TED Community » Amir Azizi Sarajy

More About Me

I'm passionate about

Elevate culture by Art and story telling, also very passionate about Education.

An idea worth spreading

We live in a world that most people don't care to listen. To be heard you either have to shout or be ignored all together, I have amazing ideas but I don't like to shout

Talk to me about

Creativity , Movies , Art , Culture , and Education

People don't know that I'm good at

telling complicated stories in a simple and pleasant way that a lot of people can relate to and enjoy, unorthodox creative works , finding and recognizing talented people at a very early age

My TED Story

The talk that got me to TED was the Origins of Pleasure by Paul Bloom , after that I was a regular customer asking for a new cocktail every day.

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• A comment on Conversation: Can and will books ever be replaced by something other than we know it today?

  Apr 19 2012: Hi Leo and thanks for this hot conversation .
  
  you know everyone grows up with a different culture , different heroes , different values , lets say I am writing a book and I say : I saw a very beautiful girl . As a reader you'd immediately think of the most beautiful girl You have seen, not the one I am SHOWING on the screen , so you are relying purely on your cultural , personal life and experience and you d dive into your own world , That is how a book works.
  
  say I am a film maker , and I am saying the same thing on screen , I will show a cute girl, but you may or may not like her , you will see my VISION, not YOURS. That is why I am saying people would get the same thing , I mean , you ask 100 different people about a cute girl and they ll give you 100 different ideas , not a unified single one .
  
  But the biggest difficulty with Books is the fact that they are bounded and limited to the language and culture that created them, that is why Jokes do not work in other languages , hence the term Lost in Translation .
  
  The future needs faster way of information transference , communication and spreading the idea in the shortest possible time.
  
  People do not have time to listen, they might just have enough time to take a look , and they are from hundred different nations , that is why I am saying Cosmopolitanism will take over and images will be more ubiquitous
  
  Best, Amir

• A comment on Conversation: Can and will books ever be replaced by something other than we know it today?

  Apr 19 2012: Books as the way they are will be replaced for sure, something like Apple's new Book will take place, something interactive because book by nature is slow, I mean its a pack of organized information and by reading it you r trying to get that packages into your mind , but the pace is really slow and certainly very slow for 21 century.
  
  I think reading would have its place cause its the most abstract way of imagining and imagination practice , I mean if 100 people see a movie they d probably get the same thing more or less but same 100 reading a book , each would make the world of their own.
  
  But I think books in future would rely more on Pictures and Culture free info delivery packs and less on culturally bounded languages based words.
  
  the reason by my sight is Globalism and Cosmopolitanism , people of the world are all connected , and image has a universal language , words do not .
  
  if you show an apple to people from 190 different countries all will have the same idea , granted symbolic use of it might evoke different meaning but say in a normal context , it would seem like apple to all of this Global viewers to say that in words you have to translate it to 170 languages .

• A comment on Conversation: Given that morality in humans is embedded, what rules can be laid down that would preserve and enhance such morality in society?

  Apr 13 2012: Mukesh based on your amazing answers and knowledge I guess you d probably had read this book but just in case
  
  2nd Treatise of civil Government by John Locke .
  
  This is exactly what John Locke asked and wrote a whole book about it and its the foundation of US constitution and almost entire western European countries
  
  Locke based his arguments on God , but it holds perfectly well even form atheistic point of view

• A reply on Conversation: Given that morality in humans is embedded, what rules can be laid down that would preserve and enhance such morality in society?

  Apr 13 2012: Orlando thanks for the answer and same here , I believe John Locke's idea of Blank slate was more about Epistemology and less about Morality per say
  
  As you said we born with certain traits but I think whatever that is, its called blank slate and that is why humans are equal and free by John Locke as a natural right
  
  If were unequal based on those traits then we could not have been possibly equal
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  A reply on Conversation: Does more technology decrease a person's ability?

  Apr 5 2012: well if ability is doing stuff for sure Technology can do that, it has a systematic mandate that you have to follow and when you do that you are able to do it , no doubt .
  
  But I highly doubt that a device or being able to work with it , can make us able to live a better life , or be happier.
  
  I think the first ability that any modern affluent citizen needs to learn is the ability to Prune noise and focus.
  
  Laser is a focused light and for sure if scattered can not do much , I think modern citizens need to be more like a Laser and less like a Lantern

• A reply on Conversation: Is modern society's prescription for status and a successful life, even by TED standards, valid?

  Apr 5 2012: I share the same view about religion , I think its a philosophy of life that has been outdated centuries ago
  
  but the need for transcendent is still there and people need something bigger than themselves to rely onto , though it is missing , a product no matter how good , can give us pleasure but not happiness, as Epicurus says there is a big difference between Pleasure and Happiness and happiness does not come from stuff
  
  Nietzsche once said God is dead and will remain dead cause we killed him, people did not get it back then but now we understand what he was talking about , the lack of a better bigger purpose in life is taking its toll.
  
  Modern world is thousand times better than the classic world, but we humans have a great advantage / disadvantage , We get used to things and we want better and better , the race and the urge to go for it is always there and never has been more intense , Schopenhauer's famous WILL.
  
  Buckle up WILL , the race is well and truly on and it push people like never before
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  A comment on Conversation: Does more technology decrease a person's ability?

  Apr 4 2012: 1st you should clearly define ability , what is ability ?
  
  2nd about focus , I think one of the biggest issues right now in the modern world is noise , too much noise....and by noise I mean unwanted unexpected info that all of a sudden seems interesting , grabs our attention and time.
  
  Noise is paralyzing , doing hundred things at once and not getting one done, its like hitting a nail with a hammer but so very gently , the force of hundred hits might add up to the same amount of energy needed to push it through but it won't , Focus is like one mighty hit that gets the job done, and hopelessly we can not focus now a days .
  
  Oddly enough , about 7 months ago we had a conversation here on TED that Julian Treasure had started , in one of my comments I said in todays world we do not have dialogues, Its " Dialogue on demand " I was kinda shocked when I saw this TALK , its exactly about the very same thing.
  
  http://www.ted.com/conversations/6084/ted_speaker_julian_treasure_w.html
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  A comment on Conversation: Is modern society's prescription for status and a successful life, even by TED standards, valid?

  Apr 4 2012: before I start I gotta say I loved Michael Sandel's Justice course at Harvard university and Alain is one of my fav Philosophers of all time, from his radio show Point of View to his series Philosophy as guide to happiness.
  
  As a very short answer I refer to Heidegger's claim that western Philosophy only leads to making better stuff and improving technology , not happiness and quality of life.
  
  it does not matter if you are a rationalist or an empiricist , Modernism after the enlightenment has been focused intensely on products ,
  
  I totally believe in modernism and I hate conservative and religious ideas , if someone has an answer for sure its not them but no doubt that there are many many things that modern world still can not answer.
  
  This may sound odd by US had twice as many suicides as homicide in the last 5 years , South Korea is 2nd in the rate of Suicide and Japan is 9th.
  
  So was Heidegger right ? Are we just making better stuff and unhappy people ?

• A reply on Conversation: iCloud and Cloud disks, our personal data on the web, benefits and consequences ?

  Nov 10 2011: this kinda things raise the hair on back on my neck ....
  
  if these people only knew that by stealing something you don't own it , you have just stolen it ....

• A reply on Conversation: iCloud and Cloud disks, our personal data on the web, benefits and consequences ?

  Nov 9 2011: I am concerned about that as well, I think someday they gonna mess it up, but about the consequences of that I am not so optimistic.