and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said if i were. sad to stay there i would be home by the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all the crime. since the presidential election of twenty sixteen we've seen the rise of what the mainstream media terms fake news as though news had previously been honest and accurate until online platforms boys told media outlets that stories that were less than accurate and even intentionally misleading but the british documentarian adam curtis had first seen if not predicted the rise of fake news

sixteen film normalisation described a landscape where people increasingly look to validate their personal realities in a hall of mirrors of online. political voices that reinforce their previously held beliefs it is perhaps best exemplified in social media dictatorship the search engine optimization the taylors content personal life. modifying our behavior patterns but in a world where citizens have been replaced by consume with. content information to justify old patterns are left to wonder is our reality like the internet. a construct of our own creation. like a real tree. in a pot of soup. i got i would if

we. could. take it down. there's a phrase that's been part of our culture for a few hundred years really be it was the beginning of the enlightenment so-called but they cart saying i think therefore i am and i tend to actually challenge that and say i am therefore i think i think therefore i am is of the indirect really of trying to know who you are before authority because you exist i am the put chopra's a provisional identity. still is a provisional identity because it's me changing over since you were embryo or as i go from birth to death you engaged with

a process that we call body my mind which is experiencing another process that we call the work. that's that's the conditioning of. because i am is just existence exists that's all it means without trying to figure out what it is so there are a couple of things we can be sure one is there is existence look around things exist you can also say i just and i exist and this existence go together. because if i didn't exist i wouldn't have this experience so now we get into huge issues what is my i mean what is body what is the universe. and how do we know all. these descriptions we have no money but the universe actually. the real thing so what is reality

reality is a species specific knowing and experience what you and i have is a human experience in the human consciousness and that experience is basically sounds shapes colors forms sensations perceptions images the rest is a story for thirty thousand years of forty thousand so years the stories of being mythology. stories religion second. the third. the last the fourth and no sides they're all stories at a basically the interpretation of experience. the

human story hundred years ago was that most people lived on farms never traveled more than a hundred miles from home and likely never receive news from far off countries. how do we compare that consciousness that a modern man crammed into overpopulated city directed on social media with strangers from all over the globe receiving hourly news updates the thank dr says the more books our media the clearer process in life. we are all of us already are cyborgs. you have a machine extension of yourself in the form of your phone and your computer and all your application you are already super human. if you have internet link. you have that article of wisdom you can mitigate to millions of people are going to get arrested or instantly i mean these are magical powers. that didn't exist not that

long ago so everyone is already super human we're living in a scientific age but actually the world looks increasingly magical in the sense that we are communicating with people across the planet that we never have seen in real life we are understood basically the spell or the the casting the illusions of various news corporations and media conglomerates that you know people that we've never met with interacted with i basically helping to program everything from our lifestyle choices on instagram to our political thoughts and ideas all very much self everything is about suggestion when we look at the media we look at advertising look at almost everything that we do the power of suggestion is what is happening rarely do we have a direct encounter with something but there's always an illusion to it so when we. i have this capturing of the imagination which is what a hypnotic induction involves the capturing of the imagination and directing it in

some way we go with that flow and we are bombarded all the time by images and ideas and suggestions more so than ever before it's almost impossible to escape between the pings that come on your cellphone to the images that pop up in the corner of your eye soon as you go on to your internet browser everything is saying to you on some level look at me give me attention give me your life force your energy in some manner smart devices are sort of tell up at the wood training wheels you know it's a way of us to be connected together and i think the larger the larger issue there the larger story telling point is that it's activating the hive mind meaning the group mind of the planet or what you know joseph campbell called the global human and i really much believe in the evolution of the global human and so that the choice point is are we going to activate that group mind that hive mind from you know the rebellion brainstem theater of the human mass or are we going to actually

allow that to be activated from as abraham lincoln said the better angels of our nature and i believe that you know that augmented intelligence extended intelligence and all these transhuman amalgams that are happening could need to reflect the better angels of our nature and make us become more evolved outside of the primal reality of being an animal conscious evolution means that the whole evolutionary process of creation from the origin of you know the single cells of the animals to humans now to us we are the first generation to be conscious. whole process of evolution. and secondly are you conscious are expressions of evolution becoming conscious. and third that we have noticed the direction of evolution for billions of years single cell multi tail animal human

more complexity more freedom more complex more consciousness there around physicist stephen hawking known for his optimism recently published his brief answers to the big question noted in a way the human race needs to improve its mention of the physical qualities if it is to deal with the increasingly complex world around it and meet new challenges like space travel and it also needs to increase its complexity if biological systems are to keep ahead of the tronic ones at the moment computers have the advantage of speed but they have shown no sign of intelligence. or the rapid pace of improvement will probably continue until computers have a similar complexity to the human brain the brain and i'm holding a plastic model of one might and is a three pound computer made of meat it's got about one hundred billion neurons in it each one on average it's connected to about ten thousand other neurons so that's

