April 22, 2025 - Info Warrior - Jason Bermas
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| We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. | |
| Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. | |
| We think too much and feel too little. | |
| More than machinery, we need humanity. | |
| We know the air is unfit to breathe. | |
| Our food is unfit to eat. | |
| As if that's the way it's supposed to be. | |
| We know things are bad, worse than bad. | |
| They're crazy. | |
| Silence! The great and powerful Oz knows why you have come. | |
| You've got to say, "I'm a human being!" God damn it! | |
| My life has value! | |
| You have meddled with the primal forces of nature! | |
| Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think, or what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. | |
| Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men with machine minds and machine hearts. | |
| Yeah, thank you. | |
| You're beautiful. | |
| I love you. | |
| Yes. You're beautiful. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Ha-ha. It's showtime. | |
| It's time to buckle up for Making Sense of the Madness. | |
| And who loves you? | |
| And who do you love? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Hey everybody, Jason Bermas here and today we're going to be talking about a really interesting story in my opinion and what I think is going to be the unfortunate aftermath of someone who I'll be very, | |
| very honest, I just learned about but I don't necessarily think had a malice to the use of technology. | |
| And if that sounds like a convoluted intro, let me tell you what we're going to be talking about today. | |
| We're going to be talking about new music supposedly produced from artificial brains, aka organoids, derived from the genetic material of a famous composer who Has been doing some really interesting, | |
| I would say, not just resonance, but electrical experiments, as you're going to see. | |
| In 1965, this guy who, there's a documentary about, Alvin Lucier, and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. | |
| I've got to watch, I'm so fascinated, I'm going to watch this interview that he did eight or so years ago. | |
| I believe he died about four years ago. | |
| But in 1965, you're going to see the video, he's hooked up to all these machines and through his brainwaves, he is producing this piece, this musical piece. | |
| We're talking about, again, like, you know, 60 years ago doing this. | |
| So a pioneer in many respects. | |
| But the issue I have here is not with, say, stem cell technology, because aside from that video... | |
| We're going to kind of show the basics of organoid technology. | |
| I believe about 9 or 10 months ago, I reported on the fact that they now have these little mobile machines that are supposedly being programmed through organoids, which are, it's programmable biomaterial derived from human genetics, | |
| aka our quote-unquote brains. | |
| Now think of that what you will. | |
| How much hocus-pocus it might be, I don't know. | |
| But essentially, I have this video from Stem Cell Technologies, which is a company out there that basically sells these kits to bigger, bigger companies. | |
| They utilize the technology, and it'll take you through what an organoid is. | |
| And it's been around for quite some time. | |
| Here's the issue I have, okay? | |
| Here's the rub. | |
| The more and more we go down this transhumanist path where they're selling you on the sci-fi sexiness of you merging with machines, which we've all been indoctrinated literally my entire life. | |
| It even obviously predates my life, but just take it back to the pop culture of Star Wars and really... | |
| The outright allegory of transhumanism and losing your human soul to the dark side that is Darth Vader who becomes more machine than man. | |
| I mean, I go to that because as a small child, that is the easiest reference for me where it was kind of right in your face without you really realizing it because you were on this sci-fi adventure, right? | |
| Because, remember, I'm born in 79. So the only one that I can remember was in the theaters when I was a kid was Return of the Jedi. | |
| And I can't tell you how many times I watched Empire Strikes Back on that downward bummer after loving the first one and watching Luke after he got his hand cut off with the new robot hand and arm. | |
| And let's not forget, it was probably the very first imagery of... | |
| An artificial vat or almost womb-like material that we see all the time now where Luke was recovering it. | |
| So transhumanism in Hollyweird has been around. | |
