How can a person understand what he is capable of. "Polite people": what the Russian special forces of the MTR are capable of. Howard Engel can write but cannot read

The abbreviation MTR stands for Special Operations Forces. This is an elite military formation of the Russian Ministry of Defense. If in the United States such a structure has existed since 1987, then in our country the creation of an elite unit began only in 2009.

The main difference between this unit is that its fighters can operate outside the territory of the Russian Federation, in states with which Russia is not at war, and can, as the charter says, “apply methods and methods of combat operations that are not characteristic of conventional forces : reconnaissance and sabotage, subversive, counter-terrorist, counter-sabotage, counter-intelligence, partisan, anti-partisan and other actions. "

Behind these dry lines of an official document is an incredibly risky work, which was most clearly demonstrated by the fighters during the operation in Syria, where, by order of the command, they were transferred to fight IS *. There, the military was engaged in reconnaissance, destroying the commanders of terrorist groups, adjusting the fire of our aviation and many other tasks that will remain classified for a long time.

So, let's recall the most famous MTR operations at the moment, most of the information about which is classified.

Crimea

Soldiers of the Special Operations Forces took part in maintaining order on the Crimean peninsula when a coup d'etat took place in Ukraine. The Russian government has decided to send fighters to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea to ensure the safety of Russian citizens there. Presumably, it was they who took part in the seizure of the Belbek military airfield in Sevastopol, part of whose personnel at first refused to lay down their arms.

After a two-day confrontation, the fighters were able to occupy the territory of the unit without casualties and convince its commander to leave the location.

Calling fire on myself

After Crimea, the MTR fighters were noted in the Syrian operations of the Russian Aerospace Forces. There, the soldiers were engaged in the destruction of field commanders of terrorist groups, as well as adjusting the fire of our aviation. In March 2016, the SSO fighter Alexander Aleksandrovich Prokhorenko proved to the whole world that their part is elite not only thanks to their skills and equipment, but also thanks to their military spirit. He reported the coordinates of the bandits' warehouses in the province of Homs. The militants figured out his position and surrounded Alexander. He fired back as much as he could, but when he realized that there was no way out for him, he summoned artillery fire. He died, but took many enemies with him. For this feat, he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Russia.

This act became widely known overseas and aroused the admiration of people around the world. So, the French family Maguet, as a sign of respect and admiration for Alexander Prokhorenko, handed over to his widow the awards of their relatives during the Second World War: the Order of the Legion of Honor and the Military Cross with a palm branch.

16 vs 300

Another feat made the MTR glorified when a handful of 16 fighters were forced to resist an offensive by more than 300 terrorists.

It was near Aleppo. One of the many enemy groups attacked the Syrian government forces in this area. One day, our soldiers, as usual, were in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Syrian army, when suddenly a powerful shelling began. The Syrians retreated, which the militants did not fail to take advantage of. They planned to take the commanding height, but suddenly found themselves under fire. It turned out that, unlike the Syrians, 16 MTR fighters did not run, but took the fight.

A battalion of militants used artillery, a shahid-mobile (a car filled with explosives with a suicide at the wheel) was also sent to the position under the cover of an armored vehicle, they fired from tanks, "Gards", stormed on two infantry fighting vehicles, but our soldiers destroyed all this equipment with guided missiles ... On the first day, they repulsed more than four attacks.

At night, the soldiers mined the approaches, which became a big nuisance for the militants. The next day, the terrorists undertook several more unsuccessful sorties. For a day and a half, about 10 attacks were repelled, after which the enemies retreated. There were 300 corpses left on the battlefield. Ours left the battle without loss.

Hold on to the last

A similar incident happened in August 2017. A squad of five MTR fighters arrived at the Syrian army checkpoint, which controlled traffic on the Akerbat-As-Sukhne road section. Suddenly, several dozen militants attacked the checkpoint. Some of the Syrian military were killed, and some fled. Ours had no choice but to accept the battle.

