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so i did that night i read all of those articles and found a bunch more when i came to see her the next morning i had to admit that it looks like there is some evidence that marijuana can offer medical benefits and i suggested that if she really was interested she should try it you know what she said this old retired english professor she said i did try it about six months ago it was amazing i've been using it every day since it's the best drug i've discovered i don't know why it took me years to discover this stuff it's amazing
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that was the moment at which i realized i needed to learn something about medical marijuana because what i was prepared for in medical school bore no relationship to reality so i started reading more articles i started talking to researchers i started talking to doctors and most importantly i started listening to patients i ended up writing a book based on those conversations and that book really revolved around three surprises surprises to me anyway one i already alluded to that there really are some benefits to medical marijuana those benefits may not be as huge or as stunning as some of the most avid proponents of medical marijuana would have us believe but they are real surprise number two medical marijuana does have some risks
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robin was in her early when i met her she looked though like she was in her late she had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for the last years her hands were gnarled by arthritis her spine was crooked she had to rely on a wheelchair to get around she looked weak and frail and i guess physically she probably was but emotionally psychologically she was among the toughest people i've ever met and when i sat down next to her in a medical marijuana dispensary in northern california to ask her about why she turned to medical marijuana what it did for her and how it helped her she started out by telling me things that i had heard from many patients before it helped with her anxiety it helped with her pain when her pain was better she slept better and i'd heard all that before but then she said something that i'd never heard before and that is that it gave her control over her life and over her health 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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well the night is young but the book has been out for half a year and nothing terrible has happened none of the dire professional consequences has taken place i haven't been exiled from the city of cambridge but what i wanted to talk about are two of these hot buttons that have aroused the strongest response in the reviews that the blank slate has received i'll just put that list up for a few seconds and see if you can guess which two i would estimate that probably two of these topics inspired probably percent of the reaction in the various reviews and radio interviews it's not violence and war it's not race it's not gender it's not marxism it's not nazism they are the arts and parenting
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a famous quotation can be found if you look on the web you can find it in literally scores of english core in or about december human nature changed a paraphrase of a quote by virginia woolf and there's some debate as to what she actually meant by that but it's very clear looking at these that it's used now as a way of saying that all forms of appreciation of art that were in place for centuries or millennia in the century were discarded the beauty and pleasure in art probably a human universal were began to be considered saccharine or kitsch or commercial barnett newman had a famous quote that the impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty which was considered bourgeois or tacky and here's just one example i mean this is perhaps a representative example of the visual depiction of the female form in the century here is a representative example of the depiction of the female form in the century and as you can see there something has changed in the way the elite arts appeal to the senses 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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the blank slate was an influential idea in the century here are a few quotes indicating that man has no nature from the historian jose ortega y man has no instincts from the anthropologist ashley montagu the human brain is capable of a full range of behaviors and predisposed to none from the late scientist stephen jay gould there are a number of reasons to doubt that the human mind is a blank slate and some of them just come from common sense 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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also genetics and neuroscience are increasingly showing that the brain is intricately structured this is a recent study by the paul thompson and his colleagues in which they using measured the distribution of gray matter that is the outer layer of the cortex in a large sample of pairs of people they coded correlations in the thickness of gray matter in different parts of the brain using a false color scheme in which no difference is coded as purple and any color other than purple indicates a statistically significant correlation well this is what happens when you pair people up at random by definition two people picked at random can't have correlations in the distribution of gray matter in the cortex this is what happens in people who share half of their fraternal twins 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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asked the public in sweden this is how they answered the swedish public answered like this fifty percent thought it had doubled percent said it's more or less the same said it had halved this is the best data from the disaster researchers and it goes up and down and it goes to the second world war and after that it starts to fall and it keeps falling and it's down to much less than half the world has been much much more capable as the decades go by to protect people from this you know so only percent of the swedes know this so i went to the zoo and i asked the chimps
