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so what I want to regale you with today

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is a really an extension of Barbara's

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talk a footnote really if you will about

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the situation that we're really in and

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why so I'm going to slide through a few

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of these slides quickly because of the

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time limitation and I will be just a

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Warren Yan will be reading two of them

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so that's just this necessary but we

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have a list of scientific mysteries here

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and I've organized them somewhat

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randomly we have in particular very

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unusual in this year eclipse and nominal

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anomalies and right outside that door

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into your left you will see a pendulum

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that relates to that and relates to the

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workshop on Sunday which I highly urge

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you to read about at the very back of

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your program because it's really going

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to be a unique and fascinating thing

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that ties into a one-time amazing

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eclipse on the 21st of August through

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the United States so just as a tip for

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that we have we have met mysteries

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involving how we can heal how we how our

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bodies interact with the world

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mysteries involving things we shouldn't

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be able to do or see or know mysteries

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that defy classification and I divide

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them into that our field is to expand

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the boundaries in three

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areas what can be perceived or

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experienced or imagined what can be

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altered by intention what can be learned

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about anomalous experiences so I've kind

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of classify them that way what can be

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perceived you have ESP or from of

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viewing clairvoyance dowsing near-death

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experiences and UFOs and alien abduction

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also have to do with how we perceive

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things what can be altered by intention

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we should not be able to alter the

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things that can be altered by just

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intention and there's non human

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intention involved in post-mortem

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and finally what can be learned about

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the way we experience these anomalous

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the study of first-person inquiry the

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study of altered states of consciousness

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of paranormal belief what causes someone

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to believe and experience in this what

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happens when someone is traumatized and

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suddenly these these abilities get

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clicked on turns on and we have a

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variety of centers for this work the

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ones in white are the ones that are no

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longer with us including Yale and of

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course pear the Ryan Research Center at

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Duke the first one I was there while it

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was still in operation

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and a number of these are really pretty

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pretty weak in terms of an ability to

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conduct original research and ours is

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really really the strong one here and we

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don't really know what the Department of

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is doing although me maybe John

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Alexander can tell us something about

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them so so this is what it's kind of

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down to and so the question I have is

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why does mainstream scientists tell us

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close that door and so again the one I

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was going to read in contemplating these

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mysteries what seems equally mysterious

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is the accountable lack of official

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interest in the event investigation of

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such anomalous phenomena anomalous wide

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because they cannot be accounted for by

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the prevailing model of reality what

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keeps such phenomena from being

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universally deemed among the most

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there's a scale there's a continuum and

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it starts this is a cartoon

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representation see here we have

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sociology at the far end sociology is

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just applied psychology but psychology

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is just apply biology but biology is

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just applied chemistry which is just

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applied physics way over here Oh

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mathematics and so that the idea of that

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that continuum is extends to more than

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Lauren something softer and softer ways

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of looking at learning and so we have

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soft humanities sliding toward the real

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thing right hard science objective

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double-blind randomized also naive

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the justification is that hard science

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yields deep facts and grants soft

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humanities yields opinion and the

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imaginary hard science yields salvific

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it's our Savior soft humanities yields

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intellectual property to be sold through

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iTunes what is science as we know it a

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set of methods a set of findings and a

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set of ethical principles that's what

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science is what is it not it's not a

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belief system that relies on unwarranted

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presuppositions and unacknowledged it is

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not a filter to establish a boundary

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between what should or shouldn't be

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explored and it is not the possession of

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gatekeepers and priests who control

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careers and funding now I'm going to

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talk a little bit about what controls

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all this and I think of it as a tower

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the metaphor in my mind for the regnant

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paradigm which we've all heard about for

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50 years from Thomas Kuhn is I think of

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it as a tower towering over us and it's

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that regnant paradigm is what I call a

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mimetic system and I'm going to go

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through this quickly because many of you

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are familiar with meme theory in general

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memes are cultural forms that are

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perpetuated in a way parallel to or

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similar to Darwinian evolution of

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biological forms and in doing so they

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form systems and if they do so they

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survive better they do better and there

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are some of them that

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become so successful that they in effect

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appears to be parasitic on their hosts

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and we are their hosts the mimetic

