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13885
we have to have a very special technology to get into that unfamiliar world
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13886
it gets up to about feet long
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13888
this is really a world within a world and we're going to show you two
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13889
it's footage that we've collected for scientific purposes
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13890
today's talk is about brains and yay i have a brain fan out there
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13891
i found a website dedicated to teachers who want to make script writing things across the top of their blackboard and they had added graffiti to it and i'm sorry about that
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13892
i said no you're wrong and i didn't get in
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13893
that's when i designed all those computer products
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13894
woo
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13895
so some people have fallen into the pit of metaphysical dualism some really smart people too but we can reject all that
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13896
it's the thing on the top of your head that got because it got shoved in there and doesn't fit
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13898
you're going to see things more like intelligent cars that really understand what traffic is what driving is and have learned that cars with the on for half a minute probably aren't going to turn
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13899
i'm going to talk all about that
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13900
in september of scientific american came out with a single topic issue about the brain
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13901
and he wrote a story basically saying this is all well and good but you know we don't know squat about brains and no one has a clue how they work so don't believe what anyone tells you
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13902
so i fell in love with this
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13903
they said you can't study theory about brains
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13905
sometimes a science will tell something about ourselves it'll tell us who we are
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13906
this is one too because when we understand how brains work we'll be able to build intelligent machines
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13907
the theorist guy says i think this is what's going on the experimentalist says you're wrong
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13908
and i said to her i don't understand why you're not a feminist because you know you live in america
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13910
until recently whenever i took part in an international conference or festival i would be usually one of the more depressed speakers
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13911
and we would smile at each other in sympathy this camaraderie of the doomed
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13914
those of us who used to be very depressed for a long time we started to feel less depressed whereas the newcomers they were so not used to feeling this way that they were now even more depressed
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13920
but i think this is a mistake for two main reasons
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13922
but there was hope
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13923
sometimes it draws circles even slides backwards and that generations can make the same mistakes that their great grandfathers had made
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13928
okay i wrote that
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13930
i can also understand that sort of implicit criticism in this piece s which i made when i was living in copenhagen
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13931
here's another example from another piece and then its realization
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13933
okay so that gives you a little taste of that piece
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13934
all you need is an internet connection and a funny cat
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13936
she paused and said i don't know if that's yuan or american dollars but anyway it's
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13940
they choose to leave their homes in order to earn money to learn new skills and to see the world
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13941
if you tell them more they won't understand anyway
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13942
it's really amazing that all this stuff is here
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13943
and yet it's here
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13944
but the academicians couldn't understand anything that he wrote
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13945
how many digits are there in your number two so you should have sat down earlier
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13948
now symmetry is almost nature's language
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13949
but on a larger scale of biology actually symmetry is very important because it actually communicates genetic information
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13950
so i took the experiment out of delhi and repeated it this time in a city called in the center of india where i was assured that nobody had ever taught anybody anything
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13951
and as soon as they saw me they said we need a faster processor and a better mouse
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13952
now by remoteness i mean two or three different kinds of things
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13953
the guess was that schools in remote areas do not have good enough teachers
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13957
i've been asked that question since i arrived at this conference
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13958
so percent of us will say that it is terribly wrong for our partner to lie about having an affair but just about the same amount of us will say that that's exactly what we would do if we were having one
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13959
and i've also told quite a few of my patients that if they could bring into their relationships one tenth of the boldness the imagination and the verve that they put into their affairs they probably would never need to see me
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13960
now you've listened to me and i know what you're thinking she has a french accent she must be pro affair
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13965
and infidelity tells me i'm not
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13966
now i question everything
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13967
nick just left on a business trip and heather is playing on his with the boys when she sees a message appear on the screen can't wait to see you
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13968
but then we have another paradox that we're dealing with these days
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13969
and if the situation were reversed nick would be in the same situation
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13973
