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OK, thank you. (Applause) So as you can see, we have this device that can monitor so many physiological signals for you, and what is really interesting about this device is that it does all this without any wearables, without asking the person to change his
behavior
or to wear anything or charge anything special.
I can't change that now and neither can you, but let's not mix up individual, isolated
behavior
with the systemic factors that have caused a 7.7-trillion-dollar retirement income gap.
You see, researchers have coined this term "color blindness" to describe a learned
behavior
where we pretend that we don't notice race.
But it's strange to have these devices moving into the intimate space that is the home and allowing companies to track our really basic
behavior
there.
So this is the network of the ants that you just saw moving around in the arena, and it's this constantly shifting network that produces the
behavior
of the colony, like whether all the ants are hiding inside the nest, or how many are going out to forage.
To my knowledge, this is the first time that we've been able to track the ongoing evolution of collective
behavior
in a natural population of animals and find out what's actually working best.
And then when I was 10 and 11, my
behavior
just kept on getting worse.
We discovered a new
behavior
where, because of their shape, they actually roll automatically to their side to go through this artificial test bit of grass.
Here's a new
behavior
we've discovered.
They even have some of the beginnings of the rapid inversion
behavior
where they disappear.
That may work, it may not, but if it does, it will remember that and have a new behavior, and that can actually spread virally through the rest of the community.
Another mouse watching this could say, "Hey, that was pretty clever, going around that rock," and it could adopt a new
behavior
as well.
Now they could learn a new
behavior
but not in the course of one lifetime.
In the course of maybe a thousand lifetimes, it could evolve a new fixed
behavior.
It could take 10,000 years for there to be a significant environmental change, and during that period of time it would evolve a new
behavior.
Ask yourself, is that the
behavior
of my country?
Psychologists studied
behavior
objectively, neuroscientists studied the brain objectively, and nobody even mentioned consciousness.
The classical cases of emergence are all cases of emergent behavior, how a traffic jam behaves, how a hurricane functions, how a living organism reproduces and adapts and metabolizes, all questions about objective functioning.
You could apply that to the human brain in explaining some of the behaviors and the functions of the human brain as emergent phenomena: how we walk, how we talk, how we play chess, all these questions about
behavior.
But when it comes to consciousness, questions about
behavior
are among the easy problems.
When it comes to the hard problem, that's the question of why is it that all this
behavior
is accompanied by subjective experience?
It's a long story, but the core idea is just that what you get from purely reductionist explanations in physical terms, in brain-based terms, is stories about the functioning of a system, its structure, its dynamics, the
behavior
it produces, great for solving the easy problems — how we behave, how we function — but when it comes to subjective experience — why does all this feel like something from the inside?
It's biologically fascinating, it's computationally interesting, but it's also a symbol, a way of engaging with ideas of community, collective behavior, cooperation.
By then, the industry had advanced a lot, and we had different tools and techniques to manage disruptive
behavior.
We changed the environment and we changed the
behavior.
When we changed the environment, the
behavior
changed.
This is another example of what's considered a stereotypic
behavior.
They want to talk to you about what sorts of therapies, largely
behavior
therapies, you've tried with that animal.
I look at them as individuals, and I think about them as creatures with their own individual weather systems guiding their
behavior
and informing how they respond to the world.
We have students who sit together, black kids and white kids, and what we've discovered is you can solve the race problem by creating a world class environment, because people will have a tendency to show you world class
behavior
if you treat them in that way.
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