451: Jason Silva | Origins of a Performance Philosopher
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Jason Silva (@JasonSilva) would have been called a “performance philosopher” by counterculture icon Timothy Leary. Among many things, he’s a futurist, filmmaker, creator of short video series Shots of Awe, and host of the National Geographic Channel’s Brain Games and Origins: The Journey of Humankind.
What We Discuss with Jason Silva:- How our concepts of self are formed — often through the eyes of others — and how they affect our behavior.
- How top performers excel by shutting down the editorial parts of the human brain coined by Buddhists as the monkey mind.
- Why “unscripted” isn’t the same as “unprepared,” and how videos can be edited to elicit altered states of consciousness.
- How good directors help performers get out of their heads — while bad directors do just the opposite.
- How is day-to-day reality edited by context, similar to the Kuleshov effect demonstrated by Alfred Hitchcock?
- And much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Jordan Harbanger Show. |
| 0:02.5 | Our brains are media. |
| 0:04.5 | Think of them as media. |
| 0:05.8 | That store patterns, like a hard drive. |
| 0:08.0 | And that pattern mirrors the world. |
| 0:11.2 | It models the external world. |
| 0:12.9 | Now, if you make a model of the external world, |
| 0:16.0 | eventually you have to realize that that model of the world |
| 0:19.7 | includes the observer within that world, |
| 0:21.8 | because an inevitable vortex of self-mirroring, |
| 0:26.0 | that eventually a real causal mind emerges. |
| 0:29.0 | It is like when you plug a video camera to the TV screen |
| 0:32.1 | and then face the camera at TV, it creates an engulfing |
| 0:35.5 | infinity. |
| 0:36.3 | Right. |
| 0:36.7 | That's consciousness. |
| 0:38.0 | MUSIC |
| 0:42.3 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:43.1 | I'm Jordan Harbanger. |
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