Soon, due to heavy fire, almost all members of the team were injured. Only the youngest fighter, corporal Denis Portnyagin, remained unharmed. Taking a machine gun, he began to shoot back alone. After some time, a bullet hit his machine gun and he was out of order. Denis continued to fight back with automatic bursts and grenades. During a short break, he managed to get in touch with his own and call for help. When the militants got closer, our artillery stepped in: it cut off the bandits' reinforcements, after which our helicopters cleaned the place.

When the Syrian reinforcements arrived at the checkpoint, all the fighters were already holding grenades in their hands, preparing to blow themselves up so as not to be captured. In the end, everyone survived. Denis Portnyagin was nominated for the Hero of Russia award, which was presented to him personally by Vladimir Putin.

* IG is an organization banned on the territory of the Russian Federation.

The human brain can do amazing things. A simple example: we can perceive light that is reflected from various objects around us. The light enters the eyes and our optic nerves convert it into electrochemical impulses. Impulses are the "language" of the brain that it uses to communicate. Electricity travels through the neural network and reaches the hippocampus, the region of the brain responsible for analyzing these impulses. It is the hippocampus that distributes the received impulses to different areas of the brain. And now an impulse directed to the visual cortex of the brain suddenly turns into a road sign, seeing which we understand where to direct the car.

And even the most basic brain surgery can be terrific. As a result of surgery, injury, or illness, the human brain can begin to do amazing and in some cases terrible things.

1. Pam Reynolds and her experience of "life after death"

Pam Reynolds

Apparently, Pam Reynolds, a blues singer from Atlanta, Georgia, was a normal person before she had surgery to remove aneurysms in her brain. During the operation, doctors pumped out all the blood in her brain, so it was inactive for 45 minutes. All processes were interrupted in it, from receiving signals about the feeling of hunger from the stomach and ending with the transmission of visual and audio information.

Despite this, after waking up, the singer was able to describe in great detail everything that the doctors did to her. Her example is considered the most striking example of posthumous experience. However, Reynolds' experience is far from unique. A study of cardiac patients was carried out in one hospital in the Netherlands. And in the course of the study, it turned out that of 344 patients who experienced clinical death, 18% reported experiencing "life after death."

And most of all in the history of the singer is the fact that experienced doctors were engaged in "temporary shutdown" of her brain. However, she was able to reproduce all the details of the operation, from the description of the instruments used by the doctors to the topics of their conversations during the operation.

2. Henry Molyison and his inability to form new memories

Henry Molyison is a patient, one of a kind. Because only he had a chance to survive the operation to remove the medial temporal lobe of the brain. This was done in order to relieve him of debilitating attacks. When the doctor who performed this procedure found out what happened to Henry's memory, he categorically refused to do such operations to anyone else, and also began to oppose other doctors performing such procedures.

Removal of the medial temporal lobe, located above the ear, caused Molyison to suffer from a very rare disorder known as anterograde amnesia. With such a disorder, the patient's brain cannot form new memories, but the patient remembers everything that happened to him in the past. That is, Henry remembered everything that happened to him before the operation, everything that happened to him during the 27 years of his life. He retained the ability to form procedural memories, in other words, habits. But his brain was unable to record new declarative memories, and he could not remember his friend with whom he had just had lunch, could not remember the name of the current president, and so on.

In this state, Henry lived 55 years, and he died in 2008, when he was 82 years old. Because of his uniqueness, Henry has been the subject of a number of studies and is now known in neurological circles as the "HM" patient.

3. Robin Jenks Vanderlip and her Russian accent

Robin Jenks Vanderlip has never been to Russia. Robin is a resident of McLean, Virginia and has spent her entire life on the east coast of the United States. But a couple of days after she fell down the stairs and hit her head, she woke up and found she couldn't talk. Over time, Robin's speech recovered, and then she noticed that she spoke her native English with a Russian accent.

