Jason Silva on Motion | Brain Games

I can hypothesize that we’re attracted
to motion because those rustling in the
bushes could be a predator that’s going
to attack us and when early hominins
were traversing the savannahs of Africa
you know any kind of movement in the
foreground or in the background could be
a potential threat and so we’re a tool
into that because we need to decide if
we’re gonna neutralize it or run away
from features of how our brain functions
that we have inherited because they
prove biologically advantageous in the
past or at least over time are things
that we just deal with but what’s
interesting is that we engage these
ancient capacities in novel ways when we
learned that the brain is fine-tuned to
notice motion wherever it is across its
panorama across its field of vision and
you realize the origins of that capacity
in terms of survival and in our
environment by spotting or neutralizing
a potential threat and in the cultural
context of today I think that that
probably explains the psychological
pleasure that people might get from
being on the move being on a journey
there’s this notion of like movement
against inertia movement and momentum
these are things that make us feel alive
and inertia it makes you feel like
you’re sitting ready to die and back in
the day maybe you were you sit still you
get eaten