Jason Silva The Self-Reinforcing Power Of Optimism

 Jason Silva

Jason Silva is an optimist. More specifically, he’s optimistic about the Future — the bionic arms, microchip-in-your-brain kind of Future.

As a follower of the theories of Ray Kurzweil, Buckminster Fuller, and the tech evangelists who staff the Singularity Institute in California, Jason Silva believes that humanity is evolving rapidly toward a state of utopian harmony with machines.

Lately, he’s been doing his part to contribute to Singularity's reality distortion field by producing short videos that induce a state of future-awe through rapid-fire, hallucinatory animation, stirring music, and compressed philosophical musings on neuroscience, exponential thinking, and the Cosmos.

The undercurrent that runs through all of these videos, and Silva's conversation, is an intense, driven faith in humankind’s power to triumph over uncertainty and death. For Silva, it seems, the purpose of human life is to overcome the primal terrors of existence by manifesting our dreams in the form of technologies that erase them. Of course death is the most primal terror of all, and Silva openly admits that it terrifies him.




SOURCE  Big Think

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