WEBVTT 00:00:00.758 --> 00:00:04.500 I'm going to first tell you something that in my grandmother 00:00:04.524 --> 00:00:07.261 would've elicited a five-oy alarm: 00:00:07.286 --> 00:00:08.548 "Oy-oy-oy-oy-oy." 00:00:08.572 --> 00:00:09.722 (Laughter) 00:00:09.746 --> 00:00:13.031 And here it is ... are you ready? 00:00:13.522 --> 00:00:14.672 OK. 00:00:15.730 --> 00:00:19.466 I have stage IV lung cancer. 00:00:20.269 --> 00:00:21.571 Oh, I know, "poor me." 00:00:21.595 --> 00:00:22.837 I don't feel that way. 00:00:22.861 --> 00:00:24.912 I'm so OK with it. 00:00:25.380 --> 00:00:27.519 And granted, I have certain advantages -- 00:00:27.543 --> 00:00:30.200 not everybody can take so cavalier an attitude. 00:00:30.224 --> 00:00:31.748 I don't have young children. 00:00:32.355 --> 00:00:36.043 I have a grown daughter who's brilliant and happy and wonderful. 00:00:36.674 --> 00:00:39.696 I don't have huge financial stress. 00:00:40.711 --> 00:00:42.721 My cancer isn't that aggressive. 00:00:42.745 --> 00:00:44.965 It's kind of like the Democratic leadership -- NOTE Paragraph 00:00:44.989 --> 00:00:48.672 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:00:48.696 --> 00:00:50.562 not convinced it can win. 00:00:50.586 --> 00:00:52.236 It's basically just sitting there, 00:00:52.260 --> 00:00:54.596 waiting for Goldman Sachs to give it some money. NOTE Paragraph 00:00:54.620 --> 00:00:55.635 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:00:55.659 --> 00:01:00.548 (Applause) NOTE Paragraph 00:01:00.572 --> 00:01:03.405 Oh, and the best thing of all -- 00:01:03.429 --> 00:01:06.897 I have a major accomplishment under my belt. 00:01:06.921 --> 00:01:08.072 Yes. 00:01:08.096 --> 00:01:12.000 I didn't even know it until someone tweeted me a year ago. 00:01:12.024 --> 00:01:14.246 And here's what they said: 00:01:14.270 --> 00:01:16.491 "You are responsible 00:01:16.515 --> 00:01:19.574 for the pussification of the American male." NOTE Paragraph 00:01:20.039 --> 00:01:21.869 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:01:21.893 --> 00:01:25.744 (Applause) NOTE Paragraph 00:01:25.768 --> 00:01:28.570 Not that I can take all the credit, but ... NOTE Paragraph 00:01:28.594 --> 00:01:32.832 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:01:32.856 --> 00:01:36.785 But what if you don't have my advantages? 00:01:36.809 --> 00:01:40.483 The only advice I can give you is to do what I did: 00:01:40.507 --> 00:01:43.203 make friends with reality. 00:01:43.634 --> 00:01:47.406 You couldn't have a worse relationship with reality than I did. 00:01:48.003 --> 00:01:50.491 From the get-go, 00:01:50.515 --> 00:01:52.837 I wasn't even attracted to reality. 00:01:53.376 --> 00:01:56.083 If they'd had Tinder when I met reality, 00:01:56.107 --> 00:01:57.297 I would have swiped left 00:01:57.321 --> 00:01:59.314 and the whole thing would have been over. NOTE Paragraph 00:01:59.338 --> 00:02:01.004 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:02:01.028 --> 00:02:03.017 And reality and I -- 00:02:03.041 --> 00:02:06.436 we don't share the same values, the same goals -- NOTE Paragraph 00:02:06.460 --> 00:02:07.467 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:02:07.491 --> 00:02:10.190 To be honest, I don't have goals; 00:02:10.214 --> 00:02:11.815 I have fantasies. 