world but we come out of it
we emerge from the insides of the bodies
of our mothers and for some months we
almost live in paradise we live in this
empathic reactive layer that reacts to
us we need nutrients we get them we need
oxygen we get it we are taken care of we
live in Paradise the inside that
membrane but it’s not only about our
bodies but also we hear stories when we
are inside the wombs of our mothers hey
baby
we look for you we’re waiting for you we
love you come here you have your mother
sister have your brother we’re waiting
for you we live inside there in paradise
but life goes on and then we get thrown
out into existence what we appear here
and then maybe we start experiencing
that sense of disconnection our cut our
card gets cut and then we don’t feel
that we are part of that same unity that
we come from life goes on and we grow up
maybe we have our first friends maybe we
have our first romantic breakup which we
experience that wait a minute people
don’t understand myself as much as I
would like to be understood
we keep evolving with it growing and we
will have our first job in which we feel
a sense of rejection or in that job they
don’t really understand who I am
so we start thinking that maybe that
world that is out there is a bit
dangerous that it’s that we need some
kind of protection but we need to defend
ourselves from the outside world that we
are separated and that’s why we
construct our ego
that seal that structure that tells us I
am here you are there I am this thing
and you are that thing and we are
separated Hey that sense of separation
that is the ego and then what what is
life all about after this what do we do
I am this thing you are that thing I
think that life becomes a way back home
I think we try to get back home and
connect and dissolve that sense of
separation we try to do that in married
if many different things we try to do
that in love in which I want your mind
to have a model of my mind and I want to
have a model of your mind in my mind and
through that in exchange of thoughts of
feelings of behavior something emerges
something emerges I’m not I’m not alone
anymore I am part of something that is
beyond myself that’s love we try to do
that through love sometimes we try to
drive through music for example that’s
why we go to concerts that’s why we go
to raves or festivals because we want to
experience that the music that is
playing is not only in me the beat boom
boom boom is not only in me but it’s
something that I’m sharing with a
community in a way I am merging with you
I am with the music but the music is
with us we are merging I am not alone
anymore we try to do that in music and
we try to do it as well when watching a
movie the neuroscience of of movies
neuro cinematics is telling us that we
are when we are sir when we are sharing
a story our brains in a way connect to
an intersubjective correlation we are
living this story together and then we
debate about that but we are sharing
ideas just as we are doing here our
brains are merging are coupling and we
like that we like that sense of
connection but that’s not enough for us
we want more connection we want to feel
the unity now we invent a new kind of
technology and that’s virtual reality
technology this is a technology that is
gonna allow us to dissolve the barrier
between a screen and the experience that
I’m happy
I am absolutely immersed in experience
and I’m also experiencing something that
is the combination between science and
art which produces a sense of wonder and
awe psychologists telling us that when
people are exposed to experiences of awe
of wonder the ego is solves and we feel
humility of being alive as Carl Sagan’s
said for example all this vastness the
only way that we can bear it is through
love because when we experience
something great something amazing we
sense that our egos diminished we can
connect more profoundly between one
another that’s something that virtual
reality can create the experience of
being in an immersion so powerful not
only that but it’s a technology that
plays with the subtle with intuition we
don’t want technologies that is just
about notifications or the instructor
reality of getting an email notification
there no we want flow we want to be
immersed we want to enjoy the experience
hello according to psychology one of the
most addictive and enjoyable states on
earth because when you are in flow you
are enjoying so much what you’re living
that you forget about your own self in a
way your your sense of self dissolves
and you are connected with the
experience people try to find flow
research through surfing a wave for
reading music through playing music
whatever but we like that state I am NOT
here I am connected with something
bigger than myself
I think the technology can really tap
into that state of consciousness but not
only that and this is my main point the
main point that with torille it is gonna
allow us to expand our consciousness is
that it’s gonna allow us to inhabit the
patterns of the minds of others what
does that mean inhabit the patterns of
the minds of others it’s true that we
won’t be able right now to get inside
it’s one of the different minds although
technology is evolving in that direction
