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 This is a beautiful movie on Emptiness, interconnectivity and the nature of reality. It makes the case that Non Material and Material, Intuitive and Rationalistic, Spiritual and Scientific are actually two ways of understanding one reality; two sides of the same coin. A very important thing to keep in mind while watching this is there is a large discrepancy between how we perceive reality and how reality really is. Buddha said that reality arises from emptiness; a non dual and infinite source. For instance the chair you are sitting on, the computer you are looking at, even your body is arising in this moment from emptiness . Emptiness can be understood as a field of potential where every possibility arises. Emptiness is the same as the Tao in Taoism , Brahman in Hinduism and the Quantum field in Quantum physics. Atoms are 99.999999999999% empty space. This forces us to redefine how we see ourselves and reality. If our bodies and everything around us is pretty much empty space, w...

TED Talk on the Neurons that Shaped a Civilization by Vilayanur S Ramachandran I'd like to talk to you today about the human brain, which is what we do research on at the University of California. Just think about this problem for a second. Here is a lump of flesh, about three pounds, which you can hold in the palm of your hand. But it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity, ask questions about the meaning of its own existence, about the nature of God. And this is truly the most amazing thing in the world. It's the greatest mystery confronting human beings: How does this all come about? Well, the brain, as you know, is made up of neurons. We're looking at neurons here. There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain. And each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. And based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of br...