Another great monologue from Jason Silva, this one on the ontological status of ‘realities’, and how the advance of technology might be brought to bear on the question:
There is that sneaking suspicion that there is more to us than nature allows. You know, the human mind lives in the liminal zone, it is not bound by time, by space and by distance. There is a natural intuition to live in these spaces of dream, these spaces between, so to speak.
…We enter these virtual realities – or really, they’re real virtualities – and we believe them. We actively metabolise belief, we become immersed. The mind unplugs from the body and is not bound in any capacity, and that eventually I think, is where we are going to go with all of our virtual reality technologies – we’re going to move towards universes of our own construction, as McKenna said. We’re going to move into spaces in which ‘reality’ is going to be a relative term.
More Jason Silva monologues:
