online platforms a voice told and media outlets that circulated 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 in this way sixteen film hyper normalisation 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 tailor'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 modifying our behavior patterns but in a world where citizens have been replaced by consumers monitored and fed content information to justify old patterns are left to wonder is our reality like the internet a construct of our own creation. if you want to see the.

good looks like a real tree this would be. as you say to the bottom sit. like you but i got. we. would prefer. to sleep 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 the 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 indirect really of trying to know who you are before. you exist i am the put chopra's a provision of the identity. shawn still is

a provision of identity because it's been changing ever since you were an 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 words. that sound to you are 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. is existence and look around things exist you can also say i exist 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. 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 see the stories have been mythology. stories religion second. the all easy third. the last the fourth and no sides 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 that a modern man crammed into a populated city connected on social media with strangers from all over the globe receiving hourly news updates. with access to more books are. making our process in a lifetime we are all of us already are sidewalks so you have a machine extension of yourself in the form of your 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 going to give him credit for rest of earth instantly i mean these are magical powers. but 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 under some basically the spell or the casting the illusions of various news corporations 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 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 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 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 brain stem theatre of the human man. or are we going to actually allow that to be activated from as everyone 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 we 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 mentally physically 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 is a three pound computer made of meat it's got about one hundred billion neurons and 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 milk you. delicacy it works through electricity electricity as a result of ionic channels things like salt but it's slow the processing in the brain a neural tissue of 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 her to. be. is one of bad words so we're back with constrained to clean up what. our input is much better but our output is stream we want to be generous you could say maybe

it's a few hundred bucks of a second or a killer but or something like that. 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 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 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 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. we're 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 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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they are groups that they can actually somewhat detect what you are thinking. you're thinking out there sure are that you know certain patterns by putting elektra 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. and connect that to the robotic arm so basically when they think they want to move their fingers this robot moves so they . now we have actually decoded those signals that can be translated to function so the ad field is developing is such that. now in technology is being used in air force to control the airplane with your phone right because they either reduce the

. timing and 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 this 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 and 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 patients that are responsive 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 a 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 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 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 you're walking experiences because symbolic representations or experience in the region of the experience but 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 understanding of

neuroplasticity informs us we can alter neural pathways and chemical tendencies within the brain based on our two bodies 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 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 trash bosso the road which brings. the memory of an id being a roadside there is 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 and brain behavior relationships really shows how the brain can be tuned by just one big of that to have a lifelong impact and you typically see an over activation of the image below this is the fight or flight area of the brain this is where you know it's a survival mechanism so that you know if there is a real threat you're ready ready to go and a whole set of bodily you know functions change to prepared to deal with the 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 to go back to the scene of the crime in a safe place there in the therapy office and to 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 called substantial 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 less activation and they make the look and you also see the proper change as 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 writing this 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 because that charge and that's when you. forget about it. short term potentiation is a short term memory. some electricity comes and goes and just so long term you basically you've built if the memories very strong then all of

a sudden you build. a genetic components toward that particularly experience because i mean genetic one gene meaning that you know it is 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 cordon aided by. a compass 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 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 for billions of years and it's been pretty worthless which is to say that 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 how 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 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 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 of 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 a lot of 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 possibility. one negative effect of gene manipulation on crops has been the reduction in seed strains. compared to one hundred years ago. 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 it work. here 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 used to attribute accident or to god's. knowledge of the genome is reminiscent of the apple offered to me by the serpent for other. human future is the most natural evolution of all technology is an essential tool of mankind. but it is up to us to decide how it will continue to assimilate it. that decision will affect. the body. of our universe while. experiencing is the.

recreated money for. religion. as we usually do. everything that. is. creation this is the creation. of creation. creation. is a construct whose. consciousness that i am is tied to the universal consciousness that you tap into that every. one day challenge darwinian. thoughts about evolution because darwinian evolution says random mutations and natural selection. would replace the unpredictable mutations and natural selection this means. so if i go

to grand central station everybody is seemingly randomly going through the day but they know we're going this one is going to philadelphia and this one is going to bust and this one is going to new in fact i watch them every day i would be able to plug off and create a business that say this is how this works. he . joined me everything on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport that's nice i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

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