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15,215 | 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 e... | 1 |
15,218 | 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 patie... | 0 |
15,220 | 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 emo... | 0 |
15,223 | 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 rev... | 1 |
15,224 | 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... | 1 |
15,225 | 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 ... | 0 |
15,227 | 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 ... | 0 |
15,228 | 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 sta... | 1 |
15,229 | now how did you do that's you you were beaten by the chimps | 1 |
15,232 | 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 | 1 |
15,233 | 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 awa... | 1 |
15,235 | 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 | 1 |
15,239 | s public and this is you here you come ooh | 0 |
15,240 | 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 mor... | 0 |
15,241 | 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 | 0 |
15,242 | 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 | 0 |
15,243 | 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 ... | 0 |
15,244 | 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 dele... | 1 |
15,245 | 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 | 1 |
15,246 | okay so perfect perfect | 1 |
15,247 | 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 m... | 1 |
15,248 | okay finally truth will be brought here okay see it's done it's almost done here we go | 0 |
15,249 | 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 | 0 |
15,251 | 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 lea... | 0 |
15,254 | 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 | 1 |
15,256 | 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 | 0 |
15,263 | 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 | 1 |
15,266 | 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... | 1 |
15,268 | 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 | 1 |
15,271 | 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 act... | 1 |
15,275 | 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 | 1 |
15,276 | 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... | 0 |
15,277 | 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 argumen... | 0 |
15,279 | 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 g... | 0 |
15,280 | 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 ... | 0 |
15,282 | 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 ... | 0 |
15,284 | 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... | 0 |
15,286 | 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 de... | 0 |
15,288 | 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... | 0 |
15,304 | 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 ... | 1 |
15,305 | 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 m... | 1 |
15,306 | 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 h... | 1 |
15,308 | make somebody else really really rich and finally never ever join the beatles | 1 |
15,311 | 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 ex... | 1 |
15,314 | 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 ear... | 0 |
15,316 | 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... | 0 |
15,318 | 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 ... | 0 |
15,319 | 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 r... | 0 |
15,321 | 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 power... | 0 |
15,324 | 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 | 1 |
15,325 | 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 | 1 |
15,327 | 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 | 1 |
15,328 | 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 | 1 |
15,330 | 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 th... | 0 |
15,331 | 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 a... | 0 |
15,332 | 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 opti... | 0 |
15,333 | 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 real... | 0 |
15,335 | 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... | 0 |
15,337 | 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 | 1 |
15,339 | 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 | 1 |
15,341 | 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 activi... | 1 |
15,344 | 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 ... | 0 |
15,345 | 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 m... | 0 |
15,347 | 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 tende... | 0 |
15,352 | 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 | 1 |
15,356 | 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... | 0 |
15,357 | 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 | 0 |
15,359 | 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 | 1 |
15,360 | i'm used to a stationary mic it's the sensible shoe of public address | 1 |
15,361 | but you clamp this thing on my head and something happens i just become | 1 |
15,363 | 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 | 1 |
15,364 | 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 w... | 1 |
15,367 | 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... | 0 |
15,369 | 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... | 0 |
15,372 | 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... | 1 |
15,376 | 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 c... | 1 |
15,378 | 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 releas... | 1 |
15,379 | 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 thin... | 1 |
15,381 | 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 ... | 0 |
15,385 | 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 t... | 0 |
15,387 | 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 unobt... | 0 |
15,388 | 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 famil... | 1 |
15,389 | 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 | 1 |
15,394 | 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 rem... | 0 |
15,396 | 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 cou... | 0 |
15,397 | 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 quic... | 0 |
15,400 | 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 | 1 |
15,401 | yes lots of laughter yeah exactly lots of laughter quite a bit of embarrassment | 1 |
15,402 | 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 | 1 |
15,403 | 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 | 1 |
15,406 | 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 | 1 |
15,407 | 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 | 1 |
15,408 | 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 f... | 1 |
15,409 | 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 i... | 1 |
15,410 | 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 perso... | 0 |
15,411 | 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... | 0 |
15,412 | 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 e... | 0 |
15,413 | 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... | 0 |
15,414 | 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... | 0 |
15,415 | 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... | 0 |
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