"Imagine what would happen if we enter conflict with a question instead of an answer." - Love this

@killacat7666

2 жыл бұрын

Acceptance 💯is the end of every struggle inside

@michaeldavis-fg4gn

2 жыл бұрын

Apparently I swapped the definition of acceptance with approval…

@Bleepoh

2 жыл бұрын

I first thought of this concept at 5 years old in bed. How does a 40 yr old man just discover this way of thinking . Am i just an alien or should i be on tv too . th?

@joshyphil4259

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bleepoh I often find myself in situations as a 23 y/o with adults later in life (30-60), and I used to always give them credence that they have lived far more life, often specializing in whatever task is at hand, and yet I always find myself surprised at their ineptness or lack of sense at things they've done their whole life. Age is objective, it's how you grow and where you direct your mind during that.

@landon9366

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshyphil4259 this is because most tasks are easier for this generation with the help of technology that didn’t exist back then. So yeah, they had to find different ways to get shit done😂

So much knowledge and science , for free , on your phone , in your bed.... thank you to everyone who deserves to be thanked. ❤

@prophet4332

3 жыл бұрын

amen

@hauntedhose

3 жыл бұрын

Dork

@kalmoranda4529

3 жыл бұрын

I second that. So much free info. What a great moment in time. Where will it all lead I wonder.

@johnholland6958

3 жыл бұрын

How did you know I watched this in bed on my phone? Are you psychic???

@truthseeker7041

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnholland6958 because i watched in bed on my phone.. hhhh...i think most people do.

The last segment with Beau is clearly something people could benefit from : when you enter a debate or trying simply to understand things better, the main goal is to find a way to learn more after the discussion than before and not to ''win''. But that's if you really want to learn more and not simply to manipulate people into your way of thinking.

@spensert4933

2 жыл бұрын

Arriving at New ideas together or new questions. All that happens in debate is entrenching getting stronger and is good for TV ratings.

@natureswhisper1397

2 жыл бұрын

@@SolidSiren I get your point about the difference between discussion and debate, but I think essentialy they both lead (or at least they should) to an end which is a better understanding of the topic discussed/debated. If really the only way you see a debate is in the eye of a competition, even if you "win" doesn't mean you win in reality. This can create a sterile situation where you don't grow in terms of comprehension, of understanding for you and for the other party. I feel like there's two major ways in interacting in a debate : 1- In a "fragile-ego" way, where you want to win at all cost even if you're wrong just to be "superior" in front of others. 2- In a "truth-seeking" way, where you only want to leave a debate in a better state of understanding than when you entered it by being totally open to what the other party has to say and even accept that you might have been wrong about your view on the subject and changing your opinion accordingly. That's where true growth emerge, not only from an intellectual standpoint but also from a relationnal standpoint where having these kinds of respectful debates let you see that, in fact, we all just want to navigate in the world in the best way possible and one of the best thing to do is to actually have a sense of cooperation with each other and not of competitiveness.

@AudioPervert1

2 жыл бұрын

while these corporate hacks and cherry picked verbiage specialists tell us whatever ... an average of 150 species go extinct EVERY DAY (UN and IPCC 2020 Report) World Science Festival is a perfect example of Collapse Denial.

@spensert4933

2 жыл бұрын

@@SolidSiren yes.😁

@spensert4933

2 жыл бұрын

A movement is only as good as its dumbest member . One needs a master debater

47:00 I actually noticed something similar in whenever i get attacked in a nightmare. As a kid I used to run away from whatever monster was attacking me, now as a 23 year old guy I notice that I tend to fight back. Which leads me to believe that my subconscious has much more confidence in my ability to defend myself currently, in contrast to when i was a kid.

@angelg2638

3 жыл бұрын

This is classic PTSD. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder reaction. In the Fight or Flight (self-preservation) response, Your childhood nightmares triggered your flight response. You ran away from danger. However, after a few "attacks" or assaults of your monster, It appears that your self-preservation switch has reached your threshold (everyone has a different threshold) - it turned OFF your Flight, and turned ON your Fight response. This is the reason that in Boot Camp, Drill Instructors scream, yell and abuse recruits - to turn off their FLIGHT response, and to turn ON their FIGHT response. Military training is filled with stressful scenarios to train otherwise REGULAR humans to become fighters, and run TOWARDS the enemy (and danger), and not run AWAY from it. Your subconscious was smart - it was training you to become a fighter, and not a flighter.

@coolbeatguy

3 жыл бұрын

@@angelg2638 Damn that's interesting, thanks for sharing. So people with PTSD have the same response? Don't people with PTSD have a stronger response to stress?

@angelg2638

3 жыл бұрын

@@coolbeatguy People with PTSD do not have the same response. First, different thresholds. If the threshold to turn FLIGHT into FIGHT is not reached, then the person will always FLEE, and not FIGHT. He will be stressed for being labeled a "coward", just like the fighter is srtessed for being labeled a "trouble-maker". They are both NOT a coward, nor a troublemaker. They just cannot control their prime directives. They keep doing the same things - FLEEING or FIGHTING, and they do not understand WHY. At the other end of the spectrum, some people have an accentuated FIGHT RESPONSE, the classic "Rambo" (he suffered from PTSD from his horrible treatment in POW camp in Vietnam). We still have many veterans from Desert Storm, Vietnam, Iraq, Afgh with this "illness". Some have killed their entire family, co-workers, others have committed suicide. PTSD is awful to have. There is NO cure. The military knows how to turn FIGHT switch ON, but not OFF. Only coping mechanisms like, management, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), DBT (Dialectic Behavioural Therapy), Self-awareness, medication (SSRIs, etc). You have to catch yourself when you are turning "nuKUlar", recognise it, and hopefully, self-defuse. Otherwise, you either go homicidal, or suicidal. Spare a thought for our veterans. They are still FIGHTING THE WAR long after they have returned home. And it is often a WORSE battle than actual combat.

