threatened or judgmental? And this brings me to my third point, I hope that if I tell you something about the gap between reality that's ostensibly knowable in the objective world out there, and the reality that your brain is building for you, and all of the layers of storytellingthat your brain creates between this objectively knowable world out there, and the sort of personal reality show that your brain builds for you
We live in a time where more and more people understand that gender is not just man and woman and not just things in a knowable setting.
It's a known thing. It's a knowable thing. And so an expert can do that.
So what is it saying is we're in the market probably 16 times earnings for the S&P 500. Is it knowable ? Is the future predictable here?
to them that the first step in healing after a traumatic event is to construct a narrative that places the event within a rational context. A narrative allows the mind to couch the traumatic event in knowable terms; a narrative stabilizes an injured mind much in the way a splint stabilizes a damaged limb. With this in mind, I suggested that they all find out as much as they could about 9/11 and construct narrative of their own."
Absolutely. I think a lot of us have had those people in our lives. Because it's just fundamentally not knowable .
Absolutely. I think a lot of us have had those people in our lives. So what we think of as not knowable , to me, means also what's possible.
knowable in the objective world out there, and the reality that your brain is building for you, and all of the layers of storytellingthat your brain creates between this objectively knowable world out there, and the sort of personal reality show that your brain builds for you if I help you to understand a little bit of that work that your brain is doing, can I get you to a place where you realize
It illuminates the fact that we are actually occupying entirely different realities, and yet, we talk with one another in a single body of discourse, as if there were a single knowable truth that we all ought to be able to talk one another into. Well, this orientation that we have a definable problem that we can figure out, and that has a single definable solution
But the prediction is that we can track that well-being will be worse at the end of a high-demand period than before. And if this is a knowable trajectory of what will happen to people's state of mind as they enter high stress, and we can know what those high-stress periods of time are, let's do something about it.
In some weird way-- I couldn't quite figure it out-- but the way that people described early computers to me, too, that the architecture of the computer was much more knowable than it is now. And this fascinates me, that at some point, I was lucky enough to get on the phone with Richard Garriott, the video game programmer, and he was talking about how when he
I'd like to start with this image of someone poking their head behind the curtain a little bit. And it conveys to me this idea of the world being knowable , right? This is an engraving that is of dubious provenance, I guess, but it somehow conveys this idea of peeking behind the curtain
about perspective that people don't understand. The first is simply that there is this gap between the objective ostensibly knowable world out there, and the version of reality that your brain creates for you.
not going to surprise us. They are predictable. They are knowable . If you take your car into the mechanic on Friday and it's not working, and they say it'll be ready on Monday,
mass loneliness, and a capitalistic pressure to know everything under the sun. I think with technological advancement, we tend to think that everything is knowable or that you can just Google your way to any answer, and the best fact checker is right between your ears.
So from this talk, I want you guys to take away maybe three ideas. The first of these, the most important thing is that the world is knowable . It needn't have been this way, but this idea that the scientific method, with observations, inference, modeling and prediction can give us
A lot of people were definitely playing into that image set. But the old school science fiction also anticipates a world that is much more end-user knowable and serviceable than ours has ended up being. You have people in "Have Spacesuit-- Will Travel" who are building rocket ships in their backyard fundamentally, or oh, I just got this space suit kit out
And that led us to a book that I wrote with a number of colleagues, including Hubert Dreyfus-- who's at Berkeley-- the eminent philosopher. And we ended up calling it Telepistemology, the question of what is knowable at a distance? And how do technologies influence what we can know over a distance?
some pretty close intelligence cooperation between the United States and Ukraine, but again, any fixed target is very very knowable . It can be studied over weeks and and months and um attacks against it can be tailored based on
It's gone way beyond the ability of one person to understand. But something about-- and now I'm stretching a metaphor pretty thin-- but something about that architecture of early computers with all these kind of knowable but unknowable compartments-- I don't know.
one of the implications. The problem very often, not all the time, but very often is not that we're weak. The problem is that we're outnumbered. The problem is that it isn't just some magical rope that there's some invisible opposition with. There are definable, knowable , identifiable sources of influence that are on the other side of that rope, pulling us in the other direction. The problem is not a willpower problem. It’s a math problem and it's that we're secondarily blind to the math problem.