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hi yourself. ready ready the. ready you called yourself a modern day, which was a more like a modern and a priestess. but in a nice way, what does that mean than um, misunderstood nowhere in which they take, which should be more like someone that a, you know, you flush and fly at night and kill you and you know the scary. meanwhile, on the other side of the world, which is a healer, someone a priest that someone who can, who is advantage enough to work with spirits that can show that you know what is to come in the future. did you find the difference between how people in going on and people in the us react to respond to your music? oh yeah, absolutely. and what ways i'm gunna black child. i'm the black sheep in the industry
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. yeah. that's yeah. yeah, yeah. kind as a christian nation. right. so imagine this girl comes out calling, resolved the room, music queen of their life, to bring the little girl here with all the stuff we don't want. and i'm laughing, but it's ridiculous because it's our tradition what we have here. so powerful if they knew they wouldn't be meeting the chest like guerrillas would do, isn't that it? and i'll culture, you know, you can't run away from me. you can't. it's true that the enlightenment often attacked the established church and its hierarchies. and it's orthodoxies. but it preserved a very deep sense of reverence, whatever you think created the world. it wasn't even
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a season wants to show me the world because to boo festival was. so we take a road trip from ghana through to go to bin for her buddha isn't a religion, it's a way of life. it's based on knowledge that's been passed down from generation to generation. it's not written in any encyclopedia which also means it's in danger of dying as completely so we're here at the beach and we don't where hundreds of thousands of people just vanish. they didn't just vanish somewhere and bought and sold. there was stolen. what kind of knowledge do you think was lost during the colonization? a lot. the 1st morales, the morals are an important thing. it's, it's,
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it's part of the culture, it's embedded in you. so the morals is the 1st thing in the tradition. the knowledge that the people that were taken away last and when you see people they, you know, daily routines and practices away from them or you basically killed them. i believe our futures in all past in the sense that in order to actually evolve and live and see our future, you have to know what happened in the past. in the dashboard, a lot of these people were taken away from spiritual homes. and whether they liked it or not, it could be 50000 years. the beloved line remains the same. and so if you're suppose to be a priestess, when that time comes for the calling, you can't run from it. there is no such thing as shame in our culture which colonization that came a lot of self. hey,
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a lot of it. so it's something that's new and it's for like a virus and that's where the problem always starts. the 1749 does arose with cold, lesser on the blind to the use of those who can see you wanted to show how much how sense has influenced including morales, the eoc you that for person who caught c fixed is the biggest crime of home who is a comp matter system, if another person presses decently or stands, make it in a marketplace. do 2 root concluded that morality was not universal, was dependent on how sensory perception knowledge comes from
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bodily experience. it doesn't stem from reason, from the census, from feeling and touching things. 2 ways even further on doing the pleasure was the most important principle of life. and he himself was no stranger to place that was there in his a rustic novels. the says he had own cellphones and cafe in the series worth and helped along by good food and wine. i've been eating like a young who does a road once road, getting round as a bull. it's early morning on the london underground. if the commuters here are having any kind of sensory experience, then it's probably thanks to their smartphones. indeed are goals time. knowledge was controlled by king and clergy in our world, data brain supreme. pretty much anything about our world could be found via search engines, like google and personalized algorithms determine which parts of the world we all
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get to see when internet became so popular. now have even more radical form of democracy. our own can participate through the internet. on the inside of the broadening our prospective internet and internet actually makes people even were closed some dock and a gun to or at the bottom you have data, an entire ocean of data in thing here, a bit smaller. you have information on come, then comes knowledge from gum, and then at the very top, a very small amount of wisdom. it is always about climbing up here and it to be the open data. i information to knowledge on to wisdom, to vice. sometimes the path to wisdom begins with a simple search query. when i type in the default, the search engine gives me nearly 16000000 results and under a 2nd and the 1st hit,
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the open encyclopedia wikipedia among the world's top 15 websites. it's the only one that's not for profit. and if i want to add to the accumulated knowledge about due to home, i can just like thousands of others before me. i can also join the discussion about where the truth lies. wikipedia co founder jimmy wales helped create the largest democratic encyclopedia in history, a data hole for the internet era. but unlike the honest to globally deep wikipedia has to contend with fake news conspiracy theories and lobbying a world where everyone can broadcast their own version of what's true. if you count the legal votes by easily when you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal, feel action from us in the face of polarization and political influence. can we can pdf survive as a public repository and objective truth?