Robin is one of 60 patients in the world who have been diagnosed with foreign accent syndrome by doctors. It is a very rare disease that is always associated with brain damage, either from physical injury or from a stroke.

This may sound like a foreign accent, but patients don't "train" it on purpose, it's just that their speech center changes the way patients form words. And the most amazing thing about this syndrome is that words are formed in a predictable way, and it all begins to resemble some existing accent, even if the person has never encountered it before.

4. Howard Engel can write, but cannot read

When Canadian writer Howard Engel suffered a stroke in 2001, he thought, "Well, it's over with writing." This was indeed the case, because after some time he realized that one of the consequences of the stroke was the inability to recognize the printed text. Instead, Howard felt as if he saw before him a text written in a foreign language that he did not know. He could not read individual words. He couldn't even pronounce the names of the letters.

And the surprising thing here is that Engel soon continued to write, and he did it despite the fact that he did not understand the meaning of the words. The ability to write from visual memory passed into motor memory. Engel defines words in a special way, he repeatedly deduced letters, using exclusively motor memory to write them. And he found himself able to read while he was writing. Since the ability to write was not lost, the writer began to actively fight for a normal life. As a result, he was able to achieve serious results in the fight against his illness, but he could not fully regain the ability to read.

5. A girl from Germany sees perfectly only with one hemisphere of the brain

The excellent eyesight of a 10-year-old girl from Germany baffled doctors, as she was born with only one, the left hemisphere of the brain. And for good vision, both hemispheres are needed, since visual information coming from the optic nerves is fed to the opposite hemispheres of the brain for processing and storage. Therefore, with one hemisphere, only one eye should see, in the case of a girl, only the right one.

However, the girl sees perfectly and has normal binocular vision. In 2010, doctors performed a brain scan on her, trying to find out the cause of this phenomenon. It turned out that the optic nerve of the girl's left eye "migrated" to the left hemisphere, that is, the left hemisphere of the girl's brain can perceive information from both eyes. In the visual section of the cortex of her left hemisphere, special areas have formed, intended only for processing visual information from the left eye. This helps to avoid confusion.

6. Almost molten children's brain

The Australian girl, now known in the medical literature as "Baby Z", was born in 2008 and began to suffer from seizures. They were caused by a rare genetic defect known as "deficiency of molybdenum cofactor". Because of it, the brain cannot produce enzymes that create a cofactor, a special non-protein component that the body needs in order for other substances in the body to perform their functions. As a result, a huge amount of sulfite has accumulated in the child's brain. Sulfite is toxic and literally melts the brain, resulting in the death of the patient.

In the process of "melting" the child experienced severe pain and seizures, and tissue damage appeared in the brain, followed by a loss of swallowing and movement functions.

"Baby Z" is the first time that the above disorder has been successfully treated. An experimental treatment, created in Germany, was brought to Australia, and after approval was obtained, doctors began treating the infant. After three days the seizures and twitching stopped. And after a few weeks, the girl completely recovered, by now she is alive and well, and her brain processes sulfites like any other.

7. The woman from Pittsburgh, to whom all friends seemed to be strangers

In 1996, a 22-year-old American woman sustained a head injury in a car accident. Two years later, she began to suffer from seizures. In 2004, she was taken to a psychiatric ward at a Pittsburgh hospital, as the woman kept talking about being around strangers, even though these “strangers” were her friends and family members. The woman told the doctors that one of the roommates was her boyfriend, that the nurse who worked with her was her own sister, and that one of the doctors at the hospital was her mother.

Doctors diagnosed the woman with a rare disease called Fregoli syndrome. It is named so in honor of one actor from Italy, who was famous for very quick change of costumes during the performance, and very quick change of roles. Patients suffering from this syndrome often claim that the people around them are one and the same person, or they are several persons potentially dangerous to the patient.

After a month of treatment, the woman's condition was stabilized, while she did not remember anything that she had experienced.

