Reading log 1
Title:The science of thinking
Author:Veritasuim
Text Type:Video/Film
Date:28/3/2017
Veritasuim is A youtuber who makes interesting content about science,education and interesting facts.Veritasuim made a YouTube video about how their is two sides of your brain also your conscious and subconscious in the video called "The science of thinking".This video explains more deeply how our brain filters information and how when we have to think we are uncomfortable.
It got me thinking on how lazy we get as humans when we come across a problem and we actually have to use our brain.The YouTube video gave me a insight to how humans do not want to think and when we do we try to find the easiest and quickest way witch explains why we can get simple questions wrong.For example Veritasuim went up to two guys and asked "how long does it take for the Earth to go around the sun" and they answered 24 hours but obviously the correct answer is one full year.When the two guys answered the question their brain triggered system 2 witch represents your conscious thoughts and is lazy and it is hard to get system 2 to think.When system 2 starts to think he gets uncomfortable and tries to find a quick and easy way to the solution.When we first learnt on how to tie our shoe laces we probably learnt from a song or a rhyme and we had to constantly think about the rhyme.when we were tying our laces but everyday we kept on tying our shoes then it got to a point when system 2 did not have to think about it and we didnt get uncomfortable thinking about the rhyme.When we have to give the effort and practice when we think we can send the information to system 1 witch does not have to think about what we are doing and simply does the order because we recognize the information.Another example is when we learn to play a instrument we have to think where our fingers go but after a while we do not have to think about where our fingers go and we just do it.
This video gave me a insight to how we learn things naturally and we do not have to think about doing them.There is a way to see how our system 2 works or anyone's that is concentrating hard.When system 2 is in thinking mode and not lazy you can see in the pupils eye that the pupil gets larger when system 2 is working hard or it can include more sweat production,higher heart rate and pupil dilation.Lets go back to the example I gave when Veritasuim went up to the two guys and asked "how long does it take for the Earth to go around the sun" and they answered 24 hours.When the two guys got asked that question System one thinks really fast but made a mistake then passed it to system 2 witch thought 24 hours is the correct answer and was to lazy to check if it was correct or not because he didnt want to think about the answer.When something that is confusing to system 2 it works harder and you are more likely to get the correct answer.
To conclude this I think "The science of thinking" is a amazing video to watch since you get more understanding of how the brain works and basically system 1 is fast and takes in a lot more information causing mistakes and always active unlike system 2 witch is slow and lazy.