we have ephemeral technologies and
machine learning algorithms and right
now can see what you’re feeling inside
we can get to see the visuals of the
thoughts you are having that’s coming
but for now I think that we’ll have it
we have the ability to tap into the
patterns of the minds of others because
we are made of patterns of thinking of
feeling or behaving we are living
according to patterns I imagine a future
in which we’ll be able to tell someone
hey would you like to come into my inner
universe would you like to hear the
inner voices that I hear would you like
to see the inner thoughts that I think
we can create that and the great thing
about that is that it will allow us to
really connect deeply between one
another because science is telling us
that the single best predictor of
happiness in a person is the quality of
their relationship and why don’t we have
flourish in relationship because we
don’t understand each other we don’t
understand that we are all living in our
own virtual realities in a way our
brains are constructing a reality we
don’t see things out there as they are
but we see them as we are we are
constantly projecting I don’t see the
future as it is but I see the future as
an anticipated memory I am looking back
into experience and then from that I see
the world out there but we don’t we are
not aware of this and we think that
people are behaving or should behave in
the same way as we do but we are
different we belong we have different
patterns maybe that’s why I’ve started
this conversation talking about babies
maybe it’s because I am projecting my
own reality onto you
maybe it’s because I’ve just become a
dad of a very beautiful girl called
Sophia and that’s what I see babies
everywhere right now because I’ve I am
looking through my past experience and I
am projecting it to you I really believe
that we have the technology virtual
reality that we will allow us to jump
into the patterns of the minds of other
characters we would be able to jump for
example into the patterns of the mind of
a liberal person or maybe a conservative
and we’ll be able to understand them
from the inside and we will do that
stories maybe through love stories maybe
through adventure stories but they will
be stories that will allow us to jump
between different perspectives and
that’s incredibly important because the
sense that we get of ourselves is
mediated through the sense of talking
with another human being
when I’m interacting with you I am not
who I think I am I am not who you think
I am but actually I am who I think you
think I am
it’s through that interaction that we
get our sense of self so we can improve
something here if we can improve the
knowledge that I have of you then I’ll
be able to get to know myself better
which is incredibly important which is
something that we should really strive
for jump in between different
perspectives I think that’s what’s gonna
allow us to transcend this ego that
we’ve created that sense of I know
everything I have to defend my own views
from everything else and what so many
mystics have talked about during the
centuries that actually I am NOT this
little wave in the ocean but actually
I’m the whole ocean being manifested
through this little wave maybe I’m large
something larger maybe there’s more
perspective in life we started this
journey talking about how we live in
paradise is biological membrane that we
inhabit that reacts to us that’s know
that knows us and in a way it supports
us how we get exposed to little stories
we are living inside our tummies I think
that that way back home and we try to to
achieve is going to be mediated through
this technology instead of a biological
membrane we’re designing a technological
one a technological membrane that will
empathically react to our own needs
not because we would like to go into a
Metaverse or into our multiverse and
from reality no actually we would use
that as an eye means Anais Nin set for
example that we would go into psychology
and art to restore our saturd selves
into whole ones because we are shattered
inside we are broken inside and we are
all connected but we are more alone and
we would like to admit and I think we
need more connection in society we need
to really see different perspectives and
understand the inner motivations of why
people do what they do I think we are
living in a truly incredible era in
which we have the psychology of
well-being that is telling what we need
to do to live a very flourishing life we
have the technology the virtual reality
technology and we have the artists the
storytellers that can merge together and
create a transcended in fact to create
something I really a powerful technology
to create experiential universe of
different stories that will get to use
to understand ourselves better
maybe we will have two stories that will
play sad characters when we are sad so
we feel connected and then we can drag
ourselves out of that sadness stories
that will really tap into who we really
are
stories in a way about human intimacy
about true empathy and about true
connection which I think it’s what it’s
really all finally about it’s up to us
thank you very much
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