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I'm going to first tell you something that
in my grandmother

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would've elicited a five-oy alarm:

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"Oy-oy-oy-oy-oy."

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(Laughter)

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And here it is ...
are you ready?

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OK.

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I have stage IV lung cancer.

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Oh, I know, "poor me."

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I don't feel that way.

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I'm so OK with it.

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And granted, I have certain advantages --

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not everybody can take
so cavalier an attitude.

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I don't have young children.

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I have a grown daughter who's
brilliant and happy and wonderful.

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I don't have huge financial stress.

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My cancer isn't that aggressive.

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It's kind of like
the Democratic leadership --

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(Laughter)

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not convinced it can win.

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It's basically just sitting there,

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waiting for Goldman Sachs
to give it some money.

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(Laughter)

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(Applause)

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Oh, and the best thing of all --

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I have a major accomplishment
under my belt.

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Yes.

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I didn't even know it until someone
tweeted me a year ago.

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And here's what they said:

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"You are responsible

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for the pussification
of the American male."

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(Laughter)

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(Applause)

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Not that I can take
all the credit, but ...

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(Laughter)

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But what if you don't have my advantages?

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The only advice I can give you
is to do what I did:

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make friends with reality.

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You couldn't have a worse relationship
with reality than I did.

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From the get-go,

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I wasn't even attracted to reality.

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If they'd had Tinder when I met reality,

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I would have swiped left

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and the whole thing would have been over.

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(Laughter)

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And reality and I --

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we don't share the same values,
the same goals --

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(Laughter)

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To be honest, I don't have goals;

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I have fantasies.

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They're exactly like goals
but without the hard work.

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(Laughter)

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(Applause)

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I'm not a big fan of hard work,

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but you know reality --

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it's either push, push, push, push, push

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through its agent,
the executive brain function --

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one of the "yays" of dying:

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my executive brain function
won't have me to kick around anymore.

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(Laughter)

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But something happened

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that made me realize

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that reality may not be reality.

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So what happened was,

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because I basically wanted reality
to leave me alone --

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but I wanted to be left alone
in a nice house

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with a Wolf range
and Sub-Zero refrigerator ...

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private yoga lessons --

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I ended up with
a development deal at Disney.

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And one day I found myself
in my new office

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on Two Dopey Drive --

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(Laughter)

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which reality thought
I should be proud of ...

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(Laughter)

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And I'm staring at the present
they sent me to celebrate my arrival --

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not the Lalique vase or the grand piano
I've heard of other people getting,

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but a three-foot-tall,
stuffed Mickey Mouse

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(Laughter)

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with a catalog, in case I wanted
to order some more stuff

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that didn't jibe with my aesthetic.

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(Laughter)

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And when I looked up in the catalog

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to see how much
this three-foot-high mouse cost,

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here's how it was described ...

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"Life-sized."

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(Laughter)

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And that's when I knew.

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Reality wasn't "reality."

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Reality was an imposter.

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So I dived into quantum physics
and chaos theory

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to try to find actual reality,

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and I've just finished a movie --

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yes, finally finished --

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about all that,

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so I won't go into it here,

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and anyway, it wasn't until
after we shot the movie,

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when I broke my leg
and then it didn't heal,

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so then they had to do
another surgery a year later,

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and then that took a year --

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two years in a wheelchair,

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and that's when I came
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limits.

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Those very limits I'd spent
my whole life denying

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and pushing past and ignoring

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were real,

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and I had to deal with them,

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and they took imagination,
creativity and my entire skill set.

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It turned out I was great
at actual reality.

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I didn't just come to terms with it,

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I fell in love.

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And I should've known,

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given my equally shaky
relationship with the zeitgeist ...

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I'll just say, if anyone
is in the market for a Betamax --

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(Laughter)

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I should have known that the moment
I fell in love with reality,

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the rest of the country would decide
to go in the opposite direction.

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(Laughter)

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But I'm not here to talk about Trump
or the alt-right or climate-change deniers

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or even the makers of this thing,

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which I would have called a box,

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except that right here, it says,

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"This is not a box."

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(Laughter)

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They're gaslighting me.

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(Laughter)

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(Applause)

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But what I do want to talk about

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is a personal challenge to reality

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that I take personally,

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and I want to preface it
by saying that I absolutely love science.

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I have this --

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not a scientist myself --

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but an uncanny ability to understand
everything about science,

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except the actual science --

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(Laughter)

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which is math.

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But the most outlandish concepts
make sense to me.

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The string theory;

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the idea that all of reality emanates
from the vibrations of these teeny --

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I call it "The Big Twang."

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(Laughter)

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Wave-particle duality:

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the idea that one thing
can manifest as two things ...

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you know?

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That a photon can manifest
as a wave and a particle

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coincided with my deepest intuitions

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that people are good and bad,

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ideas are right and wrong.

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Freud was right about penis envy

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and he was wrong about who has it.

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(Laughter)

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(Applause)

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Thank you.

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(Applause)

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And then there's this slight
variation on that,

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which is reality looks like two things,

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but it turns out to be the interaction
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like space -- time,

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mass -- energy

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and life and death.

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So I don't understand --

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I simply just don't understand

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the mindset of people who are out
to "defeat death" and "overcome death."

