Somebody
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You could be stamping on somebody, it's having the same effect.
So Robert Provine, who has done a lot of work on this, has pointed out that you are 30 times more likely to laugh if you are with
somebody
else than if you're on your own, and where you find most laughter is in social interactions like conversation.
You can catch laughter from
somebody
else, and you are more likely to catch laughter off
somebody
else if you know them.
So it seems possible that the neurobiology for helpless, involuntary laughter, like my parents lying on the floor screaming about a silly song, might have a different basis to it than some of that more polite social laughter that you encounter, which isn't horrible laughter, but it's behavior
somebody
is doing as part of their communicative act to you, part of their interaction with you; they are choosing to do this.
What you see in the regions in blue, which lies in auditory cortex, are the brain areas that respond more to the real laughs, and what seems to be the case, when you hear
somebody
laughing involuntarily, you hear sounds you would never hear in any other context.
In contrast, when you hear
somebody
laughing in a posed way, what you see are these regions in pink, which are occupying brain areas associated with mentalizing, thinking about what
somebody
else is thinking.
And I think what that means is, even if you're having your brain scanned, which is completely boring and not very interesting, when you hear
somebody
going, "A ha ha ha ha ha," you're trying to work out why they're laughing.
Right now, as I speak, I'm sure there is some employee out there somewhere who has been talked into handing out her account details by
somebody
claiming to be from the I.T. department.
The risk is that if
somebody
figures out how to crack the first challenge without also having cracked the additional challenge of ensuring perfect safety.
I had not taken any biology, even in college, so I had to go from a biology textbook to a college-level textbook and then medical textbook and the journal articles, back and forth, and eventually I knew enough to think that it might be possible that
somebody
could find a cure.
But I didn't start out wanting to be a part of
somebody'
s crime reduction strategy.
And so I stayed, because
somebody
needed to do something, and so I had looked at what I had and moved on that.
But the violence just careened out of control, and people who were not involved in the violence were getting shot and killed:
somebody
going to buy a pack of cigarettes at a convenience store, or someone who was sitting at a bus stop just waiting for a bus, or kids who were playing in the park, oblivious to the violence on the other side of the park, but it coming and visiting them.
Because I'm the one looking around saying
somebody
needs to do something about this, and I'm starting to realize that that someone is me.
Because there was always
somebody
who would say, "We're going to take back the streets," but they would always seem to have a television camera with them, or a reporter, and they would enhance their own reputation to the detriment of those on the streets.
Until, it was quite amusing, about a year ago
somebody
said, "You've been invited to do a TED Talk."
All around the world, and I had this feeling that I was pushed off at great speed to become somebody, become that individual, Jimmy.
If you could look at
somebody
left to the right of you, and I want you to observe them, and I want you to give them a compliment.
And
somebody
said, "You have to show them the picture of the Nenets.
They finished one meal with this plate of perfect, long-stemmed strawberries, and as they handed them to me, they said, "Aren't these the kind of strawberries you eat with
somebody
special in the States?
No, but see, listen, you find me
somebody
who don't hate some part of their job.
So the best way to demonstrate how this technology works is to try a live demo, so I need a volunteer, preferably
somebody
with a face.
She was
somebody
who had a bread maker in her office in Kandahar, and would bake a batch of raisin bread, and then go to the gym and bust out 25 or 30 pull-ups from a dead hang.
Here
somebody
makes a right turn, and in a moment here,
somebody'
s going to make a U-turn in front of us, and we can anticipate that behavior and respond safely.
The Department of Justice says that more than half of the rapes on a college campus take place by serial rapists, because outside of the university system, if they rape somebody, they'll be prosecuted, but when they get on a university campus, they can rape with impunity.
So when I lay in my hospital bed, I thought of my plan to help reduce the chances of them doing this to
somebody
else, by using the system as is, and paying the price of sacrificing my privacy.
But you might have to elaborate for me or for
somebody
who isn't an expert, and say, "Cook at 380 degrees for 45 minutes."
If you're in a classroom situation and
somebody
asks a question, the last thing you do is repeat what you just said.
And you obviously have been hoodwinked or you've talked about
somebody
else."
And yet you've got to go to school to learn how to read, and you have to sit in a classroom and
somebody
has to teach you.
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