don’t you think it’s amazing at how far
technology has advanced relative to only
a few decades ago look at this old
computer from who knows when maybe 20-30
years ago look at the more recent models
more features more powerful but slimmer
and smaller each time computers are not
even computers anymore
now their tablets and their wristwatches
now although the tangible nature of the
hardware would give the impression that
it’s more important than the software
it’s actually the software that tells
the hardware how to behave and how to
process information so that’s why the
world of computing and machines is
characterized by advances in parallel
between hardware and software okay so
what about humans when was our last
upgrade well unfortunately in terms of
hardware there hasn’t been an upgrade
since the appearance of the Homo Sapien
species around 200,000 years ago so in
terms of hardware design we kind of
stuck with this current model so to
further advance as a human species that
means all we can do is work on our
software on our operating system OS Homo
sapiens so what is this operating system
I hear you saying well it’s our world
view which is the way we look at and
interpret the world it’s like a lens
that filters the very complex reality
around us it tells us a basic story
about the world it provides us with
basic information assumptions beliefs
and above all it influences our behavior
now religion also plays a role but
arguably it’s science that has the
greatest influence over the type of
information that goes into our shared
operating system however the problem is
that science the worldview of science is
based on a very mechanical material way
of viewing reality that emerged during
the Scientific Revolution a few hundred
years ago now even though more recent
scientific advances have shown many of
these assumptions that are up hold this
world view to be mistaken science and
our operating system by extension still
adheres to the
is very outdated an incomplete view of
reality so I’m here today to argue that
all of us that we need to upgrade our
operating systems and this new version
of software it has to be able to provide
a more comprehensive way of looking at
the earth and ourselves it has to be
able to explain material and
non-material phenomena and it has to be
able to bring about the behavioral
changes that we need to build a global
peaceful sustainable civilization let’s
go through some changes together now in
the current version of our operating
system this is how we are told to look
at the world look at all these colors in
these arbitrary political boundaries
that divide human society there is no
place for a citizen of the earth in this
picture this encourages us to pay more
attention to our differences rather than
our similarities at least the
competition among countries in some
cases it leads to exploitation or even
war I ask you is there another way that
we can be looking at this world what our
operating system does not tell us is
that from space there are very few
political boundaries that are visible
that’s why astronauts who return home
from the International Space Station
report that their view of the earth and
of humanity has radically changed as a
result of seeing the Earth from above
the author Frank white he calls this
shifting perception the overview effect
now in the overview effect astronauts
report reports firstly a feeling of awe
for the immense beauty of planet Earth
but beyond this there is a feeling of
affinity a feeling of interconnection
with all humans and with all life-forms
and then this then leads to a sense of
responsibility for having to take care
of the environment for the entire planet
so this is a very comprehensive way of
viewing the earth and ourselves that
surely I think should be programmed into
our operating systems upgrade but is the
earth alive now this is a fundamental
question that determines our attitude
towards and our treatment of the earth
our current operating system tells us
that the earth is dead
now yes there is life on Earth but
nature as a whole as an integrated whole
is not considered to be a living entity
so just how accurate is this story how
strange really is the idea that nature
is alive for the majority of human
history we’ve considered nature to be
alive
the sinked or religion in Japan
considers nature to be animal and full
of individual gods countless indigenous
peoples across the world consider not
only nature but earth and the entire
universe to be alive and Europeans true
up until a few hundred years ago we also
considered nature to be alive stuff that
today we regard as dead matter rocks
trees sticks water etc was regarded as
alive and sacred now that’s why some
forests were regarded as having magical
powers of being enchanted and this
wondrous view of nature this heavily
influenced their behavior it prevented
us for example from going down and
cutting down a huge area of forest for
our short-term material gain but our
current operating system does not view
nature in this way it has inherited a
make material a mechanical way of
viewing the world that was first
inherited by great scientists such as
Isaac Newton shown here he saw the world
is a giant soulless machine functioning
like the cogs and wheels in a gigantic
clock so inheriting his worldview nature
was once which nature which once upon a
time had a soul has now been stripped
down to a purely physical phenomenon of
which the basic components are simply
atoms molecules and energy so a current
