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The Search For The Rhapsodic

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"Human speech is a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms...while we long to make music that will melt the stars." - Flaubert Join Jason Silva as he freestyles complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and be
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Why Our Realities Are Myths

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Join Jason Silva as he freestyles complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz. Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=shotsofawe Watch S
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Experience Changes Biology

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“A cell is a machine for turning experience into biology.” Join Jason Silva as he freestyles complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz. Subscribe now! http://www.
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IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS

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"You have to go out of your mind to use your head." - Timothy Leary Join Jason Silva as he freestyles complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz. Subscribe now! ht
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How We Prime Our Brains To Achieve More

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"To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior." - Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics Join Jason Silva as he freestyles complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science i
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WE ARE COSMIC POETRY

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“Human speech is a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms... while we long to make music that will melt the stars.” - G. Flaubert Join Jason Silva as he freestyles complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth an
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The Big Picture

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The first photograph taken of earth, from space, occasioned a profound shift in our understanding of ourselves -- an ontological awakening. Join Jason Silva as he freestyles complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the trut
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Where Does Creativity Come From?

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“Creativity is domesticated madness.” - Anonymous Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz. New epi
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Why Are We So Unhappy?

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"It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it." - Aristotle Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the
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What Makes A Good Leader?

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“Reality, it seems, is multiple, and tightly coupled to perception.” - Diana Slattery Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in
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What Is Language?

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The creation of language was the first singularity for humans. It changed everything. Life after language was unimaginable to those on the far side before it. - Kevin Kelly Help support Shots Of Awe by completing this one-question survey http://bit.ly/soa
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Technology Made Us Human

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"Humanity [...] is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do." - Terence McKenna Help support Shots
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Do We Have Free Will?

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If consciousness is a relationship of subject and object… Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz.
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Does Technology Know Us Better Than Ourselves?

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“It’s undebatable that technology has made our lives more convenient, but it has also subjected us to a tyranny of choice.” - Aaron Shapiro Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the complex systems of society, technology and human exis
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The Birth Of Imagination

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"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=shotsofawe Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the complex systems of society, technology and human e
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How We'll Solve Our Energy Problems

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"sparking and controlling a self-sustaining synthetic" - Raffi Khatchadourian Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=shotsofawe Thanks to the ITER Organization for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor photo. Joi
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How Being Bilingual Enhances Creativity

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"Disembodied language can allow you to understand the world in dazzling new ways. Knowing a second language is similar in effect. ….You develop new experience, new thought, new vision, and new solutions.” - Joseph Cardilo Join Jason Silva every week as he
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What Is Creativity?

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"a great artist is but a conduit for an expression that resonates with something that is greater than him or herself" Khalil Gibran “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.” http://www.katsandogz.
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Captains Of Spaceship Earth

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Media is a tool that can program and reprogram the human bio-computer. Stories pattern the imagination. Language helps us think about our thinking. Cinema can open up new vistas for our minds. These new tools give us new "spaces of possibility" to explore
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Physical Vs Digital Existence

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“We're post-geographical beings, attentional proximity has been decoupled from physical proximity, collapsing geography.” Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusse
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The Power Of Sunsets

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"Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement." - Darwin Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the complex systems of society, technology and human existence and
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We Don't Cry Because We're Sad

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"The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be." - Alain de Button More from Alain de Button http://alaindebotton.com Why Do We Cry When We Are Happy? https://www.psychologyt
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Cooking Made Us Human

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“Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented” - Kevin Kelly Kevin Kelly We Are The Creators and We Are The Created. http://kk.org Andy Clark Natural Born Cyborgs http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Born-Cyb
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We Need To Be Lost To Find Ourselves

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"Artists are uniquely placed to ... creatively participate in the larger cultural process of re-engineering subjectivity, of pushing the envelope of experience." - Erik Davis Tell us what you think! Take our survey: http://testtube.com/shotsofawe/survey E
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The Power Of Ideas

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"Just as the biosphere stands above the world of nonliving matter, so an 'abstract kingdom' rises above the biosphere. The denizens of this kingdom? Ideas" Tell us what you think! Take the survey: http://testtube.com/shotsofawe/survey Tom Tobbins http://e
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Why Does Music Make Us Feel?

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"Music is the wallpaper of our minds" - Jamie Wheal Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=shotsofawe Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the complex systems of society, technology and human existence and

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