This video seems to be implying that Y-chromosome Adam was the partner of Mitochondrial Eve. This is an improbable (and potentially dangerous) suggestion to make. While there is evidence from mitochondria that all modern humans are descended from a single female ancestor, and evidence from Y-chromosomes that we are all descended from a single male ancestor, there is no evidence that these two individuals ever met, or indeed, that their lifetimes coincided. See River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins for more on this; our best guess is that Y-chromosome Adam lived at least several thousand years after Mitochondrial Eve (and neither of them need to have been particularly prolific breeders, they were just ordinary individuals whose descendants happen to include everyone currently alive). To suggest otherwise tends to play into the hands of creationists, who would very much like Mitochondial Eve and Y-chromosome Adam to have lived together at the same time.

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Daniel Pink provides concrete examples of how intrinsic motivation functions both at home and in…

Love the idea, and the art behind it. You guys are great, keep doing what your doing, and hopefully more people will see these videos you guys make and try to live by them. Even try to contribute in some way in our own lives to make this world actually possible.

Fantastic video!

In his thoughts on religious consciousness (if I may call it that) Mr. Rifkin seems to have forgotten 700 years or so of life in Al Andalus.

Imagine – John Lennon 1971. Jeremy Rifkin is in good company. Great animating as usual.

Thanks for your suggestion Roel! We have had a lot of queries about posters/prints of our RSAnimates, and I've mentioned the growing demand to Cognitive Media. The fabulous animators are now looking into the possibility of producing a number of these. But as they are a small team, we'll have to give them a little time to set this up. Do check out their website http://www.cognitivemedia.co.uk and drop them a line to show interest…

Having just watched the 10 minute animated version I'm now going to invest the 51:45 minutes to watch the entire video. I've been researching this topic and related issues for the past few weeks (more here: http://simbeckhampson.amplify.com/) and the analysis really, I mean really, resonates. I feel so fortunate to have listened to this information and feel that it helps explain so much of why we are, why we feel, where we came from, where we are heading and how we can begin to support one another to make this world a better place; it also clearly gives technology, once managed and used with better understanding and discipline, a real place in the future of an emphatic society. Thank you Mr Rifkin – Brilliant! (Thanks also to the RSA & Cognitive Media

Empathetic extension is an interesting topic, it seems to me there is a curious dynamic and interplay though between tribalism, theological consciousness and the nation state. For example, the identity of a secular state may negate the theological consciousness or indeed it may amplify such in ‘minority communities’. The ‘empathic embrace’ created by Social Media is clearly a very interesting phenomenon and extends that which we have understood to be generated through traditional media.

I loved this video and lecture! Thank you Jeremy for your thoughts and insights.

How can I listen to an empathetic discussion and not welcome what the RSA as well as Cognitive Media has done here. This is distributed energy in working practice and though we have a long way to go before it has direct impacts to the biosphere and transmutation towards 21st Century thinking, it is one of those small steps that add up to move us all globally forward.

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Absolutely incredible!

This is probably the most beautiful, intelligent and enlightning piece of visual art I have ever seen in the 62 years of my life. As an old hippie, it brought tears in my eyes. Thank you so much!

Great and accurate !!!
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Great animation and nice overall reasoning.
However, from a neuroscientific point of view there are some major errors about the discovery and function of mirror neurons in monkeys and, more importantly, in humans in the talk.
In monkeys they do seem to exist – as is known from single-cell recordings conducted mainly in the Parma lab. MRI scans in humans, however, show mixed results and their existence is not unequivocally proven. As intuitive as their characteristics and functions are, their significance shouldn't be over-interpreted.

I am glad the Arts have come to their senses. Empathy and empathic living is most rewarding. I daresay the science fiction of late has even reflected this zeitgeist, not to mention the fiction we all live moment by moment.
I am curious as to what he means by “Annihilate time and space”? Is that a linguistic reference or a physical one? If it is linguistic, I suspect he means something like, “like sand in an hourglass, so too are the days of our lives”,
our lives a flake of nano-fiche floating on depths of time and space unimaginable, while if the statement is physical, morally speaking something like this, “The operator states $|Psi_{Biosphere}rangle = sum_{#} e^{empathic connections among all+ lambda (humans-1)} $ on the physical vacuum lives on planet earth and is about to make a huge choice, which will determine the oscillation spectra of utmost creation”. They are not mutually exclusive, yet the use of such strong language in a world of Verbo Caro Factum Est is rather edgy.

My mouth was open the entire time. 
The most coherent argument I’ve ever seen for anything.
I want to make it true.