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organism is an in that for example an

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ideology that convinces you to give up

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your life or give up your family or give

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up something really precious give up

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your soul it operates like an organism

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that seeks to flourish and its hosts

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expense and it has a life cycle it

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starts you know at the end at the bottom

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right now we have the trunk cult for me

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you know we're so blessed to serve you

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master then if it if it prospers if it

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defends itself if it continues to

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strengthen if it chokes off its rivals

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even a way of life

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and finally if it becomes completely

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dominant we call it just the way things

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are it becomes invisible it disappears

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what was the what was the belief system

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of the German people during the height

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of Nazi glory the way things are what

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was what was the ruling dominant

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paradigm to medieval village in Europe

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it was just the way things are if we

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indigenous tribe what will we find they

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don't have a religion it's just the way

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things are the world is filled with

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spirits and taboo whatever that's just

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the way things are if that's the case

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could that apply to us

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could we be living under such a system

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such a memetic organism parasitic to

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humanity if it were true how would we

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know we could know because we would be

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able to spot a collection of related

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memes that's aggressively defended even

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though those dreams have no solid ground

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unacknowledged presuppositions accepted

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as truth secondly they would have

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defenders that aggressively defend their

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right to control what we think and

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memes which seems peripheral and

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insignificant but are actually essential

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to the entire system and what could they

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be those essential memes invalidate any

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possible ideological competitor so

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before the game even starts the regnant

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the way a very successful biological

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entity might be able to do so three

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just the way things are number one the

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imagination creativity any limit on

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in fact it threatens our very human

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nature which is to pursue the limitless

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the physical universe and number three

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coincidence is meaningless right it's

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just a coincidence you know I don't care

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how many times you show me the anomaly

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the remote viewing three hundred times

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doesn't matter it's just a coincidence

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the odds 30 billion to one synchronicity

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mystical in sense what is coincidence

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it's random and in this belief system

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that means it's me because meaning

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cannot originate from randomness why

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it's just the way things are why would

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you want to study why would any of us

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want to study things that are inherently

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meaningless superstitious and yet there

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is nothing within science that

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determines that coincidence must be

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meaningless that order cannot emerge

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from randomness from picking up three

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pairs in a row when you're talking about

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the parents that's it that is a matter

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of faith now there are in my view three

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intentionality and there's randomness

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which is neither one its unfriend

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earnest is unpredictable on an instance

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by instance basis when you throw that

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coin you don't know what it's gonna do

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the next time and yet over time we have

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faith that it will average out if I toss

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the coin a million times and it comes up

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heads all right that's not an anomaly

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just keep tossing until it comes up

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the only source of meaning is in tension

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and we are the only source of meaningful

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intention therefore only we create

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meaning there is no larger source

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field it's it's it's us thus the

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paradigm establishes humans in the place

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of God's the sole creators of meaning

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the sole creators of truth itself this

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this is what it delivers to you you are

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it you may be the cancer of this planet

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but you're the crown of creation to be

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as gods when did we start wanting to do

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that I'll tell you where it first

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appears Genesis 1 to be as gods that's

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the carrot the stick is what we feel

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when we apply for grants or recognition

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or plausibility I suppose even these

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windows up here if you see over there

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the man pointing he's identified as

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science he's pointing to

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some sort of imperfection in her

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argument she on the other hand is is us

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funding and this woman over here is

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straining to hear the announcements this

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is low by the way Louis Comfort Tiffany

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thank you well that's the payoff so let

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me summarize by saying in metaphor not

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in not I'm not saying literally there's

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a secret monster running our lives it's

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an alien force it's a metaphor

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I think this planet has been taken over

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by a nonhuman parasite for which

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humanity is the host and the agent and

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we call it the regnant paradigm that's

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what we're up against around this Idol

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or arrayed aggressions and defenses

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because it's competing successfully to

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maintain its exclusive dominance of our

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mind base just the way things are this

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metaphorical entity is in the process as

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I speak of sacrificing the entire

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biosphere to its altar in exchange for a

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promise to be as gods any possible

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challenge is neutralized in advance as

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just meaningless going therefore I call

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it the cult of the meaningless qohen

