it's into new consciousness and that's who you are you are an infinite consciousness having a finite experience. you. want to see the street looks like real truth this would. provide a safe place to live. like you i got. to feel. free to do. this this is. at the dawn of the twenty first century we might know more about the universe than previous generations but to quote donald rumsfeld in one of his more lucid moments there are known unknowns but they're also unknown and the ones we don't know we don't know if quantum theory is leading us toward ideas about multiverse is in dimensions affecting our reality beyond the four there may be no

limits to our multi dimensional consciousness will take us. but there are others who would argue the rules of the universe can be completely you know starting with the brain. in twenty four cheney might have caught the guy that film transcendence which popularized an idea held by futurists like ray kurzweil that one day humans will be able to upload their brains to a computer chips their idea. their memory. their identity. at the two hundred million or so year history of our brains through mammalian history we see there's a lot in the design and the fundamental flaw of the brain that has no back the most precious in from a. and then we have is not backed up to this computer system we have is something

we can back up now one of the goals of the national academy of engineering in the twenty first century is to reverse engineer the brain and that means in effect to back it up and you get it once a strategy to not just boost intelligence but to extend life in the same way that when your old computer starts to run out your backup files the software and translate it to a new computer but your belief that fun is fundamentally believe that we will basically be able to download my awareness my being you know about this i am you know this shawn stone experience of thirty three years be able to download that awareness into a computer so that i could test potentially live forever as sort of like a computer or some kind of robot let's say or something to that effect i think for a lot of us it's hard to imagine living on a computer my answer that is where you're living in right now it's just made of. the mind as best we can tell as a kind of music

a kind of pattern played by the brain played by me but it's a very crude instrument so by improving the instrument we can still play the same music and tune those patterns that benefit you now they're all twenty patterns in a big bitstream bunch of ones and zeros but they're still patterns so yes we could play them on different instruments played them faster augment them and in that sense your whole being your consciousness is just a seed a seed that will grow and expand in ways we really can't foresee when we start to approximate that with the chip to put it differently the old saying is that biology is destiny nothing can be further from the truth biology was just nature's first quick and dirty way to compute with meat chips or destiny you've said that the brain itself as individual qualities and patterns that are not safe replicable like you can't just replicate all the nature of the brain because the cells themselves have have sort of quantum die. now mix going on there's something that's you know

it's very difficult to sort of predict and model especially for moment to moment there is this notion of well there's a notion of choice there's no experience so you can see that in actual. clones right now you can clone a human being but if i clone sean or bob i are going to be saying no we're going to look the same same in genome inks by the behavior you know because our behavior is piled up based on our experiences and those experiences i mean that is where that can be transferred to a good memory. of our entire sow's. to be able to actually been i clone you you become a baby becoming really second you if human experience alters the brain it leaves imprints in the d.n.a. that can be passed on to medically so we cannot even begin to speculate how

consciousness will shift as we merge humans with the sheen and how will that feel. it would be truly transhuman right now again we're thinking with brains with neural systems that process about two hundred miles per hour the electrical signals but if you're in the chip the time would speed up a million four billion for so a few seconds of our current meet time would be for example many years so you can live a very long time and still find that inside the chip until you run out of power and we could go quite a ways off about the possibility of replicating the human brain to go a long way for the creation of artificial intelligence which stephen hawking believed evolution implies there can be no call to the difference between the brain of an earthworm and that of a human it therefore follows that computers can in principle emulate human intelligence created something terrible. artificial intelligence stephen hawking

wrote about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence relaying that yes ai has potential to eradicate disease and poverty but. must go along with ai experts signed an open letter in two thousand and fifteen calling for serious research into its impact on society it's a real concern because computers are powerful their own right future supercomputers this way is a shrink before more powerful we just don't know what that would look like we have only one good example of intelligence a sample size of one and so us and what we're talking about achieving just when we back up boost and extend the brain is a kind of super intelligence and it's very hard to make a difference so there is a big scary downside just in terms of the problems we currently have on the fundamental problems we have right now is computer systems it's lack of good security but as we move to the internet of things as almost everything in your house as a computer tion from mark wave of and of the lights all those are potential sources

of hacking just as is any kind of backup of the brain and the assault again is it's much easier to attack and defend and the information age stanley kubrick's two thousand and one the space odyssey featured an artificial intelligence named hal nine thousand how it was in charge of the space ship and ultimately murdered the crew which are pretty much the fear of ai as voiced by stephen hawking the concern is that ai would take off on its own and redesign itself in an ever increasing rate and humans who are limited by slow biological evolution couldn't compete and would be superseded. and in the future ai could develop a will of its own will that is in conflict with ours for such reason the creation of artificial into. elegance is often equated with the invention of the atomic bomb

