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Jason Silva

ason Silva is the Emmy-nominated host of Nat Geo’s Brain Games and the creator of Shots of Awe.

PSYCHEDELICS AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Hacking the Tripping Mind

Pay attention. What if you could focus and control your consciousness when under the influence of psychedelics? Cognitive roller-coasters may be upon us.

Jason Silva

articles/2014/04/26/on-transhumanism-and-why-technology-is-our-silicon-nervous-system/140425-transhumanism-tease_yoszbt
Of Machines and Men

You, Robot

<p>With films about the symbiosis of man and machine like <i>Transcendence</i> and <i>Her</i>, Hollywood’s had an epiphany: to be human is to be transhuman. Jason Silva is the creator of <a href="http://youtube.com/ShotsOfAwe">Shots of Awe</a>, the digital web series that has rattled the brains of millions online, the Emmy-nominated host of <i>Brain </i>Games, and he also was a featured speaker with Bryan Cranston and Aaron Sorkin at the Tribeca Film Festval’s <i>Future of Film</i> series.&nbsp;<br> </p>

Jason Silva

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