8. Orlando Cerrel and his incredible memory

Orlando Cerrell / © www.daserste.de

Orlando Cerrell is an incredibly gifted person. But he received his gift not naturally, but after hitting a baseball bat. At the age of 10, the boy was hit while playing, after which his head hurt for several days. And after some time, Orlando found that he was able to remember what was happening on any day, starting on August 17, 1979 (it was on this day that he was hit on the head).

In most cases, he can even remember the weather that was on a particular day, and similar insignificant details of his life. He himself says that his amazing ability is the result of the fact that in front of his "mind's eye" he sees a calendar, while he does not perform any special exercises for training memory.

9. Michael Cork and his inability to sleep

Until 1990, the world record for waking hours of 11.5 days (276 hours) was held by a man from Finland named Toymi Soini. After that, no one else appeared in the Guinness Book of Records, as the organization refused to make records in it telling about behavior that is extremely dangerous to health.

Michael Cork / © dailymail.co.uk

Because we all need to sleep, and those who do not sleep at all will not live long. It was from a lack of sleep that a music teacher from Chicago named Michael Cork died. His brain was literally "blocked", and did not allow the person to fall asleep. Cork suffered from a rare condition called Fatal Familial Insomnia, in which a particular gene stops coding for certain proteins, causing toxins to accumulate in the thalamus. This part of the brain is responsible for sleep, and as it begins to malfunction, the body and mind are constantly awake.

A few months later, Cork showed signs of dementia. In an attempt to somehow regulate the work of his brain, doctors tried to introduce him into a state of artificial coma with the help of drugs, but even in this state, the brain still remained active. Cork died in 1992, six months after his first sleepless night.

10. Sam Escubel and his foot in the brain

After another ultrasound scan, Sam Exuebel's mother was shocked by the news that a tumor was developing in her son's brain. Three days after giving birth, Sam underwent brain surgery, during which the tumor was removed.

When the surgeons finally got to the tumor, they were surprised to realize that a small human foot was growing in the child's brain. Doctors put forward two possible diagnoses: either it is a teratoma, or it is the so-called "fetus in the fetus". Teratoma is a rare type of tumor in which hair, teeth, nails or skin can grow. "Fetus in fetus" is another very rare disorder where one of the twins, while in the womb, consumes the other.

After conducting thorough research, the surgeons found that they were really facing a case of "fetus in fetus", because in addition to the foot, they also found an arm, a thigh and an intestine. The surgeons also successfully removed all these tumors, and the child is now alive and well.

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Thanks to many years of studying our insides at every opportunity, scientists have become well aware of how almost every part of our body works. However, the most mysterious part of our body is the brain. And the more we study it, the more mysterious it becomes. You can't even imagine what amazing things our "thinker" is capable of. Don't worry, scientists didn't know this for a long time either.

Superhero brain.

Today we are going to share 10 of the most incredible capabilities of our brain that make us almost superheroes.

The brain can create false memories

Fool me.

Here's a scientific fact for you: our brains are capable of creating fake memories. Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you remember something, although in reality it never happened? No, we are not talking about past life memories now, where you were Caesar or Cleopatra. It is about the fact that you "remember" how you did things that in reality you did not do. They thought they had borrowed money from a neighbor, but in fact they did not. We thought they had bought some thing, but in fact they did not buy. There are a lot of such examples.

There are also more impressive ones. For example, our brain can convince us that we have committed a crime. In one experiment, scientists were able to instill and create false memories in 70 percent of the participants. They began to think that they had committed a theft or armed attack.

Our brain can predict the future

Our brain is the perfect alarm clock

The brain wakes itself up better than any smartphone.

“I don't need an alarm clock. I'm my own alarm clock, ”some people say. Know they are not joking. If you follow a routine (go to bed and get up at the same time), your brain gets used to it. Our own biological clock is better than any alarm clock. Therefore, many people can wake up even before the nasty bell rings, informing that it is time to get up for work. This is often observed, for example, in office workers.

