creating new possibilities through existing possibilities. There are six models of ideas (brain holes) in the book, and only a few of them are involved here, because I haven't finished reading them.

Reference:

Steven Johnson. Where do good ideas come from: the natural history of innovation. New york: Heyuan City, 20 10.