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now how did you do that's you you were beaten by the chimps
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the first thing to think about the future is to know about the present 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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the lower merged with the upper hump and the camel dies and we have a dromedary world with one hump only the percent in poverty has decreased still it's appalling that so many remain in extreme poverty we still have this group almost a billion over there but that can be ended now the challenge we have now is to get away from that understand where the majority is and that is very clearly shown in this question we asked what is the percentage of the world's one children who have got those basic vaccines against measles and other things that we have had for many years or percent now this is what the u s public and the swedish answered look at the swedish result you know what the right answer is
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so ola told me take these devices you are invited to media conferences give it to them and measure what the media know and ladies and gentlemen for the first time the informal results from a conference with u s media and then lately from the european union media
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s public and this is you here you come ooh
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come i think it's like this that everyone is aware that there are countries and there are areas where girls have great difficulties they are stopped when they go to school and it's disgusting but in the majority of the world where most people in the world live most countries girls today go to school as long as boys more or less that doesn't mean that gender equity is achieved not at all they still are confined to terrible terrible limitations but schooling is there in the world today
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it's the number of people on each income from one dollar a day see there was one hump here around one dollar a day and then there was one hump here somewhere between and dollars the world was two groups 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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the problem is that the media doesn't know themselves what shall we do about this ola do we have any ideas yes i have an idea but first i'm so sorry that you were beaten by the chimps fortunately i will be able to comfort you by showing why it was not your fault actually
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yes i have an idea but first i'm so sorry that you were beaten by the chimps fortunately i will be able to comfort you by showing why it was not your fault actually then i will equip you with some tricks for beating the chimps in the future that's basically what i will do but first let's look at why are we so ignorant and it all starts in this place it's it's a city in northern sweden it's a neighborhood where i grew up and it's a neighborhood with a large problem actually it has exactly the same problem which existed in all the neighborhoods where you grew up as well
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i want to talk about what we learn from conservatives and i'm at a stage in life where i'm yearning for my old days so i want to confess to you that when i was a kid indeed i was a conservative i was a young republican a teenage republican a leader in the teenage republicans indeed i was the youngest member of any delegation in the convention that elected ronald reagan to be the republican nominee for president now i know what you're thinking
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you're thinking doesn't say this fact and indeed this is just one of the examples of the junk that flows across the tubes in these here 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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okay so perfect perfect
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in the good old days when this republican ran that company their greatest work was work that built on the past right all of the great disney works were works that took works that were in the public domain and them or waited until they entered the public domain to them to celebrate this add on creativity indeed mickey mouse himself of course as steamboat willie is a of the then very dominant very popular steamboat bill by buster keaton this man was a extraordinaire he is the celebration and ideal of exactly this kind of creativity but then the company passes through this dark stage to this democrat wildly different this is the mastermind behind the eventual passage of what we call the sonny bono copyright term extension act extending the term of existing copyrights by years so that no one could do to disney what disney did to the brothers grimm 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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okay finally truth will be brought here okay see it's done it's almost done here we go
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youngest republican okay we're finished that's it please save this great here we go and is fixed finally okay but no this is really besides the point
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i don't want to get into that you know that's not my point they go to church by which i mean they do lots of things for free for each other they hold potluck dinners indeed they sell books about potluck dinners they serve food to poor people they share they give they give away for free and it's the very same people leading wall street firms who on sundays show up and share and not only food right these very same people are strong believers in lots of contexts in the limits on the markets
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so i'm going to bake bread for you in the meantime i'm also talking to you so my life is going to be complicated bear with me first of all a little bit of audience participation i have two loaves of bread here one is a supermarket standard white bread pre packaged which i'm told is called a