Our brain can "listen" and learn while sleeping

Would you like to study in your sleep?

We used to think that our brains shut down completely during sleep. In fact, this is not the case. Yes, some parts of the brain do rest, reducing their activity. But,! During the so-called phase of REM sleep, a person is able to remember certain things. During experiments, scientists played certain sound signals (which people had never heard before) in front of sleeping people. Then people woke up, and the researchers played these signals to them again and asked them to say which of these sounds seemed familiar. And people recognized them!

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The brain is able to learn through imagination

Creativity is not available to everyone.

A simple experiment pioneered over 100 years ago. The people were divided into two groups. One group was taught basic piano skills using an instrument. The other group was taught without a piano. People were simply told how to put and move their fingers correctly, and also described how this or that note sounds. By the end of the training, it was found that both groups had the same skills - both were able to play the piano tune they were taught.

In the 90s, using more modern scientific tools, scientists actually figured out that imaginary learning and practice can have the same effect on the brain as real ones.

Our brain has an "autopilot mode"

Ever experienced the feeling of autopilot?

As soon as we master a skill well, our brain connects a certain department to work, the so-called passive mode network. It is used to perform tasks that do not require complex analysis, since their solution has already been repeatedly tested and brought to automatism.

People have been taught one card game that requires a little thought process. People played well, but when, after numerous games, this same network of passive mode of work was connected to work, they began to play even better.

Learning other types of skills is more difficult for people. For example, playing instruments. At first it is very difficult. But after that, when your hands and fingers have memorized how to play correctly, your brain actually turns off. And you start to do it automatically.

Our brain is able to build muscle in our body

Imaginary workouts, they are.

It is summer now and many of us, probably, sigh with bitterness that we could not prepare for it. All these diets and fitness centers have remained our wishes and memories. Do not despair! Our brains are capable of increasing the strength of our bodies if we just think about it.

In an experiment, one group of people was asked to imagine for 11 minutes every day (for 5 days) that they were engaged in increasing the strength of the hands. By the end of the experiment, it was established that the group of people who thought about pumping their arms had a grip strength twice as high as those who did not.

Can you get six abs cubes the same way? You won't know until you try.

Our brain can sense magnetic fields

The brain is another compass.

Some species of animals and birds, as well as insects, are able to sense the earth's magnetic field. This allows them to navigate in space and find the right path. You will be surprised, but a person also has such an opportunity. You can read more about this. In short, experiments have shown that our brains are capable of detecting changes in the direction of a magnetic field. True, we do not use this ability. But our distant ancestors could very well.

To date, many abilities have not yet been revealed, but what a man is capable of few really know. Scientists have proven that our human brain is studied by only 3%, so we have not yet passed even half the stage of internal development. Therefore, we need to seek and develop our abilities, given to us by nature, in order to realize something more than the usual material world.

In the article you will learn about what a man is capable of, psychologists will give you advice on how to develop your natural abilities. How to become aware of something more than the usual days, which do not bring any joy. Indeed, there are actually many abilities, but people do not even use those opportunities that are already open and exist.

A man is capable of anything he believes in

People today believe in a variety of things, but what a man is capable ofwho has a strong belief in himself and in everything that he believes, not everyone is aware. With a strong faith, you can heal yourself from incurable diseases, when doctors have already determined the date of death, you can walk on hot coals, glass and not even cut yourself or burn yourself. Vera, if it is developed every day, it is capable of doing anything with a person. Therefore, realize what you need and what you believe in and develop in this direction to make sure that this method is effective. But don't try to do what the pros do, as without preparation and daily practice, you can hurt yourself and become frustrated. Find out, it will allow you to become more aware and find real friends.

Man is able to materialize his thoughts

Scientists have long proven the practice of many people that our thoughts are material... This is not a fantasy, each person is able to materialize any thought, backed by faith and action. When you constantly, and every day for 10 minutes, replay the same event in life or thoughts about what you do not have, imagining that you already have it, then you materialize your thought as you thought about it. The problem is that people have not learned how to correctly think and imagine what they really want, since wrong thoughts can harm you, people and nature, or materialize in a different way than you wanted.

