With proven facts, Gregg Braden uses scientific data to reveal a new story, about who we are as humans, our innate capacity for healing, and expanding our consciousness. What are the ethical and practical limits of engineering life? And what is the real promise of self-empowerment that the new story foretells?

Below are a few notes from the talk:

Evolution breaks down when it comes to humans. Something happened 200,000 years ago. A series of mysterious mutations /fusions HCh2 HCh7 etc gave us extraordinary abilities. The bottom line is that scientists agree that human chromosome 2 (HCh2) is the product of a fusion of two pre-existing chromosomes that were fuIIy intact. After the fusion happened, genes were added and taken away and functionality was tweaked to optimize and stabilize what it is that gives us our humanness. Chromosome 7 and others aII happened at the same time 200,000 years ago. chromo 2 may be the smoking gun – second Iargest chromosome in the human body and responsible for our uniquely human abilities ie emotion, sympathy, empathy, compassion, self-regulation.

Technology is happening faster than the morality of how it is applied and we are now at a crossroad. This generation must determine what are the human values that we cherish in our species that we choose to make the foundation around the choices of technology. If we don’t identify those values very quickly, they will be lost and once they are lost in a species, they are lost forever. Even EIon Musk is saying that the AI world urgentIy needs regulating.