Desire and the Fermi paradox | Brian Eno
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.พ. 2020
- Brian Eno asks if virtualised desires explains Fermi's paradox
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150 years ago life was short and luxuries scarce. Fast forward to today and life is long and affluent. So why are we still unfulfilled? Is it human nature to be dissatisfied with our lot in life? Do we need discontent to drive us to succeed? To innovate? Or is our dissatisfaction a form of greed encouraged by a relentlessly material culture that is not good for our own well being or the planet
Brian Eno is a musician, record producer, visual artist, and theorist best known for his pioneering work in ambient music and contributions to rock, pop, and electronica.
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Watch the full talk, Satisfaction and Desire, at iai.tv/video/has-greed-got-the-better-of-us-consumer-culture?stage=Stage&TH-cam&
There's a typo in the thumbnail :)
@@GargaGaming Thank you! It's corrected now
TH-cam no longer allows me to click links for some reason from my phone
I would have done so much better in life if Brian Eno had been my father. Every time I hear him talking I hung from his lips!
Eno is always going taboo places. Great intellectual and all round human being
Before this, I had never pictured Brian Eno eating a twix. Now I have.
Very good, cogent pop philosophy from the highly creative, pop musician. As an artist I love Derrida, Baudrillard, et al. and hyperreality, simulacra, etc., which is, intrinsically Eno's argument. However, his theorizing does lead us to a negative conclusion. Fin de siecle, if you will. How about positive adaptation? Then again, that's my creativity, my desire.... However, I refuse to be drawn in to misanthropy and wanton negativity....
" Human behaviour flows from three main sources: Desire, Emotion, and Knowledge." PLATO
Sounds like the origins of mimesis...
Brilliant!
This is like watching a Bruce Lee film. The video and audio are completely out of sync. Did he deliver the lecture in another language then translate into English?
Not everyone enjoys sweet things nor is everyone imbued with desire. Neither is everyone sexual. These generalisations are based on consensus reality. Choose your own reality. We're not all Brian Eno
Thankfully!
Why haven't we discovered aliens? they're all exploring their own virtual realities 👽🤔
I didn't get the 'paradox' bit of Fermi's Paradox.
lovely content
awesome video
Firstly: Exploring is also a desire many of us have, so if anything "having no desires" is what would kill us.
secondly:
an advanced civilization hiding and enjoying their own consciousness somewhere... maybe, but it would make more sense to grow that consciousness bigger and bigger so it can enjoy more and more of it's own existence... maybe that's behind dark matter. A civilization that already finished evolving into a big super consciousness which always experiences happiness. But I don't think that's true since it would already be all around us and using all matter as fuel for it's own existence via nuclear fusion
There's also the possibilty that the true nature of existience is something akin to nihilism, and once a civilisation discovers concrete evidence of that they cease to have any motivation or interests. We're like little children filled with wonder and curiosity and we expect aliens to be the same way - they might well be more like jaded adults who have "seen it all before" and couldn't care less as long as we stay off their lawn
@@da-p6814 that's a fairly depressing view, I don't think it is that way. It would be stupid not to be happy and make others happy in an advanced civilisation
What do you mean by an advanced civilisation? Are we civilised? Advanced as in progression or as in alteration? A misappropriation of regression?
@@crescentsi advanced in technology, advanced in using logic to deal with reality, advanced in education and of course I mean advanced in progression, alteration literally is used if nothing was advancing wtf, and misappropriation of regression also is another way to say "progression"
A bit far fetched
Indeed he is.
I couldn’t get past 2 minutes. Vitamin value?Total rubbish. I hope the remainder had any sort of value.
wow. you couldn't get past 2 minutes yet felt the need to post a reply. even mentioning "the remainder". that's quite an achievement!
Yes...sure
are you ill or do you just not make art?