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but i do want to talk to you about something that i think is dear to all of us and that is bread something which is as simple as our basic most fundamental human staple and i think few of us spend the day without eating bread in some form unless you're on one of these californian low diets bread is standard
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when i go to a party and people ask me what do i do and i say i'm a professor their eyes glaze over 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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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 and there's a passage in it which i would love to share with you it speaks so eloquently to the problem writing a book on magic i explain and i'm asked by magic people mean miracles acts and supernatural powers i answer tricks not real magic 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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but i'm not going to explain it all to you i'm going to do what philosophers do here's how a philosopher explains the sawing trick you know the sawing trick the philosopher says i'm going to explain to you how that's done you see the magician doesn't really saw the lady in half
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this is a figure that i love bradley petrie and dumais you may think that i've cheated that i've put a little whiter boundary there how many of you see that sort of boundary with the necker cube floating in front of the circles can you see it well you know in effect the really there in a certain sense your brain is actually computing that boundary the boundary that goes right there but now notice there are two ways of seeing the cube right it's a necker cube everybody can see the two ways of seeing the cube ok can you see the four ways of seeing the cube because there's another way of seeing it if you're seeing it as a cube floating in front of some circles some black circles there's another way of seeing it as a cube on a black background as seen through a piece of swiss cheese
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hawkins this morning was describing his attempt to get theory and a good big theory into the neuroscience and he's right this is a problem harvard medical school once i was at a talk director of the lab said in our lab we have a saying if you work on one that's neuroscience if you work on two neurons that's psychology
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of derision and and growls because they think that's impossible you can't explain consciousness the very chutzpah of somebody thinking that you could explain consciousness is just out of the question my late lamented friend bob a fine philosopher in one of his books philosophical explanations is commenting on the ethos of philosophy the way philosophers go about their business and he says you know philosophers love rational argument 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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and he says you know philosophers love rational argument 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 their heads explode the idea is to have an argument that is so powerful that it knocks out your opponents but in fact that doesn't change people's minds at all it's very hard to change people's minds about something like consciousness and i finally figured out the reason for that the reason for that is that everybody's an expert on consciousness we heard the other day that everybody's got a strong opinion about video games they all have an idea for a video game even if they're not experts
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but with regard to consciousness people seem to think each of us seems to think i am an expert simply by being conscious i know all about this and so you tell them your theory and they say no no that's not the way consciousness is no you've got it all wrong and they say this with an amazing confidence and so what i'm going to try to do today is to shake your confidence because i know the feeling i can feel it myself i want to shake your confidence that you know your own innermost minds that you are yourselves authoritative about your own consciousness that's the order of the day here now this nice picture shows a thought balloon a thought bubble
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this nice picture shows a thought balloon a thought bubble i think everybody understands what that means that's supposed to exhibit the stream of consciousness this is my favorite picture of consciousness that's ever been done it's a saul steinberg of course it was a new yorker cover and this fellow here is looking at the painting by braque that reminds him of the word baroque barrack bark poodle suzanne r he's off to the races 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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we're just made of cells about trillion of them not a single one of those cells is conscious not a single one of those cells knows who you are or cares somehow we have to explain how when you put together teams armies battalions of hundreds of millions of little robotic unconscious cells not so different really from a bacterium each one of them the result is this i mean just look at it the content there's color there's ideas there's memories there's history and somehow all that content of consciousness is accomplished by the busy activity of those hoards of neurons how is that possible many people just think it isn't possible at all they think no there can't be any sort of naturalistic explanation of consciousness 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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this means that a lot of people are just left completely dissatisfied and incredulous when i attempt to explain consciousness so this is the problem so i have to do a little bit of the sort of work that a lot of you won't like for the same reason that you don't like to see a magic trick explained to you how many of you here if somebody some smart starts telling you how a particular magic trick is done you sort of want to block your ears and say no no i don't want to know don't take the thrill of it away i'd rather be mystified don't tell me the answer a lot of people feel that way about consciousness i've discovered and i'm sorry if i impose some clarity some understanding on you you'd better leave now if you don't want to know some of these tricks
