“Only if it can be read emphatically”

Minimal charmsthe video podcast El Cultural, dragged its pace until the end of October. Conceived as “a space of conversation and reflection incompatible with some of the derivatives of this harsh world,” as the magazine’s director announced, Alberto Ojedaat the beginning of the first meeting regularly meets with the great personalities of our country’s culture.

The first protagonists were full Juan Jose Millaswriter with scientific interests, y Castellanos of Nazaretha neuroscientist with a literary profession. Over the course of an hour and in front of a full room of El Cultural subscribers, at the headquarters of EL ESPAÑOL, they conversed with the director about the potential and ethical implications of artificial intelligence, the mysteries of the psyche, the beneficial effects of reading, resilience against adversity and overcoming trauma.

I have a particularly relaxed climate, especially since Millás’ son studied at the same institute as the author of the book The bridge where sailors live (Siruela). Including being bashed by Jim Morrison for his physicality. We also find out that Millás never played with Nadie, but is concerned that he left after GPT Chat: “Why does the air move when it cools?” he asked her once.

Much of the charla revolves around artificial intelligence, which is now inevitable. By the author This idiot is going to write a novelpublished last year in Alfaguara, he is fascinated by the phenomenon, while the scientific popularizer compares it to fire: she is aware of its enormous importance, but curiously warns. In general, both recognized its use. Millás offers topics for his articles; Castellanos also helped her organize ideas.

A defender of social media, the author believes they are “an opportunity to transmit information” through a “completely accessible” medium. The problem is that they are addictive, he admits, “because things change, which causes our attention mechanisms to be inhibited.”

Still, he encouraged Millás to use them, to “stay ahí” and be an active part of keeping the altarpiece out of the hands of discredited users, to project ideas with the required rigor. But the author world (Cena Planeta, 2007) prefiere las veleidades de la literatura.

So much so that starting with the actual expression uttered at the beginning of the meeting by Castellanos, “recoger a la niña”I saw the title of a possible novel. “Although I’m looking at the first chapter,” he said in closing remarks.

There was also time for curiosity about the brain, which arose about The bridge where sailors livean exciting book that appears at the top of the bestseller list week after week. For example, the importance of eye contactwhich are connected to the limbic system, or sea, the emotional part of the brain. “To find the power of attentional mechanisms”, assures neuroscience.

On the other hand, the eyes are also connected to the heart: “When the heart weakens, the eye spontaneously tends to recurse, and when it is relaxed, we tend to melt. In each heart, information returns to the deep regions.”

For this reason, mobile phones are dangerous in solving the problem. “We try to understand everything because of the brightness and contrast of the colors, the letters,” says Castellanos, and this is something that is remembered by the brain, which does not allow for real sleep, even when we are able to sleep.

If they commented, adémási, controversial statements Maria Pombo, influencers which he determined weeks before “let’s not make ourselves better”. We’ll get through it. The interviewees were found to be considerate and well expressed with respect.

“If a philosopher says this sentence, let’s say you have to think about it,” suggested the writer. “It can be bad to read; people who are good don’t read it.”. Likewise, “only if you can read strongly; I don’t think you can have normal readers”, Millás added, also agreeing that “there are writers who are not at the top of their work”. To Castellanos, she thought it was “barbarity” that she had influencers now transfer the message while keeping the read value.

Between the analysis of reality and considerations of the scientific, in a certain part of the conversation it is rather a purely metaphysical consideration. However, humor quickly emerged, a sign of identity that always accompanies Millás. The writer, who defines himself as a “non-militant atheist,” concluded: “I think It would seem absurd that God would be happy, but there are so many absurd things…“.