Everything is Connected -- Here's How: | Tom Chi | TEDxTaipei

The piano is an idea in itself. Requires experience in mechanical engineering. Knowledge of the history of string instruments. It required many patterns and structures of ideas that led to the opportunity to invent it and then the opportunity to professionalize his music. This brings me to a concept that I would like to share with you, which I call "Existence Painting." Because we were all created and the experiences of humanity are available to us through those before us. We are generally able to use previously used thought patterns and ways of being. If the piano and the way it is played is a way of being, then that way did not exist 5,000 years ago.

It was a color on the palette of existence that I couldn't use. But if you were born today, you can acquire the skill, you can learn how to become a computer scientist, and this is another color that was not available just a few hundred years ago. Our lives are beautiful for the following reasons: We were created. We have the ability to paint a unique picture with the colors of existence that surround us from the moment we were born. In the way of life, we also have the unique opportunity to create a new color. The reason for this may be the invention of something new.

Autonomous car. piano. Computer. It may be the way you express yourself as a human being. Or a work of art you have made. All of these ways of being, and the things we add to the world through the creative process of integrating all the things that have existed since our origins, allow us to expand the palette of existence for all subsequent societies. Which brings me to a simple way to summarize

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we talked about today. Because I think many of us understand that we exist in this kind of amazing universe, but we believe that we are small, marginal creatures in this universe, and that t

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is this huge physical universe and within it is the biosp

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, which in turn includes this society. , and within us we are only one person among 7 billion Humans, how can we be so important?

We think of this as a containing relationship, where the good comes from outside and nothing really defines us. But the picture of existence reflects the opposite. It suggests that our way of life, the way we influence our friends and family, will change their customs in the future, changing the way societies influence society as a whole, the way society can influence its relationship with the biosphere and the way in which society influences its relationship with the biosphere. The biosphere can influence the physical planet and the universe itself. If blue germs can completely change the physical environment of our planet, then we can do the same.

This brings us to a very important question about how we do it and also our approach. Because we have a high capacity for perception. Thanks to this gift, we can deeply understand our inter

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ness, as other animals have been able to do. Because we can deeply understand our inter

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ness, we have the power to decide how we use that knowledge, how we employ it to build our communities and shape our lives. I think the reason all spiritual traditions have a concept of our interconnectedness is that the societies that embrace that concept are the same ones that over time increase its importance, the level of its expression, and improve our understanding of each other.

That is why this idea is repeated at the heart of spiritual traditions. I hope that after giving this talk you know that the reason it appears at the heart of science is that it takes place in the physical universe and at every level of organization and in every manifestation of matter, energy and life. I would like us all to unite around this knowledge and understand the truth about how the universe works and that our hearts, breaths and minds are connected in this way. We must challenge ourselves to understand the meaning of life after knowing that truth. .

Thank you all. (applause)