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he never did those things he didn't even try to do those things people's memories inflate what they think they saw and the same is true of consciousness now let's see if this will work all right let's just watch this watch it carefully 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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now this is an example one of many of a phenomenon that's now being studied quite a bit it's one that i predicted in the last page or two of my book consciousness explained where i said if you did experiments of this sort you'd find that people were unable to pick up really large changes if there's time at the end i'll show you the much more dramatic case now how can it be that there are all those changes going on and that we're not aware of them well earlier today jeff hawkins mentioned the way your eye the way your eye moves around three or four times a second he didn't mention the speed
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pre frontal cortex does lots of things but one of the most important things it does is an experience simulator pilots practice in flight simulators so that they don't make real mistakes in planes human beings have this marvelous adaptation that they can actually have experiences in their heads before they try them out in real life this is a trick that none of our ancestors could do and that no other animal can do quite like we can it's a marvelous adaptation 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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let's see how your experience simulators are working let's just run a quick diagnostic before i proceed with the rest of the talk here's two different futures that i invite you to contemplate you can try to simulate them and tell me which one you think you might prefer one of them is winning the lottery this is about million dollars and the other is becoming paraplegic
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and then finally some of you recognize this young photo of pete best who was the original drummer for the beatles until they you know sent him out on an errand and snuck away and picked up ringo on a tour well in when pete best was interviewed yes he's still a drummer yes he's a studio musician he had this to say i'm happier than i would have been with the beatles okay there's something important to be learned from these people and it is the secret of happiness here it is finally to be revealed first accrue wealth power and prestige then lose it
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make somebody else really really rich and finally never ever join the beatles
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took our monet prints to the hospital and we asked these patients to rank them from the one they liked the most to the one they liked the least we then gave them the choice between number three and number four like everybody else they said gee thanks doc that's great i could use a new print i'll take number three we explained we would have number three mailed to them we gathered up our materials and we went out of the room and counted to a half hour
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when you have minutes to speak two million years seems like a really long time but two million years is nothing and yet in two million years the human brain has nearly tripled in mass going from the one quarter pound brain of our ancestor here to the almost three pound meatloaf that everybody here has between their ears what is it about a big brain that nature was so eager for every one of us to have one well it turns out when brains triple in size they don't just get three times bigger they gain new structures 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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the data you failed the pop quiz and you're hardly five minutes into the lecture because the fact is that a year after losing the use of their legs and a year after winning the lotto lottery winners and are equally happy with their lives don't feel too bad about failing the first pop quiz because everybody fails all of the pop quizzes all of the time the research that my laboratory has been doing that economists and psychologists around the country have been doing has revealed something really quite startling to us something we call the impact bias which is the tendency for the simulator to work badly for the simulator to make you believe that different outcomes are more different than in fact they really are 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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it's precisely the same remarkable machinery that all off us have human beings have something that we might think of as a psychological immune system a system of cognitive processes largely non conscious cognitive processes that help them change their views of the world so that they can feel better about the worlds in which they find themselves like sir thomas you have this machine unlike sir thomas you seem not to know it we synthesize happiness but we think happiness is a thing to be found now you don't need me to give you too many examples of people synthesizing happiness i suspect
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though i'm going to show you some experimental evidence you don't have to look very far for evidence i took a copy of the new york times and tried to find some instances of people synthesizing happiness here are three guys synthesizing happiness i'm better off physically financially mentally i don't have one minute's regret it was a glorious experience i believe it turned out for the best
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who are these characters who are so damn happy the first one is jim wright some of you are old enough to remember he was the chairman of the house of representatives and he resigned in disgrace when this young republican named newt gingrich found out about a shady book deal he had done he lost everything the most powerful democrat in the country lost everything he lost his money he lost his power what does he have to say all these years later i am so much better off physically financially mentally and in almost every other way what other way would there be to be better off he's pretty much covered them there bickham is somebody you've never heard of
