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Right now there are 75,000 people who have just signed up for this course, right across
the planet. I've been dreaming about this course for, honestly, we've been working
on this for the last year, straight.
What we're trying to do in this course is to give you the best on campus experience
that we possibly can. So you're going to be taking this live course, the edX course
along with 75,000 other people, but you're also going to be doing this on campus course.
If they are exactly the same, then we've failed. So what we're trying to do is figure
out what we can do live that we can't do online. And that's going to be a lot of
this. There's going to be a huge amount of discussion, debates, banging fists on tables about various issues.
I like the idea of—a lot of the bulk of the information being available online beforehand,
and then coming in and being able to discuss it. Because I think that's what's important;
the discussion face-to-face with people.
I can't stand people who close their mind off to a possibility. If there is no solid
proof that something does or doesn't exist, you shouldn't close your mind off to it.
I really don't, I don't think it's real, I don't think that could possibly happen,
because it doesn't make any sense. But I can almost swear that I've had a dream about
something happening before.
Even if we don't agree with that view, we just have to take the opposite side of it, just to have a discussion.
In Episode 4, it's something called System 1 and System 2. So System 1 is the fast, intuitive sort of thinking.
As much interaction as possible—any and all interaction. Because that's what you
really like. You just need to feel like you're actually engaging with the content, with the
people, in a way that you can't just engage with it sitting in your bedroom.
To see that sort of live interaction, on the very same topics that you're learning about—that's massive.
In the next episode we're talking about various illusions. And, hopefully, with 75,000
feelers out, across the internet, they can give us perspectives, they can give us examples
that we would have never considered before.
What we've done, is that we've traveled the world and we've talked to all of these
people face-to-face. When you log in to these websites you'll see just everyone that we've talked to.
Well, kudos for not doing any of those super awkward icebreakers, because, no, no, they're horrible.