the promise of what we're talking about when you say "Virtual You." So let's go ahead and take it away with virtual humans. - Our bodies are exquisitely complex machines. In our efforts to care and improve them, we look to those who push the limits of what is humanly possible, such as athletes.
But in fact, the human brain is very different. We are exquisitely context-sensitive. So we think differently, we think different kinds of thoughts depending on where we are.
Outside the room is a transplant coordinator. She has the exquisitely difficult task of going to the family who, a few hours ago-- their son, their husband, their father, their brother was fine-- and asking for his heart.
Just by the nature of space and time, everything gets stretched and squeezed into an infinitely thin line. So it's an exquisitely sensitive device.
I've mentioned something called the True Health Initiative. I'm an exquisitely careful eater, and I've done that for 40 years.
you find out instead of expressing 48 chains, they only express 24. The function is exquisitely sensitive to parameters.
And in these scenarios, the disk is so flat-- if our solar system were a pancake, this would be like a crepe. They're exquisitely flat. So it's intrinsically a different architecture than we see in our own solar system, and that's a clue telling us something about how these systems form, and how they evolve.
They're kind of hard to find. They're exquisitely beautiful, and unlike this photograph, they're constantly moving. And to get it with all of its star-shaped projectiles extended like this took a lot of patience.
It's an impenetrable forest, which has probably been a benefit for it because, otherwise, a lot more of it would have been cut. It's also just an exquisitely beautiful, wild place. And we have our own volcano that went off in 2008 and created tremendous havoc for us in cleaning it
But the more you know about what's going on around you, the more you can make critical interventions. And so my students learn the exquisitely more conscious of the world around them. A simple analogy. There's an old maxim about the difference between expert and non-expert knowledge.
and thereby failed to catch the tiny shrew-like ancestor of all the mammals, we would none of us be here. We all can regard ourselves as exquisitely improbable. But here, in a triumph of hindsight, we are.
traditional culture like Tibet or Inuits in the Arctic or bedin in the desert their style of life is exquisitely adapted to the ecosystem they inhabit I was talking to someone who grew up as a nomad in Tibet he said we never had waste there was no such not even a word for it because everything was reused
But what's been puzzling paleontologists for quite a while-- we've only really started to understand this now-- is, well, what was it specifically about the East African that drove our evolution to be so exquisitely intelligent, and adaptable, and versatile? Plenty of places around the world dry out.
And suddenly now, almost everybody-- well, 3/4 of people-- suddenly now play communally and try to do what's best for the group. And so in addition to suggesting that human beings are exquisitely sensitive to context and situational pressures and so on, what it also may suggest is that we are more than just Homo economicus.
I will admire the pearly-faced clock that anchors the center of the Grand Hall, go down a narrow marble-floored passage where vendors sell grilled Hawaiian tuna, peppercorn sausage, cheeses that verge exquisitely on the foul, mangoes, bananas foster cupcakes, whatever they are, tiramisu cake, and other treats with names fancy beyond recall wrapped in crinkly paper or packed in bright tins, and dripping with snob appeal.
And he just does all of it in an exquisitely beautiful, heart wrenching, tear inducing symphony.
And the deer on this tiny ring is so exquisitely detailed that we could even determine the species.
I've mentioned something called the True Health Initiative. But it's what you're going to eat unless you're exquisitely careful about what you put in your body.
And then on the flip side, people have some just exquisitely beautiful experiences being in these places.
moves around you. And they had really engineered that motion exquisitely .
You blended in so well with the campers, looking exquisitely filthy.
That's another form of motivation. Human beings respond exquisitely to rewards and punishments in their environment. You reward something, you typically get more
So we know noise is bad for us, but it turns out it's even worse for many other species that are exquisitely sensitive to sound in ways
We have incredible precautions in place, particularly in cancer centers, where we're exquisitely sensitive to how our patients, if they get COVID, could die.
It's a good example of a bar that has tried to do things very well, very exquisitely , but putting on no airs, no pretension.
These animals, collectively, along with the plants, are responsible for the air we breathe and the soil to grow our food and the water we drink. All of it. So they're important, and they're also exquisitely beautiful. This is two nudibranchs that are kind of on top of each other a little bit, called the pustulus nudibranchs.
So, in leadership teams, the power of meditation is you get to be very exquisitely aware of this inner domain here of feelings and become more sensitive of how they can serve you and
an important place to do a population study, was that it was, as the researchers called, "exquisitely stratified". So you had through the ranks of the civil service, through the