@amazingsupergirl7125

2 жыл бұрын

You’re bigger and stronger now. Surely you’re able to stand up for yourself in life. Dreams are usually representations of something happening in your life, I believe. It might represent what you’re battling….depression, anxiety, a controlling wife, etc. about once a year I dream a tiger is tracking me down. Sometimes he kills me. I love tigers though. I’m pretty sure it’s actually about anxiety tracking me down and sometimes destroys me. The only way is to run and hide by not watching news, staying away from negative social media and conversations, etc. my dad used to dream he was teetering on a ledge then finally in one dream he put his foot on the ground to balance. The nightly dreams stopped. ❤️🤟🏻

@tigerlilysoma588

Жыл бұрын

Had this happen on shrooms. As trips progressed I fought back against those devil dudes and won easily

"Most of your life happened without you even there." -Beau Lotto

@fortunateson101

3 жыл бұрын

4east

@tkonzl6059

2 жыл бұрын

This is why death is the great mystery - because you've always been alive.

@user-lj2zm2uo2v

2 жыл бұрын

okay? okay. okay!?

@OFOTCN

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe, pretty sure I was here though.

@HallieEva

2 жыл бұрын

It all comes down to whether we are are the candle or the flame.

"You can never leave bias and assumption ... you can expand them." Again, explained so well ... This discussion IS expanding how I perceive ...

@markpearsall3964

3 жыл бұрын

With exception of reality of weeks to me when th panel talk a through psychosis and perception they never take into account the understanding of a person's feelings and the ability to be at peace with space time boredom irrational continum of change spinning into an out of controlled understanding acceptance love appreciation of life light our sun just about sums up panel midway enjoyfulife

@theamateurscientist160

2 жыл бұрын

Nice wallpaper!

@pathwithin8856

2 жыл бұрын

If he understood Buddhism he would know that’s not true.

@ritikarana4256

Жыл бұрын

@@pathwithin8856 how? would like to know buddhist perspective

Who else thought about this as a kid and thought you were crazy and never thought about it until you realize every human contemplates reality and what consciousness truly is

I took a break from the astro/quantum physics realm to watch this video, and I'm very glad I did! Thanks to Brian Greene and everyone else involved for making the WSF possible!

@Sean-ff9ic

2 жыл бұрын

@@skydaddy2692 don't forget to tell me I'm pretty too

@Sean-ff9ic

2 жыл бұрын

@@skydaddy2692 I wrote the comment because I enjoy the videos from the WSF. If being smart makes me pathetic in your eyes, so be it. I could not care less what some random person on the internet thinks.

@raa9558

2 жыл бұрын

@@SolidSiren I couldn't have said it better, brother

@Sean-ff9ic

2 жыл бұрын

@@skydaddy2692 bless your heart ❤️

@raa9558

2 жыл бұрын

@@skydaddy2692 take meds schizo

Tell me about colours... I'm a hairdresser, and clients show pictures of the hair colours they want. I always ask them where they want that colour to look like the picture? In the cold light of the bathroom, the warm light of the living room, under a green tree, in the autumn sunset... They just don't understand...

@casey2806

3 жыл бұрын

Are you able to change the lighting you show the picture under? Have a series of cards in a range of strong colours. Show the hair against that strong colour and see if it changes.

@SebiSzabi

3 жыл бұрын

@@casey2806 I actually started taking pictures of my clients haircolors outdoors in direct light, indoors, and outdoors in the shadow. When someone comes in with a request, I just show them how different colors can look, and now problem is solved. :)

@petermiesler9452

3 жыл бұрын

I've done quite a bit of house painting, and developed a golden rule early on: "I don't do colors, don't even ask me for my opinion." A colors are fickled, same color looks different on every wall, plus tastes change so fast. Seen on client pick out her perfect colors, was loving it - until she had some friends over, one made a rude remark about colors, that totally changed the clients feeling and she wound up having a second color painted over the original. Colors are too subjective on many, many level, way more levels than you can shake your conscious agents at. Food even more so. As every restauranteur can tell you, the eye's eat along, not to mention one's emotions play another big role in how we perceive the tastes of food. (That's why a smart snappy enthusiastic waiter can make 100+% different in how any meal tastes in a customers mind.)

@fjames404

3 жыл бұрын

@@casey2806 qq

@casey2806

3 жыл бұрын

@@fjames404 ??

The contribution of Dr. Lomvradas to this panel was absolutely invaluable!

There is a fascinating talk about syneasthesia ... I’m the one who has it! I taste music, hear music when looking at colours and mostly I’m super sensitive to colour. I see the world in vivid colours, even in the dullest of the places, even at night I can see lots of colours! No wonder I’m an artist! 🎨 And in my mind I see the words and numbers in colours... Every letter has its own set colour and a word’s colour depends on the combination of those letters. The first letter is important as it is giving a word its colour scheme... the vowels are always bright and have qualities of light - they shine and illuminate the other letters. Eg, ‘O’ is white and shines like a light bulb... ‘a’ is shiny red, ‘e’ shiny blue. As consonants have solid colour in my mind, eg: ‘c’ is ochre yellow, ‘s’ is earthy green ... there’s some interesting thing about ‘y’. I’m Polish and in Polish language ‘y’ is a vowel but it is a consonant in English language. So, in my mind ‘y’ is white and it is solid white when I think about an English word, but when I think about a Polish word which contains ‘y’ then that letter in my head becomes transparent - like frosted glass...

@loislane7958

3 жыл бұрын

Wow! So special! You've got a magical ability. I wonder what the reason behind it is

Before this video: “Perception is reality.” After this video: “Perception is an illusion.”

@SamSam-xx6dv

3 жыл бұрын

And further after, perception is not an illusion, but an interpretation of reality. Our best guess survival process, based upon what we need for our particular species to survive. Not an illusion nor reality but an naturally selected evolved accuracy approximation based upon the Law of Physics that our species can perceive and interpret.

@casey2806

3 жыл бұрын

I suggest part of our problem is our language/vocabulary. It has developed in a certain consciousness, to use it to accurately describe a higher consciousness MAY not be possible.

