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15204
he was a drum player
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15205
but the man had somehow a lot of room at the bottom
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15207
and he didn't only play them with me but with all sorts of people
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15208
you could get a marilyn monroe sandwich
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15209
these guys were philosophers of mind
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15211
we liked each other we liked the same kind of things
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15212
it was a short meeting
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15213
and for this service they were murdered their families torn apart and their story largely forgotten
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15214
she handed me those articles and said maybe you should read these before offering an opinion
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15215
it's amazing
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15218
surprise number two medical marijuana does have some risks
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15220
she could use it when she wanted in the way that she wanted at the dose and frequency that worked for her
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15223
they are the arts and parenting
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15224
indeed in movements of modernism and post modernism there was visual art without beauty literature without narrative and plot poetry without meter and rhyme architecture and planning without ornament human scale green space and natural light music without melody and rhythm and criticism without clarity attention to aesthetics and insight into the human condition
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15225
as many people have told me over the years anyone who's had more than one child knows that kids come into the world with certain temperaments and talents it doesn't all come from the outside
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15227
and as you can see large amounts of the brain are not purple showing that if one person has a thicker bit of cortex in that region so does his fraternal twin
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15228
so i went to the zoo and i asked the chimps
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15229
you were beaten by the chimps
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15232
these questions were a few of the first ones in the pilot phase of the ignorance project in foundation that we run and it was started this project last year by my boss and also my son ola
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15233
look at the swedish result you know what the right answer is
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15235
and then lately from the european union media
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15239
ooh
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15240
they still are confined to terrible terrible limitations but schooling is there in the world today
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15241
it was a camel world like a camel with two the poor ones and the rich ones and there were fewer in between
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15242
fortunately i will be able to comfort you by showing why it was not your fault actually
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15243
actually it has exactly the same problem which existed in all the neighborhoods where you grew up as well
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15244
now i know what you're thinking
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15245
reports that this guy this former congressman from erie pennsylvania was at the age of one of the youngest people at the republican national convention but it's just not true
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15246
perfect
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15247
now when we tried to challenge this going to the supreme court getting the supreme court the bunch of conservatives there if we could get them to wake up to this to strike it down we had the assistance of nobel prize winners including this right wing nobel prize winner milton friedman who said he would join our brief only if the word no brainer was in the brief somewhere
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15248
here we go
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15249
okay but no this is really besides the point
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15251
these very same people are strong believers in lots of contexts in the limits on the markets
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15254
one is a supermarket standard white bread pre packaged which i'm told is called a
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15256
unless you're on one of these californian low diets bread is standard
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15263
when i go to an academic cocktail party and there are all the professors around they ask me what field i'm in and i say philosophy their eyes glaze over
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15266
magic in other words refers to the magic that is not real while the magic that is real that can actually be done is not real magic
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15268
you see the magician doesn't really saw the lady in half
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15271
as a cube on a black background as seen through a piece of swiss cheese
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15275
if you work on two neurons that's psychology
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15276
and he says it seems as if the ideal argument for most philosophers is you give your audience the premises and then you give them the inferences and the conclusion and if they don't accept the conclusion they die
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15277
they all have an idea for a video game even if they're not experts
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15279
now this nice picture shows a thought balloon a thought bubble
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15280
there's a wonderful stream of consciousness here and if you follow it along you learn a lot about this man
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15282
this is a lovely book by a friend of mine named lee siegel who's a professor of religion actually at the university of hawaii and he's an expert magician and an expert on the street magic of india which is what this book is about net of magic
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15284
you'd better leave now if you don't want to know some of these tricks
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15286
i'm working with a young computer animator named nick deamer and this is a little demo that he's done for me part of a larger project some of you may be interested in
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15288
he didn't mention the speed
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15304
it's up there with thumbs and standing upright and language as one of the things that got our species out of the trees and into the shopping mall
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15305
and the other is becoming paraplegic
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15306
first accrue wealth power and prestige then lose it
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15308
and finally never ever join the beatles
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15311
we gathered up our materials and we went out of the room and counted to a half hour
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15314
and one of the main reasons our brain got so big is because it got a new part called the frontal lobe
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15316
from field studies to laboratory studies we see that winning or losing an election gaining or losing a romantic partner getting or not getting a promotion passing or not passing a college test on and on have far less impact less intensity and much less duration than people expect them to have
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15318
now you don't need me to give you too many examples of people synthesizing happiness i suspect
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15319
i believe it turned out for the best
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15321
bickham is somebody you've never heard of
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15324
the male of this species has a massive brain that he uses to hunt for cold beer
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15325
classic case of the male leaving the female for the bottle
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15327
a female is anything dimpled glossy and brown the bigger the better
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15328
well i won't dwell on this but you get the idea
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15330
now huxley knew that brain activity and conscious experiences are correlated but he didn't know why
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15331
well i disagree
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15332
as a result i come to believe that in reality there's a red tomato a meter away
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15333
then we thought that the earth is the center of the universe again because it looks that way
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15335
but that doesn't explain the billions of neurons and trillions of that are engaged in vision
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15337
let me tell you how i feel when i see my wrinkles in the mirror and i realize that some parts of me have dropped and i can't find them down there
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15339
nobody else sees that
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15341
she says that there is only a limited number of ways you can screw well she says it in another way and she has tried them all
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15344
we all feel younger than our real age because the spirit never ages
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15345
but my real mentor in this journey of aging is olga murray
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15347
i keep telling my to back off and let me enjoy what i still have
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15352
despite the new york times' and vanity fair's best efforts recently they're not brothers
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15356
so let's watch the next clip
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15357
too much rain falls on some areas and not enough on others
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15359
but the main reason i did it is that that's what happens to me when i'm forced to wear a lady mic
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15360
it's the sensible shoe of public address
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15361
i just become
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15363
it all sort of started as a benign mistake like penicillin
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15364
because this is treating your audience like a moron
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15367
so there you are
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15369
ahh we come upon them the clandestine lovers
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15372
but just to try to prove that fact to you i've brought along some plankton in what is undoubtedly a foolhardy attempt at a live demonstration
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15376
colorization and sound effects added for you viewing pleasure
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15378
personally i think it's something sexy
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15379
and then he goes away for a few seconds to think about it some more and thinks maybe if i come in from a different angle
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15381
and the first thing you're going to see is a transect screen that is about a meter across
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15385
so if you brush up against it any place you brushed against it you get this twinkling blue green light that's just breathtaking
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15387
so i just want to show you some of the responses we've elicited from animals in the deep sea
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15388
so that's million people connected by blood or marriage sometimes both
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15389
and there's my cousin
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15394
partly this is because of and genetic testing but partly it's because of the internet
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15396
now it's not just ancestors we share descendants
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15397
i think this tree is going to be bad news for bigots because they're going to have to realize that they are cousins with thousands of people in whatever ethnic group they happen to have issues with and i think you look back at history and a lot of the terrible things we've done to each other is because one group thinks another group is sub human and you can't do that anymore
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15400
all right now
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15401
lots of laughter quite a bit of embarrassment
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15402
he got exactly the same response lots and lots of
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15403
i wanted to there we go
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15406
so the rest of you can save them for when i say something particularly boring and then you can fire at me
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