WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:14.320 So sorry, I am very late. 00:14.320 --> 00:20.960 And left hand monkey wrench is first. 00:20.960 --> 00:27.760 I'm going to assume that my sound is okay, but just in case I think it should be fine. 00:27.760 --> 00:31.760 I think I figured out what that glitch was a while ago already and have fixed it. 00:31.760 --> 00:35.360 But if you can give me confirmation, synced is good. 00:35.360 --> 00:37.200 Excellent, excellent, excellent. 00:57.760 --> 01:20.720 I'm afraid that the latest data tells us that we're dealing with essentially a worst-case 01:20.720 --> 01:33.360 scenario, the scary part of the ship thing seems to be the rumors about it maybe being 01:33.360 --> 01:39.840 done via the internet, by a cyber connectivity or some kind of cyber attack. 01:39.840 --> 01:45.880 I think that's probably a rumor at this stage yet, but just realize that given the shipping 01:45.880 --> 01:53.400 industry that we have, there's lots of different ways to attack the infrastructure of a nation. 01:53.400 --> 01:55.000 Is this a shot across our bow? 01:55.000 --> 01:56.600 Is it a threat or is it just an accident? 01:56.600 --> 02:00.240 I don't know, I'm a biologist. 02:00.240 --> 02:02.400 I think truth is good for kids. 02:02.400 --> 02:06.680 We're so busy lying, we don't even recognize the truth no more in society. 02:06.680 --> 02:08.880 We want everybody to feel good. 02:08.880 --> 02:13.200 That's not the way life is. 02:13.200 --> 02:18.840 You can tell if someone's lying, you can sort of feel it in people. 02:18.840 --> 02:19.840 And I have lied. 02:19.840 --> 02:20.840 I'm sure I'll lie again. 02:20.840 --> 02:21.840 I don't want to lie. 02:21.840 --> 02:25.880 I don't think I'm a liar, I try not to be a liar, I don't want to be a liar. 02:25.880 --> 02:26.880 I think it's like- 02:26.880 --> 02:29.880 Can someone check and see if you can find me on YouTube anywhere? 02:29.880 --> 02:33.280 It would be really handy if somebody could see whether the live stream on YouTube is 02:33.280 --> 02:34.280 going. 02:34.280 --> 02:43.160 I hate to pull away and to take any bandwidth and try to see if I can see it myself. 02:43.160 --> 02:45.960 If it's hard to find that it's also not really working, right? 02:45.960 --> 02:52.840 If you can find my JC on a bike channel that can't find the live, then that's also a problem. 02:52.840 --> 02:59.600 In case you haven't forgotten, I've got a friend named Nate and he took both shots. 08:43.160 --> 09:04.840 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Giga Home Biological, a high-resistance low noise 09:04.840 --> 09:09.280 information brief brought to you by a biologist again to remind you this stream and every stream 09:09.280 --> 09:16.240 on every Tuesday from now on is dedicated to a friend Nate who we lost in an untimely 09:16.240 --> 09:21.520 way because of the transfections and I think we need to start to be very frank about how 09:21.520 --> 09:25.800 many people we've lost for something other than a virus. 09:25.800 --> 09:31.040 That's what I think is most important right now as we move forward to start to get people 09:31.040 --> 09:37.520 to focus on the people who were actually lost and not the people who were censored or lost 09:37.520 --> 09:39.480 their YouTube channels. 09:39.480 --> 09:41.120 Again, welcome to the show. 09:41.120 --> 09:44.480 I'm a human just like you coming to you live from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the back 09:44.480 --> 09:47.400 of my kind of weird smelly garage. 09:47.400 --> 09:53.640 I think my wife left the chicken feeder that's outside in the office and it was a little wet 09:53.640 --> 09:54.640 last night's. 09:54.640 --> 09:56.040 I don't know, it smells weird in here. 09:56.040 --> 09:58.360 Anyway, you can't smell that, so that's really good. 09:58.360 --> 10:00.400 We're not at smell-a-vision yet. 10:00.400 --> 10:07.400 Again, this is Giga Home Biological, it's the 26th of March, 2024, it is the fifth year 10:07.400 --> 10:12.240 since we've had, this is, we're going on our fifth year since we had 15 days to flatten 10:12.240 --> 10:19.040 the curve, 60 days to smash the curve if you were a Paul Catrell fan. 10:19.040 --> 10:25.440 This is a time and a place for you if you've never found me before, if you're here for the 10:25.440 --> 10:29.680 umpteenth time, then you already know that what we are fighting against is something 10:29.680 --> 10:35.160 that has gone on for a very long time and it's only a question of whether or not it's 10:35.160 --> 10:39.640 been turned up to 11 for the last three years or whether it's turned up to 11 for 10:39.640 --> 10:41.720 the last 10 years. 