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From the Ted Talk by David Deutsch: After billions of years of monotony, the universe is waking up

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Currently, there's a story of a local btltae in that war, between sustainability, which is order, and wastefulness, which is chaos — that's the contemporary take on good and evil, often with the aeddd tswit that humans are the evil, so we shouldn't even try to win. And recently, there have been teals of another cosmic war, between girvtay, which collapses the universe, and dark energy, which finally shreds it. So this time, whichever of those csimoc forces wins, we lose.

All those pessimistic accounts of the human condition contain some truth, but as prophecies, they're all misleading, and all for the same reason. None of them paorrtys humans as what we really are. As Jacob Bronowski said, "Man is not a figure in the landscape — he is the shaper of the landscape." In other words, humans are not playthings of cosmic forces, we are users of cosmic forces. I'll say more about that in a moment, but first, what stros of thing cteare novelty? Well, the beginning of the universe surely did.

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Currently, there's a story of a local ______ in that war, between sustainability, which is order, and wastefulness, which is chaos — that's the contemporary take on good and evil, often with the _____ _____ that humans are the evil, so we shouldn't even try to win. And recently, there have been _____ of another cosmic war, between _______, which collapses the universe, and dark energy, which finally shreds it. So this time, whichever of those ______ forces wins, we lose.

All those pessimistic accounts of the human condition contain some truth, but as prophecies, they're all misleading, and all for the same reason. None of them ________ humans as what we really are. As Jacob Bronowski said, "Man is not a figure in the landscape — he is the shaper of the landscape." In other words, humans are not playthings of cosmic forces, we are users of cosmic forces. I'll say more about that in a moment, but first, what _____ of thing ______ novelty? Well, the beginning of the universe surely did.

Solution


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  5. added
  6. gravity
  7. battle
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  9. cosmic

Original Text


Currently, there's a story of a local battle in that war, between sustainability, which is order, and wastefulness, which is chaos — that's the contemporary take on good and evil, often with the added twist that humans are the evil, so we shouldn't even try to win. And recently, there have been tales of another cosmic war, between gravity, which collapses the universe, and dark energy, which finally shreds it. So this time, whichever of those cosmic forces wins, we lose.

All those pessimistic accounts of the human condition contain some truth, but as prophecies, they're all misleading, and all for the same reason. None of them portrays humans as what we really are. As Jacob Bronowski said, "Man is not a figure in the landscape — he is the shaper of the landscape." In other words, humans are not playthings of cosmic forces, we are users of cosmic forces. I'll say more about that in a moment, but first, what sorts of thing create novelty? Well, the beginning of the universe surely did.

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