00:02:12.388 --> 00:02:16.078 They're exactly like goals but without the hard work. NOTE Paragraph 00:02:16.102 --> 00:02:18.052 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:02:18.076 --> 00:02:19.505 (Applause) NOTE Paragraph 00:02:19.529 --> 00:02:22.775 I'm not a big fan of hard work, 00:02:22.799 --> 00:02:24.697 but you know reality -- 00:02:24.721 --> 00:02:27.690 it's either push, push, push, push, push 00:02:27.714 --> 00:02:32.027 through its agent, the executive brain function -- 00:02:32.051 --> 00:02:33.596 one of the "yays" of dying: 00:02:33.620 --> 00:02:37.243 my executive brain function won't have me to kick around anymore. NOTE Paragraph 00:02:37.267 --> 00:02:41.313 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:02:41.337 --> 00:02:44.642 But something happened 00:02:44.666 --> 00:02:48.871 that made me realize 00:02:48.895 --> 00:02:53.229 that reality may not be reality. 00:02:53.566 --> 00:02:55.088 So what happened was, 00:02:55.112 --> 00:02:59.572 because I basically wanted reality to leave me alone -- 00:02:59.596 --> 00:03:02.589 but I wanted to be left alone in a nice house 00:03:02.613 --> 00:03:06.379 with a Wolf range and Sub-Zero refrigerator ... 00:03:06.403 --> 00:03:08.754 private yoga lessons -- 00:03:08.778 --> 00:03:12.503 I ended up with a development deal at Disney. 00:03:12.527 --> 00:03:15.986 And one day I found myself in my new office 00:03:16.010 --> 00:03:18.325 on Two Dopey Drive -- NOTE Paragraph 00:03:18.349 --> 00:03:21.339 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:03:21.363 --> 00:03:24.443 which reality thought I should be proud of ... NOTE Paragraph 00:03:24.467 --> 00:03:25.617 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:03:25.641 --> 00:03:30.047 And I'm staring at the present they sent me to celebrate my arrival -- 00:03:30.071 --> 00:03:35.165 not the Lalique vase or the grand piano I've heard of other people getting, 00:03:35.189 --> 00:03:38.546 but a three-foot-tall, stuffed Mickey Mouse NOTE Paragraph 00:03:38.570 --> 00:03:39.585 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:03:39.609 --> 00:03:42.467 with a catalog, in case I wanted to order some more stuff 00:03:42.491 --> 00:03:44.495 that didn't jibe with my aesthetic. NOTE Paragraph 00:03:44.519 --> 00:03:45.556 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:03:45.580 --> 00:03:47.326 And when I looked up in the catalog 00:03:47.350 --> 00:03:51.708 to see how much this three-foot-high mouse cost, 00:03:51.732 --> 00:03:54.556 here's how it was described ... 00:03:55.603 --> 00:03:57.931 "Life-sized." NOTE Paragraph 00:03:57.955 --> 00:04:02.793 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:04:02.817 --> 00:04:04.476 And that's when I knew. 00:04:04.878 --> 00:04:07.273 Reality wasn't "reality." 00:04:07.297 --> 00:04:09.255 Reality was an imposter. NOTE Paragraph 00:04:09.937 --> 00:04:14.438 So I dived into quantum physics and chaos theory 00:04:14.462 --> 00:04:16.608 to try to find actual reality, 00:04:16.632 --> 00:04:18.277 and I've just finished a movie -- 00:04:18.301 --> 00:04:20.501 yes, finally finished -- 00:04:20.525 --> 00:04:21.703 about all that, 00:04:21.727 --> 00:04:23.032 so I won't go into it here, 00:04:23.056 --> 00:04:25.522 and anyway, it wasn't until after we shot the movie, 00:04:25.546 --> 00:04:27.608 when I broke my leg and then it didn't heal, 00:04:27.632 --> 00:04:30.073 so then they had to do another surgery a year later, 00:04:30.097 --> 00:04:31.468 and then that took a year -- 00:04:31.492 --> 00:04:32.749 two years in a wheelchair, 00:04:32.773 --> 00:04:38.723 and that's when I came into contact with actual reality: 00:04:38.747 --> 00:04:40.112 limits. NOTE Paragraph 00:04:40.598 --> 00:04:43.628 Those very limits I'd spent my whole life denying 00:04:43.652 --> 00:04:45.965 and pushing past and ignoring 00:04:47.466 --> 00:04:49.033 were real, 00:04:49.057 --> 00:04:51.394 and I had to deal with them, 00:04:51.418 --> 00:04:57.109 and they took imagination, creativity and my entire skill set. 00:04:57.461 --> 00:05:01.842 It turned out I was great at actual reality. 