We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system. Jason Silva More Quotes by Jason Silva More Quotes From Jason Silva Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate. Jason Silva fate moving thinking Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe. Jason Silva understanding intellectual brain Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it. Jason Silva most-amazing possibility imagination To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair. Jason Silva inspired despair existential Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is. Jason Silva powerful world ideas Everything that we design is designing us back Jason Silva design There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity. Jason Silva serendipity unexpected circumstances For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment. Jason Silva single-mom anxiety imagination 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. Jason Silva ephemeral forever trying I think in a way, what it is to be human is to transcend our boundaries. That is the human story. Jason Silva stories way thinking 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. Jason Silva novelty moon moving We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe. Jason Silva fit responsibility brain 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. Jason Silva mind feelings watches 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.' Jason Silva letting-go forever thinking Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so cinema became sort of a waking dream where we can travel in space and time, where we can travel in mind. This became more than virtual reality, this became a real virtuality. Jason Silva space real dream Awe is the best drug in the world Jason Silva overwhelmed drug world There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our brains because we were going to write everything down and not have to remember anything, and so it would atrophy our brains. So there has always been this human drive on the one hand to create tools, to create technologies to overcome our boundaries, but then there is always this reservation, and this fear that say these technologies are somehow unnatural and it is against nature to partake in them. Jason Silva technology writing hands As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create. Jason Silva shrinking technology dream Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new. Jason Silva patterns creativity ideas Alistair Crowley used to define magic as anything in which you can exercise your will in the world through the use of your mind. So what's the magical way of opening or closing that door? Well, to will your body to stand up and close or open that door, that's magic. With the iPhone, it's like you put your intent into it, and it helps you exercise that intent in the world. Jason Silva iphone exercise doors
