Hey, this is Henry I am here today to share with you a very special announcement something
I'm really excited about we have a new series or at least a pilot for new series
And I hope you will be willing to go check it out
It's over on an online streaming platform called Verve, which has a lot of other long-form, shows as well
They approached us and asked us to develop a show so I worked with the minute earth team and Derek Muller of veritasium to make
Paradigms here is a clip that you can watch
the philosopher Plato suggested that sight was a
visual fire that melded with daylight somehow allowing the forms of objects to travel long distances and
Into the observers eye now Plato was pretty vague on the details
But the basic idea of visual fire rang true for people for a number of reasons
Animals eyes seemed to gleam at night and people often appear to have a twinkle in their eye
Plus everyone knew that a gaze could have certain mystical powers from that eerie feeling
You get when you know that you're being watched to a Lover's
Enchantment to the evil eye the idea that you can harm somebody
Just by looking at them even back then people did realize there were problems with the visual rays
Understanding of vision like when I opened my eyes at night
If beams have to shoot out and travel all the way to the Stars and back
How am I able to see the stars right away or why can't we see things in the dark does darkness somehow stop those?
Visual rays, but the thing about mental models of the world about paradigms
Is that it's really tough to kill an established theory especially one that makes a lot of intuitive sense
Just by pointing out its weaknesses you have to have an alternative
That can explain at least as much more compellingly and with fewer problems
So as you can see paradigms is a show about how we know what we know the first episode is about the science of sight
About how we used to think sight worked and vision worked, and how we now understand it has more to do with the brain then
We originally thought the important things to know are one. You can go watch this for free right now over on Verve
Please do that
if you think it looks interesting - this is a pilot and the full series will only be made if
Enough people like this and want it to be made and go watch it. So if you like it
Please share it with your friends comment on the video, and hopefully this will become a full-blown series
There's also a caveat that this is currently only available in the US I apologize to international viewers
We're working on a way for you to be able to see it as well, so
For now if you know people in the US please let them know and you will hopefully be able to watch it soon
Again, you can go watch the first episode of paradigms right now for free over at Verve
And I am really curious to know what you think about it
It was a lot of fun to make very different from minitor theme into physics. Well, maybe not very different
it's different for minute or the minute physics longer form more animation and I
Hope that you enjoy it. Thanks
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