So, I found this concept the opposite day, I feel it had been Aristotle who put it out there, but it had been this notion that citizenry don't care about spectacle. What they care about is ecstatic understanding. Understanding, comprehension. In other words, cognitive ecstasy defined as an exhilarating neuro storm of intense intellectual pleasure. The book "The Ravenous Brain" talks about this concept , that consciousness is hooked in to pattern. Pattern is structure, structure amidst the chaos, a sign within the noise.
And once we find patterns, once we connect the dots, we experience this cognitive ecstasy, this exhilarating neuro storm. and that we get children, they're young, they're learning all the time, they're creating new synaptic connections. They experience this cognitive ecstasy, this curiosity. This insatiable drive to know is ablaze , Imagine the primary time you check out a microscope. You see that cosmos--revealed for the primary time-- of the microscopic.
Once you look around a telescope, and you all of a sudden see the cosmos of the macroscopic. Perhaps the simplest line was Ross Anderson's description of the ontological awakening provided by the Hubble Space telescope's images of the deep field. He said, "Through the sheer aesthetic force of its discoveries, the Hubble distilled the complex abstractions of astrophysics into singular expressions of color and lightweight ," vindicating Keats' famous couplet, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." The sad part, as Sir Kenneth Robinson says, is that we lose this as we get older .
Our academic institutions are failing us, they are not providing the context for this curiosity to explode, to still emerge indefinitely. Instead, we slowly die. and that i think our goal is to make media, to make content, to make spaces that allow us to remain curious, to remain alive, to awaken the wonder junkie altogether folks , to unleash the brave, reckless gods within us all. that's my goal. that's why we make shots of Awe, that's why I really like the TED conference, that's why we're here, that's what we live for...