Everyone is capable of success, wealth, well-being and happiness.

It doesn't matter whether the person is poor, unhappy or unfortunate, everyone has the opportunity to become who he or she wants. It is enough just to want something strongly and start acting with a given plan and try to do something more every day to implement your plan. The poor man became so not because he has no money, but because he has poor thoughts, he constantly thinks about poverty, jealous of the rich, despises money and says that they are not the main thing in life. There is nothing fantastic in life that distinguishes successful person from unsuccessful, rich from poor except thoughts. It is thoughts that decide who you will become, the way you think is realized in life. There is no point in blaming others, everything is inside you, in your head, change the direction and flow of thoughts - your life will also change.

Man is able to change his destiny

Everyone believes in fate, not realizing that it is not accidental and is taken for a reason, since there are no accidents in the world and surprises, it all depends on whether we are consciously living or not. A conscious person is not surprised by events in life, since he sees them in advance in his imagination, controls and creates a new reality. Unconscious people live in a mystery, it seems to them that the world is full of surprises and fate. Each person is able to live as he wants, consciously or not, and change his fate by controlling his inner state, thoughts, emotions and desires. Find out, since in the world you will come across a variety of people who need benefits from us and you are given the opportunity and ability to refuse or help this person, in either case you will still be right, since this is your choice.

Who is a man?

If a person is positioned as a biological species, then to the question: “What is a person capable of?”, Each of us can say with confidence that:

A person is endowed with a brain, or rather, the ability to think and the ability to make free choices;
Can make various decisions and, accordingly, take responsibility for their consequences;
Man is endowed with the concept of morality and justice.

Of course, the list doesn't end there. A person actively adapts to the environment, knows how to use various tools of labor and produce them, can clearly express his thoughts through speech. He is also endowed with a sense of humor, a variety of emotions, with the help of which he can express his behavior and attitude towards certain things. In the end, a person can change not only the space around him, creating something, but also himself, constantly developing and improving along the entire path of life, both the personality of this incarnation and the soul as a whole.

As you can see from this extensive list, man is actually a very special being and capable of many possibilities.

And how do a person and his capabilities look from the perspective of spiritual development?

If we take for the statement that the soul and, accordingly, the person, were created in the likeness of the Higher Forces, then each of us is a hologram, the prototype of the most intelligent being in the Universe. What kind of creature it is and how exactly it appears is not so important. It is important that we have exactly the same qualities and abilities as the universe.

And what can the Universe do?

The universe has an amazing ability to create! To create: new outer spaces, planets, their inhabitants (including us), the nature of these various places, landscapes, weather conditions and everything, absolutely everything that is in our vast space - the Universe.

It is often difficult for us to even imagine how large and majestic it is. How diverse is its manifestation and forms. But all this, it was she who created, our mother and progenitor of everything - the Universe!

So, how are we humans different from the Universe if we are its hologram?

We were originally created to create and thereby develop. We try, change, dream, make, connect, create and develop. Because we are a semblance of the universe. It gives us this amazing ability to make us feel like creators in every sense. Be it our fate, our thoughts, our behavior, our children, our works.

Our happiness, harmony, inner and outer world depend only on us, because we are creators. If you want happiness, then create it yourself. If you want harmony, develop yourself every day. If you want inner and outer comfort, then just do and create what you always wanted!

Have you ever dreamed of building? Build! Did you want to write a book? Write! Write and sing a song? Sing it.

Create new ideas, dream, embody everything that only comes into your head, even if someone shouts from behind that it is impossible. Because everything is possible in the Universe, which means that you can do absolutely everything!

As an example, I want to introduce you to a person who has already become known at the world level as an amazingly talented jazz pianist, but completely blind from birth -. As you can see, a person is really capable of anything!

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