perhaps best exemplified in social media technocratic dictatorship but search engine optimization the killer is content to our personal life. modifying our behavior patterns but in a world where citizens have been replaced by consumers monitored and fed content information to justify old patterns are left to wonder is our reality like the internet a construct of our own creation. one hundred fifty three it looks like i feel that it's going to. get to the bottom fifth if i. like you but now i got. to we. could. do. this because. 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 the indirect really of trying to know who you are before thought it because you exist i am the put chopra's a provision of the identity. is a provision of identity because it's me changing since you were the embryo or as i go from birth to death you engaged with a process that we call body which is experiencing another process that we call the word. that 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 of this. is existence look at on things exist you can also say i just and i exist and this existence go together. because if i didn't exist i would have this experience still now we get into huge insurance what is mine what is body what is the us. and how do we know. that these descriptions we have my body the universe are 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 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 c.e.o.'s the stories of been. stories religion second. the third. the last the fourth and no signs they're all stories and a basically the interpretation of the 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 received news from far off country. how

do we compare that consciousness to that of modern man crammed into overpopulated city connected on social media with strangers from all over the globe receiving hourly news updates. with access to more books our media than you can ever process in a lifetime we are all of us already our sidewalks so you have a machine extension of yourself in the form of your phone and your computer and all your applications you are already super human. if you have the internet link. you have that article of wisdom you can going to hate to millions of people are going to get to the rest of the earth instantly i mean these are magical powers. that didn't exist not that long ago so everyone is already super human reliving in a scientific gauge but i should a 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 under so

basically the spell or the casting the illusions of various news corp's and media conglomerates that you know people that we've never met with interacted with are basically helping to program everything from our lifestyle choices on instagram to our political thoughts and ideas all very much so. everything is about suggestion when we look at the media we look at advertising we look at almost everything that we do the power of suggestion is what is happening really do we have a direct encounter with something but there's always an illusion to it so when we 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 and 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 onto 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 reptilian brain stem theatre 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 to you know the single cells about each 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 celled multicell animal human more complexity more freedom more complex love more consciousness the renowned physicist stephen hawking known for his optimism recently published his brief answers to the question noted in a way the human race needs to improve its mentally physically qualities if it is

deal with the increasingly complex world around us and meet new challenges like space travel and it also needs to increase its complexity if biological systems are to keep ahead of electronic ones at the moment computers have the advantage of speed but they have shown no sign of intelligence however the rapid pace of improvement will probably continue until computers. a similar complexity to the human brain. the brain and i'm holding a plastic model of one my m. is a three pound computer made of meat it's got about one hundred billion neurons in it each one on average is 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 the two should be limitation is one of batteries so we're back with constrained to clean out. 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 bucks or second or kilobit or something like that out of it you know the way we put up a little bit sticks. that we moved very slowly. to a computer which at the terrible level. of very big orders like your differences stephen hawking was one believe the future of communication is brain computer interfaces there are two ways 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 man with machine 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 us machines 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 merge 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 go 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

a 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. jamey. can't you you'll be going to storm. the field. but he.

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want the money i want the revenge. they are groups that i got actually somewhat detect whether. 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 if you're 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 of m p t s 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 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 and 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 reactive part of the. body and any imbalance in chemical in the brain can change their behavior all the pain patients i do a lot of patients 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 the 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 trickle probe and use sort of stimulate the brain actually you will have certain experiences you will see images you might recall the story you may recall a song that you're hearing. and so 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 symbols that correspond to. struts we agreed on but when you read a 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 and 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 by recreating the events over and over you're actually . releasing the energy that typically with 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 veteran 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 this is where it's a survival mechanism so that you know there's a real threat you're ready ready to go and a whole sort of bodily. functions change to prepared to deal with the threat so this simulation behind me is one of fourteen that make up the bird on systems that

we've successfully use 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 activating effects in the brain start to diminish from. extinction there was one study with p.t.s.d. treatment or it was shown at the end if you measure someone before and after treatment you see the loss. and you also see the appropriate 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 less of 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 built if the memories very strong then all of a sudden you build. genetic components toward that particular 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 now we see the memory is distribute it. to out these structures which is coordinating high. 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 the words 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. 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 they 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 it fat. your liver cut off part of your liver and regenerate. just recently we found out that there are stem cells in your brain literally every your teeth every little part of your body has stem cells in it and basic 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 colic the repair man 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 a 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 you know me carl if you 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 is the. it's not going to make you einstein because even though. works in the context of billions of connections absolute. 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 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 civilization. inclusive. everybody's genius being important and we have to just 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 money by the. human 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. experiencing is the. right religion. god as we usually describe god is another construct ok so everything that you can name is instructive of creation no you'd say this is both at once what we preach this is bored to construct a new creation what we don't understand this is a construct of creation galaxies are plans for completion. 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 discipline just not just 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 by unpredictable mutations and natural selection this means and so if i go to grand central station everybody is seemingly randomly going through. what they know where they are going this one is the philadelphia and this one is going to bust and this one is going to new interactive i watch them every day i would be able to plug off and create a business that say this is how this works.

nobody could see coming that false confessions would be in this spot the way shape or form will convert. any interrogation out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denial she said if our words. sound stay there i will be home by that time the next day there's

a culture of on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with solving their crime. thanks guys there's a survival guide up stay single malt to start sampling that the federal reserve this. piece it's not there you don't get it back. oh heck no good says a restatement nations he would get the rest in seventy years. delicious every year those guys are in for. i. generally. eventually you'll be going to.

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