Jason Silva Biography
Jason Silva (Full name – Jason Luis Silva) is a Venezuelan American television personality, filmmaker, futurist, philosopher, and public speaker. He was born on February 6, 1982, in Caracas, Venezuela.
Silva is best known for hosting National Geographic documentaries: Brain Games and Origins. His main aim is making use of technology to excite people about philosophy and science. The Atlantic describes Silva as “A Timothy Leary of the Viral Video Age”. Silva, a former presenter on Current TV, co-hosts National Geographic’s Brain Games and lectures internationally on such topics as creativity, spirituality, technology, and humanity, writes and produces short films.
Jason Silva Wife
Jason Silva was famously in a relationship with actress Heather Graham. The two were head over heels in love. The actual first meeting date remains unknown but the two were jubilant in their relationship. They claimed back in 2011, that the key to their happy relationship was the fact that they did a lot of “lazy cuddling.” But despite all this, the two did not get married in a fancy wedding and ended their relationship in 2013.
Currently, Silva looks happy in his relationship with his girlfriend, Rachel Rossitto. The couple has been dating since the end-months of 2018.
The couple began dating a few months after Rachel married herself and took a 6-month vow of celibacy in April 2018. Before meeting Silva, Rachel had been in a five-year-long relationship with her best friend. She had a tough time getting over the affair. Thus, she ended up on a spiritual path for a certain while.
However, after meeting Jason Silva, Rachel has again started living life to the fullest. She is seen exploring the world, along with Silva and also seems to be very close to Silva’s family. In the course of his show, Silva keeps traveling and exploring different places. Their social media reveals that since some months, Silva has been traveling with his girlfriend Rachel.
Silva’s brother and father also joined a short trip with the couple in May 2019. All of them seemed extremely pleased with each other’s company. Silva and his girlfriends’ connection clear the reason for their positive approach to love despite a reported age difference of 25 years. They have developed a beautiful bond that makes the couple look like pure beings in love.
Jason Silva Gay
People often speculate that Silva may be a gay man, and maybe which is why he has been public of his opinions on same-sex marriage and gay rights. If you are a fan of Silva, you shall see that he is not shy of advocating his views on gay people and their rights.
Jason Silva Age
Silva was born on February 6, 1982, in Caracas, Venezuela. He attended the University of Miami and graduated with degrees in Philosophy and Film. Silva is 37 years old as of 2019.
Jason Silva Brain Games
Silva co-hosts National Geographic’s Brain Games. This is a popular science television series that explores cognitive science by focusing on illusions, psychological experiments, and counterintuitive thinking.
In the first season, Neil Patrick Harris was the unseen narrator but was replaced by Jason Silva for the remainder of the series as its host and presenter. In addition, sleight-of-hand artist Apollo Robbins has been a frequent consultant and illusionist guest on the show.
The nature of the show is interactive, encouraging television viewers, often along with a handful of live volunteers, to engage in visual, auditory, and other cognitive experiments, or “brain games”, that emphasize the main points presented in each episode. The series debuted on the National Geographic Channel in 2011 as a special.
Brain Games’ return as an original series in 2013 set a record for the highest premiere rating for any National Geographic Channel original series with 1.5 million viewers. Season 7 aired in 2016. In the fall of 2018, National Geographic announced that the show would return as a 2-hour live event. No live event had taken place as of December 2018.
Jason Silva Net Worth
Silva has earned huge incomes from his career, first at Current Tv where he co-hosted Max and Jason alongside Max Lugavere, and now as the co-host of Brain Games, National Geographic documentaries. He also gives talks in big platforms and organizations including TED, Oracle, Google among others. Silva is estimated to have a net worth of $10 million.
Jason Silva Height
Silva is of average stature standing at 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m). He was born in Caracas, Venezuela and holds the Venezuelan-American nationality. He has brown hair with brown eyes color.
Jason Silva Baby
Silva was visiting a friend in September 2015. He was handed the baby and he decided to voice his theory behind miracles of life to a young baby girl. Holding the baby in the air, Silva explained to her the reason behind her existence:
“Somehow, literally, like, a piece of software melded together, fused and then it started to turn itself into a living, breathing”. You know, it’s like a steak with a brain. You are meat. You grew up inside your mother. You’re like a wetware Android,” he said.
The talk was definitely deep and the baby definitely did not know what software and Android was, but her reactions caught people by surprise.
Jason Silva Quotes
We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.
The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.
Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.
As long as you’re not hurting anybody else, as long as you’re being kind to people and you’re doing what you love, only good things can come of it.
Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we’ll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.
We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world’s problems.
If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we’re actually doing pretty well.
You can’t win the hearts and minds of the masses unless you inspire them – you must lift their spirits and enliven their hearts.
As a media artist and filmmaker, I’m constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.
My approach to creating content is focused on pulling people out of their intellectual comfort zones. I’m interested in presenting ideas in unique ways that challenge people to question their assumptions.