"We are travelers, hermonauts, in search of signification." -Jason Silva

I've been giving a lot of thought about that Into The Wild quote where, upon achieving his ultimate dream of escaping to Alaska, Christopher McCandless reflects, "Happiness is only real when shared."  It's no wonder that we look to others to validate our own existence, for how can we possibly know if our perspective is “real” unless there's somebody else who can confirm its validity?

Jason Silva echoes this sentiment in his video, The Urge To Merge , when he says, "And this urge to communicate, as Terence McKenna says, 'this urge to language' is an ecstatic activity of signification. It is a way of saying we are here and we exist. It is a way of affirming our own existence."