What The Future Is For Us with Jason Silva
The Mindvalley Podcast
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Consciousness Is a New Space for Exploration
Michael pollan says that the brain is essentially like an artificial intelligence programme. It takes in data from the present, compares it with data from the past and uses it to make predictions about the future. And so our as line is a default of low level anxiety, a consistent future tense, very rarely in the present. See, on the one hand, this capacity to imagine our future, to leave the present and imagine what might be, is a gift, but it can also be a curse when it robs us of ever being in the moment and never smelling the flowers. So you get t the world as if through the eyes of a child. You open yourself up to the miraculous
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