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 potentially misleading but the british documentarian adam curtis had first seen if not predicted the rise of fake news and sixteen film hyper normalisation to describe the landscape where people increasingly look to validate their personal realities in a hall of mirrors of online portal echoing political voices that reinforce their previously held beliefs and it is perhaps best exemplified in social media technocratic dictatorship the search engine optimization the jailer's 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 modifying our behavior patterns but in a world where citizens have been replaced by consumers monitored and fed content information to justify old patterns are left to wonder is our reality like the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. you. want to see the. good looks like real the truth is what. has to get to the bottom so if. it's. like you know i got. the book we. would be free to do. this here because. there's a phrase that's been part of our culture for a few hundred years really 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. most of the. really of trying to do. before authority because you exist i am the put chopra's

a provisional identity. shawn still is a provisional identity because it's been changing ever 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 word. that's on to you are that's the conditioning of i have because i am is just existence i exist 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. 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 insurance what is mine what is body what is the universe. 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 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 c.d.'s the stories have been mythology. stories religion second.

the third. the last the fourth and no signs they're all stories and a basically the interpretation of the experience. 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 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 a 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 allusion 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 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 god meant 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 multi telzey animals to humans not to us we are the first generation to be conscious of

a whole process of evolution. and secondly you conscious ted are expressions of evolution becoming conscious. and third that we have noticed the direction of evolution for billions of years single cell multi-cell 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 mental or 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. 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 mind and 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 limitation is one of batteries so we're bandwidth constrained to clean up what. 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 interface it's 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 wiki pedia as 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 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 nano tech 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 griot go hemp and then we're going to wear clothes or 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.

seems wrong. to me. to see. just the answer. and indeed. the trail. when. we choose to look for common ground. hello my name is peter and i've been living in russia for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've gotten through in the time. i

mean this interest on their store dude you cry because. i start is not just because . they are groups that they can actually somewhat detect what you are thinking. you're thinking of a shoe or that you know certain patterns by putting electrodes not

into the brain just outside from recording of you know their physiological recording so right now we're actually controlling the motor function of the brain and 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 the 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 the function so that field is developing is such that. now in technology is being used in air force to control the airplane with your phone right because that would 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 programatic is that something that we're finding more and more through brain mapping in neuro science is that expectations that basically you could 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 the behavior of the patient i do a lot of patience with

a response of the nearest stimulation which is like a pacemaker for the brain that's placed inside the brain i think it's very interesting. when you stimulate certain areas. of the brain you can listen emotions you can elicits fear there are areas in the brain that if you stimulate. you can almost illicit like a feeling of bliss. for sure. and that is something amazing but here is the grid mystery you know if you if you dig the. electrical probe. 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 are 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 the instructs 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're walking experiences because symbolic representations or experience in the region of the experience dr chopra is indicating is 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 and 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 for 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 would people with p.t.s.d. when they're confronted with trigger stimuli in the real world trashed by those so the road which brings back the memory of when i. wrote sword there's activation in the brain causes hyper arousal for. you know somebody called startle response or you know but 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 starting brain behavior relationships really shows how the brain can be tuned but just one big of that have

a lifelong impact 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 is a real threat you're ready ready to go in the 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 brute own 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 activating effects in the brain start to diminish from cold six think should and in one study with p.t.s.d. treatment or it was shown that at the end if you measure someone before and after

treatment you see the less activation and they make the low and you also see the proper changes you would expect and from a low function well to me i'm always notice 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 in my case a real charge and then sometimes you can actually quell the charge to lessen it until it gets the place where it disappears when there's no charge and that's when you forget about it. short term potentiation is a short term memory. as some electricity comes and goes in just that long term. you basically you you built if the memories very strong then all of a sudden you build. genetic components toward that particularly experience because 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 this tribute. to out these structures which is cordon aided by the accomplice so i think. again our understanding of 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 stores 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 about trauma evolutionary pointers you need share has been editing the genetic code for billions of 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 it to be 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 be improved so i think we'll do that as our bodies are formed by our cells which are the progeny of originator cells known as stem cells these stem cells are now being studied in. used to regenerate organs and tissues it could 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 in our fat. your liver we cut off part of your liver and all 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 these stem cells are what replace damaged parts so if you have a building and you have plumbing that's better electrical that'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 need karl if you only get start getting into early design or 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 stem cell of of the of an einstein is not going to make you einstein because even the stem cell works in the context of all the

billions of connections absolutely but if all vines science connections are paved in gold and that's what allowed his connections so you know flow better than shoot started paving some of mine in gold so you know maybe my connections will start flowing better stephen hawking pointed out the best intention of genetic manipulation is that modifying genes would allow scientists to treat genetic causes of disease by correcting gene mutation. there are however less noble possibilities for manipulating d.n.a. when negative effect of gene in the feel ation on crops has been the reduction in seed strains not available to us compared to one hundred years ago. we should fear such a diversity plant animal and human life if gene modification goes on. it is for this reason that stephen hawking. intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. change make you poor. thing

here is that we have a sense of direction of civilization. inclusiveness. everybody's genius being important and we have to just increase that as we gain the powers that we use to attribute accident or to god's. knowledge of the genome is reminiscent of the apple offered out of many by the serpent for others the medic human future is the most natural evolution of all technology is an essential tool in mankind story but it is up to us to decide how you'll continue to assimilate it . that decision will affect. the body of our universe. experiencing is the. recreated money for example. religion. as we usually do. everything that you can name

is. creation. creation this is the creation. of creation galaxies a creation. is a construct whose. consciousness that i am is tied to the universal consciousness that you tap into that every only. the. election. i would replace that by unpredictable nutritionist and natural selection randomness means in any event and so if i go to grand central station everybody is seemingly randomly going in there and. but they know where they are going this one is the philadelphia and this one is going to boston this

one is going to near zero in fact if i watch them every day i would be able to blow the guy off and create a business that say this is how this works. will be end of law to show not just us he gave the people most of can this or not paul what i mean.

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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 denials she said therefore which. sat on a statement that i would be home by that time 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 their crime. sammy. gave it to eventually you'll be going to stalled.

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