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sense the secret hidden invisible only

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the emergence and detection of meaning

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from randomness and break the spell and

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break the tree so what we do is we

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encounter anomalies which are in the

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nature

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of twinners and throughout the ages

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those coincidences have been what

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warrants belief systems

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what warrants religions what warrants

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ways of life are those anomalies those

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coins we maintain that coincidence can

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be a source of meaning we maintain that

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thank you very much

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I see a certain problem with this

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objection to meaninglessness because I

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would argue that the the notion of

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meaningless events was is actually one

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of the most important scientific

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philosophical and moral advances of the

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last four hundred years that in

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traditional cultures and this is not

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just characteristic of Western history

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but all over the world when people are

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convinced that everything happens for a

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reason whatever anything bad happens

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they start looking for who made it

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happen oh my uncle got sick well where's

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the witch who cursed him that I mean

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we're we're we're familiar with that

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from the 1600s in Europe but it is

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characteristic of cultures all over the

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world and I think that the notion that

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started to arise during the

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Enlightenment but only really took hold

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with the discovery of quantum mechanics

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in the 20th century that there are

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events that have no causes and happen

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for no reason is is an important

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cultural antidote to this urge to blame

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specific other people for anything bad

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that happens thank you of course

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randomness is an absolute necessity to

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double-blind you know to to Orthodox

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research it depends on random survey

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participants random polling the

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double-blind process is about randomness

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so the funny thing is that we that

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that's where the meaning comes from if

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you remove the randomness from a

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double-blind experiment

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you lose the double blinds so so it's

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it's a very it's a weird you know

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randomness is weird and so on the one

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hand I agree with you on another hand

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science itself is saying it's meaningful

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in that way it's necessary I'm not sure

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exactly why we thought Hillary Clinton

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was going to win the presidency given

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the power of randomness but it failed us

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but anyway thank you for that

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I'm George chance James you've done a

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nice job of anticipating some of the

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things I'm gonna say on Saturday thank

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you very much

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and I wanted to ask you about okay we've

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got this monster this cult and I want to

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see if maybe there's an Achilles heel

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and whether the Achilles heel is science

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itself and it has to do with the idea of

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when you sort of talked about the

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principles of science one of the things

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I didn't quite see there is you know

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science is trying to figure out what

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nature is telling us you know what the

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world is telling us so yeah there are

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paradigms that we impose and you know

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there's the kuhn idea of the paradigms

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and all that stuff but but we're

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actually here a scientist to see what is

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nature really telling us and if you look

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at the fragmentation that's taking place

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in the frontiers of science the

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anomalies that are all over that it

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almost seemed like maybe if science

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actually continues to pursue the

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frontiers and those anomalies that the

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cult will end up being destroyed from

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within so I wanted to ask whether you

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think that might be well Barbara was

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somewhat pessimistic about that after

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six decades I think basically what I

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wanted to say is that this isn't just

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some set of policies or administrators

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that we're up against this is something

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really really deep in the culture that's

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taken things over and I think that I

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think

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you cited Coonan that's good too because

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it is possible that there will be a new

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openness as generation faces these

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problems and seeks answers in new and

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different places and seeks the roots of

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the situation we're sailing into so when

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enterprise you represented it in a limit

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in in a linear fashion that started out

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with the humanities or whatever and went

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over to the the queen of the sciences

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mathematics I just want to point out

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that maybe if we drew that as cyclical

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we would realize that mathematics itself

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is pure consciousness

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there ain't no numbers out there it's a

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it's a cognitive thing I'm not putting

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it down it's beautiful it's wonderful

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but it is a mental creation and

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therefore it should be at the beginning

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of that line rather than the end or as

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in 2010 we had a conference here we have

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we brought in 80 of the top supposedly

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theologians philosophers and

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cosmologists to debate why is there

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anything we got a grant for that and

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there was only one thing that everybody

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agreed on and that is that mathematics

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is a cognitive system but it Maps

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something that is platonic in the plate

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ina realm so I think that that your

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point is very valid though that

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mathematics is considered yeah you know

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hard hard beyond hard science and yet

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it's completely metaphysical so I agree

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with your idea of the circle thank you