@akmand009

3 жыл бұрын

The Eastern philosophies told this long back which is being proved in the present scientific environment.

@mkh2799

3 жыл бұрын

😲

@casey2806

3 жыл бұрын

@@akmand009 It is my understanding that Eastern philosophies typically take a more holistic approach than the Western, which break things down. I am not aware where they talk about language in this way, but it is nice to hear others have had this thought also. Thank you.

Excellent discussion, to the point presentation, and a wonderful conclusion. "Understanding perceptions is the key to conflict resolution. Enter a conflict with a question, rather than an answer, because neurological systems are evolved to win rather than agree, and our perceptions are based on our evolutionary history."

Thank all of you for being intelligent and interested in topics like this Peace and Bless to you all.

One of the most compelling things I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching. I’m a general psychology grad & this makes me wish I had the means to go back to school to focus on one of these specific fields. Absolutely brilliant. 🙏🏻✨

@JackRowsey

2 жыл бұрын

My wife received her degree in general psychology. She was supposed to go back to get her graduate degree in psychology but never did. After realizing her job, as a pharmacist technician, had a pretty low pay cap, she decided to go get her teaching certificate. She’s now a high school history and civics teacher. .She loves this job which she never predicted she would ever have.

@aroseinwinter05

2 жыл бұрын

@@JackRowsey ❤️this story! I wish her all the best!:) I’ve dabbled in many fields, myself, since working since age 15. My BA is a foot in the door, so to speak, as I run my own private writing instruction biz(I also work retail part-time during “off season,” lol). Sometimes our lives take us in completely different trajectories than intended: if you feel fulfilled in your career, you’ll never “work” a day in your life!

@JackRowsey

2 жыл бұрын

@@aroseinwinter05 Congratulations! It’s a good foot in the door, I agree. I wish you well in whatever you chose to do. I’ll let Joy know. Thanks.

@aroseinwinter05

2 жыл бұрын

@@JackRowsey Bless you! Happy Holidays to you & yours!❤️❤️

Reality IS the physical form of consciousness. The human body is a flesh and blood vehicle for the Spirit, an avatar for consciousness. We are all one in the same !

@feYslYa

2 жыл бұрын

last time on acid I had a sense of being a mushroom trying to explain itself

I absolutley love listening to Don Hoffman. His view on consciousness I think is revolutionary.

@simonrodriguez4685

3 жыл бұрын

No, it’s not. It’s just the logical conclusion of all of the aberrations here presented. He’s conveniently upping the ante in this nonsensical approach in order to be celebrated, that’s what top notch repeaters of nonsense are looking for: to become a celebrity. Pathetic.

@HigherSelflessness

3 жыл бұрын

Pff.

@allseeingry2487

3 жыл бұрын

@@simonrodriguez4685 he come up with this 20 years ago. All the other guys studies are over the last 10 years. So how do you figure that?

@Artby777

3 жыл бұрын

@@simonrodriguez4685 LoL!

@davidh9354

3 жыл бұрын

@@simonrodriguez4685 straddling the line between being considered a proper expert/scientist or a peddler of "nonsense", as you put it, certainly is a difficult thing to do (however, it certainly helps to have a degree(s) and peer reviewed research if you're hoping to be taken seriously). In regards to topics that are far beyond our own cerebral capacity to easily understand or ones where we have only really scratched the surface in terms of actual scientific evidence acquired, it can be an insurmountable task at times to attempt to offer any kind of truly influential "proof" to an interested audience without also being seen as partially manipulative. In this case, then, your opinion of what is actually being discussed or what you believe the intention of the individuals holding the discussion to be is ultimately all you can really take away from the discussion as a whole. There is only so much evidence and/or performative language that they can use in order to make a case for their theories. At the end of the day, however, I do think Hoffman (or anybody really) can be capable of intending to further his own career/popularity while *also* genuinely attempting to scientifically analyze (and teach others about) the "true nature" of reality and perception. His particular approach can be considered to be useful in certain ways and can/should be iterated upon, as it need not be the only one... The most helpful concept I've been able to take away from this video has been that it is possible and highly beneficial to a person to be able to reliably alter one's own perception of themselves, others, events, their environment, etc. Albeit an idea I'd already come to believe on my own before viewing, it has at least reaffirmed my views to a degree via their elaboration on their particular fields of knowledge and has slightly expanded the ways in which I know that this ability can be useful. Seeing perception as a highly useful tool that can be studied/harnessed to some degree, rather than it merely being a passive lense with which we use to experience or interface with reality, has unlimited potential for being useful to every human being (both on the level of our entire species as a whole and on the personal/individual level). It does not necessarily matter to me what the intentions are of the people involved or the level to which they experience "success", only that their words/actions have a positive impact. Edit: fixed a few grammatical errors

Goal achieved; I absolutely knew less by the end of this intelligent and enlightening conversation. A whole new way to approach conflict and everything else. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all.

I love the last guys explanation. I believe that the questions we ask are far more important than the answers we find. Provided we are able to free up space for further questions.

1:08:37.....THAT was an incredible funny moment of silence for all brains in earshot lol

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” ― John Lennon

@vvitagi

3 жыл бұрын

I'm

@OFOTCN

2 жыл бұрын

Wow 🙄

@deathchilde

2 жыл бұрын

A dream you dream together is called The Matrix

@johnbaldwin8340

2 жыл бұрын

Someone needs to watch.

I would have liked to have heard more from Stavros Lomvardas.

@yinafrentz

3 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@jonmo111

2 жыл бұрын

i see the same thing as u and hoffman and i also believe i have some type of autism, when i tell people what i think is goin on-they cant comprehend. life is a diabolical system-mentally and physically(in every way) and with 100% paradoxes and contradictions. i am workin on a book called WHY WE ARE NOT SMART, WILL BE A VERY BIG BOOK. MOST people are compliant sheeple and they have stagnated our progress greatly, the few that think outside the so called box are the ones responsible for all our progress and

*_I can remember remembering a form of great agony, the true darkness wasn't the absence of light; but the concept that there may never be light again._*

@daviddisch4709

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe quit worrying about what you don't have and be grateful for what you have.