operating system tells us that nature
such as forests and large areas of the
earth are just a chunk of matter that’s
basically dead and this provides us with
the intellectual justification to go
ahead and exploit that matter for a
material gain so of course we’ve made
spectacular material progress since the
Scientific Revolution but we’ve
sacrificed nature for this climate
change
the loss of animal species across the
planets the exhaustion of Natural
Resources the accumulation of plastics
in the ocean all of these are just
symptoms of an unhealthy human nature
relationship and behind this is an
unhealthy way of viewing nature maybe if
our operating system told us that nature
was alive then perhaps we might treat it
differently as it turns out scientists
starting to provide a radically new
vision a radical new vision of nature
forests it seems are not just a
collection of stupid soulless individual
trees their communities teeming with
life and intelligence and furthermore
they are an arena of cooperation now
trees actually cooperate with each other
they share carbon with each other this
this is carbon that’s been absorbed from
the atmosphere that’s then shared with
other trees through root systems with
cooperation of fungi in the soil now the
scientist Susanne Samar you can check
had her really great presentation by the
way a TED presentation by the way she’s
conducted groundbreaking research in the
forests in British Columbia Canada shown
here through an analysis of a network
analysis of carbon floors her team
discovered that the larger fir trees
what she calls the mother trees are
actively sending their carbon through
their kin to the babies to the seedlings
on the forest floor and this then
increases the survival rate of these
seedlings by around 4 fold so we have
fascinating scientific evidence here
here that suggests that nature is far
more integral interconnected
intelligence and for lack of a better
word alive then our current operating
system tells us let’s consider another
problem in our OS Homo sapiens our
current version tells us that the mind
and the body are camp and the body are
completely separate now this is an idea
that emerged in science from the very
influential ideas of Rene Descartes
shown here so inheriting is world view
science views the human organism
basically as a machine and it is
organized its study into two
separate disciplines we have medicine
which is the study of the body and we
have psychology which is the study of
the minds now doctors in either field I
generally specialize in that area alone
they don’t really pay much attention to
the inter-linkages between the body and
the minds now science is starting to
understand the problems with his Julie
stick view of the mind and body we know
now that mental stress can manifest as
physical distress we know that this can
result in for example high blood
pressure and digestive problems and
conversely we know that calming the mind
can sometimes address these problems for
example through meditation however our
understanding of the mind and body link
is still incomplete
the placebo effect is the ultimate
example of this now one of the most
fascinating studies studies out there on
the placebo effect is this study that
was done in the United States and this
is an experiment that involved about 165
people who had knee arthritis
now patients were divided into three
groups two of them received an authentic
operation the knee joint was operated on
and either the knee cartilage was shaved
or fluid was flushed into the knee joint
but the third group this was the placebo
group they received a completely fake
operation but they were taken into the
operating theater the knee joint was cut
open but the doctors just pretended to
operate and the patients were only told
two years later if their operation was
real or not can you imagine that now for
this entire two period the placebo group
who had received a completely fake
operation healed to the same extent and
even slightly better than the other two
groups who received a real operation so
we have startling evidence here that
proves beyond a doubt that firstly the
mind in the body is tightly
interconnected and secondly that the
mind plays a crucial role in the
physical healing process in some cases
more than surgery and drugs so this
knowledge is incomplete more research is
required but surely this new integral
vision of the human mind and body should
go into our upgrade for our operating
system so science can enrich your
operating system
it can provide us with fascinating new
insights into the very complex
interconnected and intelligent world
around us but science today cannot
provide all the answers that we need and
the reason for that is because of the
materialistic way that science views
reality it views it as a giant soulless
machine where minds and matter are
separate this is unable to explain many
non material phenomena in a human
existence let’s consider for example
some really really important questions
for Homo sapiens do you think that you
have a soul many of us do many religions
tell us that we do well what happens to
your soul when you die
does it go to heaven like in the
Christian conception of human existence
or is it recycled is it reborn like in
the Buddhist or in the Hindu idea of
reincarnation unfortunately science
cannot answer this question because
science has made institutional norms
where researchers can find a physical
phenomena in the physical world this is
generally speaking but simply the soul