00:05:02.289 --> 00:05:04.004 I didn't just come to terms with it, 00:05:04.028 --> 00:05:05.622 I fell in love. 00:05:05.646 --> 00:05:07.107 And I should've known, 00:05:07.131 --> 00:05:11.113 given my equally shaky relationship with the zeitgeist ... 00:05:12.167 --> 00:05:16.363 I'll just say, if anyone is in the market for a Betamax -- NOTE Paragraph 00:05:16.387 --> 00:05:18.381 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:05:18.784 --> 00:05:22.632 I should have known that the moment I fell in love with reality, 00:05:22.656 --> 00:05:25.939 the rest of the country would decide to go in the opposite direction. NOTE Paragraph 00:05:25.963 --> 00:05:28.272 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:05:28.296 --> 00:05:32.841 But I'm not here to talk about Trump or the alt-right or climate-change deniers 00:05:32.865 --> 00:05:35.255 or even the makers of this thing, 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:37.145 which I would have called a box, 00:05:37.169 --> 00:05:40.054 except that right here, it says, 00:05:40.078 --> 00:05:42.765 "This is not a box." NOTE Paragraph 00:05:42.789 --> 00:05:47.305 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:05:47.329 --> 00:05:49.467 They're gaslighting me. NOTE Paragraph 00:05:49.491 --> 00:05:51.153 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:05:51.177 --> 00:05:53.813 (Applause) NOTE Paragraph 00:05:54.701 --> 00:05:59.432 But what I do want to talk about 00:05:59.456 --> 00:06:04.574 is a personal challenge to reality 00:06:04.598 --> 00:06:07.245 that I take personally, 00:06:07.269 --> 00:06:13.946 and I want to preface it by saying that I absolutely love science. 00:06:14.316 --> 00:06:15.697 I have this -- 00:06:15.721 --> 00:06:17.685 not a scientist myself -- 00:06:17.709 --> 00:06:22.527 but an uncanny ability to understand everything about science, 00:06:22.551 --> 00:06:24.434 except the actual science -- NOTE Paragraph 00:06:24.458 --> 00:06:25.459 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:06:25.483 --> 00:06:26.681 which is math. 00:06:26.705 --> 00:06:30.980 But the most outlandish concepts make sense to me. 00:06:32.968 --> 00:06:34.357 The string theory; 00:06:34.381 --> 00:06:38.549 the idea that all of reality emanates from the vibrations of these teeny -- 00:06:38.573 --> 00:06:40.485 I call it "The Big Twang." NOTE Paragraph 00:06:40.509 --> 00:06:41.768 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:06:42.405 --> 00:06:44.402 Wave-particle duality: 00:06:44.426 --> 00:06:48.067 the idea that one thing can manifest as two things ... 00:06:48.091 --> 00:06:49.242 you know? 00:06:49.266 --> 00:06:53.088 That a photon can manifest as a wave and a particle 00:06:53.112 --> 00:06:55.473 coincided with my deepest intuitions 00:06:55.497 --> 00:06:57.180 that people are good and bad, 00:06:57.204 --> 00:06:59.294 ideas are right and wrong. 00:06:59.318 --> 00:07:01.598 Freud was right about penis envy 00:07:01.622 --> 00:07:04.202 and he was wrong about who has it. NOTE Paragraph 00:07:04.226 --> 00:07:07.815 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:10.363 (Applause) NOTE Paragraph 00:07:10.387 --> 00:07:11.630 Thank you. NOTE Paragraph 00:07:11.654 --> 00:07:12.661 (Applause) NOTE Paragraph 00:07:12.685 --> 00:07:16.076 And then there's this slight variation on that, 00:07:16.100 --> 00:07:18.783 which is reality looks like two things, 00:07:18.807 --> 00:07:22.965 but it turns out to be the interaction of those two things, 00:07:22.989 --> 00:07:25.137 like space -- time, 00:07:25.161 --> 00:07:26.802 mass -- energy 00:07:26.826 --> 00:07:30.076 and life and death. 