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I can't see the audience and I hate that.

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How many great grandparents are there
in the audience?

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I can't see anything.

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Okay, 
you probably wonder why I am sitting,

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the answer is,

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because I'm a great grandfather,

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not a good grandfather, 
a great grandfather.

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And everybody knows great grandparents
get to do any damn thing they please,

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including 
following my own grandfather's advice,

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which was whenever you give a talk 


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to thousands of people 
about Richard Feynman,

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sustain yourself. (laughter, applauds)

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This is an extremely slack operation,
and I'm a slack man,

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so I don't use these things.

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I decided when I said yes 
to do this thing

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that I really want to talk about is 
my friend Richard Feynman.

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I was one of the fortunate few 
that really get to know him,

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enjoy his presence. 


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And I'm going to tell you 
Richard Feynman I knew.

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I'm sure there are other people here
who can tell you Richard Feynman they knew,

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and it would probably be 
a different Richard Feynman.

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Richard Feynman is a very complex man.

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He was a man of many, many parts:

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he was of course, foremost, 
a very great scientist;

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he was an actor,
you saw him act --

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I also had the good fortune 
to be in those lectures--

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back in the balcony,
they were fantastic;

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he was a philosopher, 
he was a drum player,

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he was a teacher pAr excellence.

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Richard Feynman was also a showman,

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a normal showman, 
who was brash, irreverant,

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he was full of macho, 
a kind of macho one optimum shape.

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He loved intellectual battle. 
He had a big ego.

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But the man had somehow a lot of room 
in the bottom,

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what I mean by that,
is a lot of room in my case,

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can't speak for anybody else,

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but in my case a lot of room 
for another big ego.

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While not as big as his, but,
fairly big.

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I always felt good to be with Feynman.

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It was always fun to be with him.

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He always made me feel smart.

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How can somebody like that 
make you feel smart?

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Somehow we did. He made me feel smart,
he made me feel he is smart.

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He made me feel we were both smart,
and two of us could solve any problem whatever.

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And in fact, sometimes 
we did do physics together.

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We never published papers together. 
But we did have a lot of fun.

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He love to win.

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With these macho games sometimes 
he not only plays with me,

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he also plays with people,
he almost always win.

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But if he didn't win, when he lost,
he would laugh,

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and seems to had just much fun as he won.

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I remember once he told me about a joke 
a student play on him.

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They took him,
I think it's for his birthday,

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they took him for lunch in a sandwich
place in Pasidina, which may still exist.

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Celebrity sandwich was their thing,

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you can get a Marilyn Monroe sandwich,
or get a Boga sandwich.

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The student went there in advance, 


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and they arranged that
they all order Feynman sandwiches.

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One after another, 
they came to order Feynman sandwiches.

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Feynman loved this story,


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he told me this story he was really happy 
laughing.

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When he finished the story, 
I said to him,

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"Dick, I wonder what is the difference between
a Feynman sandwich and a Susskind sandwich?"

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Without speaking for a whilel, he said,
"Well, a Susskind sandwich will be all the same.

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The only difference would be that

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a Suskind sandwich would have a big ham,
a ham as in bad actor."

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Well, I happened to be very quick that day,
so I said,

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"Yeah, but a lot less Brownie."

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The truth of matter, is that 
Feynman sandwich had a load of ham,

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but absolutely no Brownie.

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What Feynman hated most than anything else
was intellectual pretense,

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phoniness, full of sophistication, jargon.

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I remember sometimes doing the wordidiots.

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Dick and I meet a couple of times 
in San Francisco in some very rich guy's house for dinner.

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Last time, a rich guy invites us, 
he also invites a couple of philosophers.

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These guys were philosophers of mind,

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their specialty was the philosophy of consciousness.

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And they are full of all kinds of jargon, 
I can remember the words,

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monism, doism, categorism, 
I don't know what the words mean

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neither did Dick, and neither did Sydney 
for that matter.

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Sydney was better educated than most of us.

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What do you talk about when you talk about
minds?

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One obvious thing to talk about is,

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can a machine becomes a mind?

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Can you build a machine that 
thinks like a human being that conscious?

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We sat around and we talked about it,
this is never resolved.

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But the trouble with the philosophers, 
is they philosophing when they should be sciencifying.

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It is a scientific question after all.

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And this is a very very dangerous thing to do around Dick Feynman.

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Feynman let them have it , both barrels,
like between the eyes.

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It was brutal, it was funny. 
He really popped that balloon.

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But the amazing thing is,

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Feynman had to leave early, 
he wasn't feeling too well.

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Sydney and I was left with two philosophers.

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And the amazing thing is, these guys were
flying, they were so happy.

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They had met the great man, they had been 
instructed by the great man.

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They had enormous fun 
when their faces shoveled in the mud.

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And there was something special,


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I realize there was something extraordinary
about Feynman,

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even when he did what he did.

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So yes, he didn't like intellectual pretense.

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Dick and I some little repool