This is where DeSci comes in, which can provide tools to address this problem.

DeSci is a concept based on a decentralized model of the scientific community that uses blockchain technology to ensure the security, transparency, and reliability of data.

Scientists can work together on research, and data can be verified and reproduced by other scientists.

Decentralized science can also change existing funding schemes, making scientific activity more accessible and efficient. Currently, the majority of scientific research is funded by governments or large corporations, which often have their own interests. This can result in funding being directed only to those studies that align with these interests, rather than those that may be more important for society as a whole.

With DeSci, open and transparent systems for funding scientific research can be created through the community. This means that scientists can receive funding directly from people interested in their research, which can lead to more objective funding of scientific research.

Thus, DeSci can help disrupt traditional structures of scientific activity and create new ones that are at least a little better!

We have given ourselves the name "human," even though at one time, the category of "human" included at least six different species. One reason we have survived while others have not is due to the "cognitive revolution," which gave us the ability to believe in both truth and delusion.

The cognitive revolution refers to the emergence of new ways of thinking and communicating those thoughts through language.

Humans began to think and communicate using verbal language - that is, categories. These categories can be highly abstract. As far as we know, only humans can discuss contradictory and hypothetical objects and phenomena.

The ability to contemplate non-existent things allows us to create religions, negotiate the purchasing power of money, and believe in the existence of companies that are not so different from any other official religion.

Thanks to our agreements, Porsche will not disappear if the owner or all employees are removed. Even if all buildings are gone, the company will still exist. But if the legal entity is closed, and the factories and employees remain, the company will still disappear.

Examples of collective imagination include the family institution, love, states and their laws, currency, mathematics, and much more. And we believe in many of these things.

The concept of Web 3 is not a company; it is a community of people united by the belief that blockchain technology allows them to regain control and responsibility for the development of the internet network.

And the only thing that needs to be done to create the best development scenario is to believe in the success of Web3 and develop it, moving towards solarpunk, not cyberpunk.

We create what we believe in - belief takes the form of companies, money, competition, decentralization, openness, and security.

This is because our ability to explain depends directly on our ability to perceive another person's state.

What does this work?

A listener does not understand what the speaker is trying to explain In a dialogue. Although the thought the speaker is trying to convey may be elementary and logical to himself, the listener does not understand it, causing the speaker to also wonder as well why he cannot be understood.

This becomes serious when you try to guess someone's actions, or for example, when a teacher cannot clearly explain the material.

There is an experiment that was conducted by a student of Stanford University, Elizabeth Newton, in 1990.

1. The participants were divided into two groups: the first group tapped a simple melody on a table, and the second group had to guess the melody.

2. Before the experiment began, those who were tapping were asked how many songs they thought would be guessed. As the melodies they were tapping seemed very simple, most of them responded that at least half of the compositions should be guessed.

As a result, only 2.5 percent of the melodies were guessed.

The majority of those who were tapping were unable to separate themselves from their knowledge and predicted the behavior of the listeners incorrectly.

Interestingly, the tendency towards the "curse of knowledge" is related to a lack of empathy. As a result, the problem is not so much knowledge itself, but the inability to realize that the interlocutor may think differently simply because they do not have the same information.

Of course, this distortion does not refer to our working routine when we see that the listener does not understand much, but we simply do not want to clarify everything. This is because they do not really need all that information :)

How did we find out that the brain is racist?

Step 1. Participants were shown photos of faces for 100 ms (so fast that they didn't even realize they saw something).

Step 2. Then they were asked to guess the race of the person in the photo, and more than 50% of people were correct.

Interestingly, the higher the activity in the amygdala (which is activated in the brain's decision-making process about skin color), the higher the tendency towards racism in the participant, according to preliminary testing.

Does the brain not like strangers?

The bad news is, no, it doesn't like strangers. If you try to develop a reflex for fear when you see a portrait of yourself and a stranger, the reaction is developed faster to the image of "stranger". You could say we are a little biased, subconsciously attributing bad things to strangers and good things to ourselves. Even neutral faces of strangers are evaluated as more negative than the faces of members of our own group.

The good news is that if the face on the screen is shown to the participants for long enough for conscious perception, the frontal cortex is activated, which inhibits the ancient reflexes of the amygdala and cerebellum.

Therefore, you are still free to not be a racist, despite the brain's reactions. There is no need to condemn it, it evolved as best it could :)

If you believe that a person can control their worldview despite biology, share this with your friends or discuss it under this post :)

It seems logical that the more stress we experience, the more our nerves will be on edge, and our fear will intensify. However, things are not always as obvious as they seem.

Let's look at a psychological experiment:

The participants were divided into two groups: the first group was subjected to stress (public speaking, solving complex tasks), while the second group was left alone. Then the stress level was evaluated by measuring the production of the hormone cortisol (which increases during stress).

Both groups were then shown an article about a dangerous substance, and it turned out that those who had higher cortisol levels before the experiment were less responsive to the new danger than those who were not stressed beforehand.

In the situation of a pandemic, this could mean that a "stressed" person worries less about a new mutation of the coronavirus than someone who was not stressed.

And here's where everything becomes logical again: strong stress (which affects the endocrine system) suppresses fear, as someone who is strongly distressed about something has no concern for other things.

So, when you see that your loved ones are not worried about the chaos going on, think about what problems are taking up all their attention. And don't beat yourself up for being apathetic towards the problems in the world if your cortisol levels are off the charts due to your own problems - it's normal.

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