@parabellum4622

3 жыл бұрын

@@daviddisch4709 *_Words from a sheep._*

@___Truth___

3 жыл бұрын

@@parabellum4622 lol

@katherinegordon8088

3 жыл бұрын

Wow I can imagine that.

@rikashayrushed5176

2 жыл бұрын

@@parabellum4622 is that being sheep-ish. Sounds like sound advice. He may not be on subject with his response. Your sheep-ish response is even further off subject than his response was. He was technically on point. I'm not sure if there was supposed a massive amount of implied content beyond these words. I added this implied content though. The next minute of your reality is basically null and void of you only have now and remain content with this minute. Thinking about what could be is what drives us to n be unhappy inn our present moment. Absolute darkness is great for now. We can't be positive that absolute darkness would be great forever. So we ruin our "content now" moment concerning ourselves with the mere possibility of a "discontented next" moment. If we were grateful for what we had more often, being ungrateful for what we have would rarely occur.

"In finance or recreational gambling..." I love that association!

listening for 'brain needle' worked aswell, so cool how our brain can manipulate things by us just thinking about it.

Did you know that through touch, as you experience the sensation of holding onto a warm object, for instance, a nice hot cup of coffee, you believe you are experiencing heat from the coffee through the cup. No. You are experiencing yourself in reaction to the coffee through the cup, but you are also projecting that experience of yourself onto that cup of coffee. Now, lift that cup of coffee to your lips, take a sip of it. You know you want to. You feel that warmth of the cup, the anticipation of how good it'll taste, and the sensation of the coffee heating your lips and tongue as it enters into your mouth. You taste it, or so you think. But you really aren't. You are experiencing yourself in reaction to the coffee, and then projecting that experience of yourself onto the coffee as its' flavor. So, now the coffee is you, and you are the coffee. The two of you are now married. Congratulations. The same can be said for being sympathetic. We can sense when a person feels sad, and we, in response, feel sad. But their sadness is not our sadness, nor is our sadness their sadness. Yet somehow we think the two are either linked or the same in some sense (pun intended) when they are not. It is our experienced reaction to a perceived sensation, projected back upon what we perceived. This endless cycle encapsulates both the neurological as well as the psychological default of our natural human condition within the environment of perceived reality. Isn't that something? Now, I realize some of you reading this might be thinking that it's either one or the other, but that is not the case. It's both because your bias _is_ part of that equation, but you can also set aside your bias to see outside of your bias. It's no different than watching a horse ride by one moment, and listening to a horse ride by the next with your eyes closed. Yet what happens? You experience the sound of the horse's hooves smacking the ground as it rides closer to you, and then farther from you. Again, setting aside your bias, you are also experiencing yourself in reaction to the horse riding by while projecting that reaction of the horse riding by back upon the perceived horse riding by. The ability to look beyond your own bias is akin to opening your eyes, and to experience your perceived reality through the lens of your bias is akin to experiencing your perceived reality with your eyes closed. Just because our eyes are closed does not mean our eyes are now gone. Likewise, just because our eyes are open does not mean our eye lids are gone. Whose eyes are open while their eye lids are closed? Knowing that by default you view everything through your own bias, as well as the conception of looking beyond your bias, can assist you in understanding the full depth of your own experiences as well as being able to empathize on some deeper levels with each individual you encounter in your life. Because you are not the only individual in existence, don't you think they can experience something similar to what you are experiencing? Or do they...? >_>

@nakinajay

3 жыл бұрын

And when is your Ted talk going to be uploaded? *Waiting....*

@ThomiX0.0

3 жыл бұрын

And so we come to the most important question for ourselves: can I loose my own accumulated bias??? With 'loose' I also mean, ' not to take my own perception for granted.' As this bias is created by earlier experiences, in time I wasn't sensitive or very selfish as we usually teached to be, there is an unclear content (bias) which comes up in automatic mode.., everytime I translate the other when I meet! In this way, my bias is incomplete, as my translation of the former experience was incomplete ( which as a fact, it always happen to be) And as we know for fact; I am the experience with I have, without me..there is no experience. Wich makes me question seriously in myself; can the experiencer be FREE of his bias? If not, this 'world of us' is done with, it deteriorates till heartlessness.( which we already see today) If yes then, it would be the solution to all our problems. All of them, don't you agree? Thanks for your post, enjoy the moment👍

@willbephore6178

3 жыл бұрын

Why is this comment not at the top

Considering Schrodinger's Cat: Dead or Alive? I asked my professor if anyone wondered what Schrodinger's Cat may have been thinking while he/she was inside that box the whole time. My professor responded after a short pause with, "Now, you're starting to get it." What does that mean?

No matter how many times I watch this video speaks volumes and I can watch it like I never saw it before

Thank You All ... best video I've seen yet in explaining perception and reality. The explanation of why the one guy believes that, while there is one true reality BUT that we are not programmed to see it is certainly the best explanation of that to the point I will have to go deeper into those ideas. Excellent! Love & Peace (However you may perceive them to be ...as long as it's good) to All

Mind blowing. So there's a difference between reality and truth! Reality is agreed upon perceptions/hallucinations. Reality is relatively subjective and truth is objective.

@joeborysko423

4 жыл бұрын

What is your objective measure of truth?

When Constantinople said “because I work with rats” my mind raced through a series of horrible coworkers

@AnneliedeWet

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the mice is paying a high price for humans to become human.

I really enjoy how engaging and simple to understand this lecture is. Thank you all.

Your perception is determined by past experience, current physiological state and your expectations of the future

@quantised1703

4 жыл бұрын

including this one?

@Ziggy_Stark.

4 жыл бұрын

but whose perception is that on the perceivers perception? maybe it's different in anothers reality? I don't know just putting it there that maybe people can experience the same thing together however remember it in different ways.