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australian jewel beetle is dimpled glossy and brown the female is flightless the male flies looking of course for a hot female when he finds one he and mates there's another species in the outback homo sapiens the male of this species has a massive brain that he uses to hunt for cold beer
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now as it happens these bottles are dimpled glossy and just the right shade of brown to tickle the fancy of these beetles the males swarm all over the bottles trying to mate they lose all interest in the real females classic case of the male leaving the female for the bottle
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it looked like they saw reality as it is but apparently not evolution had given them a hack a female is anything dimpled glossy and brown the bigger the better
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now you might say beetles sure they're very simple creatures but surely not mammals mammals don't rely on tricks well i won't dwell on this but you get the idea
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i love a great mystery and i'm fascinated by the greatest unsolved mystery in science perhaps because it's personal it's about who we are and i can't help but be curious the mystery is this what is the relationship between your brain and your conscious experiences such as your experience of the taste of chocolate or the feeling of velvet now this mystery is not new in thomas huxley wrote how it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the genie when aladdin rubbed his lamp now huxley knew that brain activity and conscious experiences are correlated but he didn't know why
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now this mystery is not new in thomas huxley wrote how it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the genie when aladdin rubbed his lamp now huxley knew that brain activity and conscious experiences are correlated but he didn't know why to the science of his day it was a mystery in the years since huxley science has learned a lot about brain activity but the relationship between brain activity and conscious experiences is still a mystery why why have we made so little progress well some experts think that we can't solve this problem because we lack the necessary concepts and intelligence we don't expect monkeys to solve problems in quantum mechanics and as it happens we can't expect our species to solve this problem either well i disagree
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why why have we made so little progress well some experts think that we can't solve this problem because we lack the necessary concepts and intelligence we don't expect monkeys to solve problems in quantum mechanics and as it happens we can't expect our species to solve this problem either well i disagree i'm more optimistic i think we've simply made a false assumption once we fix it we just might solve this problem today i'd like tell you what that assumption is why it's false and how to fix it let's begin with a question do we see reality as it is i open my eyes and i have an experience that i describe as a red tomato a meter away as a result i come to believe that in reality there's a red tomato a meter away
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let's begin with a question do we see reality as it is i open my eyes and i have an experience that i describe as a red tomato a meter away as a result i come to believe that in reality there's a red tomato a meter away i then close my eyes and my experience changes to a gray field but is it still the case that in reality there's a red tomato a meter away i think so but could i be wrong could i be misinterpreting the nature of my perceptions we have misinterpreted our perceptions before we used to think the earth is flat because it looks that way discovered that we were wrong then we thought that the earth is the center of the universe again because it looks that way
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well tell us that about a third of the brain's cortex is engaged in vision when you simply open your eyes and look about this room billions of neurons and trillions of are engaged now this is a bit surprising because to the extent that we think about vision at all we think of it as like a camera it just takes a picture of objective reality as it is now there is a part of vision that's like a camera the eye has a lens that focuses an image on the back of the eye where there are million so the eye is like a camera but that doesn't explain the billions of neurons and trillions of that are engaged in vision
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i'm my husband is my parents are in their late and olivia the dog is so let's talk about aging 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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there it is and it's good to start early you know for a vain female like myself it's very hard to age in this culture inside i feel good i feel charming seductive sexy nobody else sees that
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this is grace dammann she has been in a wheelchair for six years after a terrible car accident she says that there is nothing more sensual than a hot shower that every drop of water is a blessing to the senses she doesn't see herself as disabled in her mind she's still surfing in the ocean ethel a feisty beloved activist in the place where i live in california she wears red patent shoes and her mantra is that one scarf is nice but two is better she has been a widow for nine years but she's not looking for another mate 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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mary oliver says in one of her poems tell me what is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life me i intend to live passionately when do we start aging society decides when we are old usually around when we get medicare but we really start aging at birth we are aging right now and we all experience it differently we all feel younger than our real age because the spirit never ages