00:07:30.444 --> 00:07:31.973 So I don't understand -- 00:07:31.997 --> 00:07:35.067 I simply just don't understand 00:07:35.091 --> 00:07:39.456 the mindset of people who are out to "defeat death" and "overcome death." 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:41.072 How do you do that? 00:07:41.096 --> 00:07:43.932 How do you defeat death without killing off life? 00:07:44.539 --> 00:07:46.754 It doesn't make sense to me. NOTE Paragraph 00:07:46.778 --> 00:07:48.710 I also have to say, 00:07:48.734 --> 00:07:52.502 I find it incredibly ungrateful. 00:07:52.526 --> 00:07:55.291 I mean, you're given this extraordinary gift -- 00:07:55.315 --> 00:07:56.701 life -- 00:07:56.725 --> 00:08:01.383 but it's as if you had asked Santa for a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow 00:08:01.407 --> 00:08:04.119 and you had gotten a salad spinner instead. 00:08:04.672 --> 00:08:07.020 You know, it's the beef -- 00:08:07.044 --> 00:08:10.865 the beef with it is that it comes with an expiration date. 00:08:10.889 --> 00:08:12.683 Death is the deal breaker. 00:08:13.954 --> 00:08:15.105 I don't get that. 00:08:15.129 --> 00:08:16.280 I don't understand -- 00:08:16.304 --> 00:08:17.948 to me, it's disrespectful. 00:08:17.972 --> 00:08:19.855 It's disrespectful to nature. 00:08:20.404 --> 00:08:22.877 The idea that we're going to dominate nature, 00:08:22.901 --> 00:08:25.083 we're going to master nature, 00:08:25.107 --> 00:08:28.987 nature is too weak to withstand our intellect -- 00:08:29.884 --> 00:08:32.680 no, I don't think so. 00:08:33.055 --> 00:08:36.475 I think if you've actually read quantum physics as I have -- 00:08:36.499 --> 00:08:39.371 well, I read an email from someone who'd read it, but -- NOTE Paragraph 00:08:39.395 --> 00:08:43.268 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:08:43.292 --> 00:08:44.539 You have to understand 00:08:44.563 --> 00:08:48.396 that we don't live in Newton's clockwork universe anymore. 00:08:48.420 --> 00:08:51.625 We live in a banana peel universe, 00:08:51.649 --> 00:08:55.329 and we won't ever be able to know everything 00:08:55.353 --> 00:08:56.999 or control everything 00:08:57.023 --> 00:08:58.506 or predict everything. 00:08:58.530 --> 00:09:00.737 Nature is like a self-driving car. 00:09:00.761 --> 00:09:04.094 The best we can be is like the old woman in that joke -- 00:09:04.118 --> 00:09:05.940 I don't know if you've heard it. 00:09:06.252 --> 00:09:08.575 An old woman is driving 00:09:08.599 --> 00:09:12.828 with her middle-aged daughter in the passenger seat, 00:09:12.852 --> 00:09:15.251 and the mother goes right through a red light. 00:09:15.275 --> 00:09:19.451 And the daughter doesn't want to say anything that makes it sound like, 00:09:19.475 --> 00:09:21.169 "You're too old to drive," 00:09:21.193 --> 00:09:23.004 so she didn't say anything. 00:09:23.028 --> 00:09:25.752 And then the mother goes through a second red light, 00:09:25.776 --> 00:09:28.150 and the daughter, as tactfully as possible, 00:09:28.174 --> 00:09:30.329 says, "Mom, are you aware 00:09:30.353 --> 00:09:32.591 that you just went through two red lights?" 00:09:32.615 --> 00:09:34.610 And the mother says, "Oh, am I driving?" NOTE Paragraph 00:09:34.634 --> 00:09:38.815 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:09:38.839 --> 00:09:43.203 (Applause) NOTE Paragraph 00:09:43.227 --> 00:09:44.584 So ... 