Name: Jacque Fresco - The Mechanistic Point of View
Uploaded: 2017-07-23T15:26:54.000Z
Duration: 2 min 38 s
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People have a name for things. If they see a child

Basic passive voice

draw pretty pictures right away, they think the child is gifted.

That means "I haven't the slightest idea how a six-year-old

could draw a profile of a human being that looks so accurate."

That's what they're saying when they say he's gifted.

When the fish migrates thousands of miles to the spawning grounds

as if a mother fish opens up a map of the world

showing a fish how to get to spawning grounds.

They invented a word for that: 'instinct'.

It means "I haven't the slightest idea of how these fish do that."

It tells us nothing. But a word that says

"I'm gonna try to find out how it is that fish can do that."

They studied the magnetic current under the Gulf Stream

which fish follow. Once you begin to know

that birds can follow Earth's magnetic current

because if you strap a small magnet to the bird's head

It was called years ago 'A Mechanistic Point of View'

"Mechanistic! I'm not a machine. I'm flesh and blood.

and they moved away from the mechanistic point of view

It's a mechanistic point of view. All that it says is, look:

You can't roll your eyes to the right unless there is a muscle

and the nerve cells that feed that muscle.

You can't twist your arm unless muscles run in that direction.

That's all that a mechanistic point of view illustrated.

That's the most difficult thing for people to grasp.

A sail boat cannot sail. It is moved by the wind.

A plant cannot grow, all that nonsense, still exists today.

A plant requires warmth, temperature, moisture, gravity

all of those things. Although you don't see the connection

Living beings do not acquire knowledge or information

They acquire it by banging their heads against the wall

slipping on ice and then designing anti-slips systems.

No government to my knowledge ever anticipated the future.