10:41.720 --> 10:48.360 The real deal is that the internet and social media and our cell phones and all of our devices 10:48.360 --> 10:57.880 and all of these different applications have allowed them to and mesh us in a web of what 10:57.880 --> 11:04.240 they call knowledge, what is it actually noise, that is carefully curated so that if you try 11:04.240 --> 11:09.280 to escape or you try to understand the shape of it, you will inevitably run into these 11:09.280 --> 11:16.120 fake barriers which are essentially defined by people on the internet who agree to disagree 11:16.120 --> 11:20.120 about things and agree not to talk about other things. 11:20.120 --> 11:28.720 And as sort of ridiculously simple as it sounds, it is exactly the same as your most famous 11:28.720 --> 11:34.200 favorite magician if you actually found out how any or all of those tricks were done 11:34.200 --> 11:39.280 would be horribly disappointed because you would find out it's just a couple of people 11:39.280 --> 11:40.760 lying to you. 11:40.760 --> 11:47.100 And no matter how clever it is, the way that they lie to you, it is nevertheless a lie. 11:47.100 --> 11:52.200 And if we start to think about this as a show that we ever attended, we were given tickets 11:52.200 --> 11:56.760 to the pandemic, we sat down in our seats and we had no idea that half of the people 11:56.760 --> 12:00.160 that were in the audience were in on the gag. 12:00.160 --> 12:04.760 And so when the people on stage told us that you better wear your masks and half of the 12:04.760 --> 12:11.320 people in the audience did it with vigor, it was a lot more difficult for us to resist. 12:11.320 --> 12:17.440 And being in an experiment or in a performance where people are working against you because 12:17.440 --> 12:21.960 it's part of the experiment is a very devious position to be in indeed. 12:21.960 --> 12:26.600 In fact, on bench academic science, that means that somebody's walking in an honor 12:26.600 --> 12:32.760 out front door, which I guess at one, I think that's okay. 12:32.760 --> 12:39.920 The idea is that if you think of a national security operation that was run on us and 12:39.920 --> 12:52.320 the world and that that national security operation can be best described as analogous 12:52.320 --> 12:58.920 to a magician's performance in Las Vegas, where the stage was social media, the stage 12:58.920 --> 13:04.760 was television, the stage was the pulpit in the White House, the stage was the FDA and 13:04.760 --> 13:12.920 the CDC pulpits, the stage was the internet and the intellectual dark web. 13:12.920 --> 13:18.560 And all of these pretend voices that have purported to be fighting for our freedom, 13:18.560 --> 13:25.040 but in reality, we're coordinatedly working this theater. 13:25.040 --> 13:32.440 And if you see it as a stage thing with audience members engaged in fooling the other audience 13:32.440 --> 13:40.080 members to enhance the likelihood that they would suspend their disbelief, then you see 13:40.080 --> 13:45.080 why if if you sat down a bunch of bureaucrats, if you sat down a bunch of military leaders, 13:45.080 --> 13:49.840 if you sat down a bunch of politicians and people with clearances and told them that 13:49.840 --> 13:53.480 this is the way. 13:53.480 --> 13:58.040 And then you pulled the you rang the bell and everybody went to work. 13:58.040 --> 14:01.240 This is where we are. 14:01.240 --> 14:06.480 And since everybody understands it for what it is, then none of them see the cognitive 14:06.480 --> 14:13.400 dissonance in telling us that it is the way it is when it isn't because that was the 14:13.400 --> 14:17.600 design of the plan in the first place, the people that were planted in the audience already 14:17.600 --> 14:20.880 knew they were planted in the audience. 