SPEAKER: The more we understand the neurochemistry
of lived experience, the more we realize
that we don't get to ever really sample
any kind of objective reality, right?
Reality is coupled to perception,
and perception can be mediated, right?
Certain music can change the way we process a scene.
A moment can seem truthful or dishonest,
depending on the tone, depending on whether it's
cloudy or sunny, depending on the place in which you
So again, reality is mediated by perception.
Perception can be manipulated.
And so brilliant people-- people who change the world-- leaders,
right-- are said to have this thing known as a reality
Steve Jobs was made famous for it.
To italicize perception in his co-workers, right?
To inspire somebody to see the world in a new way, right?
To literally engage the attention of all these body
minds, and present with them an alternative universe.
To make people-- to bring them into your world,
to suck them into your trance, right,
and literally engage them to probe the adjacent possible.
To gnaw at that shadow future that
hovers over the present, that provides a map of all the ways
the present can reinvent itself.
There's nothing fake-- there's nothing inauthentic--
about distorting reality, because the distorted reality
becomes real the moment that perception becomes
The moment you adopt that vision as truth, it becomes truth.
Mankind decided we would fly, it became truth.
Mankind creates technology that folds space and time so
that minds can communicate instantaneously
across digital screens, somebody hallucinated this technology
We live in a world where our thoughts spill over,
and if they can harness the will of the people around us,
we can labor new realities into being.
We can usher new worlds into being.
Because we, as humans beings, our greatest potential,
is that we have this reality distortion field.
We are like Neo in "The Matrix" when he sees the code,