i need you to go upstairs past the fire and i need you to get this woman a pair of shoes
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13975
thank you
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13976
and so even if we make those very important decisions for very silly reasons it remains statistically true that there are more georges living in georgia and there are more becoming dentists and there are more who are married to paul than statistically viable
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13978
it was a little bit too funky and we wanted a more feminine point of view and employed a duck who did it in a much more fitting way fashion
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13979
in that year what i did do a lot was look at all sorts of surveys looking at a lot of data on this subject
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13981
so this is something that we're now going to try for the first time live and this is really truly very frightening
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13982
what the hell are you guys oh sorry
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13983
one of them is to take that real
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13984
so as we zoom in beyond a certain level this resolves into a kind of sim city like virtual view at degrees
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13985
but i'm going to show you some more candy sort of stuff
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13986
i'm live
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13987
all right and now there's one last ted talk that microsoft has given in the past several years
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13990
and that actually makes pretty hard for all of us which is i guess why they gave a tv show to the guy who was like really great at
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13991
and some people actually thought it gave you heightened sensitivity and conferred creative genius
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13992
he in fact there is a story that when he wanted to learn how to swim he read a book a treatise on swimming then dove into the ocean
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13993
it took so long to get these ants to do this
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13994
one of the other predictions of string theory no that's not one of the other predictions of string theory
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13995
so i'd like to tell you something about the story of these extra dimensions
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13996
all of that could be described using newton's work
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13997
the idea goes like this imagine space is a substrate of all there is
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13998
and so i want to tell you about that first and then go on into where i think love is going
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14000
and there's also many more male idiots in the world
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14002
and he knew from our work that if you go and do something very novel with somebody you can drive up the dopamine in the brain and perhaps trigger this brain system for romantic love
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14004
their wine glass at dinner is different from every other wine glass at the dinner party
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14005
but anyway not only does this person take on special meaning you focus your attention on them
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14008
before i put these people in the machine i would ask them all kinds of questions
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14010
rob legato i pretend they're clapping for me
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14011
and i guess somebody thought they needed to do that
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14014
it's like yeah i don't know if you noticed but i'm the guy out in the parking lot recreating one of america's finest moments with fire extinguishers
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14017
i got the feeling that my brain wanted to basically see it come back to life
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14018
so what i did is basically i had another screening room experience where i was basically tracking where i was looking or where we were looking and of course you're looking at the two people on the bow of the ship and then at some point i'm changing the periphery of the shot i'm changing it's becoming the rusted wreck and then i would run it every day and then i would find exactly the moment that i stopped looking at them and start noticing the rest of it and the moment my eye shifted we just marked it to the frame
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14019
so what you're now going to see is how we actually did it
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14030
not circles those leave little gaps
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14032
at one point a congressional staffer said that there was no way that i was going to be confirmed by the united states senate because of my past despite the fact that i had been in recovery for over years and despite the fact that this job takes a little bit of knowledge around addiction
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14033
you see i grew up in a family riddled with addiction and as a kid i also struggled with coming to terms with my own sexuality
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14040
he brought me a middle eastern dessert from jerusalem where he lives and i brought him kosher chocolate and held a god hates jews sign
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14041
the end of my antigay picketing career and life as i knew it came years later triggered in part by strangers on who showed me the power of engaging the other
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14043
it's a good thing ours is bigger because we're also really insecure
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14044
if your companions suddenly startle and fly away it does not work very well for you to say jeez i wonder why everybody just left
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14045
he'll get the job done and it will feel good
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14046
when human beings use one thing to represent another we call that art
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14049
the first neurons came from jellyfish
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14050
this is an ancient partnership that we have just recently found out about
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14051
we make perfect sense of that image just as they make perfect sense of what they're doing because under the arc of the same sun on the same plains listening to the howls of the same dangers they became who they are and we became who we are
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14052
it's a story about us people being persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about
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14054
we're too busy keeping out the giraffes putting the kids on the bus in the morning getting ourselves to work on time surviving email overload and shop floor politics foraging for groceries throwing together meals escaping for a couple of precious hours in the evening into prime time tv or ted online getting from one end of the day to the other keeping out the giraffes
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