TO UNDERSTAND IS TO PERCEIVE PATTERNS

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By @jason_silva and @notthisbody - Follow us on Twitter!

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INSPIRATION:

The Imaginary Foundation says "To Understand Is To Perceive Patterns"...

Albert-László Barabási, author of LINKED, wants you to think about NETWORKS:

"Networks are everywhere. The brain is a network of nerve cells connected by axons, and cells themselves are networks of molecules connected by biochemical reactions. Societies, too, are networks of people linked by friendships, familial relationships and professional ties. On a larger scale, food webs and ecosystems can be represented as networks of species. And networks pervade technology: the Internet, power grids and transportation systems are but a few examples. Even the language we are using to convey these thoughts to you is a network, made up of words connected by syntactic relationships."

'For decades, we assumed that the components of such complex systems as the cell, the society, or the Internet are randomly wired together. In the past decade, an avalanche of research has shown that many real networks, independent of their age, function, and scope, converge to similar architectures, a universality that allowed researchers from different disciplines to embrace network theory as a common paradigm.'

Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From, writes about recurring patterns and liquid networks:

"Coral reefs are sometimes called "the cities of the sea", and part of the argument is that we need to take the metaphor seriously: the reef ecosystem is so innovative because it shares some defining characteristics with actual cities. These patterns of innovation and creativity are fractal: they reappear in recognizable form as you zoom in and out, from molecule to neuron to pixel to sidewalk. Whether you're looking at original innovations of carbon-based life, or the explosion of news tools on the web, the same shapes keep turning up... when life gets creative, it has a tendency to gravitate toward certain recurring patterns, whether those patterns are self-organizing, or whether they are deliberately crafted by human agents"

Patrick Pittman from Dumbo Feather adds:

"Put simply: cities are like ant colonies are like software is like slime molds are like evolution is like disease is like sewage systems are like poetry is like the neural pathways in our brain. Everything is connected.

"...Johnson uses 'The Long Zoom' to define the way he looks at the world—if you concentrate on any one level, there are patterns that you miss. When you step back and simultaneously consider, say, the sentience of a slime mold, the cultural life of downtown Manhattan and the behavior of artificially intelligent computer code, new patterns emerge."

James Gleick, author of THE INFORMATION, has written how the cells of an organism are nodes in a richly interwoven communications network, transmitting and receiving, coding and decoding and how Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment.. (Its an ECO-SYSTEM, an EVOLVING NETWORK)

"If you want to understand life," Wrote Richard Dawkins, "don't think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology." (AND THINK ABOUT NETWORKS!!

Author Paul Stammetts writes about The Mycelial Archetype: He compares the mushroom mycelium with the overlapping information-sharing systems that comprise the Internet, with the networked neurons in the brain, and with a computer model of dark matter in the universe. All share this densely intertwingled filamental structure.

Geoffrey WEST on The sameness of organisms, cities, and corporations:
blog.ted.com/2011/07/26/qa-with-geoffrey-west/

Stephen Johnson's LONG VIEW
nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08games.html?pagewanted=all
dumbofeather.com/blog/post/on-slime-molds-and-sewage-steven-johnson-s-origin-of-­the-idea/
guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/19/steven-johnson-good-ideas?cat=science&type=ar­ticle

BARABASI's Scale Free Networks:
scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=scale-free-networks

Manuel Lima's Visual Complexity:
visualcomplexity.com

Paul Stammets Myceilum is everywhere:
realitysandwich.com/google_and_myceliation_consciousness

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[XxSliMoO]

Thank You Joe Rogan! :)

[silvaportugal]

@ideaview

I disagree I think the speed of the video makes it that much more effective.

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[newrenradio]

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[Doingoutsidethebox]

what a fucking amazing title! Such a quote!!!! 

[Zidanetri88]

epic.

[damosapian]

@TheNaramatu very strange but good movie

[TheNaramatu]

This piano piece was done for the soundtrack of a movie called Moon. Featuring Sam Rockwell and (the voice of) Kevin Spacey. It's directed by the son of David Bowie on a shoe-string budget.

[kayotikkombargear]

@XxSliMoO Agreed

[shapuzz]

The short video means it has to be effective, informative, and exciting all at once. And it manages to do ALL of that. I think this is so great!