Keynote Prof. Dr. Gerald Hüther: "Wer nichts unternimmt, verliert seine Lebendigkeit"

yes, I have a special problem, I can't sleep well in new beds in hotel rooms, so I spent a very awake night and then I had a lot of time to deal with all the problems in the world, as usual and The climate crisis and extinction of species and environmental pollution and it all went through my head and then I also found out yesterday that I was actually here for 20 minutes and that's all I had in mind. The heart is to solve everything. these problems and then I get into an internal turmoil and then I have a way of dealing with it and then I always sing this wonderful song to myself.

Tomorrow you will all be worried, you will have slept so well, well, then everything will be fine. Sure, it sounds completely different and that is the result of modern brain research because neurobiologists and biologists in general are beginning to understand that all living systems strive for a state in which everything fits, that is, they strive for a state which we call coherence and that is the state in which everything fits very well in the brain, for example back and forth and right and left and what was previously stored

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e there is also this cosmic fit with nature anyway and if everything fits correctly then a system uses the least amount of energy, that's what it's all about, it's about saving energy, so yes, if set correctly, the system uses the least amount of energy, so in concrete terms, that means that the moment I do something, for example my eyes too often, there are some nerve cells back there that they had just gotten used to. the fact that it was so dark and now they get impulses and now they have to do something that costs too much energy and then send the signal to someone else who also does something and this way everything is processed up there and adapts that in the end a state where less energy is used again, then we learn about coherent states in the course of our lives to transform coherently that is what it is about, it is not about what we have always told ourselves in the past, peace, joy, pancakes or paradise and kingdom of heaven where everything fits, no, that works while I'm alive, not a state where everything fits up there when I just die yes, but then it's too late and before that, life is nothing more than learning to make it fit again and again, that's all.

We do not have prefabricated programs in our brain, we are always looking for solutions and the solutions we discover are anchored because there it becomes an incoherent state in which something does not fit into a solution and that, for example, you can lose the singing of this wonderful song with worries in a state in which it fits better this way and then that. In the first state, In a coherent state, a lot of energy is wasted there and then I sing the song and then less energy is released, so to speak, and it's used to activate these areas in the midbrain that brain researchers call the reward center. and then these nervous activities come into play that lead to this.

Certain messenger substances, endorphins, catecholamines, are released, a bit like cocaine and heroin at the same time, or you get a completely different feeling not because of the messenger substances, I have to say. At this point, but because these messenger substances activate other networks that in turn are responsible for the regulation of physical processes that are so good for us, it is not the messenger substance that makes us happy, but the activation of networks that They give us a physical feeling of what is good for us and at the same time these messenger substances do something else, that is, in the brain, these nerve pathways that I just used where I found my solution after that terrible night in this hotel in this strange bed that then sings good morning dear, that is anchored to the Lord, that is why I will never forget the song in my life, I sing it every time it is crap and then I always bring this incoherent state to a coherent one and now you realize .

What life is about, it's about not being happy throughout your life having everything you want, but becoming someone who is always able to restore a state where you fit in a little better in the world, so say it, and you are at peace. with yourself and this is more of a type of feeling that I develop throughout my life and that is called coherence. The feeling of competition in manufacturing is crazy when you have to use those terms to describe something so banal, so it's a sign that they've landed in completely new territory in science. There are no terms for it yet.

Consistency as the feeling of competence in manufacturing means nothing more than thanks to the problem to come, you too, I'll finish you now, that's a feeling you have. and now you can see the feeling. Of course, I can only develop it if I have enough problems. How am I supposed to develop a sense of competence that restores consistency if there are no problems? That's what we say I want. I'm going with you now. I want to show you that we are completely on the wrong track with our thinking patterns. What we want is not what is good for us.

We have become so far from ourselves that we no longer understand what it means. It's about truth, let's take an example of our belief in science. I think it's great that science exists, but it may also be a solution for a long time that we say that everything has to be scientifically proven because otherwise everyone would have said so. But if you now ask science what is important in life, no matter what discipline you adopt, in the end there is no right answer, so of course they will give you your answer. They can only give an answer to what is important in life if they have something they can measure, so what can you measure now of what is important in life?

These are two things: first, what someone has achieved by accumulating what you have built, so to speak, and made it your own or brought it into the world For me, for example, there are 153 original peer-reviewed publications in English on experimental research. That is my life, so to speak, which I have proven scientifically and the second thing, which is even more general, is that you can't really scientifically measure anything about life other than how long it lasts and if you approach it that way then you believe that what matters in life is doing everything possible and persist at it for as long as possible, then it could be that that's wrong, it could be that it's not about how long you live and how long you think it could be that it's more about that.

It's about how long you stay alive in a world that tends to be that way, but that we ourselves have also created, that we maintain, and that is now a world that tends to put us all in situations in which we do not develop this sense of coherence, of regaining competence , but in which we would prefer to give in. to the need for the second law of thermodynamics and activate the energy saving program in the Lord sitting on the couch and waiting for everything to be fine again running after people who want to tell us that they know how it works and what else it What needs to be done can adopt such strange strategies and it may be that we have reached a turning point as our Federal Chancellor said about the changing of times, but probably in a different changing of times than he thought and which he thinks could be that we have reached a point where we realize that we are no longer separate existences from life, but that life is part of us, so to speak, and we divide it into life on this planet, that we cannot use the life for our own purposes.

