TEDxOPorto - Cybernetic existence

These posts about TEDxOPorto will be written in English 

so I can share with the world the ideas worth spreading.

I am not an “into science” person.

Ok, I like innovation and evolution, I get amazed and astonished by the discoveries and inventions some visionary and perseverant scientists make after long hours, days and years of investigation but my scale of appreciation of those progresses is directly proportional to my ability to understand them and to envision the impact they’ll have in our day-to-day life. 

Unfortunately scientific talks rarely are understandable to those who don’t have a scientific Phd.

One of the speakers at TEDxOPorto was an investigator called Steve Grand, an expert in artificial life forms that expects to find the meaning of life by creating some kind of robots that someday will have consciousness.

I couldn´t understand the extent and width of his talk but one thing I learned was the meaning of cybernetics.

Whenever a system is involved in a closed signaling loop, that is whenever an action by the system over the environment generates some change and that change is reflected in the system you have cybernetics. Basically cybernetics is a kind of feedback, a “circular causal” relationship triggered by a change that generates another change.

Cybernetics study may be something very interesting but what impressed me the most was that those effects the scientist spoke about are exactly the same the Forex Investor mentioned when talking about paying back to society, acknowledging that a community's problems are far more important than individual problems.

Margarida Pinto Correia also talked about cybernetics when she mentioned the “impact waves” that come from the influence we can have over one person’s life and utterly impact more people's lives in a sort of “domino effect”. The good deed we make today to someone will be conveyed to others in some kind of "ripple effect" that will expand incrementally.

So even if you’re not into science or even if you are too skeptical to believe in the “attraction law” or in “Heaven or Hell” at least there is an exercise you can practice everyday and that will surely make more fit as an human being:

Be honest 

Be bold enough to face yourself in the mirror and not be ashamed by the person you see

Be brave 

Dare to ask yourself what have you done today that is relevant for your existence 

and for the wellbeing of those you care about

Be proud 

of your achievements and share this satisfaction with others 

by helping them to be honest, brave and proud.