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it is a little sense that skepticism has to be the 1st step of finding the truth that that has to be the touch stone for, for everything and you to agree with us. uh, yeah, i do. you know, if you're in school today, you definitely need to be fully trained on how to spot misinformation. uh, how to check different and seemingly what looks like a new site is a real new site or not. and if you don't have the ability to distinguish between the 2, then you are quite vulnerable and we do see quite a lot of people and this isn't just young people the, the, the current oral were and who has the power over knowledge? oh, i mean, i don't think anyone is a good thing. obviously there's bumps along the way. but in general,
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that's one of the key features of the current ages. there is no priestly killed who controls the canon of knowledge. do you think this will continue? i mean, there, there are threats to this, this openness and freedom as off. well, there are definitely threats. and we do have this risk as we see country after country around the world, claiming a global jurisdiction over their rules are on the internet, which leads to more blockages, a more fragmented internet. and it's really against that ideal, that enlightenment ideal me, that we're whole people on this planet trying to learn, find, to know, trying to understand the world we've been blocked in china for quite some time. and we're sometimes blocked in other countries. and usually it's about some specific information that's true that they don't like, remember why teachers always telling me do not use the computer, the source changed or the transfer bit. yeah. you know, i think it's, it's really about challenging that presumption, right? that ordinary people can participate in the knowledge process. and the idea that
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you today right now have the right to come and engage with information to engage in that public dialogue about what is true. that's a pretty radical idea. even for this era, that knowledge is open, that everyone can join in the debate, the dialogue, the chewing, the, the search for truth, and that it isn't just the province of a handful of selected. and that idea is very much, i mean like mental index effort that takes thought it takes, it's fine. yep. student jimmy wells is optimistic. people leaves in the power of the community in a crowd based enlightenment. but just like the writers that they also pay, the most wikipedia authors are white and mail and open dialogue can sometimes turn into a war between editors with authors, shutting each other out. so what happens if the ideal of democratic communal
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knowledge fails because of the rationality of people chose and knowledge that they do all the mortality they don't come have had the and on time. the majority of it is their own opinions. they increased the noise of the i informed public. so i think that's my latest attack on, on the quality and democracy. how much responsibility can the individual be trusted with? it's a fundamental philosophical question which determines the political system we gravitate towards. do we want universal participation, or should we be ruled by a single party or a moral and intellectual elite? in pre revolutionary friends, did a ro worked over, throws a ruling a late. he spent 3 months in a state prison involved farm. when he was released to pledge never to produce plus from this writings again, oil spice of life in prison. at $1751.00,
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the 1st part of the o. c co pay d was published, containing due to rose rays, the shop satisfied against the authorities. the entry on cannibalism contained to cross reference to the eucharist. catholics consumed, the body and blood of christ during communion. doesn't that make them cannibals? the increase, the king rule in french, begins with information about the king vulture, which he describes as a bird about as fast as a turkey, and only off the woods. is there any information about the actual king? it's very strange because it arises. you know, we have no problem is. so it's we have no with this. we have no way of really attacking impala accepted language. close to either the display of dictatorships is freedom and this is the song, c is for the free and free thinking people. this is that they won't allow themselves to be dictated to form one less than what power dislikes is. people who
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would accept the narrative. the power is trying to impose the what power does like is expanding control and surveillance over its citizens and collecting their information. the forensic architecture is a network of architects and journalists who investigate governments, dictators and intelligence agencies that cover up to human rights abuses and manipulate evidence based in london, they compile data, images and videos to reconstruct poison gas attacks or presence where people or torture. how does forensic architecture compile evidence that will hold up in court? is really architect ale. weitzman is the head of the collective. some an a milwaukee specializes in environmental crimes. i've been investigating the legacy
