Jason Silva famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe.
-- Jason Silva

#Understanding #Intellectual #Brain
To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.
-- Jason Silva

#Despair #Inspired #Existential
Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so cinema became sort of a waking dream where we can travel in space and time, where we can travel in mind. This became more than virtual reality, this became a real virtuality...
-- Jason Silva

#Dream #Real #Space
Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.
-- Jason Silva

#Powerful #Ideas #World
If you could download the entire universe in two minutes, would you?
-- Jason Silva

#Two #Minutes #Downloads
I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and say, 'I will not let go. I do not accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it...forever. Or at least I'm going to try.'
-- Jason Silva

#Letting Go #Thinking #Forever
I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.
-- Jason Silva

#Forever #Trying #Ephemeral
Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.
-- Jason Silva

#Technology #Subjectivity #Film
Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.
-- Jason Silva

#Imagination #Most Amazing #Possibility
Awe is the best drug in the world
-- Jason Silva

#Drug #World #Awe
Everything that we design is designing us back
-- Jason Silva

#Design
For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
-- Jason Silva

#Single Mom #Imagination #Anxiety
Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.
-- Jason Silva

#Moving #Fate #Thinking
Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.
-- Jason Silva

#Creativity #Ideas #Patterns
We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.
-- Jason Silva

#Technology #Tools #Symbiosis
Consciousness, when its unburdened by the body, is something thats ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and thats the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and thats such a delicious feeling, but when its unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.
-- Jason Silva

#Feelings #Mind #Watches
Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the planet, and soon we wont stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.
-- Jason Silva

#Moving #Moon #Caves
As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.
-- Jason Silva

#Dream #Technology #Shrinking
There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
-- Jason Silva

#Serendipity #Unexpected #Circumstances
Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is to create knowledge like music, art, science To this end, I believe intelligent life might be evolution's secret weapon: the ultimate hack that might help us transcend entropy.
-- Jason Silva

#Art #Believe #Intelligent
Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.
-- Jason Silva

#Age #Scarcity #Pay

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