00:09:46.004 --> 00:09:50.156 and now, I'm going to take a mental leap, 00:09:50.180 --> 00:09:54.069 which is easy for me because I'm the Evel Knievel of mental leaps; 00:09:54.093 --> 00:09:55.888 my license plate says, 00:09:55.912 --> 00:09:58.552 "Cogito, ergo zoom." 00:09:59.072 --> 00:10:02.439 I hope you're willing to come with me on this, 00:10:02.463 --> 00:10:08.083 but my real problem with the mindset that is so out to defeat death 00:10:08.107 --> 00:10:11.867 is if you're anti-death, 00:10:11.891 --> 00:10:14.288 which to me translates as anti-life, 00:10:14.312 --> 00:10:18.173 which to me translates as anti-nature, 00:10:18.197 --> 00:10:21.328 it also translates to me as anti-woman, 00:10:21.352 --> 00:10:25.658 because women have long been identified with nature. 00:10:25.682 --> 00:10:27.924 And my source on this is Hannah Arendt, 00:10:27.948 --> 00:10:31.575 the German philosopher who wrote a book called "The Human Condition." 00:10:32.170 --> 00:10:35.609 And in it, she says that classically, 00:10:35.633 --> 00:10:38.299 work is associated with men. 00:10:38.323 --> 00:10:40.533 Work is what comes out of the head; 00:10:40.557 --> 00:10:41.833 it's what we invent, 00:10:41.857 --> 00:10:43.388 it's what we create, 00:10:43.412 --> 00:10:46.052 it's how we leave our mark upon the world. 00:10:47.434 --> 00:10:51.876 Whereas labor is associated with the body. 00:10:51.900 --> 00:10:54.691 It's associated with the people who perform labor 00:10:54.715 --> 00:10:56.343 or undergo labor. 00:10:56.915 --> 00:10:59.638 So to me, 00:10:59.662 --> 00:11:03.790 the mindset that denies that, 00:11:03.814 --> 00:11:08.127 that denies that we're in sync with the biorhythms, 00:11:08.151 --> 00:11:11.238 the cyclical rhythms of the universe, 00:11:11.262 --> 00:11:16.916 does not create a hospitable environment for women 00:11:16.940 --> 00:11:19.374 or for people associated with labor, 00:11:19.398 --> 00:11:20.912 which is to say, 00:11:20.936 --> 00:11:24.355 people that we associate as descendants of slaves, 00:11:24.379 --> 00:11:26.726 or people who perform manual labor. NOTE Paragraph 00:11:27.838 --> 00:11:33.552 So here's how it looks from a banana-peel-universe point of view, 00:11:33.576 --> 00:11:36.911 from my mindset, which I call "Emily's universe." 00:11:37.808 --> 00:11:38.983 First of all, 00:11:40.323 --> 00:11:45.568 I am incredibly grateful for life, 00:11:45.592 --> 00:11:47.659 but I don't want to be immortal. 00:11:48.132 --> 00:11:52.150 I have no interest in having my name live on after me. 00:11:52.174 --> 00:11:54.353 In fact, I don't want it to, 00:11:54.377 --> 00:11:56.031 because it's been my observation 00:11:56.055 --> 00:11:58.780 that no matter how nice and how brilliant 00:11:58.804 --> 00:12:00.416 or how talented you are, 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:03.052 50 years after you die, they turn on you. NOTE Paragraph 00:12:03.076 --> 00:12:04.552 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:12:04.576 --> 00:12:07.091 And I have actual proof of that. 00:12:07.115 --> 00:12:10.347 A headline from the Los Angeles Times: 00:12:10.371 --> 00:12:13.502 "Anne Frank: Not so nice after all." NOTE Paragraph 00:12:13.526 --> 00:12:18.796 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:12:18.820 --> 00:12:22.182 Plus, I love being in sync 00:12:22.206 --> 00:12:24.725 with the cyclical rhythms of the universe. 00:12:24.749 --> 00:12:27.018 That's what's so extraordinary about life: 00:12:27.042 --> 00:12:29.239 it's a cycle of generation, 00:12:29.263 --> 00:12:30.669 degeneration, 00:12:30.693 --> 00:12:32.292 regeneration. 00:12:32.316 --> 00:12:36.214 "I" am just a collection of particles 00:12:36.238 --> 00:12:39.117 that is arranged into this pattern, 00:12:39.141 --> 00:12:41.903 then will decompose and be available, 00:12:41.927 --> 00:12:44.474 all of its constituent parts, to nature, 00:12:44.498 --> 00:12:46.652 to reorganize into another pattern. 