| Now, it's been around in Hollyweird because not only has there been the expansion of science and quote-unquote science fiction writing dating back hundreds if not thousands of years depending on... | |
| Who you believe and what interpretations of languages I have no idea how to read are out there. | |
| But when we start building our industrial revolution and revolutionizing not just our manufacturing but obviously our weapons systems, the integration into cybernetics as it was first termed is vast. | |
| Once again, as they push you into this idea that you want to merge with these things and guys like Elon Musk and others pushing Neuralink and the brain chip, etc., on a smaller level, they want to take genetic human tissue and integrate it into everyday products and computing as if that's the norm. | |
| So they can dehumanize us further. | |
| I don't know where or why that would be necessary otherwise, although I am intrigued by the technology. | |
| Somebody out there would like to hit me up and tell me why. | |
| Now, at the same time, just like any technology, I think this could be used to empower and not enslave humanity, right? | |
| Stem cell technology is one of those technologies where, in the very beginning, because stem cell technology was real, And it's extremely beneficial to human beings. | |
| And it is somewhat, you know, genetically specific to the individual. | |
| The big thing was about aborted fetal stem cells. | |
| And I'll still, I'll never forget the Christopher Reeves episode. | |
| The one that got banned with the Super Best Friends because it had Muhammad in it. | |
| It was all pre-9-11. | |
| It was like season 5. And Christopher Reeves was still alive at the time. | |
| But he was talking about stem cell technology possibly enabling him to walk again. | |
| And he was cracking the back of the neck of fetuses, little dead babies, and sucking them out. | |
| Well, there's so much more than the fetal stem cells. | |
| There's the mitochondrial stem cells that derive from us individuals that are very, I mean, so many athletes are now going to South America. | |
| Etc. to these places to get that type of treatment because it's the real deal. | |
| You know, the idea again, the United States is we have the best healthcare is ludicrous. | |
| Ludicrous. So, like I said, any of these technologies, if that, if organoids somehow could benefit you and I and They don't deprave us of our humanity and they let us live longer, | |
| stronger lives. | |
| I'm all for those things, especially if it's for the public. | |
| But if it's to acclimate the public into a very dangerous arena of transhumanism, avant-garde in art style, and this is what this is really about because the trendies are all about it. | |
| You'll see that this had like an art show. | |
| And this guy, again, he's in that world, the composer. | |
| Very much amongst these people that move in circles of great influence and wealth. | |
| And remember, it might now be like two weeks ago, a week and a half, two weeks ago, and we did that video on artificial intelligence marching Rothblatt, DARPA. | |
| We showed the video of Rothblatt saying, hey, AI is just as much an art form as a science. | |
| That's no bueno, baby! | |
| That tells you how it will be manipulated specifically, not for raw truth and accountability and empowerment, but for narrative-driven control and manipulation. | |
| As the vast majority of things that human beings have created have been utilized by somebody, somewhere, for some purpose via that. | |
| All right, we're going to get into these stories. | |
| I've ranted long enough. | |
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| Lab-grown brain cells, or a brain made of late composers' blood cells, create new music posthumously. | |
| So again, The lab-grown brain is the organoid from the blood cells. | |
| We're going to show you the stem cell technology. | |
| And if you go down here, this is the art exhibit, Reimagining Boundaries, Art, Life, and Science Intersect. | |
| In fact, I'm going to read this post verbatim, okay? | |
| And then I'm going to show you the Guardian article. | |
| But there is a YouTube video on it. | |
| And don't think that I wanted to go there, but guess what? | |
| El Previto. | |
| El Previto. | |
| So, this happened on the 5th, a little over two weeks ago. | |
| Revocation is an extremely, or I'm sorry, an extraordinary immersive exhibition combining sound and cutting-edge biological innovation to bring life to the musical genius of a deceased composer. | |
| That's Alvin Lucier. | |
| And by the way, we're going to show you that video in a moment as well. | |
| Four years in the making, Revocation delivers a historic first. | |