We can rightly offer it to our ideas and rightly see how we can use it well, but whenever we use life in this way according to our ideas, we also make it an object for us in the same way. and I always lose more and I see two trends and it would be nice if we could see it in the remaining minutes, don't rush, one thing is that we have created a world in which we try to divide everything into smaller and smaller pieces, there are two needs. We are born as human beings, one thing is the need for connection that we bring with us from the womb, there is no other way because we have been connected all along and everyone out there has hope. all your life that you will find people with you, you will be able to stay connected again where you feel good, where you don't have to try hard, where you don't have to constantly be how others want you to be, but where you can actually be who you are, that is the need of connection and the other need is what already comes from the mother's womb, that is, according to one's own creative possibilities.

It sounds very strange, but of course, a child like this is already present before birth and tries everything possible. It is not a passive state where it is easy. That is the only way it grows, but this world opens before birth and in the process it learns that it can learn more and more, it announces more and more this coherence, restores the feeling of competence and then it leaves, yes, and for Of course you want to create something out there. Every person is an entrepreneur. At first like that and then you just experience that you are growing. a world where adults, for reasons that must now be looked at more closely, cannot do that today or perhaps later in the discussion, then you experience that you are growing into a world where adults no longer have this. connection and you can no longer transmit it, you experience that thought, feeling and action were always coherent from the beginning for each child and for all of you and they were always together, that is why children are like that with their whole body in movement, you have to experience that it has to be separated for you to survive in this current world, it has to go so far and goes so normally that you don't even think about it anymore when a father leaves goes through Berlin with his son and then sits in church somewhere on the stairs of the church at the beggar and then everyone knows what is happening so the son looks at the beggar and then the dad looks at him, he wants to know with dad what he should do, he has the feeling that it is not right for him to sit there and wait for help from his dad and well, he sees that now is not the right time for dad to look somewhere else and then move like this and then we think he is A particularly good dad if he then turns the next corner and then ducks and explains to his little Fritz why they didn't give the beggar anything.

The child gets a cognitive explanation for an empathic impulse, yes, and we all do it. do it that way, even if you do it in childhood, you learned it that way and later in life you are constantly shown it and every night on TV, instead of the empathic reaction, you get my cognitive explanation of why it is that way , what is happening, then Empathy overcomes you. Technically cerebral, it means I can handle such a condition. I don't have to live my empathic feeling, I have to put the networks in the brain that produce this empathy, this compassion in motion.

I have to save them until it's no longer there, so I put the chicken in the way of cognitive explanation on top and at some point there are inhibitory circuits so well developed that I can explain everything cognitively and I no longer feel anything and then we have arrived at our world current, no wonder we are ruining it, it is no longer close to us, we are no longer connected to this world, we are no longer connected to our vitality at all, we only care about what can be measured, that is the time we are still alive and what we have achieved along the way but what a crazy world it has become this yes and that yes sometimes I get lost in it Language if you condense it too much, so we have broken down the really connected world that we are a part of and in which all living things are connected to each other for various reasons that you can then analyze for yourself into many pieces and it has something to do with the fact that you can then use it and control it. "It is better if you take it apart.

Caesar already knew this and at the time we did it, we were there, so to speak, and each of you also feels that when you grow up in this world, then you cannot give in to your joy of discovery and pursue his desire to create as he would really like to do, just as a small child grows up in this world with all this joy of discovery and creativity, at the latest when, at the age of four, he has completely cleared up. He cooks his mother for the third time and builds this pirate ship. Somehow he made it clear that this is not optimal, he wants something else and he wants to please.

I would rather go to his room and do that there or I have no idea, in others In other words, that's what we've all been through. We've all experienced failure with our desire to explore and create. I often do surveys and ask adults what is the most vital need they have right now. As adults, at your age, there are a combination of things you can no longer live without and three-quarters say they would like to be in control of my own life again. I would like to create something, I don't want to function on a hamster wheel all the time I just want to regain my autonomy, I want to be the designer of my own life and then I ask and when did you have todo it. repress it?

When was the first time you had to suppress your own joy in creating? I thought it was coming to school At home at their parents' house they arrive at school already entangled, they already had their joy of discovery and creativity and You have to repress and wrap and inhibit the little ones at home until they left a little and that's why They can stay up all day in first grade Sitting in the chair, nothing moves anymore and then they fit in there and that's why the school doesn't "Don't destroy it, the school just continues what most parents started at home.

Now , thank God, another generation of parents is growing up. I am very happy with that, optimistically, if the children who are not so prepared return to school, then these children will blow up the school. This is how you change school and not constantly playing with school, but strengthening the children to finish school Pippi Longstocking asks you Before Pippi Longstocking, everyone would be Pippi Longstocking in the first class, there they would give up the ghost, that wouldn't work at all and that's where has to go, that this endeavor where you find your way back to the ability to create and what I've described These are basically the complications that we get into as we grow in this world, we dismantle everything, then we come up with the ideas crazier and we suppress our life needs until they are so far away that we function almost like a calculating machine, which is the hallmark of digital devices that have no needs and when we lose our needs and lose touch with ourselves so much that we no longer feel what keeps us alive, so to speak, this eroticism, this physicality, this joy of discovery and creation, if I no longer feel that, then we will always be our most similar calculators and that is why everything we do is about one thing and nothing more and I hope that all companies and everyone who wants to start something here and we want something to always work.

Think if what you are doing can help people in this current world find their way out of the messes they have gotten themselves into and then modern entrepreneurship would be a development aid strategy. Thank you all, the best