So I'm passionate about technology

because I believe technology is an

extension of human creativity, Today our

host Jason Silva is giving a free talk

at a local university, Here's the amazing

thing about technology, but pay attention

because while these people think they're

here to see Jason give a presentation on

technology, Technology evolves

exponentially, they're actually the

subject of a social experiment and

you're about to see how far these people

will go just to fit in with a crowd, The

smartphone that you guys have in your

pocket is actually a million times

cheaper, a million times smaller, and a

thousand times more powerful than what

used to be sixty million dollars in half

a building forty years ago, So far the

crowd seems to be following the speech,

So I want to switch gears for a minute

and talk about something I think is

really mind-blowing as well, Have you guys

ever stop to think just about how a

thought is an idea caught in the fangs

of consciousness? Huh? Which is why you

can put cats in hats, but not hats in cats,

The soup is on so to speak, If it

now sounds like Jason is speaking

nonsense geometry, wisdom, tangerines, it

all becomes possible,

He is, So eat your soup, So how would you

react? Dreamers among us dream about tangerines,

Think this crowd will bail?

E equals elephant, not the lizard, Or will

conformity keep them in their seats? The

nervous system marinating like the

afterbirth, Let's just say the only thing

more surprising than Jason's speech does that

makes sense? Is seeing what these

people do next, It's time to celebrate,

Stick around, In essence, this is what

true thought is all about, It's the

disconnect it doesn't come from the

knowledge that your mind predates time,

That knowledge of time for days

tangerines, We're conducting an

experiment on conformity to see how this

audience will react to someone who's

clearly speaking complete gibberish,

Which is why you can put cats in hats

but not hats on cats so to speak, If you

know what I mean? Are you following any

of this? That is the elephant in the room, not

the lizard, the elephant,

It's reformadness, geometry, wisdom,

tangerines, it all becomes possible, Okay

this is getting weird,,,

How would you react if you were in the

audience? Silence? Would you get up and

leave? That is all the time I have for

today, thank you for listening you guys,

[Applause] Thank you, Thank you,

Polite applause is one thing, but these

people are giving Jason a standing

ovation for spewing complete nonsense, So

what's going on here? Okay I'm going to

let you in on a little secret, this my

friends was an experiment in conformity

to see if you'd give me a standing

ovation even though the second half of

my talk was complete gibberish and so

you guys actually proved the point,

Have you ever stood for an applause

simply because everyone else is? You know

he's talking about cats and hats and

stuff like that now it's just like did

what he really say merit a standing

ovation? And he's right,

but if Jason's speech didn't deserve

such an ovation what made this audience

stand up to applaud? It all started with

two very enthusiastic audience members

that we planted in the crowd for some

added peer pressure,

So I started seeing people standing

up so okay, I'll stand up, There was a

couple people that stood and were like

really really enthused about standing,

and everybody else started standing, so I

figured it was definitely my fault, A

standing ovation doesn't happen because

everyone in the audience had the idea to

stand up and applaud at the same time, it

happens because a few people decided to

stand and everyone else just went along

with it, so it's not to be judged as

uncaring or different, I felt like

everybody who is going to be like you

didn't get? It was so great, One

incredibly fascinating aspect of mob

mentality is how it only takes a few

leaders to get the whole mob to follow,

Well, almost the whole mob, Yeah they stood up, I was just like

oh, have fun doing you, I'm

gonna do me, I've always walked to the beat of

my own drum that's how you survive, As

you just witnessed, your brain tends to

go along to get along with the crowd,