14:20.880 --> 14:26.240 They already understood their role in the show. 14:26.240 --> 14:30.560 And now there may be other people in the audience who have decided to participate in a way that 14:30.560 --> 14:35.200 that's not scripted and that those people that were planted in the audience have been 14:35.200 --> 14:38.560 very skilled at allowing them to participate. 14:38.560 --> 14:41.400 But that's probably part of the show too. 14:41.400 --> 14:47.800 And no doubt that they've gained that out before this was finally executed. 14:47.800 --> 14:52.320 This is a quote from the 19, sorry, I don't know how to do the weatherman thing. 14:52.320 --> 14:59.800 This is a quote from the 1920s, I think it's 1924. 14:59.800 --> 15:04.200 This is back when they could do it with radio and television. 15:04.200 --> 15:09.920 Please tell me you have no problem imagining that when we give them our brains on Twitter, 15:09.920 --> 15:12.960 we give them our brains and attention on Facebook. 15:12.960 --> 15:17.800 We give them our brains and attention on these devices and these applications that they can 15:17.800 --> 15:25.280 surely consciously and intelligently manipulate our habits and opinions. 15:25.280 --> 15:27.360 Of course, you believe them. 15:27.360 --> 15:31.720 But for some reason, we're supposed to be afraid of the AI that's to come, the AI in 15:31.720 --> 15:36.320 the future instead of the machines that are being used by other men to control us right 15:36.320 --> 15:41.920 now to steal from dude. 15:41.920 --> 15:45.880 And that's the magic of where we are that if you just boil it down to that, you can see 15:45.880 --> 15:52.920 the people who are are medlers because they are purporting even the ones that do say that 15:52.920 --> 15:58.680 they're thinking across modalities and talking about the whole big picture like Robert 15:58.680 --> 16:02.880 Malone often does, he doesn't get to the heart of this at all. 16:02.880 --> 16:05.880 In fact, he pushes the AI scary thing. 16:05.880 --> 16:08.680 He pushes the gain of function virus thing. 16:08.680 --> 16:13.800 He pushes the collapse of the dollar, but something, something, something, but never actually 16:13.800 --> 16:18.040 gets to the heart of it, which is fractional reserve banking. 16:18.040 --> 16:23.200 The idea that if you can create money and you decide who uses that power and how it 16:23.200 --> 16:27.760 gets used and who has to follow the rules very strictly, then you can set up a system 16:27.760 --> 16:35.080 where corporations can go bankrupt, but college students can't. 16:35.080 --> 16:38.280 And that's the system that we live in right now, not saying it's good or bad. 16:38.280 --> 16:43.880 This is just the way it is, a corporation declares bankruptcy of billions of dollars 16:43.880 --> 16:47.280 is what happens. 16:47.280 --> 16:52.920 But there is no way that a college student who went to a very bad university and got 16:52.920 --> 16:57.400 a very dumb degree because that university was very happy to give it to them and had 16:57.400 --> 17:01.720 a financial aid office that was very happy to get them to sign the right papers so that 17:01.720 --> 17:08.640 all $15,000 of every year's tuition would be covered. 17:08.640 --> 17:15.080 You can blame it all on the student if you want to rather than the lawmakers that made 17:15.080 --> 17:19.040 the bills or the people at those lending agencies or the universities that said, oh, 17:19.040 --> 17:23.440 my gosh, great, thanks, we'll raise our tuition, we'll pay everybody more, we'll hire more 17:23.440 --> 17:27.560 things, we'll build more buildings. 17:27.560 --> 17:30.920 But the student loan thing is an issue that comes right back to the universities. 17:30.920 --> 17:36.800 The same universities that we're totally happy to accept are corrupt, are teaching our kids 17:36.800 --> 17:43.440 terribly, are responsible for all kinds of bad things and bad ideas, wasting money, but 17:43.440 --> 17:47.040 when it comes to student loans, it's all the student's fault. 