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we are aging right now and we all experience it differently we all feel younger than our real age because the spirit never ages i am still sophia loren look at her she says that everything you see she owes to spaghetti i tried it and gained pounds in the wrong places but attitude aging is also attitude and health but my real mentor in this journey of aging is olga murray
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what have i lost in the last decades people of course places and the boundless energy of my youth and i'm beginning to lose independence and that scares me ram dass says that dependency hurts but if you accept it there is less suffering after a very bad stroke his ageless soul watches the changes in the body with tenderness and he is grateful to the people who help him what have i gained freedom i don't have to prove anything anymore i'm not stuck in the idea of who i was who i want to be or what other people expect me to be i don't have to please men anymore only animals i keep telling my to back off and let me enjoy what i still have
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ray were a team they were husband and wife despite the new york times' and vanity fair's best efforts recently they're not brothers
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here's charles when he was three so he would be this june we have a lot of cool celebrations that we're going to do the thing about their work is that most people come to the door of furniture i suspect you probably recognize this chair and some of the others i'm going to show you but we're going to first enter through the door of the big top the whole thing about this though is that you know why am i showing it is it because charles and ray made this film this is actually a training film for a clown college that they had they also practiced a clown act when the future of furniture was not nearly as auspicious as it turned out to be there is a picture of charles so let's watch the next clip
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this is the land it has many contrasts it is rough and it is flat in places it is cold in some it is hot too much rain falls on some areas and not enough on others
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i did that for two reasons first of all i wanted to give you a good visual first impression 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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i'm used to a stationary mic it's the sensible shoe of public address
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but you clamp this thing on my head and something happens i just become
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ladies and gentlemen i have devoted the past years of my life to designing books yes books you know the bound volumes with ink on paper you cannot turn them off with a switch tell your kids it all sort of started as a benign mistake like penicillin
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the first day of my graphic design training at penn state university the teacher lanny came into the room and he drew a picture of an apple on the blackboard and wrote the word apple underneath and he said ok lesson one listen up and he covered up the picture and he said you either say this and then he covered up the word or you show this but you don't do this because this is treating your audience like a moron
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and behold soon enough i was able to put this theory to the test on two books that i was working on for knopf the first was katharine hepburn's memoirs and the second was a biography of marlene dietrich now the hepburn book was written in a very conversational style it was like she was sitting across a table telling it all to you the dietrich book was an observation by her daughter it was a biography so the hepburn story is words and the dietrich story is pictures and so we did this so there you are
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all right so i got a collection of the paintings together and i looked at them and i them and i put them back together and so here's the design right and so here's the front and the spine and it's flat but the real story starts when you wrap it around a book and put it on the shelf ahh we come upon them the clandestine lovers
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narrator in front of the sub a mess screen will come into contact with the soft bodied creatures of the deep sea with the sub's lights switched off it is possible to see their the light produced when they collide with the mesh this is the first time it has ever been recorded so i recorded that with an intensified video camera that has about the sensitivity of the fully dark adapted human eye which means that really is what you would see if you took a dive in a submersible 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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that can make light and there are brittle stars that produce bands of light that dance along their arms this looks like a plant but it's actually an animal and it anchors itself in the sand by blowing up a balloon on the end of its stock so it can actually hold itself in very strong currents as you see here but if we collect it very gently and we bring it up into the lab and just squeeze it at the base of the stock it produces this light that from stem to the plume changing color as it goes from green to blue colorization and sound effects added for you viewing pleasure
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we're talking to something it looks like a little of string pearls basically in fact three strings of pearls and this was very consistent this was in the bahamas at about feet we basically have a chat room going on here because once it gets started everybody's talking and i think this is actually a shrimp that's releasing its chemicals into the water but the cool thing is we're talking to it we don't know what we're saying personally i think it's something sexy
