Sometimes you get treated to that rarest of strange beasts: a conference talk that makes you want to rouse yourself from slack-jawed amazement to stand on your chair and clap and holler. What Blaise Aguera y Arcas presented at this year’s TED conference is trippy— not just for what it is, but also for what it suggests may be crouching, hidden-tiger-like, right around the corner. Click on the photo to watch the man in action.

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