The world is real, right? But how do you know? It’s not rocket science, it’s a question about whether rocket scientists even exist in the first place. Everything you know about the world depends on and is created inside your brain. So, do we or will we ever know true reality? Or are we stuck in a world where the best we can do is be approximately true. VSauce host Michael Stevens gives us more food for thought on this perplexing scenario.
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Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku tells us that science’s Connectome Project will soon have the technology to map the pathway of the entire human brain, paving the way for genetic and digital immortality. “It will map all your memories, quirks, personalities, everything digitized,” says Kaku. “And, it will put it on a disc, and for the most part, will put it in libraries.” Imagine visiting a library of the future and conversing with Einstein or Churchill? Kaku elaborates in this episode of Big Think.
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Truthstream Media offers a plus-hour-long documentary exploring Alan Turing, cybernetics and the secrets of life. An Englishman, Turning is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence,
Remember the 1983 film Brainstorm, starring Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood? The last picture with Wood, this Douglas Turnbull film introduced a system that allowed researchers to jump inside people’s minds. Truthstrem Media asks “Why did they try to bury this sci-fi film?” The movie’s tagline: “The Ultimate Experience…The door to the mind is open.”
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Here is The Minds of Men, a major documentary from the Truthstream Media team of Aaron and Melissa Dykes that took them more than three years to complete. It’s an investigation into the experimentation, art, and practice of social engineering and mind control during the Cold War — a mind-bending journey into the past that gives startling insight into the world we are living in today.
The work is comprehensive — nearly four hours long — but quite stunning and chilling. Plan to watch it in hour-long blocks. You can return here to Stormy or bookmark the YouTube video on your own.
Say goodbye to your brain! Here’s an introduction to Transhumanism and new technology that is turning people into computers. More from A Call to an Uprising.
Extreme weather, snowmaggedon and polar vortex are terms that have dominated your local weather channels. But MinuteEarth tells us that rain or shine, our minds tend to prize their freshest impressions. “Even when we experience the same weird weather events as other people, we don’t always agree on how weird they were,” says host Emily Elert. Even politics plays a major role.
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Henry Reich tells us that humans yawn to cool their brains. “Scientists now believed that yawning has developed as a way of physiologically cooling your the brain,” he says. “Much like a computer, your brain works best at a certain temperature and tries to avoid overheating.” In this edition of AsapSCIENCE, Reich fills us in on more details.
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Circadian Rhythms– It’s a fancy name for our body’s internal clock. And like it not, they dictate so much of what we do and how we feel. D News looks at why we have them and how they work.
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There are people who are alive, but who are convinced they are dead. It’s called Cotard Syndrome and it’s one of the most bizarre and intriguing disorders we’ve ever heard of. Seeker details what’s going on inside these people’s heads.
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