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of the day. he made himself quite and popular with a church, and my guess is that you know, towards the state and the police, you, you, you might not be the most popular people are or is, it is like, what's your take on? i kind of going against the powers there are at this point. so 2 thirds and truth is also in the battle field for us. now, when you break the state monopoly over knowledge and say what jobs, because we can know when you line this makes us very unpopular, obviously with the people that want to apply 5 and a sides of the american this, that depends on as with which we have clashed on several occasions, were fighting against the corporations. and so for example, we had a case that we're looking at or the extraction on oil pollution in argentina. it's not always just the state. so we have a lot of states. it's a, it's a big frontier,
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number of the power for all those people we always hear the same kind of critique. we are. we are not state also rise to speak the truth, but it's exactly that kind of authority section. we don't see so much of the work that you do is, is enabled by the internet by global access, by uploading pictures from smartphones, etc, etc. and how to get data into knowledge. the very principle of knowledge of the principles of science is a kind of culture of suspicion. and that culture of suspicion need to be substantiated with the methodology that is built in order to verify claim does the testimony that we heard from several people that experience violence. agree with that video which agrees with the weather report, which agrees with a satellite to imagine. i said that i took it in a more diverse animal,
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different perspective. so the more we have confident that the statements that we are making against states and corporations a precise do you see yourselves like walking in dinner, rose foot steps like do you see yourself as and lightness, we are leaving in kind of radical cost and light them into reality, in which we find that the problem is suffering like ment of governing, transparently and justly is precisely the target to fire investigations. you see what's nice behind it is that the state wants to keep its monopoly of, of violence in all the truth in windows to monopolies, unite over violence and of a truth. you have an unchecked political situation whenever monopolies on violence and truth coincide, democracy becomes impossible. in the 18th century,
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this was called absolutism. almost 60 years old did a ro sit house on one last be joining the quote and sent me the cuts for the 2nd and some pieces book. the rule was considered to be one of the enlightened absolutism. this ro wanted to convince the will polish despotism, which would essentially mean abolishing himself. she told him once you, it's the row that he's great principles were beautiful in books, but they made for bad practical policy. while you wrong, i shall. i'm feeling paper. she said, i am right on human skin which is sensitive to the slightest touch. it arose. idealism was not much for catherine's, hobb nosed, real politics. he like to return to paris dissolution. the
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oxford university is one of the oldest in the world. it's students have included philosophers, john locke, and adam smith, physics genius, stephen hawking, internet inventor, tim berners lee, us president, bill clinton, people who went on to change the world the today, the university's future of humanity institute is tackling big picture questions about humanity. according to swedish philosopher, an institute director nick foster and we're on the costs of perhaps the greatest paradigm shift in human history. for the 1st time, we can be replaced by an even more intelligent entity in the form of an artificial super intelligence. are, together with stephen hawking, milan mosque and others, he's signed off on a warning to humanity. 23 principles for a research to benefit human kind. not harmon. so do you want them a coffee or tay? i'm good. thank you. thank you. all right. you think super intelligence,
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artificial intelligence, do you think that is a threat to humanity? and the problem is as well i, it's, uh, i think, a very unique moment in, in the history of life when this happens, the creation of the general artificial intelligence machines that, that attain the same general purpose reasoning ability that contest, set saucy months apart from the rest of the animal kingdom, guessing that the transition rights will be maybe the most important task. in, in this century, you've been quoted saying if a super intelligence decides that it's, it's better to wipe all humans off the planet for some reason or other it, it will succeed. and some people say that, that scare mongering, that's just, you know, blowing out of course. and if you think about what, what gives us humans this unique position on the planet. but it's not that we have stronger muscles than other animals are sharper teeth. it's our brand,
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so i'm just slightly different the wire. and so similarly, if we introduce into the world something radically, cognitively, it's apparent to human, it's done, it might well be that the future would be shaped by the volley, some preferences, office superintendent stuff. and so i had them, they didn't need to make sure we aligned them with us so that they're kind of an extension of a few involved. yes. and of human intentions rather than disabled. and i think when i think for us in this part of the enlightenment, schumann, reason is kind of the core of that and an arrow where we're artificial intelligence has more reason, more reasoning capability than humans. is there a need to kind of read a fine or look at what it means to be human? so right now, many people define their identity in terms of being useful to somebody or something. you're already the breadwinner, or you are the mother of eraser. children or you or something. the body in the
