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Defend and challenge what we believe | Ray Xin Lee | TEDxOIST


in this room has never experienced any
unclear and difficult situation
of course nobody like who in this room
has recently has recently facing some
difficulties please raise your hand okay
more so I hope my talk today can provide
you some positive mindset in this kind
of situation so I’m working on
psychology and neuroscience of animal
behavior and on this topic
I always think between my research and
the experience in my life so toward a
general understanding a case is like
this tiny Mouse here so there is a
cheese very close to it and also a cat
is here so can you tell what the mouse
is thinking right now probably very hard
for you and this is this kind of
situation is similar for sometimes when
you face a person but if in a case
you’ll observe the most wrong to
lachie’s or escape away then you can
start demonstrate what lamaze was
thinking and this kind of logic is
actually how scientists designed for
behavior test two major animal emotion
so for an example as this design shown
here it is called like a pulse so it is
a box divided into two areas like areas
and talk areas and there is a SMO toll
between it and a lot of mouths will
transfer between the areas so if you sit
inside all topples and look toward like
area it looks something like this so
forum moans it afraid of somewhere with
light but it also likes to give her
around and it is like you are sitting in
a cave and looked toward unknown walk
and Samir logic scientists also have the
design that is called elevated plus maze
so for elevated frost means it is a
cross shape platform high above her
ground and there are two types of arms
open arms and clothes on so for close
arm there are Wars protector animal
tools selling down and for open arm
there is no war and if you stand on it
it is something look like this so you
have a good view surrounding as you
stand on observation otech but it is
very danger so for both of this design
there are two component placed together
so they place together and create an
environment with cottonmouths want with
what it don’t want and this is a
condition of anxiety so they use this
behavior test to major animal anxiety so
if animal shows stronger anxiety they
are expected to stay more in a safe area
like prawns arms or a talk area well
this behavior has has been developed for
over 30 years and like loss of
validation on it but it remains
controversy and this is the case what
observe in my data so as you can see
here even I provide a same treatment to
a group of mice place compared to the
controls they spend more time in the
light area but they spend less time in
Oklahoma
so this opposite result make the
interpretation of animal emotion
inconclusive if you view it from the
traditional way and as a researcher I
has an ism if that is caused by some
factor during my experiment or some
environmental factor but finally this
Perry tongue sole result become clear to
me so I start to review the literature
of most anxiety and what I found is that
there are more reports
best under results from elevated plus
maze land from the Lego box
soul is coincidence shocked me at the
first moment so the message to me is
that there is a important and
fundamental fundamental Crescent
hide/unhide Peninsula surface like the
topic here and from latter on I start to
do some sort of experiment what happened
or what I expect if I put a depressed
mode inside this behavior test and also
what I expect to see if I put a fear
most
inside this behavior test then I start
to from light there are actually a wide
possibility for you to for the
interpretation of animal emotions so
instead of looking at the behavior and
demonstrate the emotion I start from the
emotion try to provide a complete and
inclusive definition of emotion like
fear or anxiety and I come up with a
definition like fear is a reaction to a
street an anxiety is a reaction to
uncertainty so what I expect is fear
should increase with the certainty over
street but the anxiety should increase
with the uncertainty of an environment
and by it analyzing through a possible
probability distribution of animal
behaviors that shown in a behavior test
I analyze how much the behavior match to
the inferred of salvation I expect like
based on this definition then soon lives
opposite logic both of this result
although opposite
from a traditional view they are all
points towards supporting latter months
the mice here showed anxiety and what is
more surprisingly discovery is led
actually in both of these behavior tests
they are actually two different
psychological feature fear and anxiety
are majored in different zone of this
behavior test and based on this
following this logic you can repeat
early useless behavior test and take it
as a thermometer of emotion let detect
the intrinsic intrinsic stress
development so from my study and through
Lee’s experience I try to understand is
there a way for scientists to facing
unclear and difficult issue and here I
show an example from our study solar
researcher here they observe like
laboratory rats they help each other and
there are lots of psychological basis
like hands supported this observation
for example later fill curiosity what do
you are doing there and also like they
try to save read and play with it for
some social reward or just try to stop
is a long haul or more simply it is just
by coincident but from there furthers
testing they ruled out other possibility
and show that the read help each other
is most likely to be based on empathy as
us the human being and for other example
it is a study about consciousness so
consciousness for you may be something
abstract and it has long been a human
history that we try to have some
understanding about of physical
substrate for consciousness and people
usually look at physical phenomenon for
is
like brain activity and try to correlate
with their consciousness but all these
approach failed to really answer some
fundamental question and the scientists
here he sing from an other direction
hissing it’s from his own conscious
experience and what are the incentives
as supported and what kind of physical
system can account for this property and
from this direction he developed a
theory that can even provide a precise
answer to some hard christian in a field
like what is consciousness and a white a
system can has can be conscious so from
this example it seems like there is a
pattern for scientists to facing unclear
and difficult situation in their life so
it is like there is a lock and you want
to open a lock peyote and if you cannot
insert a kill from one direction you
will change the direction but if you try
many directions and Laughlin walks land
you may change your key but more than a
trail and arrow
scientists lady’ll ways problem by
dealing hot late belief so compared with
autumn my said shown in this table
scientists like important lead take a
balance between a strong defense and a
strong challenging on hot late belief so
in this sense science the value of
science is not a comparison with other
and also not confirmed by other it is a
value for you so in any situation
wherever or whenever you meet unclear
and difficult situation there is a space
for science and what we can try to do
is to change our perspective lend defend
and challenge what we believe thank you [Applause]
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