roughly the number of stars that there are in the milky way galaxy it works through electricity electricity as a result of ionic channels things like salt but it's slow the processing in the brain and neural tissue signals is only about two hundred miles per hour that's not particularly fast and so when we go to a chip the speed on the chip is order of magnitude greater than that transhumanism is a philosophical belief that mankind will continue to incorporate technology into its intelligence and physiology far beyond girl imitation the limitation is one of batteries that will put bandwidth constraints to clean up. our input is much better but our output is stream we are going to be generous you could say maybe it's a few hundred votes or second or kill about. you know the way we. fix. it we moved very slowly. through computer which. are very big

differences stephen hawking was one who believes the future of communication is brain computer interface it's there to witness electrodes on the brain and implants if we can connect a human brain to the internet. it will have all of what the pedia has its resource but do you think that it's inevitable that we're going to see basically a merging of men with machines that we're basically going to have to. figure out basically how the brain functions to a place where we can just download intelligence and data into a machine so that we can prolong our life or expand our memory or do you think that there is actually a potential future where we we have machines augmenting our our technology we actually don't merge machinery you know with nanotech and other things into us i think that we're going to emerge because i think it's a natural aspect of human evolution it's just like saying we you know we were able

to grow cotton career both hemp and then we're going to wear clothes we're just look at them outside of ourselves clothing fashion and all these things to become interval parts of our identity as human beings both individually and as a group so this is a much much more profound nate aspect of evolution through the expansion of technology but there's no way that it's going to stay outside of us it's going to be integrated inside of us and that's why the stakes are high.

yeah me. a dog can't you only when i was told. that. because of you. but big enough for evaluating. the young. if you. will say you will be and that is your last yes does he. she does it with the people most of us are not all what i mean.

i can make it. really i love you to me from you he can see as you know he is my life. if you're in the government of india. i'm with you more in the way when i was in the more i was nothing to do with many balls up in this bum i will if you must i will start to feel. they are groups that i got. i actually somewhat detect what you are thinking. you're thinking of a shoe or. you know certain patterns by putting electrodes not

into the brain just outside from recording you know your logical recording so right now we're actually controlling motor function with the brain there's a project called the brain computer interface you can actually put a electrode into the brain. and connect that to robotic arm so basically when they think they want to move their fingers this robot moves so they're now we have actually decoded those signals that can be translated to function so the ad field is developing is such that. the now in technology is being used in air force to control the airplane with your thought right because that reduce the timing you have to react with muscles so keeping back to this notion of it's really how you. approach your brain how you basically are

actively engaging with it which really takes me more to the idea of the power of the mind that basically there's something that has to do with. will and choice and decision making it's not just predictable about it is that something that we're finding more and more through brain mapping a neuro science is that expectations that basically you can control behavior control patterns and basically control the individual by mapping the brain is not as simple as what was once thought experiences that you have emotionally and change your brain actually does no plasticity correct neural plasticity and we're all made of. you know kind of chemical reactions right so i'm brain be the most. the reactive part of the body and any imbalance in chemical in the brain can change the behavior all the patient i do

a lot of patience but a response of nearest immolation which is like a pacemaker for the brain that's placed inside the brain i think it's very interesting that when you stimulate certain areas of the brain you can elicit emotions you can elicits fear there are areas in the brain that if you stimulate. you can almost solicit like a feeling of less. for short time. and that is something amazing but here's the great mystery you know if you if you take a little a trivial probe and use sort of stimulate the brain actually you will have certain experiences you will see images you might recall a story you may recall a song that you're hearing. and that's an argument the brain produces the

experience now i can give you the same experience if you're reading shakespeare in a book. you can conjure up the world of shakespeare. all that's in the book squiggles symbol that corresponds to one struts we agreed on but when you read the novel you read a book you hear a song on the cd or you see. suddenly you will experience is because symbolic representations of experience in the region of the experience dr chopra is indicating is a reciprocal nature of the mind in the brain we can physically pry the brain or chemically alter it with drugs or understanding of neuroplasticity informs us we can alter neural pathways in. chemical tendencies within the brain based on our activities including meditation studies in trauma are demonstrating that the power

of the mind can alter the brain using virtual reality the concept is that you basically create the context as best as possible from the memory of the soldier and basically recreate the event and by recreating the events over and over you're actually. releasing the energy that typically would people with p.t.s.d. when they're confronted with trigger stimuli in the real world like seeing trashed by the so the road which brings back the memory of an idea being a roadside there's an activation in the brain that causes this hyper hyper arousal you know somebody called startle response or you know it's like if you go up to a butcher and put your arm on her back from behind you see him jump over her skid and that to me as a nurse i coach a study brain behavior relationships really shows how the brain can be

