Episode Transcript: #183 - Jason Silva
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Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
See, and then it becomes a totally different thing.
I love it, dude. I love the environment you've created here.
Brian, is that a UFO? You're fucking tripping me out, man.
The idea of artists using genomes or genes for their canvas,
that is one of the most amazing new ideas that I've heard.
Just that statement really makes you change the way you look at things.
Like, oh yeah, really?
Especially when the guy that said that phrase is Freeman Dyson.
He's considered the world's most eminent physicist.
He's on par with Einstein.
But he obviously is also a poet because the way he says it,
in the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes
with the fluency that Blake and Byron wrote verses.
In fact, I just saw him speak at DLD in Munich,
and he said that soon we'll have the entire biosphere in the palm of our hands.
So imagine what that means.
We might be like evolution's secret weapon.
It's inevitable, right?
Oh, absolutely.