does not exist in science now
fortunately some scientists although
very few in number are starting to
tackle these big questions and their
studies are showing that our current
understanding of the human mind and the
bodies perhaps completely mistaken
here’s a study that appeared in a
prestigious medical journal The Lancet
this involved a study of the after death
experiences of approximately 340
patients the hare died of a cardiac
arrest that were brought into hospitals
across Holland but there were later
brought back to life by medical teams
now interviews with these patients
revealed that around
one-fifth had experienced a so-called
near-death experience now of this
subgroup approximately half claims that
they were aware of being dead and around
one-third claimed that after dying they
had passed through some sort of tunnel
or they had met their their deceased
acquaintances on the other side or that
they had seen some sort of heavenly
landscape now all of this has happened
after they have been diagnosed as
clinically dead their brain needs non
functioning
their brain is starved of blood and
oxygen how can this be one man claimed
that he was aware of how his dead body
was being treated he experienced a nurse
pulling out his false teeth and putting
them away so he surprised that nurse
when he was resuscitated and about one
week later when he saw her he asked for
his false teeth back and he told her
where she put the false teeth so along
with other studies these studies are
suggesting that the brain which in his
patients case was non functional is not
perhaps responsible for our
consciousness now this is providing
indication that perhaps there is a human
soul that perhaps there is an afterlife
much more research is required this is
incomplete knowledge but surely this
integral view of the human existence of
the mind and body should go into the
upgrade of our operating system so we as
a community as a local and as a global
community we have to start a
conversation about the type of shared
intelligence the type of operating
system we need to guide our species into
the future the story about the world
told to a spare current operating system
is incomplete and out-of-date it is
unable to offer explanations for me non
material phenomena in the human
existence it does nothing to promote
spiritual development and it is often
unable to explain the very intricate
sophisticated and intelligent workings
of nature
so we have to update our operating
system not just once but again and again
as new challenges arise and as new
knowledge into the world around us
emerges so my question to you all is
what were your new operating system be
and how will it make the world look to
you this is a challenge for all Homo sapiens thank you
technology has advanced relative to only
a few decades ago look at this old
computer from who knows when maybe 20-30
years ago look at the more recent models
more features more powerful but slimmer
and smaller each time computers are not
even computers anymore
now their tablets and their wristwatches
now although the tangible nature of the
hardware would give the impression that
it’s more important than the software
it’s actually the software that tells
the hardware how to behave and how to
process information so that’s why the
world of computing and machines is
characterized by advances in parallel
between hardware and software okay so
what about humans when was our last
upgrade well unfortunately in terms of
hardware there hasn’t been an upgrade
since the appearance of the Homo Sapien
species around 200,000 years ago so in
terms of hardware design we kind of
stuck with this current model so to
further advance as a human species that
means all we can do is work on our
software on our operating system OS Homo
sapiens so what is this operating system
I hear you saying well it’s our world
view which is the way we look at and
interpret the world it’s like a lens
that filters the very complex reality
around us it tells us a basic story
about the world it provides us with
basic information assumptions beliefs
and above all it influences our behavior
now religion also plays a role but
arguably it’s science that has the
greatest influence over the type of
information that goes into our shared
operating system however the problem is
that science the worldview of science is
based on a very mechanical material way
of viewing reality that emerged during
the Scientific Revolution a few hundred
years ago now even though more recent
scientific advances have shown many of
these assumptions that are up hold this
world view to be mistaken science and
our operating system by extension still
adheres to the
is very outdated an incomplete view of
reality so I’m here today to argue that
all of us that we need to upgrade our
operating systems and this new version
of software it has to be able to provide
a more comprehensive way of looking at
the earth and ourselves it has to be
able to explain material and
non-material phenomena and it has to be
able to bring about the behavioral
changes that we need to build a global
peaceful sustainable civilization let’s
go through some changes together now in
the current version of our operating
system this is how we are told to look
at the world look at all these colors in
these arbitrary political boundaries
that divide human society there is no
place for a citizen of the earth in this
picture this encourages us to pay more
attention to our differences rather than
our similarities at least the
