分类目录归档：mind
I was raised by lesbians in the mountains,
and I sort of came like a forest gnome to New York City a while back.
(Laughter)
Really messed with my head, but I'll get into that later.
I'll start with wh
Imagine being unable to say, "I am hungry," "I am in pain,"
"thank you," or "I love you."
Being trapped inside your body,
a body that doesn't respond to commands.
Surrounded by people,
yet utterly alo
So in college,
I was a government major,
which means I had to write a lot of papers.
Now, when a normal student writes a paper,
they might spread the work out a little like this.
So, you know --
(Laug
Chris Anderson: This is such a strange thing.
Your software, Linux, is in millions of computers,
it probably powers much of the Internet.
And I think that there are, like,
a billion and a half active
I recognized the roles that were placed on me very early.
One persistent concept that I observed --
existing in our language, in our media --
was that women are not only supposed to have children,
the
Consider the following statement:
human beings only use 10 percent of their brain capacity.
Well, as a neuroscientist, I can tell you
that while Morgan Freeman delivered this line
with the gravitas th
Ever since computers were invented,
we've been trying to make them smarter and more powerful.
From the abacus, to room-sized machines,
to desktops, to computers in our pockets.
And are now designing a
I think I'll start out and just talk a
little bit about what exactly autism is
autism is a very big continuum that goes
from very severe the child remains
nonverbal all the way up to brilliant
scienti
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so people want a lot of things out of
life but I think more than anything else
they want happiness Aristotle called
happiness the chief good the end towards
which all other things aim
Transcriber: Andrea McDonough Reviewer: Jessica Ruby
In the 11th and 12th centuries,
most English commoners were illiterate.
Since they had no way to learn the Bible,
the clergy came up with an invent