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it's supposed to be attacking what's attacking the jellyfish but we did see a bunch of responses like this this guy is a little more contemplative hey wait a minute there's supposed to be something else there he's thinking about it but he's persistent he keeps coming back 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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i study it because i think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most occurs i also use it as a tool for visualizing and tracking pollution but mostly i'm entranced by it since my my first dive in a deep diving submersible when i went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays i've been a junky but i would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words and they were totally inadequate to the task i needed some way to share the experience directly and the first time i figured out that way was in this little single person submersible called deep this next video clip you're going to see how we stimulated the and the first thing you're going to see is a transect screen that is about a meter across
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they use it for finding food for attracting mates for defending against predators but when you get down to the bottom of the ocean that's where things get really strange and some of these animals are probably inspiration for the things you saw in but you don't have to travel to pandora to see them they're things like this this is a golden coral a bush it grows very slowly in fact it's thought that some of these are as much as years old which is one reason that bottom should not be allowed the other reason is this amazing bush glows 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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is we're imitating a lot of these displays this is an optical lure that i've used we call it the electronic jellyfish it's just blue that we can program to do different types of displays and we view it with a camera system i developed called eye sea that uses far red light that's invisible to most animals so it's unobtrusive so i just want to show you some of the responses we've elicited from animals in the deep sea
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email inspired me to dive into genealogy which i always thought was a very staid and proper field but it turns out it's going through a fascinating revolution and a controversial one partly this is because of and genetic testing but partly it's because of the internet there are sites that now take the approach to family trees collaboration and and what you do is you load your family tree on and then these sites search to see if the a j jacobs in your tree is the same as the a j jacobs in another tree and if it is then you can combine and then you combine and combine and combine until you get these massive mega family trees with thousands of people on them or even millions i'm on something on called the world family tree which has no less than a jaw dropping million people so that's million people connected by blood or marriage sometimes both
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i'm on it many of you are on it whether you know it or not and you can see the links here's my cousin she has no idea i exist but we are officially cousins we have just links between us and there's my cousin
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now i did not know what to make of this part of me was like okay when's he going to ask me to wire dollars to his nigerian bank right i also thought relatives do i want that i have enough trouble with some of the ones i have already and i won't name names but you know who you are but another part of me said this is remarkable here i am alone in my office but i'm not alone at all i'm connected to people around the world and that's four madison square gardens full of cousins and some of them are going to be great and some of them are going to be irritating but they're all related to me so this email inspired me to dive into genealogy which i always thought was a very staid and proper field but it turns out it's going through a fascinating revolution and a controversial one partly this is because of and genetic testing but partly it's because of the internet
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we all come from the same ancestor and you don't have to believe the literal bible version but scientists talk about y adam and eve and these were about to years ago we all have a bit of their in us they are our great great continue that for about times grandparents and so that means we literally all are biological cousins as well and estimates vary but probably the farthest cousin you have on earth is about a cousin now it's not just ancestors we share descendants
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they are our great great continue that for about times grandparents and so that means we literally all are biological cousins as well and estimates vary but probably the farthest cousin you have on earth is about a cousin now it's not just ancestors we share descendants if you have kids and they have kids look how quickly the descendants accumulate so in generations you're going to have thousands of offspring and millions of offspring number four a kinder world now i know that there are family feuds i have three sons so i see how they fight but i think that there's also a human bias to treat your family a little better than strangers 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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and there should be a pencil and i want you to pick somebody seated next to you and when i say go got seconds to draw your neighbor ok so everybody ready ok off you go got seconds better be fast come on those masterpieces ok stop all right now
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yes lots of laughter yeah exactly lots of laughter quite a bit of embarrassment
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am i hearing a few i think im hearing a few yup yup i think i probably am and exactly what happens every time every time you do this with adults mckim found this every time he did it with his students he got exactly the same response lots and lots of
