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Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

1. Jason Silva (Futurist) – Awe/Information Overload

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

Big Think / Panoply

Arts, Society & Culture

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2015

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

"Dealing with the everyday requires us to close ourself off. . . But when you see art you want the opposite of shutdown.. . . .How do you adjust the treble and the bass of experience as it’s coming in?" With everything competing for your attention, how do you decide what to pay attention to? Can a movie, a song, or a novel transform your life? Your society? This week, on the first ever full episode of Big Think's Think Again podcast, we're joined by psychedelic pop philosopher and futurist Jason Silva. The surprise topic of the day is . . . art and awe in the age of information overload. "To enrich ourselves we’ve got to curate ourselves." This video idea from Big Think's archives launches a far-ranging discussion that touches on Banksy, the movie Ex Machina, and the complicated relationship between the creators and the consumers of art in every medium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Huh, have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

0:04.3

Not much to it, is there?

0:06.2

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

0:10.9

Mmm, that is good.

0:12.9

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

0:15.8

Go all crisp in with walkers.

0:19.0

Delicious.

0:20.0

Hey there, I'm Jason Gatz, and this is Think Again, a Big Think podcast.

0:27.8

And this week, I'm joined by my sometime co-host, Eric Sanders, and by Jason Silva, the mutant, mad

0:33.8

genius stepchild of Timothy Leary, Ray Kurzweil, William Gibson, and should I mention anyone

0:39.9

else, Jason?

0:40.8

Wow, I love that.

0:43.1

Somebody once said Neo from the Matrix were part of that mashup.

0:46.7

Maybe so.

0:47.5

And then Suey Generis, just himself.

0:49.8

Jason is like nobody else.

0:53.5

Eric will tell you a little bit more.

0:54.7

Yeah, he's the host of National Geographic's Emmy Award nominated show Brain Games

0:59.1

and the creator of Shots of Aw, an incredibly popular YouTube series of videos that distills

1:05.0

inspirational, futurist thinking into little nuggets of just awesome mind-blowingness.

1:10.4

Thank you for that.

1:11.4

So here's how this works, Jason.

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