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But to me, what's most baffling and most tragic about this is that it misses the whole point of being human.

And so I'm listening and I'm listening, and at some point, I start feeling like all the stories are about being wrong.

The way the game is won is all 50 problems have to be solved and every country's asset value has to be increased above its starting point.

So if you look at this pie chart, 96 percent of the universe, at this point in our exploration of it, is unknown or not well understood.

But here, I only want to make the point that the elegance of Darwinism is corrosive to religion, precisely because it is so elegant, so parsimonious, so powerful, so economically powerful.

And at this point I need to acknowledge the remarkable taboo against speaking ill of religion, and I'm going to do so in the words of the late Douglas Adams, a dear friend who, if he never came to TED, certainly should have been invited.

Bertrand Russell made the same point using a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars.

I realized at that point, by connecting those two dots, that the only thing that matters in my life is being a great dad.

From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.

And it was a turning point.

At this point, it's really heavy.

And if you take a camera and you point it at a random part of the sky, and you just keep the shutter open, as long as your camera is attached to the Hubble Space Telescope, it will see something like this.

Here's a mother and her two year-old cub were traveling on a ship a hundred miles offshore in the middle of nowhere, and they're riding on this big piece of glacier ice, which is great for them; they're safe at this point.

But unfortunately, 95 percent of the glaciers in the Arctic are also receding right now to the point that the ice is ending up on land and not injecting any ice back into the ecosystem.

So that's all I had to work with at that point.

And the image of the DVD here is just to illustrate a point that silk follows very subtle topographies of the surface, which means that it can replicate features on the nanoscale.

And Dick became convinced at some point that he and I had some kind of similarity of personality.

I think the only point of similarity between us is we both like to talk about ourselves.

And to point out the power of this: these animals can get to that platform just as fast as animals that have seen their entire lives.

We treat these patients in a rather crude fashion at this point in time.

And look, the price point is better.

You can actually see the point when I know what I'm doing, and a lot of light and dark comes into it.

And from that point of view we turned it into a lovely project.

So let me just point out: memes are like viruses.

Kant was very good on this point, and he said it a little better than I'll say it.

The first point was the importance of rules, like those rules that say you can't come in and disturb all the existing apartment holders.

I tried to explain this point about how valuable cities are, how much more valuable they are than they cost.

But it was a fairly abstract discussion, and at some point when there was a pause, Octavio said, "Paul, maybe we could watch the TEDTalk."

So I presented another fact-filled lecture that included a slide like this, which tried to make the point that, if you want to create a lot of value in a city, it has to be very big.

We have difficult conversations about at what point we decide a body becomes a human, such that it has a different right than a fetal life.

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