Michael Highland gives us a glimpse of his world growing up with video games and how for him, video games ARE his reality. I saw this as part of a mind consciousness seminar I attended about a week ago in Los Angeles.

Rigidity versus fluidity versus integration of the mind and what constitutes a healthy mind. What moves us towards consciousness? What can we do? Daniel Siegel continues to talk about what he learned from writing his book Mindsight, which just came out.

How do you define the mind? What is a healthy mind? A healthy mind comes from something he refers to as integration. Hear Daniel Siegel’s perspective.

Dr. Daniel Siegel meets with a small group of us for lunch in Santa Monica last week to discuss the relational nature of our minds and our brains…..body/relational and how all of it connects to consciousness. His new book Mindsight explores it in further depth.

Continue to scroll down for part I of the interactive video.

At Long Beach last week, film producer Lawrence Bender gave an early preview of his latest movie Countdown to Zero about nuclear weapons threat. Following the eye-opening film, he takes questions from the audience. While the footage is extremely dark, you can hear the dialogue.

A snippet from a Hollywood Reporter review below and below it, a video shot of the preview Q&A in an extremely dark room.

Ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro, Mary Rowell and Cornelius Dufallo of ETHEL and violinist Robert Vijay Gupta create a new compilation on the fly at TED last week.

Ukulele energy meets D Minor meets classical creation without music meets leg tapping at its best. This group knows how to energize a crowd.

This past week at TED, David Cameron, Britain’s Conservative Party leader talks about a new era in politics, where governments have less power and money and people empowered by technology have more of both.

Below is Al Seckel’s talk in Munich Germany in January on illusions, which will most clearly change your perception of reality.

Al is internationally recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on visual and other types of sensory illusions and has authored over 15 books on the subject.

On the DLD Conference stage recently, Spencer Reiss talks about MySpace as well as general social media trends and directions. He writes about new media, alternative energy and commercial space travel for Wired and directs the program for the annual Monaco Media Forum, as well for the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, debuting March 2010.

Cortexica’s Steve Semenzato demos Winefinder at VatorSplash in San Francisco this past week.

The magic behind Winefinder is an image recognition technology that informs a buyer of the kind of wine they are buying simply from a photograph of the label. They can also learn where they can purchase it for less. While currently only available in the U.K, they plan to expand to other countries soon.