tuned but just one big of have a lifelong and and you typically see it over activation of the image below this is the fight or flight area of the brain and since we're there you know it's a survival mechanism so that you know there's a real threat you're ready to ready to go in a whole sort of bodily you know function exchange to prepared to deal with the threat so this simulation behind me is one of fourteen that make up the bridge loan system that we've successfully used for treating p.t.s.d. by helping the patient to go back to the scene of the crime in a safe place there in the therapy office and they go back to talk about what they went through and do this repeatedly under the guidance of a well trained clinician and by this process of confrontation and processing over time you start to see the activity. in the brain start to diminish from cold six think should. one study with. treatment or it was shown

at the end if you measure someone before and after treatment you see the loss activation make you also see the proper changes you would expect and from a low functioning well to me i've always noticed that there's sort of an electrical charge an energetic charge to memory some memories are very charged that's why we tend to be more reactive when we think of it it's a real charge and then sometimes you can actually quell the charge to lessen it until it gets the place where it disappears when that's as though charging that's when you forget about it. short term potentiation is a short term memory. some electricity comes and goes in just that so long term you basically you build if the memories very strong then all of a sudden you build. a genetic components toward that party killer experience but i mean genetic one gene meaning that you know it is really becoming

grain in the genome of the cell ok so when a cell is regenerating passing the memory to the next one so now we see the memory is distribute it. to out the structures which is coordinating. up accomplice so i think. again our understanding our memories developing because our understanding off cell of our memory is developing all of our organs are formed from cells which are in turn controlled by our d.n.a. which there was our genetic blueprint including at least some of our ancestral memory little wonder then stephen hawking says there's been relatively little change in human d.n.a. in the last ten thousand years but it is likely that we'll be able to redesign it completely in the next thousand. well of course there's a lot of danger in there but from an evolutionary point of view need share has been

editing the genetic code for good in seven years and it's been pretty worthless which is to say they've been five mass extinctions before we got here nature does not preserve species nature preserves purpose so what i think is. really considered here i think it's natural that we will be able to improve our genetic code there is no indication that our genetic code is totally perfect in all its name and could not improve so i think we will do that as our bodies are formed by our cells which are the progeny of the originator cells known as stem cells these stem cells are now being studied and used to regenerate organs and tissues it can only be imagine a gene editing of stem cells you know it's really lead to the redesigning of the human body our bodies have stem cells all throughout so we have it in our bone marrow we have fat. your liver cut off part of your liver and will regenerate.

just recently we found out that there stem cells in your brain literally every your teeth every little part of your body has stem cells in it and basically as you age over time you stem cells are what replace damaged parts so if you have a building and you know plumbing that's better electrical it's bad it's kind of the repairman that comes along and you know does everything so the more stem cells that you have the more repair you can do basically recreating the original structure but then we can get into things and what if i want to function differently so what if what if i like your brain cells or somebody else's you know michael jordan's hamstring cells or his cartilage only get start getting into designer stem cell cocktails and the like going to your local smoothie shop and say you know those fruits in the next small together. but the problem is that it seems to me that this. is not going to make. because even the.

works in the context of billions of connections absolutely. connections are paved in gold. allowed his connections so you know flow better. stephen hawking pointed out the best intention of genetic manipulation is that modifying genes would allow scientists to treat genetic disease by correcting gene mutation. possibilities for manipulating d.n.a. one negative effect of gene in the field. has been the reduction in seed strains. compared to one hundred years ago. diversity plant life if gene modification goes on. it is for this reason that. intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. change.

direction of. inclusiveness. everybody's genius being important and we have to increase that as the powers that we use to attribute accident or to god's. knowledge of the genome is reminiscent of the apple offered to adam any by the. future is the most natural evolution of all technology is an essential tool in mankind. but it is up to us to decide how we will continue to assimilate it. that decision will affect. the body of our universe. right religion god and god as we usually describe god is another construct

ok so everything that you can name is the structure of creation no you'd say this is both advance or creation this is bored to construct a new creation what you don't understand this is a construct of creation galaxies or plans for creation atom is a construct of it's you who's your consciousness that i am is tied to the universal consciousness that you tap into that every eye there is only in the versatile and if we'd really get this then we would be. one day challenge darwinian. thoughts about evolution because darwinian evolution says random mutations and natural selection. would replace that unpredictable mutation. and natural selection randomness means. so if i go to grand central station everybody is seemingly randomly going. but they know where they are going this one

is the philadelphia and this one is going to bust and this one is going to interactive when i watch them every day i would be able to plug or go off and create a business to say this is how this works. when we all make this manufacture consent to the state of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round be the one percent. that's nothing to ignore middle of the room sick. believe me i mean really

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