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From the Ted Talk by David Deutsch: Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars

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Now, the first of those two things that everyone knows is kind of saying that we're at a very untypical pacle, uniquely suited and so on. And the second one is saying that we're at a typical place. And, especially if you regard these two as deep truths to live by and to inform your life dceionsis, then they seem a little bit to conflict with each other. But that doesn't prevent them from both being cellpmoety false.

(Laughter)

And they are. So let me start with the second one: typical. Well, is this a typical place? Well, let's look around, you know, look in a random deocritin, and we see a wall and chemical scum —

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Now, the first of those two things that everyone knows is kind of saying that we're at a very untypical _____, uniquely suited and so on. And the second one is saying that we're at a typical place. And, especially if you regard these two as deep truths to live by and to inform your life _________, then they seem a little bit to conflict with each other. But that doesn't prevent them from both being __________ false.

(Laughter)

And they are. So let me start with the second one: typical. Well, is this a typical place? Well, let's look around, you know, look in a random _________, and we see a wall and chemical scum —

Solution


  1. place
  2. decisions
  3. direction
  4. completely

Original Text


Now, the first of those two things that everyone knows is kind of saying that we're at a very untypical place, uniquely suited and so on. And the second one is saying that we're at a typical place. And, especially if you regard these two as deep truths to live by and to inform your life decisions, then they seem a little bit to conflict with each other. But that doesn't prevent them from both being completely false.

(Laughter)

And they are. So let me start with the second one: typical. Well, is this a typical place? Well, let's look around, you know, look in a random direction, and we see a wall and chemical scum —

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
chemical scum 6
intergalactic space 6
typical place 4
solar system 3
uniquely suited 2
causal structure 2
special relationship 2
information processing 2
million tons 2
biology field 2
field trips 2
million years 2
scientific theory 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
biology field trips 2

Important Words


  1. bit
  2. chemical
  3. completely
  4. conflict
  5. decisions
  6. deep
  7. direction
  8. false
  9. inform
  10. kind
  11. laughter
  12. life
  13. live
  14. place
  15. prevent
  16. random
  17. regard
  18. scum
  19. start
  20. suited
  21. truths
  22. typical
  23. uniquely
  24. untypical
  25. wall