@whoknew4722

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ziggy_Stark. Perception and Memory (recalling the past) are two separate processes. However, Perception USES Memory (which is a complete collection of our past experiential & sensory stimuli plus previously-stored memories). Memory modifies itself (a newly perceived stimuli "merges" with past memories of that same stimuli, and the merged version creates/forms a newer memory that replace/merges with the earlier one). Thus, any person perceiving does so using their collective past memories. A collection of past memories form based on everything they experienced from birth onward - but also on the "strength" of each experience (since things "shocking" tend to build stronger memories and replace weaker ones -- e.g., if a child has 20 memories of their mother hugging them, then only 1 "strong" memory of their mother punching them will replace many of their 20 positive memories of hugs... leaving them with 1 strong negative memory with few (maybe 5) "moderate-strength" memories of hugs). Only if two people have experienced EVERYTHING IDENTICALLY (which is impossible)... only then is there the possibility that their perception of a new "object" or "situation" will be similar/match (e.g., their perception of a strange newly discovered "sour ultraviolet scalding-hot flower"). The more exact explanation is: even in this scenario the two peoples' DNA are probably different and so such differences will cause differences in the memories they formed throughout life -- thus impacting their perception. Even if the two people were identical twins, their memories will slightly differ since they cannot "see" things from the exact same place (angle) - they cannot occupy the same physical space (even if they went through life always standing side-by-side looking at everything, their views are always slightly skewed in angle compared to each other's "view" -- and so their raw-perception will ever-so-slightly differ... causing their "memories" of the world to ever-so-slightly differ... causing their "new perceptions" to be shaped by their slightly-different memories -- giving them slightly different "views" of what's in front of them). Bottom line: For two people, the closer to each other that their individual memory (the totality of THEIR memories) matches, the closer their "perception" will be of a "new thing". Since no two people can have the same existence (spatially, temporally, DNA-wise, in all aspects), they will perceive differently. Another aspect of perception: For some perceptions, the effect from one "strong"/"highly emotional" memory (either from an evolutionary "memory" encoded in DNA or from a single strong memory of an experienced event) will outweigh other past "weaker" memories. For example, their experience of seeing the Twin Towers collapsing may impact their memory of talk twin buildings because that event was so emotional for most who saw it. Similarly, their collected "weaker" memories of many many hugs can be reduced/erased by 1 or a few "stronger" experiences/memories of being punched by the same person who had hugged them.

@Ziggy_Stark.

3 жыл бұрын

@@whoknew4722 Yay... Thanks

@Ziggy_Stark.

3 жыл бұрын

Is the color red the same for all of us? There is no way of understanding this which is the understanding of not even knowing if we are alive at all agreeing with what a silly person is.? or not?

The host in this discussion has done an excellent job. Allowing discussion, intelligent questions and great banter. Also incredibly smart, researched and knowledgeable. Well done. Loved this discussion.

After many years of watching videos on neuroscience, conciousness etc and understanding our true nature of reality, I can never figure what to do with such knowledge. How can I use this understanding to better myself? My life? My actions? My love ones? My thinking? My behaviour? It all seems so arbitrary unless I COMPLETELY remove myself from ego, identity, personality, experience, dreams, wants, needs, memories and restart as if I am new born again. It always boggles my level comprehension 😭

@TheStarBlack

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the only seriously useful thing we can do with this information is use it to inform our interactions and relationships with other people, as the last guy said.

It's very interesting how Carl Jung gave an explanation for what is said in the introduction about "the meaning we give to data". Jung defined this tendency to percieve, using the same explanation that you just gave (which he gatherd by studying his patients), as a cognitive function called 'introverted sensing'. His genius really is scary!

I really enjoyed this discussion! A lot of people should watch this and realize that the world is only so far beyond one’s own perception- and that perception differs from person to person. Thank you!

@antoniowilliams6533

Жыл бұрын

That's if you get caught up in man kinds idiotic way of thinking cause none of this deals with the knowledge of our Heavenly Father & you shouldn't put man over God

@morgancolella

Жыл бұрын

@@antoniowilliams6533 and you shouldn’t put man over your God either, yet here you are- going against one of the many things your God preaches: not to judge thy neighbor and embrace walks of all life. Hope you also don’t eat shrimp or wear two different materials of clothing. Repent, sinner!

That diamond part was crazy. I immediately got the double pyramid to flip but did it again but this time with the assumption. I told myself not to blink and pay attention to the interior and it never flipped. Tried it again paid attention to its top portion and it flipped that blows my mind.

I honestly enjoyed this! Informative and fun at the same time. That will always keep my attention. It covered so much of my curiosity that I've always wonder about when it comes to the reality of Perception and the senses that align with it. Or that WE align with it.

Yes, thank you to everyone who makes us smarter for free! This is absolutely brilliant!

I have seen many World Science Festival programs. This has to be one of my most favorite ones. Very interesting and fun. Great panel!

Perhaps an interesting thought: If your perception cannot be fooled you are either an alien or a robot. This may create a whole new aspect of aesthetics

@whoknew4722

3 жыл бұрын

They talked about this at time 46:50. They said that when people are in "empowered" states, their perception more closely matches objective reality (the true world outside). Thus, they said that someone who's "empowered" has a perception that is less fooled. So maybe when one reaches nirvana, their perception can't be fooled at all? They see "true reality". Many philosophical treatises suggest the same view the panelists presented. You've suggested the most "empowered" & "attuned" person would be like an alien or robot. That's an emotion-laden view, popularized in pop movies.

Perception is relative to the observer. Which makes each perspective truly unique. Thus, every observer is neither right nor wrong only in concordance to the thing being observered.

@stupidas9466

2 жыл бұрын

You're wrong, sorry.

When she said we sometimes see the same reality that hasn't been more true then the last two years at this point.

I feel slightly verified, as I had a similar discussion with my physics tutor when at school about the fact it cant be possible for us all to see the same things, even colours. I put my knowledge to good use being able to communicate and work with animals, who have very different perceptions of our world.

