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Jason Silva: Optimism is a Self-Amplifying Feedback Loop Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The filmmaker and futurist explains his belief in the self-reinforcing power of optimism and the exploration of ways to co-author our emotional experience. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JASON SILVA: Jason Silva is the Emmy-nominated host of National Geographic Channel’s #1 rated and Emmy-nominated series, Brain Games, seen in over 100 countries. “A Timothy Leary of the Viral Video Age” was how The Atlantic described television personality, filmmaker and philosopher Silva, who has also been described as “part Timothy Leary, part Ray Kurzweil, and part Neo from ‘The Matrix.’” A self-professed wonderjunkie, Silva is the creator of the web series SHOTS OF AWE, micro-documentaries exploring creativity, innovation, the co-evolution of human and technology, futurism, metaphysics, existentialism and the human condition. Silva’s work has been featured in The Economist, Vanity Fair, Forbes and Wired, among many others. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Jason Silva: I’ve recently gotten . . . I’ve fallen in love with this idea of feedback loops. One of the things that Rich Doyle, who wrote Darwin’s P

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