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    So I'm passionate about technology
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    because I believe technology is an
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    extension of human creativity, Today our
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    host Jason Silva is giving a free talk
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    at a local university, Here's the amazing
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    thing about technology, but pay attention
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    because while these people think they're
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    here to see Jason give a presentation on
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    technology, Technology evolves
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    exponentially, they're actually the
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    subject of a social experiment and
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    you're about to see how far these people
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    will go just to fit in with a crowd, The
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    smartphone that you guys have in your
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    pocket is actually a million times
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    cheaper, a million times smaller, and a
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    thousand times more powerful than what
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    used to be sixty million dollars in half
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    a building forty years ago, So far the
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    crowd seems to be following the speech,
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    So I want to switch gears for a minute
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    and talk about something I think is
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    really mind-blowing as well, Have you guys
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    ever stop to think just about how a
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    thought is an idea caught in the fangs
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    of consciousness? Huh? Which is why you
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    can put cats in hats, but not hats in cats,
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    The soup is on so to speak, If it
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    now sounds like Jason is speaking
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    nonsense geometry, wisdom, tangerines, it
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    all becomes possible,
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    He is, So eat your soup, So how would you
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    react? Dreamers among us dream about tangerines,
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    Think this crowd will bail?
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    E equals elephant, not the lizard, Or will
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    conformity keep them in their seats? The
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    nervous system marinating like the
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    afterbirth, Let's just say the only thing
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    more surprising than Jason's speech does that
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    makes sense? Is seeing what these
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    people do next, It's time to celebrate,
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    Stick around, In essence, this is what
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    true thought is all about, It's the
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    disconnect it doesn't come from the
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    knowledge that your mind predates time,
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    That knowledge of time for days
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    tangerines, We're conducting an
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    experiment on conformity to see how this
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    audience will react to someone who's
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    clearly speaking complete gibberish,
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    Which is why you can put cats in hats
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    but not hats on cats so to speak, If you
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    know what I mean? Are you following any
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    of this? That is the elephant in the room, not
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    the lizard, the elephant,
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    It's reformadness, geometry, wisdom,
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    tangerines, it all becomes possible, Okay
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    this is getting weird,,,
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    How would you react if you were in the
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    audience? Silence? Would you get up and
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    leave? That is all the time I have for
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    today, thank you for listening you guys,
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    [Applause] Thank you, Thank you,
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    Polite applause is one thing, but these
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    people are giving Jason a standing
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    ovation for spewing complete nonsense, So
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    what's going on here? Okay I'm going to
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    let you in on a little secret, this my
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    friends was an experiment in conformity
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    to see if you'd give me a standing
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    ovation even though the second half of
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    my talk was complete gibberish and so
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    you guys actually proved the point,
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    Have you ever stood for an applause
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    simply because everyone else is? You know
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    he's talking about cats and hats and
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    stuff like that now it's just like did
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    what he really say merit a standing
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    ovation? And he's right,
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    but if Jason's speech didn't deserve
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    such an ovation what made this audience
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    stand up to applaud? It all started with
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    two very enthusiastic audience members
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    that we planted in the crowd for some
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    added peer pressure,
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    So I started seeing people standing
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    up so okay, I'll stand up, There was a
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    couple people that stood and were like
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    really really enthused about standing,
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    and everybody else started standing, so I
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    figured it was definitely my fault, A
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    standing ovation doesn't happen because
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    everyone in the audience had the idea to
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    stand up and applaud at the same time, it
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    happens because a few people decided to
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    stand and everyone else just went along
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    with it, so it's not to be judged as
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    uncaring or different, I felt like
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    everybody who is going to be like you
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    didn't get? It was so great, One
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    incredibly fascinating aspect of mob
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    mentality is how it only takes a few
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    leaders to get the whole mob to follow,
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    Well, almost the whole mob, Yeah they stood up, I was just like
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    oh, have fun doing you, I'm
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    gonna do me, I've always walked to the beat of
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    my own drum that's how you survive, As
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    you just witnessed, your brain tends to
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    go along to get along with the crowd,
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  • Revision 1 = provided subtitles for Lecture 1.2 of Prof. Scott Plous' Social Psychology course

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