one hundred fifty three looks like. it's going to be. at the bottom fit. i. like you but not i got it i would if we. would take it down. there's a phrase that's been part of our culture for a few hundred years really but it was the beginning of the enlightenment so-called but the 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 mind which is experiencing another process that we call the work. that's done to you up that's the conditioning of. 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 there 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 wouldn't have this experience so now we get into huge issues. what is mine what is body what is the us. and

how do we know. that these descriptions we have most of 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.d.'s the stories have been mythology bust 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 farm never traveled more than a hundred miles from home and likely never received news from far off countries. how do we compare that consciousness to that of modern man crammed into overpopulated cities connected on social media with strangers from all over the globe receiving hourly news updates. with access to more books our media and you can have a 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 the article of wisdom you can going to hate to millions of people are going to get thrust of 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 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 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 the media we look at advertising when we look at almost everything that we do the power of suggestion is what is

happening rarely do we have a direct encounter with something when there's always an allusion 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 to see what 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 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 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 animals 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 big 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 it 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 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 currently taishan the limitation is one of bad words so we're bad with constraints to clean out. our input is

much better but our output is string we want to be generous you could say maybe it's a few hundred votes per second or kilobit or something like that now. you know the way we put up a little bit sticks. that we moved very slowly. to a computer which at the terrible i was. very big orders like your differences stephen hawking was one believes 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 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 machines that we can prolong our life or expand our memory or do you think that there is actually a potential future where we are. 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 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 we're both 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 mate 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.

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minutes of it among the victims i have to this day received no compensation and never apologized for the suffering that. not only want the money i want the revenge . out there time for some major prediction the following twelve months. to be one hundred percent accurate. they are groups that it 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 the recording of you know their physiological 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 the function so dad feel is developing is such that. the now in technology is being used in air force to control the airplane with your thought right because the other read you use the. timing at at the. after 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 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 a 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 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 elicit emotions you can elicits fear there are areas in the brain that if you stimulate. you can almost solicit like a feeling of bliss. for short time. and that is something amazing but here's the great mystery you know if you if you take the probe. sort of stimulated the brain actually you will have certain experiences you will see images you might recall the story you may recall. song that you're hearing. and so

that's an argument the brain produces the goods 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 a novel you read a book you hear a song on the cd or you see. suddenly it will kick spence's because symbolic representations of experience in the region of the. dr chipper is indicating is a reciprocal nature of the mind in the brain we can physically pry the brain or chemically alter it with drugs our understanding of neural plasticity 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 this 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 with people with p.t.s.d. when they're confronted with trigger stimuli in the real world like seeing trash post so the road which brings back the memories and i. wrote so there's an activation in the brain that causes this hyper. sort of 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 out of her skin and that to me as a neurosurgeon roach. studying 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 big but what was the fight or flight area of the brain this is where it's a survival mechanism so that you know there is a real threat you're ready ready to go in the hole sort of bodily you know functions change to prepared to deal with threat so this simulation behind me is one of fourteen that make up the brain system that we've successfully used for treating p.t.s.d. by helping a patient go back to the scene of the crime in a certain 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 affects in the brain start to diminish from

cold six think should and then 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 loss activation and they make the look and you also see the proper changes you would expect and from a low function 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 in writing this is 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 has a short term memory. 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. a genetic components to why that's that particularly. experience but i mean genetic watches meaning that you know even really becoming

graining 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 distributed. to out the structures which is cordy made it. 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 stores our genetic blueprint including at least some of our ancestral memory a 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 point of view need share has been editing the genetic code or 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 and used to regenerate organs and tissues because only the imagine editing of stem cells you know it's really lead to the redesigning of the human body armor. bodies have stem cells all throughout so we

have it in our bone marrow we have it in our fat. your liver cut off part of your liver and will regenerate. just recently we found out that their 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 know plumbing is better electrical it's bad it's going to repair man that comes along and you know does it 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 need karl if you only get start getting into early design or stem cell cocktails and the like going to your local and 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

them but einstein is not going to make you einstein because even though that's themselves 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 then sure that started paving some of mining 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 crops has been the reduction in seed strains not bailable to us compared to one hundred years ago we should fear such loss of power diversity plants animal and human life if gene modification goes unchecked. it is for this reason that stephen hawking notes in. is the ability to adapt to

change we must not fear change we need to make it work better. thing here is that we have a sense of direction of civilization. inclusive. of everybody's genius being important and we have to just increase that as we gain the powers that we used to attribute to accident or to god's. knowledge of the genome is reminiscent of the apple offered to adam 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 as well. as the. recreated money for example.

religion god and god as we usually describe god. everything that you can name is. the creation. of creation this is the creation. this is a construct of creation galaxies of creation. is a construct of whose your consciousness that i am is tied to the universal consciousness that you tap into that every only in the vs consciousness if we'd really get to be. challenged. because evolution. random mutations and natural selection. would. unpredictable nutrition. and natural selection. so if i go to grand central. station everybody is seemingly randomly going in there and. but

they know where they're going this one is the philadelphia and this one is going to bust and this one is going and you know it in fact if i was them every day i would be able to plug a god and create a business that they this is how this works. i've been saying the numbers means something they matter the u.s. is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten point zero or find empty each day. eighty five percent of global wealth belongs to the rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and it when rose to twenty thousand dollars.

china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial. but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need remembering one one showed in afford to miss the one and only boom bust. that is your last us does. it with the people know. what i mean.

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