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robots kind of everything better. yeah. might just must be interesting. you can do that would be useful. a lot of our values and identities, and you know, we need to base them on something different than this kind of instrumentality. principle that shapes the current world. but the unenlightened meant of the 21st century has to help us give new meaning to our existence, to redefine what it means to be human, adding a 4th chapter to freud, 3 famous insults to humanity. first, copernicus showed us that we weren't the center of the universe. second, darwin degraded us by placing us in the animal kingdom showing that we the so called crown of creation or basically 8. thirdly, freud himself taught us that we are externally determined by our psychological drives, and soon we won't even be the most intelligent beings on the planet. what will
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humans be then? what will give us meaning and support in a world where we're redundant, the fact that the city of we definitely need where i'm at the world, the largest to do festival with senior as these up as part of the one of the who do kings has invited us personally, to be honest, i feel out of place here as a northern european tech nerd. something in the rebels against the idea of who to being an enlightened ritual. wouldn't beautiful have called all of this superstition. or do we hear pnc rituals like these from a heavily biased euro central point of view? self funded mentally opposed our science and spirituality from each other actually
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spiritual basis of life. we're not just flesh walking around. there's very within and, you know, the one thing that a lot of people don't understand is no see off les, right? they don't see how far they're sierra and your energy. when we stop seeing color and start treating, you know, each other differently won't be fine. but so then we've our here we're here at the temple of price on phenomena straight on the other side of the plaza is a church. how do you feel about kind of the 2 religions meeting in, in this way, every constant, it has a piece of the street to spiritual enlightenment every try. it's a puzzle and it's been distributed through all the different tribes and we can figure it out until we bring that entire pause together. so until then we're all going to be like, my puzzle is the whole thing and another. 7 minus at the end of it all,
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we all have to come together. all of us, even the christians, saving them after the parade, we had to the court of the king of we to his majesty data, bulk b. as a student, he left the socialist spinning and moved to the former east germany. these days he lives, most deer, and berlin and rules his kingdom. from there for him, there is no doubt that a life without a higher meaning doesn't do justice to being human. so do you think who can, can provide or be a form of the might says best and we do have that off level. of course the theme of enlightenment is contained within as we've every breath we take to the world needs
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in light on it often. presto, part alone is not enough. for the mind alone is even worse. and as though we need both of them together, i don't know where you've come from or how can you know where you're going? is that a business looking at gate july, 17 days before? do you need to do a ro died without a god? and without ceremony, once you go on, it makes no difference whether you were somebody or nobody who wrote. in the end, you don't mean more than a hole in the ground, and full spruce boards did a road, didn't die without hope. he left behind risings that he couldn't publish in his lifetime. he thought they would one day change the world so that our grandchildren would also need be more educated, but also happier and more virtuous. so that we don't die without finding a place among humanity. the
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deed, as well as legacy lives on, in the joy of scientific knowledge and a steadfast, skepticism of authority to question those claiming to have a monopoly on truth based on dogma or alternative facts. be they from religion, large corporations, or demagogues. the enlightenment says, progresses in our hands, and that means so is, requests is up to us as you go through life and the world around do shifts and changes and you're trying to make sense of it. for me. writing is not active on this topic. newmont, nobody has the absolute truth, not even this i understand. so we must have maintained a position of the acceptance and respectful those who think differently, believed differently, loved different. we still have things we don't understand. and so, before delving came along, it required
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a major leap of carriage to say that we don't actually need a great big design in the sky to explain it. the remaining problems that we face, like the origin of the universe, the origin of life actually to will be solved and enlightenment for the 21st century has to confront the complexity of the world. without being satisfied by simple answers. encyclopedias can no longer be universal repositories of knowledge. knowledge has to keep evolving. just as we humans have to keep questioning ourselves. at the dawn of the age of super intelligence, we're realizing that we're more than just rational beings who define themselves solely in terms of utility. the for me, this is all part of the education of the future. we need to know where we've come from in order to better understand where this journey will take us.
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