451: Jason Silva | Origins of a Performance Philosopher

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🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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"Performance philosopher" Jason Silva is a futurist, filmmaker, and host of National Geographic’s Brain Games and Origins: The Journey of Humankind.

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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.
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