Николай Кукушкин. Дзен и искусство ухода за собственным мозгом

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Sat Apr 25 2026 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-04:00

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Kvartira Books (formerly MyBiblioteka) | Brooklyn, NY

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про вечный, неразрешимый конфликт двух составных частей человеческого мозга, и о том, как всё-таки примирить их между собой
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Николай Кукушкин. Дзен и искусство ухода за собственным мозгом

Николай Кукушкин – нейробиолог, специалист по молекулярным механизмам и эволюции памяти, популяризатор науки, адъюнкт-профессор Нью-Йоркского университета. Лауреат премии «Просветитель» (2020) и Беляевской премии (2021).

Автор книги “Хлопок одной ладонью: как неживая природа породила человеческий разум” (Альпина Нон-Фикшн, 2020; Prometheus/Swift Press, 2025)

Почему нам всё время хочется чего-то не того? Казалось бы, современные люди, следуя неопровержимым фактам медицины и психологии, должны правильно питаться, обращаться друг с другом вежливо, и проводить свободное время, безмятежно играя на лире. Но все мы почему-то так и норовим съесть какую-нибудь гадость, на кого-нибудь обидеться, кому-нибудь нагрубить, и окончательно испортить себе настроение цифровым супом соцсетей. Почему мы всё время воюем с собственным мозгом?

Можно подумать, что это проклятие современного мира – что это цивилизация испортила нам с мозгом отношения, а пещерный человек жил исключительно счастливой и здоровой жизнью безо всяких соцсетей и вредной пищи. Но нейробиолог Николай Кукушкин, утверждает, что и пещерным людям хватало своих собственных тревог – так уж устроен мозг. В этом научные исследования согласны с древними буддийскими постулатами: неудовлетворённость жизнью заложена в нас от рождения. На лекции Николай Кукушкин расскажет про вечный, неразрешимый конфликт двух составных частей человеческого мозга – коры больших полушарий и системы вознаграждения – и о том, как всё-таки примирить их между собой.

Лекция пройдет на русском языке

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Nikolay Kukushkin. Zen and the Art of Taking Care of Your Own Brain

Nikolay Kukushkin is a neurobiologist, a specialist in the molecular mechanisms and evolution of memory, a science communicator, and an adjunct professor at New York University. Laureate of the Enlightener Prize (2020) and the Belyaev Prize (2021).

Author of the book One Hand Clapping: How Inanimate Nature Gave Rise to the Human Mind (Alpina Non-Fiction, 2020; Prometheus/Swift Press, 2025).

Why do we constantly want the wrong things? It would seem that modern people, guided by the undeniable facts of medicine and psychology, should eat properly, treat each other politely, and spend their free time peacefully playing the lyre. Yet for some reason we are always tempted to eat junk, take offense at someone, snap at someone else, and completely ruin our mood with the digital soup of social media. Why are we constantly at war with our own brain?

One might think this is a curse of the modern world – that civilization has damaged our relationship with our brain, while prehistoric humans lived exclusively happy and healthy lives without social media or unhealthy food. But neurobiologist Nikolay Kukushkin argues that cave dwellers had more than enough of their own anxieties – that is simply how the brain is wired. Here, scientific research agrees with ancient Buddhist postulates: dissatisfaction with life is built into us from birth. In the lecture, Nikolay Kukushkin will discuss the eternal, unresolved conflict between two components of the human brain – the cerebral cortex and the reward system – and how we might reconcile them.

Lecture will be held in Russian


📅 April 25 | doors: 7pm, start: 7.30pm
📍 Kvartira Books, 731 Washington Ave, 11238, Brooklyn NY
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