00:12:47.779 --> 00:12:50.238 To me, that is so exciting, 00:12:50.262 --> 00:12:54.670 and it makes me even more grateful to be part of that process. NOTE Paragraph 00:12:55.331 --> 00:12:57.051 You know, 00:12:57.075 --> 00:13:03.117 I look at death now from the point of view of a German biologist, 00:13:03.141 --> 00:13:04.596 Andreas Weber, 00:13:04.620 --> 00:13:08.222 who looks at it as part of the gift economy. 00:13:08.246 --> 00:13:11.024 You're given this enormous gift, life, 00:13:11.048 --> 00:13:13.391 you enrich it as best you can, 00:13:13.415 --> 00:13:15.475 and then you give it back. 00:13:16.019 --> 00:13:19.352 And, you know, Auntie Mame said, "Life is a banquet" -- 00:13:19.376 --> 00:13:21.487 well, I've eaten my fill. 00:13:22.126 --> 00:13:24.397 I have had an enormous appetite for life, 00:13:24.421 --> 00:13:25.644 I've consumed life, 00:13:25.668 --> 00:13:28.303 but in death, I'm going to be consumed. 00:13:28.327 --> 00:13:31.778 I'm going into the ground just the way I am, 00:13:31.802 --> 00:13:34.753 and there, I invite every microbe 00:13:34.777 --> 00:13:36.133 and detritus-er 00:13:36.157 --> 00:13:38.307 and decomposer 00:13:38.331 --> 00:13:39.497 to have their fill. 00:13:39.521 --> 00:13:42.077 I think they'll find me delicious. NOTE Paragraph 00:13:42.101 --> 00:13:43.303 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:13:43.327 --> 00:13:44.577 I do. NOTE Paragraph 00:13:45.584 --> 00:13:50.623 So the best thing about my attitude, I think, is that it's real. 00:13:50.647 --> 00:13:51.973 You can see it. 00:13:51.997 --> 00:13:53.148 You can observe it. 00:13:53.172 --> 00:13:54.638 It actually happens. 00:13:54.662 --> 00:13:58.377 Well, maybe not my enriching the gift, 00:13:58.401 --> 00:14:00.156 I don't know about that -- 00:14:00.180 --> 00:14:03.748 but my life has certainly been enriched by other people. 00:14:03.772 --> 00:14:04.977 By TED, 00:14:05.001 --> 00:14:08.160 which introduced me to a whole network of people 00:14:08.184 --> 00:14:10.863 who have enriched my life, 00:14:10.887 --> 00:14:14.080 including Tricia McGillis, my website designer, 00:14:14.104 --> 00:14:16.469 who's working with my wonderful daughter 00:14:16.493 --> 00:14:20.031 to take my website and turn it into something 00:14:20.055 --> 00:14:21.946 where all I have to do is write a blog. 00:14:21.970 --> 00:14:24.466 I don't have to use the executive brain function ... 00:14:24.490 --> 00:14:28.069 Ha, ha, ha, I win! NOTE Paragraph 00:14:28.093 --> 00:14:29.192 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:14:29.216 --> 00:14:31.874 And I am so grateful to you. 00:14:32.853 --> 00:14:35.373 I don't want to say "the audience," 00:14:35.397 --> 00:14:39.802 because I don't really see it as we're two separate things. 00:14:39.826 --> 00:14:45.451 I think of it in terms of quantum physics, again. 00:14:46.001 --> 00:14:51.298 And, you know, quantum physicists are not exactly sure what happens 00:14:51.322 --> 00:14:53.920 when the wave becomes a particle. 00:14:53.944 --> 00:14:55.483 There are different theories -- 00:14:55.507 --> 00:14:57.128 the collapse of the wave function, 00:14:57.152 --> 00:14:58.303 decoherence -- 00:14:58.327 --> 00:15:00.043 but they're all agreed on one thing: 00:15:00.067 --> 00:15:03.136 that reality comes into being through an interaction. 00:15:06.408 --> 00:15:07.821 (Voice breaking) So do you. 00:15:08.628 --> 00:15:10.968 And every audience I've ever had, 00:15:10.992 --> 00:15:12.546 past and present. 00:15:13.508 --> 00:15:17.489 Thank you so much for making my life real. 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