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In 1988, a logging company convinced local residents that there would be absolutely no environmental impact from a new method they were trying called "selective logging," taking out a tree here and there rather than clear-cutting a whole area.

So it was trying to make you look after something in your immediate environment, which you don't want to see not looking so good, rather than expecting people to do things in the local environment because of the effect that it has a long way off.

And I think, kind of like going back to the farm, it's about how to let people do what you want them to do rather than making people do what you want them to do.

I think it's rather easy to define if you're not trying to give a scientific definition.

So for example, voices which threatened to attack my home I learned to interpret as my own sense of fear and insecurity in the world, rather than an actual, objective danger.

I worked in mental health services, I spoke at conferences, I published book chapters and academic articles, and I argued, and continue to do so, the relevance of the following concept: that an important question in psychiatry shouldn't be what's wrong with you but rather what's happened to you.

So with your permission, I'm going to do some things that are in my mind, and I hope you enjoy them, because they're rather unusual, especially when you're doing things which are as unusual as this, it can be hard to believe that it is all my voice, you see.

It's not some sort of thing that we can take on board rather casually.

Rather than finding a fear memory in the brain, we can start by taking our animals, and let's say we put them in a blue box like this blue box here and we find the brain cells that represent that blue box and we trick them to respond to pulses of light exactly like we had said before.

It was in constant flux, and we had to, rather than fight it, embrace it, see where the milk would take us and compensate to make it even better.

Now, we evolved in rather more challenging times than these, in a world of horns and tusks and fangs and claws.

So the main attacks on malaria have come from outside of malarious societies, from people who aren't constrained by these rather paralyzing politics.

In fact, their rather patronizing view was that people at risk of malaria shouldn't be asked to do anything at all.

But for myself, in the past, I've spent the last 20 years studying human behavior from a rather unorthodox way: picking pockets.

Once a guy had a hole in his pocket, and that was rather traumatizing for me.

That's rather strange.

Rather bizarre.

And don't think about the brains of these robots or how carefully we program them, but rather look at their bodies.

Rather, it could be much more like this.

I mean, another way to think about this is, which would you rather have, a kid with obesity, diabetes, shortened lifespan, all the things that go with it, or a kid with one little extra bit of false memory?

And these include things like clothing that concrete world with classification, introducing abstractions that we try to make logically consistent, and also taking the hypothetical seriously, that is, wondering about what might have been rather than what is.

And you were supposed to think, well, the state legislature was rural-controlled, and they hated the big city, so rather than putting the capital in a big city, they put it in a county seat.

They put it in Albany rather than New York.

They put it in Harrisburg rather than Philadelphia.

And the people who were highly trusted 20 years ago are still rather highly trusted: judges, nurses.

It's very real, and if you think that it isn't, ask yourself this: Would you rather make your next Facebook status say you're having a tough time getting out of bed because you hurt your back or you're having a tough time getting out of bed every morning because you're depressed?

I'm going to keep using these online dating sites, but I'm going to treat them as databases, and rather than waiting for an algorithm to set me up, I think I'm going to try reverse-engineering this entire system.

I could do it again to show it one more time, but some would argue that this is a complete waste of the whiskey, and that I should rather drink it.

The governments that are making the most progress are the governments that have found ways to enable shared value in business rather than see government as the only player that has to call the shots.

In fact, the current dynamic that you see between Iran and Israel has its roots more so in the geopolitical reconfiguration of the region after the Cold War than in the events of 1979, because at this point, Iran and Israel emerge as two of the most powerful states in the region, and rather than viewing each other as potential security partners, they increasingly came to view each other as rivals and competitors.

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