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14787
and he said frank i've got to share with you this story that just played out in my life
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14789
thank you for making your site
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14790
when i posted this secret dozens of people sent voicemail messages from their phones sometimes ones they'd been keeping for years messages from family or friends who had died
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14791
thank you
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14792
and finally let's see this is a totally different interaction and i think you have to imagine that there's this giant invisible drum sitting right here on stage and i'm going to bang it
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14794
that's usually followed by a second thought which is whatever it is that i'm doing i love it
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14795
by the way i'm just going to nerd out for just a few minutes here so i would say don't freak out
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14798
he doesn't know that what we're feeding is real time data from the stock market and he's making buy and sell decisions
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14799
so we'll report on that later to see how well this goes
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14801
it's like a massage
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14802
but we're not seeing all the waves out there
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14803
now what this means is that our experience of reality is constrained by our biology and that goes against the common sense notion that our eyes and our ears and our fingertips are just picking up the objective reality that's out there
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14806
your brain is locked in a vault of silence and darkness inside your skull
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14807
so i call this the p
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14808
and i give them access to me every single day which is why they all have my personal cell number including my scholars and those who graduated which is probably why i get phone calls and text messages at three o'clock in the morning
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14809
eighty six percent of them were below grade level in english and in math
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14810
no i don't
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14811
it's a completely solution apart from the fact that teddy's probably not loving it
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14812
and that's what i want to talk about today
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14813
we were asked by a large healthcare system in minnesota to describe to them what their patient experience was
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14824
so i couldn't wait to get started to work on this so i could introduce kevin to my robot
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14827
that's what i do
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14829
she said when she was just about to walk onstage the tele directors still were trying to agree on what to do and so she just walked onstage and did what felt most natural
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14830
and so that project taught me another lesson about life which is that when in doubt improvise
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14831
maybe it runs in the family
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14832
and a few years later he was diagnosed with cancer
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14833
when i was at college i decided to study engineering like him
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14834
so rather than have it fight or do industrial work we decided to build a planter put the robot into the center of it and we called it the
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14835
that robot was operated by more people than any other robot in history
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14836
and when i got here i looked up hubert dreyfus who's a world renowned professor of philosophy and i talked with him about this and he said this is one of the oldest and most central problems in philosophy
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14837
so we got a chance to take the tele actor to the awards in san francisco
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14838
and as a result the needles damage these organs cause damage which leads to trauma and side effects
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14839
and the last project also has to do with medical robotics
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14850
because a couple years after brazil was awarded the world cup we heard that the brazilian government wanted to do something meaningful in the opening ceremony in the country that reinvented and perfected soccer until we met the germans of course
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14851
flight control is brazilian
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14852
we're just scientists
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14853
he's a para athlete right now
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14854
and a brain machine interface is not rocket science it's just brain research
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14855
and to get a reward a drop of orange juice that monkeys love this animal has to detect select one of these objects by touching not by seeing it by touching it because every time this virtual hand touches one of the objects an electrical pulse goes back to the brain of the animal describing the fine texture of the surface of this object so the animal can judge what is the correct object that he has to grab and if he does that he gets a reward without moving a muscle
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14862
it was the brutal realization the first morning that the indian students were better than me
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14863
in sweden we read it once and then we went partying
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14864
and they were the first to
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14865
look there united states
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14867
now a historian tells me it's even more difficult to predict about the past
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14868
the of july is my birthday
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14869
and i will now here onstage try to predict when that will happen that asia will regain its dominant position as the leading part of the world as it used to be over thousands of years
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14870
was the year when the courageous uprising against the foreign occupation of india was defeated by the british forces
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14871
and let's see how much difference that can make
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14873
and you can see that the countries who were growing their economy was united states and united kingdom
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14874
health is getting better united kingdom united states
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14875
not much has happened
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14876
now people recognize me in macy's and my grandchildren think that i'm cool
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14877
actually i wasn't even sure that i could go around the stadium without a walker
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14880
nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters
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14881
i looked like a refrigerator
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14882
my back is always straight and i don't make old people's noises
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14883
no grunting no coughing no wheezing no talking to yourselves no
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14884
sophia loren was right in front of me she's a foot taller than i am not counting the hair
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14887
no wonder that by age five i was a raging feminist although the term had not reached chile yet so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me
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14889
feminism has never been sexy but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting and i have seldom suffered from lack of men
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14891
only a fearless and determined heart will get the gold medal
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14892
when she was years old her grandfather sold her to a brothel
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14893
we can call this place in congo a death camp because those who are not killed will die of disease or starvation
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14894
she names the twins after the camp's commanders to gain their favor and feeds them with black tea because her milk cannot sustain them
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14896
she risks a lot and she's terrified
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14897
the woman's face looks like a watermelon
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14898
although women do two thirds of the world's labor they own less than one percent of the world's assets
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14899
she gets the women to plant new trees and water them drop by drop
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14900
i can promise you that women working together linked informed and educated can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet
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14902
in our species the alpha males define reality and force the rest of the pack to accept that reality and follow the rules
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14903
look around in this room all this knowledge energy talent and technology
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14904
and so i tap back fu
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14905
and i said fu as in i finally understand
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14906
these things occurred in my life in a way that was surprising especially to me
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14907
throughout this ordeal no one hugged me no one counseled me no one told me i would be okay
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14918
to poke fun at their stereotypes nigeria would be outside explaining that he will pay the entrance fee all he needs is the account details
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14920
because at that time if you were to search africa on or on or any kind of social media you would think that the entire continent was just pictures of animals and white guys drinking cocktails in hotel resorts
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14922
so i sent out a few other about my own country and a few other african countries i'm familiar with
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14925
but it would go on to have a very peculiar effect on me
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14942
intimacy means physical emotional connection with somebody else and especially with somebody of the opposite sex who gives off ambiguous contradictory signals
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14943
and there's some guy watching a hundred obviously
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14944
it's your job to solve
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14945
boys are percent more likely than girls to drop out of school
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14946
they don't know what to say they don't know what to do especially one with the opposite sex
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14948
that's older than my dad
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14949
however undeterred due to my teenage optimism i went online to a teenager's two best friends and
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14950
essentially i could weave a bunch of these antibodies into a network of carbon such that you have a network that only reacts with one protein but also due to the properties of these it will change its electrical properties based on the amount of protein present
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14960
i think you just need to do a cleansing ritual
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14961
and i even went to a psychiatrist and tried to get her to prescribe me medicine and she wouldn't just because i don't have schizophrenia ok
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14962
i don't want to get into the story now but i need you to come out
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14963
if you say jesus rose from the dead ooh trickier
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14966
and i looked around
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14969
i'm an investigator and i'm an investigator in two senses i'm an investigative journalist and i'm also an investigator of the claims of the paranormal and claims of the spiritual
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14970
that's not true
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14971
no one's done it yet but they've had a couple people who claim that they were which means that they can hear voices either from the great beyond or they can read minds
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14972
i'm a jewish guy from new jersey
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14974
pity me
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14975
now even my seven brain knew that wasn't going to work
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14977
there were just a few thousand terrorists
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14984
probably about as many as there are creative people here
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