@Lets_talk_about_that

2 жыл бұрын

I used to be of Christian faith for many, many years. Now though I had an epiphany a while ago - for those Christians who have a book and each one talks about the God they know and how if anyone else doesnt see the same one then they probably will be damned for being deceived etc - one book - imagine the number that is the amount of interpretations which could be read from each different perspective on each different passage leading to each different construct of their image of God. There is literally (in any specific faith) ONE God. That cannot possibly exist because each one is different in the mind of the individual. I personally do believe there is a higher intelligence because any other theory doesnt make any sense to me - but I don't think it's anything remotely like what we THINK it is.

@amazingsupergirl7125

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lets_talk_about_that I left the Christian faith when I actually read the Bible cover to cover….twice. It’s a different perception than reading two verses at church and discussing them for an hour. A very, very violent and misogynistic read. But, everyone believes whatever they were raised with and don’t really question it unless something happens. For me, it was in junior high when my preacher dad taught that dinosaurs didn’t exist, yet I saw crocodiles, turtles, ostriches…modern dinosaurs. Also, reading tons of fiction made me see how fictional the Bible is. Not to mention, knowing that if I lived in Japan, I’d be raised Buddhist and if I was raised in Afghanistan, I’d be Islamic. I think truly being a good person is more important than following certain rules in fear of hell. Love ya! ❤️🤟🏻

@Lets_talk_about_that

2 жыл бұрын

@@amazingsupergirl7125 Thanks for the reply... Yeah exactly, and what if was brought up by a violent person and abused but they believed in God...I would grow up to hate God. Many are in this position - and apparently according to the Christian and Catholic faith they would go to hell. Real loving God right there. Also - Romans says the cross happened outside space and time - SO either God KNEW his creation of hell would be where the children he says he loves would go OR he is not a God who can see that far ahead. You have to pick one - either he is NOT God OR he knew his creation would go there for being human and not understanding shit and loving him enough, lol.

That is definitely one of the best lectures I've ever seen! Also - haven't laughed that hard for a looong time!

They articulate their ideas so perfectly.

I felt more scammed by my own senses than real scammers after watching this. So much ideas! Thank you guys!

@romanvice

2 жыл бұрын

You ever wake up in the middle of the night to receive a phone call? Except it's not really a call; it's your own auditory senses? And they're trying to reach you about your extended warranty?

The colour perception is so true. I'm colour blind and I don't know movies are black and white until someone tells me. Untill then, I see colours but assume it's just poor quality lighting. When I find out it's black & white, the colours all turn to shades of grey. The Giver was a very confusing movie to watch because I couldn't tell when it flipped from colour to Blk & white, then back to colour, etc..

@propertymanagement5242

3 жыл бұрын

@Free My Grandma Example: I see a grey wall and think it's pink until someone tells me it's grey; at which time, it stops looking pink and suddenly looks grey. I once threw out my favorite 'grey' pants (I truly thought they were grey) when I found out they were green, because I didn't like them in green, yet when they looked grey to me, I thought they looked great!

@propertymanagement5242

3 жыл бұрын

@Free My Grandma NP! I'll have to Google that.. I'm brand new to the world of science:-) EDIT.. I do know that experiment but didn't know the name!! Whoa... IT IS LIKE THAT!!!

'Field' woke me up one-summer-03:00am-day to tell me that (senses as in the example of the pictogram) ... No clue as of what the nature of reality, really is. Mission accomplished: I do know less about it than before starting watching the talk. 🤗

Plato's Cave Allegory is perceived by some (no pun intented) as a description of the gap between reality and what we experience within our heads and bodies (what we believe is real is just shadows projected on a cave's walls; we see the shadows, not what's creating them). Notably the Stoics, and other philosophical schools in antiquity, disputed the reliability of our senses to capture and transmit real world data without errors and serious distortion. That's why for Stoics the importance was not on reality but on our attitude towards the world. It's fascinating how modern science confirms such early ideas!

So much knowledge in the palm of your hand. scholars of past couldn't even imagine such things...how lucky we are.

Could you enable KZread auto generated English subtitles? This is so interesting we will be able to share with friends and family who don't speak english and by doing so they may select their captions in a language they prefer.

@willbephore6178

3 жыл бұрын

Is the Closed Captioning "CC" button on the lower right corner of the frame available? I know it's not great, but it's something?

I love these guys, you can tell they're having fun explaining these things

@Eudjier

2 жыл бұрын

Scientists always have fun. They're kids just older

So glad I discovered this channel 🙏🏾❤️

40:55 Great point. He means the center of your vision, which is actually quite small. Our peripheral vision temps us to think we see more than we do.

Please change settings so KZread community of volunteers are able to translate to other languages. Super interesting subject.

My mother who suffered a stroke threw herself out of a chair or bed , it was a strange thing it seemed to be a kind of protest from shit nursing in the hospital before I took her home for 15 years.she was always safer at home.

@shanaynay333

2 жыл бұрын

🙏❤

Each of us experiences the same world differently. Our realities--though we only "hallucinate" outside reality--overlap to form an "objective reality" that we can agree on. Some think it is super strange but this should be expected since we are basically made of the same biological matter (are perceptions based on our organs: eyes, ears) which chemically and physically follow the same principles. The difference then comes from our conscious self trying to interpret our experience based on the gradients of our experiences of the same thing.

I'm watching this while drinking soju, relaxing. Anyone else also relax in a similar way?

@JnZiBns

2 жыл бұрын

2 Smirnoff Ice 😎

So our biggest fear is from the unknown. And now we know that we will never be able to really understand, see, feel what reality is. Great. Thanks. I will definitely sleep better. 🙃

@dataexpunged6969

2 жыл бұрын

More like, you know enough to make it through life fairly comfortably, unless there are circumstances that aren't within your power to change. Basically you have been given all the tools you could need to have a life that isn't always fraught with danger (as much as possible ofc)

@TheStarBlack

2 жыл бұрын

We have been evolving to survive on this planet for billions of years. Your senses are reliable enough to keep you safe most of the time. There have always been dangerous things out there that we have no perception of for example carbon monoxide or certain toxic chemicals.

