主题：Jason Silva：我们现在就是神 -- 万年看客

“著名心理学家尼古拉.汉弗莱对于惊叹情绪的生物学优势这样写道：一个物种对于自身存在感到惊奇赞叹的能力居然具有进化上的优势，这难道只是巧合吗？换句话说，惊叹情绪是自然选择的结果，因为这种情绪使得生命感到自己在宇宙当中具有意义，并且更加努力地生存与发展。再换句话说，惊叹情绪有助于我们的生存。最近斯坦福大学的一项研究在某种程度上证实了这一点。研究发现，经常感到赞叹的人能够得到切实的好处，他们更容易对他人抱有同理心与激情，更倾向于利他主义，心理也更健康。这项研究将惊叹定义为感知的扩展。感知扩展得如此广大，以至于你不得不调整自己的心智结构，唯此才能适应并且接受这样的体验。我们都有过这样的体验，例如第一次俯瞰大峡谷或者第一次被IMAX影院的效果所压倒的时候。对于惊叹感受的最精妙描述或许来自罗斯.安德森。他在谈论哈勃望远镜的时候这样说道：哈勃望远镜为我们带来了主体论层面上的觉醒，有力地叫醒了我们，迫使我们在几乎逼近无限的尺度上思考时间与空间。凝视着哈勃望远镜拍摄的深空照片，我们完全可以用我们的视神经来感知宇宙之初直到今天的整条时间线，将大到不可思议的事物容纳进小到不可思议的事物当中。他说通过这些探索成果的美学力量，哈勃望远镜将极其复杂而抽象的天文学概念凝练成了一目了然的光线与颜色。这也再次证明了我们所熟知的名言，真既是美，美既是真。”

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this is a good piece, worth reading several times, thanks for translation and posting.

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"物理直观"

FB paid $2b to acquire Oculus, thinking virtual reality will be the next information platform after mobile

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生产关系

one of marx's greatest contributions to whatever is: he actually points out very correctly that the core of political economy is 生产关系, with everything else is basically an "underlying", from which 生产关系 is derived from, as an "derivative", and derivative becomes a life of its own, with 上层建筑, 意识形态 reinforcing the 生产关系 as dominated and managed by winners (or elite or the ruling class)

example 1):

"所谓离线秒下的强大功能，领导一声令下马上就歇菜了 [ 文青 ] 于:2014-04-30 02:09:22 复:4004926

八月廿六:莫名其妙的“净网”行动

就这完全不靠谱的环境，指望依赖云盘看片么？"

最搞笑的是，开始明明说是要扫黄，结果这么长时间了，那几个最有名的黄网还都好好的呢，没人提也没人动，新闻联播里净网办公室的发言人，信誓旦旦的说，扫掉了几百几千个黄网。他们是真傻还是假傻啊，骗谁呢。"

obviously it is not about 黄网, 黄网 is an underlying, a vehicle by which chairman X's ideology is doing a ideology 战争演习 kind of things

example 2):

in a bull market, your program will be coded to front run everybody else in buying high beta stocks of whatever: those stocks are "underlying" /vehicles for you to take advantage of market's bullish mood, you don't really care about those stocks itself: you buy them because they are a simply better "Ponzi underlying".

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now in future, if goog/FB "own" all the platforms of internet/mobile/AI/virtual reality etc, and making it available by broadcasting from outer space "universally", then everybody can trade "生产关系" by using whatever the underlying which could be anything

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what is the implication?

there would be many, such as "生产关系" often manipulated by politicians and financial capitalists will be increasingly exposed with "物理直观" in a virtual reality platform, with trading(information collecting and processing) of "生产关系" no longer 壟斷寡斷 "controlled and traded" by a few elite, it would be becoming a mass market, with bid-ask spread and trading margin vastly reduced, benefiting the whole society.

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as said before, partially due to the lack of "物理直观", modern physics and math are hard to learn such as in the area of quantum physics (lab work is one of the keys);

and once we get into social science, it is even worse, or becoming worse than before:

as posted before, social mass are almost becoming 腦殘 by the 24/7 of 高積量熱輻射 of all kinds of ideology of various "生产关系" BS.

a case for further study is mainland china: they really don't have 水牛城辣雞翅 with an special uncle sam made sports sauce flavor, which can help you 屏蔽 熱輻射 of TG's 24/7 ideology machine gun firing, more 腦殘 at population level likely, as a result, omg(:).

and in wall street, the "evils" there are not "better" in any way when compared to TG's political ideology 熱輻射: 腦殘 likely for many victims of modern financial capital market.

kind of 达尔文进化论 of post cold war version, 杀人不见血, why not?(:)

so, winners (individual, groups, or nations) will take away the 寶貴的 capital from losers. losers are not supposed to have any capital, theoretically.

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Jason Silva (born February 6, 1982) is a Venezuelan-American television personality, filmmaker, and performance philosopher. He resides in Los Angeles, California and New York City.

Silva earned a degree in film and philosophy from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. He, along with Max Lugavere, produced and starred in a video documentary/performance piece entitled "Textures of Selfhood"—an experimental film about hedonism and spirituality. "The Party-Philosophers" and "Intellectual Hedonists", as named by Angeleno Magazine, borrowed the name for the film from the Hedonistic Imperative, a website promoting the end to suffering by philosopher David Pearce.

The Atlantic describes Silva as "A Timothy Leary of the Viral Video Age".[1]

Public speaking[edit]

An active and prolific speaker, Silva has recently spoken at Google, The Economist Ideas Festival, the prestigious DLD Digital Life Design Conference in Munich, TEDGlobal, the Singularity Summit, the PSFK Conference, and the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.[2]

At TEDGlobal this past June 2012, Jason premiered "Radical Openness," a new short video.[3] In September 2012, Silva presented his Radical Openness videos at the opening keynote at Microsoft TechEd Australia.[4] Radical Openness was also featured in his presentation at La Ciudad de las Ideas conference on November 10, 2012.

In September 2012, he appeared at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, where he presented a speech entitled "We Are The Gods Now."[5]

Brain Games[edit]

In 2011, Silva became the host of Brain Games on the National Geographic Channel. The show set a record as the highest rated series launch in Nat Geo's history, with an average of 1.5 million viewers for the first two episodes.[6]

Shots of Awe[edit]

In May 2013, Jason started a YouTube channel called "Shots of Awe", wherein he uploads short, inspirational videos that explore topics such as the emergence of life, the evolution of intelligence, and the advancement of technology.[7]

Other[edit]

Silva has been featured in The Atlantic,[1] The Economist,[8] Vanity Fair,[9] Forbes,[10][11] Wired,[12] and many others.

In 2011 he became a fellow at the Hybrid Reality Institute, examining the symbiosis between man and machine.[13]

On August 15, 2012 he appeared on CBS This Morning.[14]

On September 24, 2012 he appeared on Australian ABC program Q&A alongside Tanya Plibersek, Kelly O'Dwyer, Mark Carnegie & Elliot Perlman.[15]

His film ATTENTION: The Immersive Power of Cinema[16] is part of the exhibition 'KINO und der kinamatografische Blick' ('CINEMA and the cinamatographic gaze'), 20 March - 2 June 2013, at MEWO Kunsthalle in Memmingen (Germany).[17]

He has appeared multiple times as a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.[18]

On March 18, 2014 he was a guest in an episode of SourceFed's Tabletalk.[19]