competition among countries in some
cases it leads to exploitation or even
war I ask you is there another way that
we can be looking at this world what our
operating system does not tell us is
that from space there are very few
political boundaries that are visible
that’s why astronauts who return home
from the International Space Station
report that their view of the earth and
of humanity has radically changed as a
result of seeing the Earth from above
the author Frank white he calls this
shifting perception the overview effect
now in the overview effect astronauts
report reports firstly a feeling of awe
for the immense beauty of planet Earth
but beyond this there is a feeling of
affinity a feeling of interconnection
with all humans and with all life-forms
and then this then leads to a sense of
responsibility for having to take care
of the environment for the entire planet
so this is a very comprehensive way of
viewing the earth and ourselves that
surely I think should be programmed into
our operating systems upgrade but is the
earth alive now this is a fundamental
question that determines our attitude
towards and our treatment of the earth
our current operating system tells us
that the earth is dead
now yes there is life on Earth but
nature as a whole as an integrated whole
is not considered to be a living entity
so just how accurate is this story how
strange really is the idea that nature
is alive for the majority of human
history we’ve considered nature to be
alive
the sinked or religion in Japan
considers nature to be animal and full
of individual gods countless indigenous
peoples across the world consider not
only nature but earth and the entire
universe to be alive and Europeans true
up until a few hundred years ago we also
considered nature to be alive stuff that
today we regard as dead matter rocks
trees sticks water etc was regarded as
alive and sacred now that’s why some
forests were regarded as having magical
powers of being enchanted and this
wondrous view of nature this heavily
influenced their behavior it prevented
us for example from going down and
cutting down a huge area of forest for
our short-term material gain but our
current operating system does not view
nature in this way it has inherited a
make material a mechanical way of
viewing the world that was first
inherited by great scientists such as
Isaac Newton shown here he saw the world
is a giant soulless machine functioning
like the cogs and wheels in a gigantic
clock so inheriting his worldview nature
was once which nature which once upon a
time had a soul has now been stripped
down to a purely physical phenomenon of
which the basic components are simply
atoms molecules and energy so a current
operating system tells us that nature
such as forests and large areas of the
earth are just a chunk of matter that’s
basically dead and this provides us with
the intellectual justification to go
ahead and exploit that matter for a
material gain so of course we’ve made
spectacular material progress since the
Scientific Revolution but we’ve
sacrificed nature for this climate
change
the loss of animal species across the
planets the exhaustion of Natural
Resources the accumulation of plastics
in the ocean all of these are just
symptoms of an unhealthy human nature
relationship and behind this is an
unhealthy way of viewing nature maybe if
our operating system told us that nature
was alive then perhaps we might treat it
differently as it turns out scientists
starting to provide a radically new
vision a radical new vision of nature
forests it seems are not just a
collection of stupid soulless individual
trees their communities teeming with
life and intelligence and furthermore
they are an arena of cooperation now
trees actually cooperate with each other
they share carbon with each other this
this is carbon that’s been absorbed from
the atmosphere that’s then shared with
other trees through root systems with
cooperation of fungi in the soil now the
scientist Susanne Samar you can check
had her really great presentation by the
way a TED presentation by the way she’s
conducted groundbreaking research in the
forests in British Columbia Canada shown
here through an analysis of a network
analysis of carbon floors her team
discovered that the larger fir trees
what she calls the mother trees are
actively sending their carbon through
their kin to the babies to the seedlings
on the forest floor and this then
increases the survival rate of these
seedlings by around 4 fold so we have
fascinating scientific evidence here
here that suggests that nature is far
more integral interconnected
intelligence and for lack of a better
word alive then our current operating
system tells us let’s consider another
problem in our OS Homo sapiens our
current version tells us that the mind
and the body are camp and the body are
completely separate now this is an idea
that emerged in science from the very
influential ideas of Rene Descartes
shown here so inheriting is world view
science views the human organism
basically as a machine and it is
organized its study into two
separate disciplines we have medicine
which is the study of the body and we
have psychology which is the study of
the minds now doctors in either field I
generally specialize in that area alone
they don’t really pay much attention to
the inter-linkages between the body and
the minds now science is starting to
understand the problems with his Julie
stick view of the mind and body we know
now that mental stress can manifest as
