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From the Ted Talk by Heribert Watzke: The brain in your gut

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So our rescerah — and I think the research also at the universities — are now fnxiig on these points to say: how can we actually — and this might sound trivial now to you — how can we cghane cooking? How can we cook that we have this language developed? So what we have actually, it's not an omnivore's dilemma. We have a coctivor's opportunity, because we have learned over the last two million years which taste and reward — quite sophisticated to cook — to please ourselves, to ssfaity ourselves. If we add the matrix, if we add the structure language, which we have to learn, when we learn it, then we can put it back; and around energy, we could generate a balance, which comes out from our really prrmiadiol operation: cooking. So, to make cooking really a very important element, I would say even prphlioosehs have to change and have to finally recognize that cooking is what made us.

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So our ________ — and I think the research also at the universities — are now ______ on these points to say: how can we actually — and this might sound trivial now to you — how can we ______ cooking? How can we cook that we have this language developed? So what we have actually, it's not an omnivore's dilemma. We have a coctivor's opportunity, because we have learned over the last two million years which taste and reward — quite sophisticated to cook — to please ourselves, to _______ ourselves. If we add the matrix, if we add the structure language, which we have to learn, when we learn it, then we can put it back; and around energy, we could generate a balance, which comes out from our really __________ operation: cooking. So, to make cooking really a very important element, I would say even ____________ have to change and have to finally recognize that cooking is what made us.

Solution


  1. satisfy
  2. change
  3. primordial
  4. philosophers
  5. research
  6. fixing

Original Text


So our research — and I think the research also at the universities — are now fixing on these points to say: how can we actually — and this might sound trivial now to you — how can we change cooking? How can we cook that we have this language developed? So what we have actually, it's not an omnivore's dilemma. We have a coctivor's opportunity, because we have learned over the last two million years which taste and reward — quite sophisticated to cook — to please ourselves, to satisfy ourselves. If we add the matrix, if we add the structure language, which we have to learn, when we learn it, then we can put it back; and around energy, we could generate a balance, which comes out from our really primordial operation: cooking. So, to make cooking really a very important element, I would say even philosophers have to change and have to finally recognize that cooking is what made us.

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