Hi Tommy, Great interview. In 1975 I was your Arranging one teacher at Berklee. I know you remember me. I hope you are doing well. You look great! DV

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Really enjoyed this! Looking forward to more videos around this topic. Thanks for sharing!

Hey this is really good! Watched while playing guitar and internalising your knowledge hands on! 😂 btw, I just started my PhD on music listening for improving sleep. I also started a neuroscience of music therapy channel -> Manukapp Science. Could be fun to have a chat ?

Here is the answer to everything.... The thing to remember is that "consciousness" isn't actually there. The mind IS the illusion. And its obvious if you think about it. It litterally doesn't exist in physical reality. Its a program running. It's data. It's a "pettern". Patterns are not real things. Without a mind viewing them, there IS no "pattern". The zebra does not have "stripes". It has some atoms here, some atoms there, some others over there...and so on. The mind is based on electrochemical patterns and patterns do not exist in the world outside the mind. Therefore, what ACTUALLY evolved here in earth is a pattern recognition device. Creating and recognising patterns inside itself and using that to make sense of patterns outside itself. (evolved eyes). So, there are patterns, and there is a divorce that checks them. And so, to make this work, the pattern that creates the illusions of awareness was born. The "self". It woukd have started with a single celled organism detecting sunlight or PH and actioning the movement to go there. And the awareness that evolved is a great pattern because it increases survival...amd now the DNA is leaving the planet lol. Ok, but what you see is a pattern and a checker OF the pattern. Amd nothing more. Its happening in the synapsi, it's happening when you check your bank account or if you put the cat out. Checking causes an event in the universe to take place. Like the scientists have theories about atoms baci ally being tiny little checking objects. It seems the whole universe actually operates on a checking system. Like a computer. Like us. And if course we made the computers, but the point it, the function of the brain of course works on checking, but that's because EVERYTHING does....thats the universe. And so wherever we go, we see checking and balancing. Put to volitile chemicals together and they "react". They are checking. And so....there is a meeting point where the science, the philosophy and spiritualism all seem to nicely intersect. Nobodies toes or stood on and they are all in agreement. From the quantum field to the idea that all is one. All wrapped up with a nice little bow. But yes....there is no mind...only the illusion of one due to the "patterns" that the physical brain is making. But those patterns themselves are not actually there. Not real. Now...we can go into the busy street...amd we can understand that it is NOT a "car" or a "bus" or a "tree" or a "building"....it is just atoms in a certain geometric shape. It is only in illusion of mind that it is a "car". In truth, the most accurate experience of reality would be that of a rock or pebble...as soon as we have an opinion on something, it's wrong because "opinions" do not exist. And are not valid. In fact, "valid" does not exist either. Neither does "wrong". You see? There are no "questions" and their are no "answers". There is no "meaning" either. That's a brains creation. The Buddhists were right... the ultimate meaning of the universe and everything is simply..... " ". And we shall not give it a name...

Please can you do a Jack Nicholson impersonation? Thanks in advance...

Amazing! Thank you for this masterpiece! ❤

This was fantastic! A real confluence of interests for me as a jazz musician with a cog-sci bent. I eagerly await more 👏👏 For another example, Harry Mack is a freestyle rapper (many say the best alive), who talks about his process and experience in a very similar way. Also, John Vervaeke is a cognitive scientist with some great content on KZbin regarding the flow state and improvisation. Check out his Meaning Crisis lecture episode #2!

Here is the relearning of steering a bicycle with backward steering. Knowledge, Practice, fail, Knowledge, practice, fail, then it clicked. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3fddZR4r6efgpIsi=oo43lJ7-tjqKOBap

You are brilliant sir.. waching all your videos on KZbin.. greetings from India 🎉

This video is criminally underrated! Amazing life giving advice! My greatest thanks to both

I'm on the fourth read of Effortless Mastery. And I always play "better" the next day if I read and listen to one of his four meditations. The Third meditation is confronting but so raw it is brutally Honest in breaking down your own lies, bias and over rating yourself has helped me master Bach's 846 in C. Which was my first piece I learned. I apply his book and philosophy to guitar bass piano and even finger drumming hip hop grooves. He is the maestro of making maestros. The "Four step Square" made me see the weaknesses, I had in Bach's 846, and it is neurological as it is spiritual. My OS was broken, lazy, arrogant and ran on talent never real honest practice.

Simply 👏👏👏👏👏👏Excellent

Great interview

What a blessing to have found this channel! I’ve just left a lucrative career to return to school to pursue neuroscience +/or pharmacology +/or endocrinology. But ideally, focusing on neuro and pharma probably, and how they relate to each other. I also am a musician first and foremost. It’s my first love. But lately I have been really marveling at the almost “divine inspiration” that seems to come during improvisational times, or during unstoppable flows of writing. I guess all this to say, you can see how all of this highly relevant to me!

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