Jason Silva

In his recent keynote talk at the Microsoft TechEd event in Australia, film maker Jason Silva remarked on —his favorite themes of awe, exponential technology and how ideas have sex.

Speaking at the recent Microsoft TechEd event in Australia, Silva remarked on —his favorite themes of awe, exponential technology and how ideas have sex.

Commenting on big data, Silva thinks of it as, "an opportunity for a tremendous amount of self-insight."

For instance, the image below shows a structural comparison between a brain cell, with its intricate connections of axons and dendrites, and a computer reconstructed map of the universe at the level of clusters of galaxies.

When observed at medium distances (in the range of few hundred of millions of light years) the universe shows an intricate network of filaments, voids, nodes, hubs and interconnections that look like the structures of the brain.

According to Silva, this use of big data is nothing short of consciousness expanding.  He details this insight in his film, To Understand is to Perceive Patterns

Silva has been described as a “performance philosopher” driven by the concept of awe. Inspired by Buckminster Fuller and Timothy Leary, his background of film and philosophy has given him the tools to create movie trailers for ideas — what he calls “philosophical shots of espresso.”



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