. the bomb is not exactly correct. it's not as though it's going to explode and. it's more like if there were just a few people that had it they would be able to. predict or acquired it and if was limited to people there and it was ultra smart they would have to man you know. but we're at a moment now we're just still be in storytelling and the fear of things like artificial intelligence has become so pervasive that it's actually going to become a self-fulfilling prophecy and the thing that i think that's most important is to not think of these kind of transhumanist ideas as outside of being human they're coming from us artificial intelligence isn't artificial it's actually an augmentation it's augment intelligence or even extended intelligence from us as

humans so to think of it as something separate that's scary and alien is actually the very thing that will make it so the idea that it's a i that's programming a that's programming it to me as an excuse it's an excuse to say oh we're not responsible anymore screw that we are responsible so we're going to create the simulated world that we live in just like we have since the industrial revolution there's been amazing things about that it's actually a better time on planet earth than it's ever been before and so many levels in terms of violence and war and all these things people think it's such a horrible time it's actually not in terms of you look at the actual statistics so we have evolved in a positive direction through our technology this next level this next step is like the steps of the star child at the end of two thousand one space odyssey that ending of the starchild is one of the most hopeful spiritual endings in the history of storytelling and it's very ephemeral various there. it means many things to many

different people but the idea that humans come back and look at our planet from a more holistic view from the childlike wonder of the starchild as the next evolution that's an incredibly hopeful thing. six guys or financial survival. when customers go by your. well reducing lower. that's undercutting about what's good for food markets it's not good for the global economy.

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they're bred for a single purpose. they have a superman. they start training very young. eight months of intensive school. raps. and they save lives. stephen hawking argued knowing the mind of god is knowing the laws of nature my prediction is that we will know the mind of god by the end of the century. but first we should perhaps recall the ancient history school dictum to know dice out.

for who truly knows his own mind his own body let alone the universe with each affecting each other more deeply than we recognize. so rain if people are watching us and they're listening to us what humans would cause. is being activated auditory cortex is being activated and what you would see on a cat scan is neural chemical activity that neurochemical. the neural correlate of consciousness. another word neural. experience there's no experience that is not recorded in the brain or what recall the brain by the way there's no experience that's not recorded anywhere in the body the body is the written is recording the experience with the brain sending messages to the body so that memory right cells cells are member everybody brings interact everything yes. as long as you have them. where you actually believe.

the. mind brain and body and the. shifting perceptual experiences intimate and stream of sensations images feelings thoughts all these are human systems of thought trying to interpret experience which is nothing then consciousness modifying experience so there is only consciousness it's infinite most people think that consciousness emerges from the brain acting as a computer with each neuron in the brain and synaptic synapse acting is fundamental switches and bits and that if you get sufficiently complex computation among these simple neurons and interconnections then consciousness will emerge at a critical level of complexity i think of the brain more like an orchestra than

a computer and you have opera oscillations and vibrations and resonances that these different frequencies like in a piece of music you have high frequency and low frequencies and beats and interference patterns and so forth and the e.g. would be the slow beats where as we have very fast vibrations up into the terahertz and perhaps even faster in that we can't detect it yet and i get a lot of flak about that from people but what i say in response is until you can explain consciousness in the brain you cannot exclude the possibility of consciousness outside the brain. what is it about the near death experience or consciousness after death post-mortem consciousness that you believe in the kates consciousness does not actually originate in the brain and brain activity it's impossible that concern should be probably reduced project rain is because we didn't respect the study who found out didn't and didn't descend don't go straight

now memories from the period of our consciousness they were in a cult debt which means there is no secret mission no weeding there unconscious and undone very moment the admin and has consciousness you were currents of what had its cultures in the middle pulse going to your perception memory scrutiny should emotions etc so you can corroborate it by asking this discern should the cardiologist the nurses and the family members. about what's happened and about the moment it happened do you have any theory about what the actual nature of the brain is that if the brain functions as a sort of a receiver of consciousness or what role it really plays in relationship to consciousness bad that's a good an important question being asked on all the cells as well as well and my idea and still it's only my idea on sentry go real good job james ascendance well that you have greenhouse and filter i'm sure aren't transceiver and that's metric

solutions who do understand it. lots to compare it with a group like communication and this very moment culture you are you are now and i'm here now hundreds of hours of telephone calls calls go into us through walls and such a great you meet need an instrument called the focal is not produced by your mobile phone this comes back to this question about you talk about them the mind being a sort of more of a symphony more musical waves and getting into the quantum nature of our reality right which is yes at one level people have predictable patterns and there are things that you know for a biochemical perspective can be predicted but there is also this notion of our ability to be wrong our ability to be counterintuitive right to go against our own systems of logic and rational behavior which gives us what we would consider you know the human expression right and creativity exactly so do you feel that if we increasingly merge with machinery we actually may be diluting the the potential for

creativity seventy because it comes to really becomes problematic i think this will enhance creativity i think shifting from meats to computers only amplifies the properties of the currently have good in bad including the creative leaps and if you didn't think about something like music you have to ask yourself a brain that's backed up on a chip that would be the equivalent of a fifty pound brain today. what kind of musical patterns would it come up with another word what what what it's saying in the shower we mabel to recognize her appreciate if you look for example of classical music the works of young and sebastian bach and see a lot of work ulf youths which have three or four independent voices and that's about as much as we can handle from the brain and listening to it but what kind of fugue would you get from a twenty pound brain there might be fifteen twenty voices working at parallel that she had some overall global musical pattern quite immense beauty but we can't even