"It's the first time I've been right about science." Nice hire.

I have faced all my fears I lost my wife a year ago I have been addicted to many things money drugs I have had homes my kids an lost everything knowing what I was doing when I met my wife she made me face my fears I told her loosing her would be my only fear . She died a weak later. I fell back to drugs I have always known why go back to drugs but now my subconscious is showing me the things the choices to make so my mental state is to beleave in my self if I don't I won't quit I have studied about how the mind works so I learned to hear things to push me to make my decision IAM one day into a new way of thinking as people right wrong or just knowing the word no is I will change 30years of bad desion s to living a true life to all believe in yourself try and do.

He was talking about thinking your limb is someone elses. I have an odd experience with that and it was so freaky. I was on a plane a couple years ago and I put both of my arms in my sleave to rest in my belly like a blanket, when I woke up from my nap I saw the seat next to mes hand on the arm rest and because my fingers and hand were not moving when I was telling them too, I freaked out and had a panic attack because it fealt like my arm stopped working and I thought it had died so I caused a big seen on the plane lol. It was maybe 3 to 5 minutes until I realized what had happend and even as I realized where my arm was it still did not feel like my own arm after that.

I can explain it in one sentence . Our reality is just a translation of the real reality by our senses and that translation is a learned agreement .

It's people like Hoffman that end up branching science ahead in its evolution

Peace is the greatest desire of any mind. The definition of a word is not the same for everyone! But peace over all!

Next to balance as a sixth sense, we have a seventh too, which is exactly knowing in what 3D position and orientation your limbs are (upper part, lower part, position of toes and fingers) without having to look at it. This is usually called our sixth sense in most other discussions about the big five … it’s named proprioception and is especially important to athletes rather than nerds 😃.

Brilliant. thank you for uploading. Could have gone on for another few hours!

@SambathKumaar

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree

Consciously induced smiling is a technique I use to rapidly alter anxiety escalation in imminently existential risk scenarios, i.e. while climbing, ski mountaineering, even twice while dealing with bear attacks.

Backpack similar situation. When boss says to you: "It is only a 15 min job." You always know what to say back ( in your mind) "Yes, but it is 15 min of MY job."

1:10:05 One of the best parts in this video. NICE!

"To think, that once I could not see beyond the veil of our reality... to see those who dwell behind. I was once a fool." -Pious Augustus

Just a comment on Beau Lotto's intro. The bit of music at the beginning, was missing the Cadence (close of a musical phrase), which has nothing to do with reality but everything to do with the Design of music. The coloured cube is an optical illusion caused by the visual system and visual perception. The spinning gif is an optical illusion caused by visual system and visual perception. The Brainstorm Green Needle is a riddle, which is something that has a double meaning. The animation of the triangles and the circle is a metaphor of human behaviour, or a symbolic representation of human behaviour. It's interesting how the speaker tells the audience what to think, especially about the last animation. So reality, is really about a speaker telling the audience what to think??

@TheStarBlack

2 жыл бұрын

They are simple illustrations intended to help you understand the concepts being discussed. For example, we anticipate the closing musical cadence because we (in the west) have been exposed to the western musical system all our lives. It illustrates the point that our perception is massively influenced by our past experiences.

The first guy full on pulling the rug out of the climax is a legit rick roll troll, Way to go!

A very small percentage of us are born “beautiful”. Most of those rare people, experience life as a positive, happy, welcoming thing, because people react to them, positively, mostly, from the very start of their life. So they are conditioned to expect warmth, positivity, kindness. So any situation they enter into, they do so with a happy positive outlook, which in turn receives happy, positive feedback, confirming their expectation, and creating the feedback loop. Of course, the opposite is also true, and sadly that applies to, by far, the greater number of us. Then it comes down to individual lives, and how well they go. The greatest sayings, “ the more we know, the more we realise how much we don’t know”, and” how do we know what we don’t know”?

I love her hair! The study of smell is interesting, with so much application potential.

1:08:00 everyone starts laughing because of the lack of comprehension about the knowledge he just dropped.

@MountainofInspiration

2 жыл бұрын

OMG

We make our own realities but the truth is we know nothing. That is reality! 💯🎯‼️

What we experience here, is how we humans are shaping, training , and educating an illusionary reality, away from reality. The ability to discover simply said, with the help of our senses, is the variety for the gaming.

I wonder if the seating order on the stage influenced how much air time they received. The first two people spoke a bit more. I’m sure personality plays into this idea too.

@TheStarBlack

2 жыл бұрын

I think it was all planned out in advance with the most 'engaging' or 'charismatic' speakers being given the most time to talk. Stavros was sidelined because he has a strong accent. That's my assumption anyway.

"Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" - Philip K. Dick

@mrroberts9230

3 жыл бұрын

How are we to assume any of it goes “away”? If we stop believing in our future, and kill ourselves, it apparently goes away (to us) and yet if we believe it, it remains. So, as we’ve established ones future is not a reality, so I’m not sure how meaningful it is to assume this accurate if we must assume things go anywhere just cuz we stop perceiving them or just that things are. When we say reality, we really mean, things are as we think they are. When people say “none of this is real, it’s all the matrix, man” well, of course it’s real, it’s just not now you suppose it is, assuming that were true. If you believe you can do a thing, it’s potentially possible, if you don’t you can’t. So what if we don’t believe we can win the race and then we do? And how can we stop believing in things that are always there to us? Is it possible for you to believe you don’t have hands? ...or is the subconscious smarter than that?

so far i hv only listened to the intro with beau and i am blown away. settling in and here we go. thanks.

it seems to me like they had rehearsed this with the panelists in advance... they are so fluent and quick to answer almost like speaking a learnt answer.

Superb discussion! Thank you! Opening my eyes and thinking processes to try imagining inconceivable connections in this universe.

could I get a certificate of completion

7 minutes in, the demonstration of the circle, and two triangles with a box clearly defines what we are programmed to feel and think. Absolutely brilliant. I’m a new subscriber, expanding my knowledge in areas of the unknown. Topics that should be discussed and explored. Thank you for this information.🕯️🧘‍♀️🪷

“There’s some reality but we are utterly ignorant to what that reality is. We have to find a deeper understanding of reality that gives rise to space and time and the brain.”