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so look backwards my only recommendation here i want to see how many of you can get these things on the stage so come on there we go there we go thank you thank you oh i have another idea i wanted to there we go
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all right this is pretty good this is pretty good okay all right lets i suppose we'd better i'd better clear these up out of the way otherwise im going to trip over them all right 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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all right i think im going to take these off now because i cant see a damn thing when all right ok so ah that was fun
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and a reason for that we want to settle on an answer lifes complicated we want to figure out whats going on around us very quickly i suspect actually that the evolutionary biologists probably have lots of reasons for why we want to categorize new things very very quickly one of them might be you know when we see this funny thing is that a tiger just about to jump out and kill us or is it just some weird shadows on the tree we need to figure that out pretty fast well at least we did once most of us need to anymore i suppose this is some aluminum foil right you use it in the kitchen what it is it of course it is of course it is well not necessarily
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so here are some designers who are trying to understand what it might feel like to sleep in a confined space on an airplane and so they grabbed some very simple materials you can see and did this role play this kind of very crude role play just to get a sense of what it would be like for passengers if they were stuck in quite small places on airplanes this is one of our designers and putting himself through the experience of being an er patient now this is a real hospital in a real emergency room one of the reasons he chose to take this rather large video camera with him was because he want the doctors and nurses thinking he was actually sick and sticking something into him that he was going to regret later so anyhow he went there with his video camera and its kind of interesting to see what he brought back because when we looked at the video when he got back we saw minutes of this
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this is a guy named bob mckim he was a creativity researcher in the and and also led the stanford design program and in fact my friend and founder david kelley out there somewhere studied under him at stanford and he liked to do an exercise with his students where he got them to take a piece of paper and draw the person who sat next to them their neighbor very quickly just as quickly as they could and in fact were going to do that exercise right now you all have a piece of cardboard and a piece of paper
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he would point this out as evidence that we fear the judgment of our peers and that were embarrassed about showing our ideas to people we think of as our peers to those around us and this fear is what causes us to be conservative in our thinking so we might have a wild idea but were afraid to share it with anybody else ok so if you try the same exercise with kids they have no embarrassment at all they just quite happily show their masterpiece to whoever wants to look at it but as they learn to become adults they become much more sensitive to the opinions of others and they lose that freedom and they do start to become embarrassed
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and if starting a design firm lets say then you probably also want to create a place where people have the same kind of security where they have the same kind of security to take risks maybe have the same kind of security to play before founding david said that what he wanted to do was to form a company where all the employees are my best friends now that just self indulgence he knew that friendship is a short cut to play
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now that just self indulgence he knew that friendship is a short cut to play and he knew that it gives us a sense of trust and it allows us then to take the kind of creative risks that we need to take as designers and so that decision to work with his friends now he has of them was what got started and our studios like i think many creative workplaces today are designed to help people feel relaxed familiar with their surroundings comfortable with the people that working with it takes more than decor but i think all seen that creative companies do often have symbols in the workplace that remind people to be playful and that its a permissive environment so whether its this meeting room that we have in one our buildings at or at pixar where the animators work in wooden huts and decorated caves or at the where its famous for its beach volleyball courts and even this massive dinosaur skeleton with pink flamingos on it know the reason for the pink flamingos but anyway there in the garden or even in the swiss office of which perhaps has the most wacky ideas of all
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know the reason for the pink flamingos but anyway there in the garden or even in the swiss office of which perhaps has the most wacky ideas of all and my theory is so the swiss can prove to their californian colleagues that not boring so they have the slide and they even have a pole know what they do with that but they have one so all of these places have these symbols now our big symbol at is actually not so much the place its a thing and its actually something that we invented a few years ago or created a few years ago its a toy its called a finger blaster
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and its actually something that we invented a few years ago or created a few years ago its a toy its called a finger blaster and i forgot to bring one up with me so if somebody can reach under the chair next to them find something taped underneath it great if you could pass it up thanks david i appreciate it so this is a finger blaster and you will find that every one of you has got one taped under your chair and im going to run a little experiment
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