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We are the naked monkey that went to the moon. People seem to forget that.

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Jason Silva
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: February 6
Film Producer
Futurist
Philosopher
Television Personality
Ciudad de Caracas Venezuela
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It is innate in our species to be cyborgian in nature. We have been in the self amplifying feedback loop with our tools since stone tools, and since the written word, and what we are seeing now is just a deepening of that. But it has always been the case. We have always done this.
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Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the planet, and soon we wont stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.
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There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
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We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.
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I think it would be nice to have a guilt free possibility to act out all kinds of sexual fantasies... So that I think is appealing. And today the only thing that exists like that is called a whorehouse... Where you still feel like you're exploiting so I don't want to do that.
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Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.
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That's the case with these exponential technologies our brains, they struggle with it. We live in a world that is global and exponential, and our brains evolved in a world that was linear and local.
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The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.
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Everything that we design is designing us back
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I remember my mentor once said, The low road is crowded. The high road is wide open. So let's try to take the high road. I think that people are hungry for content that enriches and expires. You can entertain people while still expanding their horizons. You don't have to have it be a race to the bottom with reality television.
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To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.
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We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth...we have the capacity to overcome our limits.
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We are using all of our brain, all of the time all of it is in use. However, you could probably argue that we don't use it effectively. Some of us are not trained to use our brains to their full potential. But definitely, all of it is there.
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I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and say, 'I will not let go. I do not accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it...forever. Or at least I'm going to try.'
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We didn't stay in the caves. We haven't stayed on the planet. With biotechnology, gene sequencing, we are not going to even stay within the limitations of biology.
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Consciousness, when its unburdened by the body, is something thats ecstatic we use the mind to watch the mind, and thats the meta-nature of our consciousness we know that we know that we know, and thats such a delicious feeling, but when its unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.
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Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is to create knowledge like music, art, science To this end, I believe intelligent life might be evolution's secret weapon: the ultimate hack that might help us transcend entropy.
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Imagine something a million times more powerful than your smartphone that is the size of a brain cell interfacing with your biological neurons. That will be the complete symbiosis. That will be when we augment our brains at the level of the neuron.
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Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.
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If you could download the entire universe in two minutes, would you?
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