This is fantastic. Thank you for this brilliant panel.

Great channel, and this is by far my favorite talk. Great to see how talking about perception can be so much more mind blowing and unconfortable then quantum physic (wich by the way feel so strange precisely becouse don't meet our normal prediction based on perception and seem in the while to depend by It)

@andrewchen9097

4 жыл бұрын

You don't think they are intricately connected ? We are in no small part able to have this talk because of our. knowledge of the strangeness of how things work in the quantum world, as it showed more to reality which begged us to further question our senses..It also gave us most of the tools we needed for this talk.- computers, X-ray machines, and MRI's etc. as well as the medium we are watching it on. What quantum mechanics seems to say about the universe and by extension us and where we fit in it should be far more mind blowing than this, but it is just so hard to rap our heads around that it is in a sense inaccessible. This on the other hand is more relatable. It's like talking about the vastness of the universe versus the vastness of the oceans. I can grasp just enough of the vastness of the ocean to scale up my understanding using land mass geometry for length and miles as depth to realize my tiny brain can understand it just enough to be able to marvel at it and be conceptually "mind blown", but my puny brain has no ability at all to scale up a smaller numbers to envisage the known universes 5.5 multiplied by 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles. A number so big that it has to be expressed by an equation. There is no metaphor,, geometry, pattern, picture or concept or frame of reference that can help me perceive of such a number. Beyond a trillion at best all numbers are just big - the difference between a billion billion and trillion billion is insanely massive, but to my tiny brain at this point it is just a bunch of extra zeros on a computer screen. .

@BresciGaetano

4 жыл бұрын

@@andrewchen9097 i think they are deeply connected Indeed. But i think also our actual accademic explanation of the quantum world is veiled by some more basics misanderstood. I mean "shut up and calculate" Is a rly sad statement that's overused, Is how they grow us at school and that's why when someone don't shut up you have an Einstein and why quantum theories are in this painfull state since almost 100 years... I have an idea about, but i'm just a dumb as any and my math skills are not enought to confirm my theory, anyway i found a lot of pieces during the years confirmed or theorized by actual scientists. But i never menaged to see someone put all that pieces together. We should also invent some new math, fields are nonsense and fluid dynamics need a lot of more study. All started with trying to understand highs bosons, i menaged to visualize It somehow in my brain and that was the key. It would explain dark Energy, probably a lot of not all dark matter, inflation, relativity and quantum world. Many pieces are part of pilot wave theory, olographic principle, and what i call "inverse relativity". A big problem is how accademy describe concepts like wave, vacum, time, space... If you read about the invention of the vacum pump and how the inventor refused to have a philosophical confrontation on the definition of vacum in fear of the Cristian authority. He so gave birth to the British royal society and strarted the trend of i change the definition to fit the bill, in fear of who's in charge, and that's where the actual accademy planted his roots. Usless to say i don't really wish to share how i belive could be this reality be done becouse as far i can't confirm mathematically It to the scientific comunity, society can't confirm to me that knowledge will Just be used to make pranks, child games, and to make your beuty fall in love of your Amazing skills... I'm pretty sure we are going to rush some destructive weapon, idiotic power source that seem clean and then suck or stupid medical treatment wich in a couple of decades/century Will be more harmfull then not to the specie, the animals or the environment. I really fear the day a dolphin will say me "goodby and thanks for all the fish"

remember that time when u breathe out or wheeze and some obscure sound effect in the background perfectly times with you...

Very enlightening talk. I really resonate with Dr. Hoffman's perspective.

What is our greatest desire? Painfully adorable cats. 💞🐈

@TeamLegacyFTW

4 жыл бұрын

Gross. Hate cats. Better used as fast food items🍔🍗🍖

Let me summarize this discussion: 'We go through life fantasizing about the reality, but it's not a bug, it's a feature'. :)

@MeeZyStudioZ

4 жыл бұрын

Wut

@sahinandrew

4 жыл бұрын

@@MeeZyStudioZ yupppp...thats exactly what i wanted to ask :'D

@brown3394

4 жыл бұрын

​@@sahinandrew He's using the same computer/interface metaphor they were describing; being able to imagine that reality is nothing like our perception is a cool feature of our interface, even though it might sound like nonsense.

@samprada9298

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment lmao 👌

@jassieg9022

3 жыл бұрын

@@brown3394 m mm mm mm mm k

After listening to these people, I felt gratitude for the guy who picks up my garbage.

It's great that this topic being grasped. They Really needed a artist/historian/teacher. When you draw the difference between sight and reality is dramatic. 400 years ago people couldn't see/draw hands. Most people are colour blind....still

Loving this channel :) Thank you again!

48:30 - Some of these things Dr. Hoffman has mentioned really seem to get kind of close to the line defining subliminal advertising. I actually thought subliminal messaging was illegal. This whole notion of "tricking me" into reacting the way they want - that's mildly disturbing. I wouldn't be opposed to such methodologies being outlawed.

@TheStarBlack

2 жыл бұрын

The entire global capitalist system is built on tricking us into wanting things we don't need, things that are sometimes actively harmful to us. This will never be banned unless we replace the capitalist system.

@ahmedalani3513

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheStarBlack You got it right man, You know Your shit, stay woke

@amazingsupergirl7125

2 жыл бұрын

There’s no way they can make subliminal advertising illegal, especially because it’s subjective and not obvious. Like the cartoon characters on kids cereal all looking at the cereal with big open eyes.

My frustrations about those years with her and the final out come was becoming overwhelming since the divorce. The Holy Spirit aka - Comforter has answered my need for understanding as to how she manipulated and controlled my perception of reality and the reality perception of those around me. Praise Yahweh for setting me free from her and my frustrations with these understandings. UNDERSTANDING IS FINAL CLOSURE !

No matter how many times I've watched this. I love the circle