Kemal Aslam is a Tattoo artist, animator, and cyber security professional. He is also one of the most curious individuals I have ever met whose perspectives I really value. He speaks his mind and heart with openness with honesty even if it takes non-conventional directions.
@kemshizzle

Topics discussed:
Ritual and Stories the glue of our tribes.
Symbols that allowed us to survive.
Difference between Reality & Real.
Imegetic Space - Antonio Damasio
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
Diegetic Space
Diegetic Shift
The intangible ground: A neurophenomenology of the film experience

The fundamental building blocks of language.
Space odyssey 2001.
The best superpower, adaption in Human evolution towards imitation leading to brain plasticity might be the biggest reason for our capacity for abstraction.
That allows us to create art and allows to have language and allows us to have subjective experience.
Art is not integral part of society may be art is what we are made out of.
Distraction vs Abstractions.
Hyper-casual monetised packaged experiences vs Films that play like consciousness and make you more than your monkey mind and meat body.

IMG Credit: Animatrix - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328832/mediaviewer/rm1939189760/?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_8