physical distress we know that this can
result in for example high blood
pressure and digestive problems and
conversely we know that calming the mind
can sometimes address these problems for
example through meditation however our
understanding of the mind and body link
is still incomplete
the placebo effect is the ultimate
example of this now one of the most
fascinating studies studies out there on
the placebo effect is this study that
was done in the United States and this
is an experiment that involved about 165
people who had knee arthritis
now patients were divided into three
groups two of them received an authentic
operation the knee joint was operated on
and either the knee cartilage was shaved
or fluid was flushed into the knee joint
but the third group this was the placebo
group they received a completely fake
operation but they were taken into the
operating theater the knee joint was cut
open but the doctors just pretended to
operate and the patients were only told
two years later if their operation was
real or not can you imagine that now for
this entire two period the placebo group
who had received a completely fake
operation healed to the same extent and
even slightly better than the other two
groups who received a real operation so
we have startling evidence here that
proves beyond a doubt that firstly the
mind in the body is tightly
interconnected and secondly that the
mind plays a crucial role in the
physical healing process in some cases
more than surgery and drugs so this
knowledge is incomplete more research is
required but surely this new integral
vision of the human mind and body should
go into our upgrade for our operating
system so science can enrich your
operating system
it can provide us with fascinating new
insights into the very complex
interconnected and intelligent world
around us but science today cannot
provide all the answers that we need and
the reason for that is because of the
materialistic way that science views
reality it views it as a giant soulless
machine where minds and matter are
separate this is unable to explain many
non material phenomena in a human
existence let’s consider for example
some really really important questions
for Homo sapiens do you think that you
have a soul many of us do many religions
tell us that we do well what happens to
your soul when you die
does it go to heaven like in the
Christian conception of human existence
or is it recycled is it reborn like in
the Buddhist or in the Hindu idea of
reincarnation unfortunately science
cannot answer this question because
science has made institutional norms
where researchers can find a physical
phenomena in the physical world this is
generally speaking but simply the soul
does not exist in science now
fortunately some scientists although
very few in number are starting to
tackle these big questions and their
studies are showing that our current
understanding of the human mind and the
bodies perhaps completely mistaken
here’s a study that appeared in a
prestigious medical journal The Lancet
this involved a study of the after death
experiences of approximately 340
patients the hare died of a cardiac
arrest that were brought into hospitals
across Holland but there were later
brought back to life by medical teams
now interviews with these patients
revealed that around
one-fifth had experienced a so-called
near-death experience now of this
subgroup approximately half claims that
they were aware of being dead and around
one-third claimed that after dying they
had passed through some sort of tunnel
or they had met their their deceased
acquaintances on the other side or that
they had seen some sort of heavenly
landscape now all of this has happened
after they have been diagnosed as
clinically dead their brain needs non
functioning
their brain is starved of blood and
oxygen how can this be one man claimed
that he was aware of how his dead body
was being treated he experienced a nurse
pulling out his false teeth and putting
them away so he surprised that nurse
when he was resuscitated and about one
week later when he saw her he asked for
his false teeth back and he told her
where she put the false teeth so along
with other studies these studies are
suggesting that the brain which in his
patients case was non functional is not
perhaps responsible for our
consciousness now this is providing
indication that perhaps there is a human
soul that perhaps there is an afterlife
much more research is required this is
incomplete knowledge but surely this
integral view of the human existence of
the mind and body should go into the
upgrade of our operating system so we as
a community as a local and as a global
community we have to start a
conversation about the type of shared
intelligence the type of operating
system we need to guide our species into
the future the story about the world
told to a spare current operating system
is incomplete and out-of-date it is
unable to offer explanations for me non
material phenomena in the human
existence it does nothing to promote
spiritual development and it is often
unable to explain the very intricate
sophisticated and intelligent workings
of nature
so we have to update our operating
system not just once but again and again
as new challenges arise and as new
knowledge into the world around us
emerges so my question to you all is
what were your new operating system be
and how will it make the world look to
you this is a challenge for all Homo sapiens thank you
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