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How do you do that?

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How do you defeat death
without killing off life?

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It doesn't make sense to me.

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I also have to say,

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I find it incredibly ungrateful.

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I mean, you're given
this extraordinary gift --

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life --

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but it's as if you had asked Santa
for a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow

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and you had gotten
a salad spinner instead.

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You know, it's the beef --

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the beef with it is that it comes
with an expiration date.

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Death is the deal breaker.

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I don't get that.

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I don't understand --

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to me, it's disrespectful.

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It's disrespectful to nature.

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The idea that we're going
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we're going to master nature,

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nature is too weak
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no, I don't think so.

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I think if you've actually read
quantum physics as I have --

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well, I read an email
from someone who'd read it, but --

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(Laughter)

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You have to understand

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that we don't live in Newton's
clockwork universe anymore.

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We live in a banana peel universe,

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and we won't ever be able
to know everything

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or control everything

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or predict everything.

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Nature is like a self-driving car.

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The best we can be is like
the old woman in that joke --

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I don't know if you've heard it.

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An old woman is driving

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with her middle-aged daughter
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and the mother goes
right through a red light.

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And the daughter doesn't want to say
anything that makes it sound like,

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"You're too old to drive,"

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so she didn't say anything.

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And then the mother
goes through a second red light,

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and the daughter,
as tactfully as possible,

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says, "Mom, are you aware

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that you just went through
two red lights?"

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And the mother says, "Oh, am I driving?"

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(Laughter)

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(Applause)

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So ...

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and now, I'm going to take a mental leap,

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which is easy for me because
I'm the Evel Knievel of mental leaps;

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my license plate says,

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"Cogito, ergo zoom."

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I hope you're willing
to come with me on this,

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but my real problem with the mindset
that is so out to defeat death

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is if you're anti-death,

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which to me translates as anti-life,

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which to me translates as anti-nature,

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it also translates to me as anti-woman,

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because women have long been
identified with nature.

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And my source on this is Hannah Arendt,

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the German philosopher who wrote
a book called "The Human Condition."

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And in it, she says that classically,

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work is associated with men.

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Work is what comes out of the head;

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it's what we invent,

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it's what we create,

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it's how we leave our mark upon the world.

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Whereas labor is associated with the body.

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It's associated with the people
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or undergo labor.

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So to me,

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the mindset that denies that,

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that denies that we're in sync
with the biorhythms,

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the cyclical rhythms of the universe,

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does not create a hospitable
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or for people associated with labor,

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which is to say,

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people that we associate
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or people who perform manual labor.

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So here's how it looks
from a banana-peel-universe point of view,

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from my mindset, which I call
"Emily's universe."

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First of all,

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I am incredibly grateful for life,

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but I don't want to be immortal.

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I have no interest in having
my name live on after me.

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In fact, I don't want it to,

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because it's been my observation

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that no matter how nice and how brilliant

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or how talented you are,

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50 years after you die, they turn on you.

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(Laughter)

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And I have actual proof of that.

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A headline from the Los Angeles Times:

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"Anne Frank: Not so nice after all."

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(Laughter)

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Plus, I love being in sync

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with the cyclical rhythms of the universe.

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That's what's so extraordinary about life:

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it's a cycle of generation,

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degeneration,

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regeneration.

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"I" am just a collection of particles

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that is arranged into this pattern,

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then will decompose and be available,

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all of its constituent parts, to nature,

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to reorganize into another pattern.

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To me, that is so exciting,

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and it makes me even more grateful
to be part of that process.

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You know,

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I look at death now from the point of view
of a German biologist,

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Andreas Weber,

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who looks at it as part
of the gift economy.

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You're given this enormous gift, life,

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you enrich it as best you can,

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and then you give it back.

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And, you know, Auntie Mame
said, "Life is a banquet" --

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well, I've eaten my fill.

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I have had an enormous appetite for life,

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I've consumed life,

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but in death, I'm going to be consumed.

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I'm going into the ground
just the way I am,

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and there, I invite every microbe

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and detritus-er

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and decomposer

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to have their fill.

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I think they'll find me delicious.

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(Laughter)

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I do.

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So the best thing about my attitude,
I think, is that it's real.

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You can see it.

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You can observe it.

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It actually happens.

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Well, maybe not my enriching the gift,

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I don't know about that --

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but my life has certainly
been enriched by other people.

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By TED,

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which introduced me
to a whole network of people

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who have enriched my life,

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including Tricia McGillis,
my website designer,

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who's working with my wonderful daughter

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to take my website
and turn it into something

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where all I have to do is write a blog.

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I don't have to use
the executive brain function ...

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Ha, ha, ha, I win!

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(Laughter)

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And I am so grateful to you.

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I don't want to say "the audience,"

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because I don't really see it
as we're two separate things.

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I think of it in terms
of quantum physics, again.

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And, you know, quantum physicists
are not exactly sure what happens

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when the wave becomes a particle.

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There are different theories --

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the collapse of the wave function,

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decoherence --

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but they're all agreed on one thing:

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that reality comes into being
through an interaction.

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(Voice breaking) So do you.

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And every audience I've ever had,

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past and present.

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Thank you so much for making my life real.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)

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Thank you.