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

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

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

Acceptance 💯is the end of every struggle inside

Apparently I swapped the definition of acceptance with approval…

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?

@@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.

@@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😂

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

@@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.

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.

@@SolidSiren yes.😁

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

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.

@@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?

@@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.

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. ❤️🤟🏻

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

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

okay? okay. okay!?

Maybe, pretty sure I was here though.

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

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

Nice wallpaper!

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

@@pathwithin8856 how? would like to know buddhist perspective

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

@@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.

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

@@skydaddy2692 bless your heart ❤️

@@skydaddy2692 take meds schizo

I'm

Wow 🙄

A dream you dream together is called The Matrix

Someone needs to watch.

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.

@@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. :)

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.)

@@casey2806 qq

@@fjames404 ??

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

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

including this one?

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.

@@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.

@@whoknew4722 Yay... Thanks

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?

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.

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.

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

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@@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.

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.

@@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!

@@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.

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

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.

Pff.

@@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?

@@simonrodriguez4685 LoL!

@@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

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

@@daviddisch4709 *_Words from a sheep._*

@@parabellum4622 lol

Wow I can imagine that.

@@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.

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.

Me too.

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

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

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👍

Why is this comment not at the top

You're wrong, sorry.

What is your objective measure of truth?

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.

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

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.

@@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! ❤️🤟🏻

@@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.

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@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!

@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!!!

Scientists always have fun. They're kids just older

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

@@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!

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)

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.

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?

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?

OMG

2 Smirnoff Ice 😎

Yes he dresses like a serious prof

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.

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.

Totally agree