| In vitro, external brain of the late composer Alvin Lucier, 1931-2021, creating a new work in real time. | |
| A live performance over the duration of the exhibition. | |
| And again, I don't know how much of this is Hocus Pocus. | |
| Alright? It is developed by artists Guy Ben-I, Nathan Thompson, and Matt Gingocci. | |
| With neuroscientist Stuart Hodgerts, based at the University of Western Australia, who have individually spent 25 years pushing boundaries in the biological arts. | |
| It's always about pushing those boundaries. | |
| At the heart of the installation stands a sculptural object that encapsulates the incubator housing Lucerne's in vitro brain. | |
| Living outside and beyond his body, the term in vitro comes from the Latin. | |
| Lining the walls are 20 large curved brass plates that are both sculptural and the source of the immersive sound environment. | |
| Each of the plates is directly connected to the neural activity of Lucier's brain. | |
| And I know some of you are thinking, Lucier, boy, it sure sounds like Lucifer. | |
| I'm not saying this guy's a bad guy. | |
| He's a very interesting individual. | |
| This is very bizarre, however. | |
| As the in vitro brain signals pulse through transducers and actuators, the sound of brass creating complex sustained resonance that fill the space with sound. | |
| Okay, so this is the Guardian article, and this is the gentleman right here. | |
| You're about to see him in 1965. | |
| Again, utilize his living brain. | |
| To produce sounds. | |
| And there is actually a documentary film on the guy. | |
| No ideas, button things. | |
| I watched the trailer for it. | |
| I haven't watched the documentary, obviously. | |
| But the guy's, like, obsessive about resonances. | |
| So let's play this clip right here. | |
| play this clip right here. | |
| So as you can see, he's strapped in. | |
| I could have shown the intro of this. | |
| strapped into the electrodes all over his brain | |
| So this again is in 1965. | |
| So what I want to do now... | |
| I kind of want to take you through the baseline process, the open science, if you will, of what organoids are. | |
| This protocol will demonstrate how to grow cerebral organoids. | |
| The protocol for generating cerebral organoids using the STEM-DIF cerebral organoid kit has four stages. | |
| Embryoid body formation, induction, expansion, and organoid maturation. | |
| This protocol is meant to be used with high-quality, human pluripotent stem cells that exhibit distinct borders, tight packing, and less than 10% differentiation with respect to their colony surface area. | |
| Begin this protocol by preparing EB formation medium. | |
| Rinse HPSC cultures with PBS. | |
| Aspirate and replace with gentle cell dissociation reagent. | |
| Incubate for 8 to 10 minutes at 37 degrees Celsius. | |
| Transfer cells to a 50 milliliter conical tube. | |
| Prepare EB seeding medium by supplementing the EB formation medium. | |
| With 10 microliters of Y27632 rock inhibitor. | |
| It's a 10-minute video. | |
| I'm not going to make you sit through all 10 minutes. | |
| But you get it, right? | |
| You kind of understand this technology has been around. | |
| And if Jason Bermas could go out there and get a video on a kit, you know, it's funny because many, many years ago, I mean, not that I wasn't... | |
| I was absolutely into it. | |
| And I realized how far they'd gone. | |
| But I didn't realize how far it had gone on the university level where I was at school in just a decade plus. | |
| I am a beauty school dropout, but I think I dropped out in 2001. | |
| So we're talking 2011-ish. | |
| And I'm talking to one of my younger fraternity brothers, Fez. | |
| And very interesting character. | |
| I'd love to know what he was up to. | |
| He kind of dropped off. | |
| But very smart guy. | |
| Biologist. Was very much into biology and genetics. | |
| And was talking to me about CRISPR then and programming. | |
| And he was telling me how easy it was if you had the tools. | |
| He was a Taekwondo guy as well. | |
| So I really like this guy. | |
| He's like, I don't think people get how easy genetic manipulation really is on a species level. | |
| Like, we can do things now and I'm doing things now that most people still think are science fiction. | |
| It's a conversation I was having now almost 15 years ago over in the Sip and Sail bar. | |
| I remember, very vivid conversation. | |
| And I was like, wow, I'm like, you actually have access. | |
| He's like, dude. | |
| He's like, everybody's getting to play with some of it. | |
| I'm like, whoa, okay. | |
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