like you have not 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 but 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 provision of the identity. still is a provision of 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 word. 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 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 my i mean what is body what is the universe. and how do we know all. these descriptions we have what my buddy. willis but 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. he already had. the loss of 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 of that of modern man crammed into overpopulated city directed on social media with strangers from all over the globe receiving hourly news updates the the access to more books our media nuclear process life. we are all of us already are cyborgs so 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 an 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 oh 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 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 eyes to news 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 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 as a 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 however 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 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 trans human ism 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 bad ways that we're bad with constraint to clean up. our input is much better but our output is true and we want to be generous you could say maybe it's a few hundred us or or second. you know the way we. moved

very slowly. at the. very big difference stephen hawking was one believe the future of communication his 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 which has its resource but do you think that we're going to see basically a merging of men 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 intelligent. machines that we can prolong our life or expand our memory or do you think that there is actually a potential future where we have machines augmenting our technology we actually don't merge machinery you know with 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. 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 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.

childes seemed wrong but old rules just don't call. me old yet to shape our disdain you can stick up to it and engage with because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground the. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten dollars more in tempe each day . eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent raise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trees per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two

point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need remember it was one distance showed you know for two minutes one can only film but. they are groups that it can actually somewhat detect what you are thinking. are you thinking of a sure. that you know certain patterns by putting elektra not indeed a brain just outside from recording you know there are 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 teams and connect that to their 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 developed. it 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 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 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 listen 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 she has the grit. you know if you if you take the 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 right all that's in the book

is 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 will experience is because symbolic representations of experience in the region of the experience but 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 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 like seeing trash bosso the road which brings back the memory and i. wrote sword there's activation in the brain causes this type. hyper road sort of thing you know somebody called startle response or you know but 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 and 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 an overactive ation 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 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 money 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 loss 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 let me 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 potential short term memory. as some electricity comes. you know isn't just a 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 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 distributed it. to out these structures which is core to native. up 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 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 but 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 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 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 cell. these stem cells are now being studied and used to regenerate organs and tissues that 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 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 you know need cartilage only get start getting into designer 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 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 veiled. two hundred years ago. diversity plants animal and human life if modification goes on. it is for this reason that's the. intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. change. anything in 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 use to attribute accident or to god's. knowledge of the genome is reminiscent of the apple offered to adam many. for other. 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. religion. as we usually do. everything that you can name is.

this is the creation. of creation galaxies of creation. is a construct whose. consciousness that i am is tied to the universal consciousness that you tap into that every. child. random mutations and natural selection. would group. unpredictable nutritionist and natural selection this means. so if i go to grand central station everybody is seemingly randomly going through. but. this one is going to 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 plot to go off

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