The Island of Knowledge | Marcelo Gleiser | Talks at Google

[@Itabar]

Most of his points are relatively rudimentary concepts in the philosophy of science, but he does an excellent job in conveying them publicly. I wish more scientists and science educators were like him.

[@flaviohenriquelima3093]

Alguém pra dizer que dá orgulho ao Brasil

[@douglasgama790]

I wished I could see more people getting this material. Once again, thanks Marcelo

[@gustavopavam28]

Muito bom, fantástico Marcelo Gleiser!!! Suas ideias fluem muito bem, conseguindo passar a informação de forma bastante clara. Sou seu fã! BR here! :)

[@pascaljean1]

Remarkable book and remarkable conference. M. Gleiser has that knack for explaining and sharing science like very few people do. congratulations for this one of kind masterpiece book. I would advise it to anyone interested in searching for reality. No one has to agree to all of it. For instance, the part about AI. Kurzweil's writings deserve a little more in-depth analyses than what the book provides us with. The same applies to neurobiology. So much is going in this field, I would have loved some more in-depth view of S. Deheane's work for instance (on consciousness). Other than that, M. Gleiser is not far away from a Carl Sagan's universalism in terms of sincerity and scope of knowledge.

[@rhuechantal6316]

"Now is a cognitive fabrication." I enjoy his clarity of presentation.

[@anthonyleonard]

Interesting talk. Looking forward to reading the book in hopes of expanding my shores in this observably real sea of knowledge.

[@pinkpirulita]

Grande Marcelo! I could spend hours listening to him.

[@CarlosAlbertoAndres]

2, Pink :D

[@pinkpirulita]

^.^

[@Marymead2]

This was a fantastic lecture!

[@pauloesmarques]

Amazing talk!

[@fatimabarreto1634]

Marcelo, que bom seria se a ciência tivesse apoio do governo brasileiro!

[@Mike-wz8rq]

Not only there is some sort of "frontier" which limits us inside a "reality bubble", but also individual intelligence cannot fully understand or access the collective mind, the collective conscience.

[@andrewzuo86]

1:03:56 That explains a lot.

[@claudiarcaetano]

Awesome Professor!!👏👏👏

[@chillyfinger]

It's about time somebody took "Scientific American" to task. I canceled my subscription recently hand have a drawer full of unread issues. Thanks Marcelo.

Science is just the practice. That is all.

[@AntonioMicheletto]

Muito good,

[@wkboonec]

Dark Matter is an exotic form of Gravity, which is a bending of the fabric of Space. Perhaps some millions and/or billions of years ago, at a time where we see the remote galaxies, the bending of Space was different. ¿Does this make any sense?

[@yugenaware]

In theory... Yes. I think this is what he's getting at? If Science is an on going experiment then we can't be Dogmatic. You're talking metaphysics not empirical. No "is" :)

[@Mike-wz8rq]

As our Universe and the Reality are sorrounded by a non accessible space, maybe this Universe is influenced by things which come from this "outside realm" in a way that changes with time and we cannot comprehend.

[@nbgarrett88]

What kind of eyewear is the introducer wearing? Just curious...

[@nbgarrett88]

Go figure! Lol I hadn't heard of this yet, I just "googled" it. That is pretty amazing...

[@chillyfinger]

Google Glass, prototype or clone?

[@philotimoc904]

bookmark 17:27

[@vectorshift401]

@9:25 "We have a star, about 150 million miles from us." ??????? OOPS!

[@johnrambo4158]

+Vector Shift He totally meant kilometers. =)

[@MsDomminus]

The body has no life of itself. Thought has no life of itself. By themselves, they are inert. They are activated by life. Life is the only Being. What is life? What is consciousness? When activated by life, thought creates the idea "I", a simulacrum of Being. Because thought is limited, the simulacrum, the representation, is limited, insufficient. Consciousness, which is life, cannot be measured - it is infinite, unknowable. Because life is infinite, the simulacrum, by reflection, wants to be complete too. So, it goes after power, position, fortune, and all the rest of it, never reaching completeness. In this ambition, it creates division, competition, wars and destruction. In this movement of becoming, the simulacrum has continuity, with all its miseries. Do I depend on thought to be alive and conscious? Who or what am I? Can I measure who or what I am? With which instrument? Am I not the unknowable, the infinite, the timeless?

[@modvs1]

The poor sod doing the intro is clearly uneasy about the Google pendant they made him wear around his neck.

[@wbiro]

I thought it was a cat's hairball...

[@susanacuratolo1200]

Gleiser-- you are still advocating the the standard Model of cosmology in 2015. yet in 2023 you have changed your tune