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every language communicates with pitch to varying degrees whether it's mandarin chinese where a shift in melodic inflection gives the same phonetic syllable an entirely different meaning to a language like english where a raised pitch at the end of a sentence
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i'm going to start today with nature but before we do that let's quickly listen to this snippet of an opera singer warming up
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let's listen to the full speed recording
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why i mean if i'm a good i've got to believe there's a reason for that
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he said what scientists do when a paradigm fails is guess what they carry on as if nothing had happened
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7181
and if you've got a scientific problem like that you can't solve it by holding a head count and saying more of us say yes than say no
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7182
it would be very nice for me if it happened soon
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7183
but you know that makes me feel good because richard dawkins has told us how to treat a priesthood
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7184
and they seem anxious to skirt around it and step over it and to talk about something else
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7185
the ancestor of the apes stayed in the trees our ancestors went out onto the plain
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and they weren't savanna species
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so we're left with a situation where we know that our earliest ancestors were moving around on four legs in the trees before the savanna ecosystem even came into existence
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we've got to go back to square one and start again
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7189
you've been constructing fanciful things on top of it relying on it to be as solid as a rock
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i don't think for instance that you will one day consult a supercomputer to learn whether you should have a second child or whether we should bomb iran's nuclear facilities or whether you can deduct the full cost of ted as a business expense
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7192
people will send you donations when you're in that condition
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7194
so we appear to have a genuine difference of opinion about how to profitably use one's time
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7195
the other half will tell you they don't like the question
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7196
i'm not a fan
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7201
even if you get your values from religion even if you think that good and evil ultimately relate to conditions after death either to an eternity of happiness with god or an eternity of suffering in hell you are still concerned about consciousness and its changes
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7203
but if we're going to talk about human well being we are of necessity talking about the human brain
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7204
and we can therefore visualize a space of possible changes in the experience of these beings
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7205
there is clearly a range of materials that constitute healthy food
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7207
now this brings us to the sorts of moves that people are apt to make in the moral sphere
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7208
but now let's look at the case for optimism
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7209
this disease is called sudden wealth syndrome
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7210
al gore made presentations in the house and the senate as an expert witness
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7212
tourists in glass bottomed boats would be viewing the drowned towers of miami through feet of tropical water
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7213
and if it will be it's the right thing to do and if not rethink it
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7222
they came to me and said well what can we do to freshen this thing up and do you think kids you know surfers rock climbers would use these things and i said well not in that interior
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7223
what i discovered in these interiors is that there was a disconnect between the exterior shell and the interior architecture of the pieces
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7224
no dad you've only told me times and twice it wasn't my fault
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7225
statisticians we call that being within the percent confidence interval
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we can average the two and see what that means
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7227
so now as a statistician what's my response show me the data dude you're talking chances i do chances all day long tell me all about chances
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7229
and then i said and i really don't think my due date is accurate
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7230
yeah that's a story you want to tell at your kid's wedding reception
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7235
and he said you can't breath out of your nose no but he can breath out of his mouth
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7237
you'll see that the temperature is not random
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7239
that's why you see those pregnant women just sweating and hot because their temperatures are high
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7240
so if there was a fertility issue or some problem i had data to show look we got pregnant our temperature shifted we somehow lost this baby
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7241
or if it gets too hot your thermostat registers turn the a
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7245
and so had we had some information about our heart health to share with him maybe we would have gotten a better diagnosis the first time
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7246
so over the course of that year and a half donald's eating changed and our exercise regimen changed and his heart rate responded his blood pressure responded to that change that he made in his body
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7249
but like with humans sometimes it's six months in before you realize that the person that you love has some issues
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7250
in other animals we have
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so after they were taken away the sanctuary staff worried that he would fall into a depression and so to avoid that they gave him another rabbit friend
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7252
so then the choice becomes how do you well or do you poorly and poorly is all too common
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7254
and i spent the last seven years actually looking into this topic of mental illness in other animals
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before the early century physicians often diagnosed emotional distress in their patients just by observation
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7256
so they won't go for a walk they won't hang out with their friends they won't eat
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7257
and if you just sort of happened upon this scene you might think that ting ting is just playing with a stick but ting ting does this all day and if you pay close attention and if i showed you guys the full half hour of this clip you'd see that he does the exact same thing in the exact same order and he spins the stick in the exact same way every time
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canine veterans of conflicts of iraq and afghanistan are coming back with what's considered canine and they're having a hard time reentering civilian life when they come back from deployments
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7272
you could dowse for all sorts of things but this particular one was built to dowse for marijuana in students' lockers
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7273
i'll show you
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7274
it'll go this way for sure
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7281
for intelligent design it's the end of the chain
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7282
so he wrote that he had seen i have observed that the furthest planet has three bodies
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7284
we went down and investigated
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7285
it's just a spring clean for the may queen
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7289
it's grown ups that get really upset
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that was not a controlled descent
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rb oh
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7293
yeah
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7294
now see if you can put it back together
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7295
and it's got a little bit of an emotional response here
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you're such a cute little robot
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no
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no
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i almost lost it this week
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7303
they are pretty common
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but nevertheless those sorts of things are out there
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7305
at the bottom right is one that i built in my lab about years ago and we finally turned that into a product
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7306
battlefield companions are helping to reduce the combat risks
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7307
the worst thing that's happened in the cave so far was one of the robots fell down ten meters
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7309
and we've been trying to put that into our lab robots because we think this is how you're going to want to interact with robots in the future
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and it weights those together into an attention window and it looks for the highest scoring place the stuff where the most interesting stuff is happening and that is what its eyes then segue to
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7313
here we asked them to get the robot's attention and indicate when they have the robot's attention
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7314
you don't see a description of how you know molecule a you know comes up and docks with this other molecule
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years ago we had to give up the idea that we are the center of the universe when the earth started to go around the sun years ago with darwin we had to give up the idea we were different from animals
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no they're not the same
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7328
what actually happens is if i compare this to the average real project average real successful project the family actually end up in south sulawesi at a cost of pounds whilst leaving two of the children behind
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7329
this was a group of eminent economists apologizing to the queen of england when she asked the question why did no one tell us that the crisis was coming i'll never get my knighthood
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so if this is now and that's the past and we start thinking about change you know all governments are seeking change you're here seeking change everybody's after change it's really cool
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is that okay it's a tap
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so that's what i spend my time doing
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we have the vision
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there are charts which show all these movements of information
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7341
and then add to that every time you tweet over a third of your followers follow from a country which is not your own
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and then something weird happens
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christopher isherwood used the phrase the yellow leaf to describe a man at only one century after lord byron used it to describe himself at
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there are patterns to life and they are shared
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yeah
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7351
and the first rule of the game is pretty simple
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7352
we create them and then we send them either north or south
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i had to become more reasonable because i thought people would listen to somebody who was rational but i remain radically rational whatever that is
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7354
i think i have my wife knows
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7355
well let me first begin by saying how deeply grateful i am for this opportunity to share my story with people who do care
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7356
and so on many occasions i've been asked by people you know you're suffering why don't you move back they don't understand
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7357
ok but these are the kinds of issues that people don't understand
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