begin to imagine what that would be like so i think creativity will benefit it can be argued that creativity has already benefited from technological innovations that allow millions of hours of content to stream to the individual making our consciousness increasingly trans dimensional but all these virtual worlds invite the question is this reality simply get computer generated simulation. on must because and so. there's only a one in billions chance that it is not from what we know about the real world all of this is a punch of physical energy use and we have transducers is yours to use that take physical stimuli and translate it into a perception and some people made the case will virtual reality of the real world there's not much difference it's the brain processing stimuli in creating a perception everything about this reality is

a simulation from the standpoint that our brain is taking century signals interpret them and there's actually a almost one second delay in how we are perceived so there actually is no actual now now now it actually is something we're proceeding with what is in technology called the transport latency of almost a second that means it's a simulation from the standpoint of perception and if you look at what's happened in you know quantum mechanical. theory and the way in which particle physics has sort of an address these issues of the perspective of the experimenter being more important in almost any other aspect of the experiment now you're really having almost impure eckel. to stanch of this idea of simulation theory at that particle so when you've got that reaching towards us from the other something from both sides i think you've really got to really think there's something very plastic or fluid is a better word about the perception of reality and i think that even cinema for me

as you know cinema is one of my one of my religion's cinema is just a reflection to us of the emotional states of being human in this artificial in this artifice why does it work that we can go cut cut cut cut and then we think of that as reality because the brain creates that into a simulation that gives us the entire emotional experience of what the filmmaker or what that cinematic expression is trying to create that's why i talk about virtual reality in such intense terms in terms of a an ethical framework around this medium because the merchants of virtual experience what i call v.x. and transhumanist modification that really is becoming what the perception of being a human will be all about we won't will have generations that aren't thinking of being a human in the same way as someone who grew up on a farm in iowa who was able to walk from one farm to the other and that was their

daily understanding of life this is going to be going to the human imagination is going to be able to range free and the fact of that i think is a tremendously positive thing because we can absolutely evolve the human imagination that's always where our greatest levels of expression come from but if we control the human imagination with the smell of things that's where we get into you know. in one of his most dire. warnings to us the optimist stephen hawking says a world where only a tiny super elite are capable of understanding advanced science and technology in its applications would be to my mind a dangerous and limited one. i seriously doubt whether long range beneficial projects such as cleaning up the oceans or curing diseases in the developing world would be given priority worse we could find the technology is used against us and

that we might have no power to stop. it there is a threat to the human race in the misuse of these. awesome powers. and. to deal with that we have to become more conscious in our own down in the of choosing under democracy so yes it's dangerous and that means we have to become more conscious on the positive side of it i've always thought that earth has given birth to a universal humanity i've always thought that as we heal the earth and free ourselves here from hunger disease and more we're going to discover that we can go beyond the planet. it is necessary if we are to fulfill the destiny of evolution within a to have the power artificial intelligence nanotech biotech quantum computing and all of. requiring us to have

a deeper spirituality requiring us to what i feel about conscious evolution is the impulse evolution going to get greater consciousness freedom and love for billions of years same as purpose is to expand his ability to love her ability to love what does that mean quantifiable way of assessing and in our ability to love i mean how because i was in love is a very qualitative experience the very. personal thing so is there any way to quantify that. expression of expanding love the way nature takes from disk border to higher order is through connecting separate parts to make a new whole greater than the sum of the parts so as a system gets dysfunctional all these innovations in different fields arise and just take it right here on planet earth we have innovations in helping to patient

economics etc at some point there is a tendency in nature for everything that rises to converge and i am assuming that could convergence what's emerging. is possible can be facilitated and as that happens the culture of homo. doing this is so much greater than the sum of our part that we will know how to heal the earth free the people and explore the universe in the words of stephen hawking this is not the end of the story but just the beginning of what i hope will be billions of years of life flourishing in the cosmos truly there is no limit to consciousness nor the potentials of human creativity. so to answer the question who creates reality we do by our choices and our perceptions you know we

change our brains and our d.n.a. . of the universe around so i can ask one final question what do you think is our purpose in terms of if we are really this consciousness is closely playing tricks on itself central our purpose i think is to give meaning to existence and once we give meaning to existence and once we agree and it becomes. and till such time that somebody comes along and says you know that meaning was not quite accurate. there's a bigger me and it goes on and on because one says this is infinite we never get to the one you mental meaning of exists only that which we impose.

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the headlines this hour the death toll from the collapse tower block in the russian city of magnetic or surprises to thirty eight cents devastating one that looks also to come. french police arrest a key figure. in the yellow vest movement anti-government protests have been raging in france since mid november some of the worst rising there in half a century anti-war and accuses china of interfering after president g. warns he will use all necessary means to ensure reunification process looking back at last year's mainstream media coverage we look at why twenty eighteen might be considered the year.