Jason Silva on Risk | Brain Games

to risk is to be human to risk is to
transcend boundaries is a primitive part
of the brain called the amygdala which
is responsible for assessing immediate
risks you know and seeing how how likely
it is that you’re gonna get killed by
the immediate situation that’s like
immediate primordial assessing of risk
but then there’s more advanced part of
the brain that evolved over time called
the neocortex neocortex is adept at
analysing risks it’s more advanced it’s
less primordial it’s not just assessing
immediate danger it’s more like
analyzing long-term implications
creative risks less dangerous risks but
risks nonetheless to risk is to create
to risk is to burst forth to probe the
perimeters of the adjacent possible to
take a snapshot at with Steven Johnson
describes as that shadow feature that
hovers over the present state of things
that map of all the ways in which the
present can reinvent itself to risk is
to not be limited by seeing the world as
it is but instead by conceiving of the
way the world
you