17:47.040 --> 17:53.480 So think about the kind of conscious and intelligent manipulation of our habits has occurred in 17:53.480 --> 17:59.240 order for people to be very convinced that helping people with student loans is absolutely 17:59.240 --> 18:04.240 absurd and I didn't go to college, I don't have loans, so why should I help them? 18:04.240 --> 18:11.520 And those same people have never considered the oddity of corporate bankruptcy or personal 18:11.520 --> 18:16.760 bankruptcy for that matter, which is totally okay. 18:16.760 --> 18:22.480 And so it's bizarre because that is obviously, if you think objectively about it, that's 18:22.480 --> 18:26.480 only because people want you to scream about that, otherwise it wouldn't rise all over 18:26.480 --> 18:27.480 the internet. 18:27.480 --> 18:35.320 And once you see it that way, then all of these things need a real inspection. 18:35.320 --> 18:39.720 Because in reality, we are being governed by asking the wrong questions and being convinced 18:39.720 --> 18:47.240 that these questions are much smarter than they are, in fact, they're dumb questions. 18:47.240 --> 18:52.840 And once you see it that way, then you see why informed consent comes back to the fore 18:52.840 --> 18:57.120 all the time, because informed consent is what one would have if you were in a free 18:57.120 --> 19:01.320 country, if you were in a free republic, you would have informed consent. 19:01.320 --> 19:07.280 If you were a real citizen with real voting rights, you would have informed consent. 19:07.280 --> 19:13.120 And these people in our government would be acting with our informed consent, more 19:13.120 --> 19:14.120 or less. 19:14.120 --> 19:19.400 I don't know if that's the right legal language or not, but it sure sounds pretty good to me. 19:19.400 --> 19:24.520 And so one of the ways to understand how our informed consent was taken away from us was 19:24.520 --> 19:31.560 to understand that there was a magic show, which was performed with people in the audience 19:31.560 --> 19:37.560 in on the show that has convinced us that there was a pandemic, a combination of people 19:37.560 --> 19:44.160 in the audience that were making new diagnostic tools and other people that were starting 19:44.160 --> 19:47.640 new PCR companies or track and trace companies. 19:47.640 --> 19:51.760 And all these people that seem to be just, wow, this is this is crazy. 19:51.760 --> 19:58.080 This look at all this, the Ant Hill is moving. 19:58.080 --> 20:03.960 And when you look around and you think that it's all real life instead of a show, it was 20:03.960 --> 20:04.960 overwhelming. 20:04.960 --> 20:11.760 And that's what all of us did, all of us very naive, including myself, people that thought 20:11.760 --> 20:15.800 the vast majority of what we thought was the real world was the real world, that most 20:15.800 --> 20:20.160 of what we saw in television was the truth, that most of what people published was the 20:20.160 --> 20:25.880 truth, even though we knew in our hearts that, you know, like the things that happened on 20:25.920 --> 20:32.660 9 11 have been sort of obviously mistold, although we might not claim to know what happened. 20:32.660 --> 20:38.840 It's weird how even people like us were not able to apply that skepticism fully to the 20:38.840 --> 20:42.960 whole picture in front of us, but rather just those two buildings over there, just those 20:42.960 --> 20:43.960 airplanes. 20:43.960 --> 20:44.960 That's it. 20:44.960 --> 20:48.840 That, that seems weird, but everything else seems kosher. 20:48.840 --> 20:53.600 So as long as you tell a good story, then it's totally okay. 20:53.600 --> 20:57.240 It's when the details don't match up that things start to get hairy. 20:57.240 --> 21:02.400 And it seems to me that with the pandemic, because they closed the trap too early, because 21:02.400 --> 21:09.760 they, they went all in before we were afraid enough or confused enough. 21:09.760 --> 21:16.000 There are sufficient people outside of the illusion to rescue. 21:16.000 --> 21:17.440 I do really think it's possible. 21:17.440 --> 21:21.600 I just think that they're using all of their might, all of their social media power, all 21:21.600 --> 21:27.480 of their dirty tricks, all of their, their illusions, all of their disguises to make 21:27.480 --> 21:31.600 sure that we don't figure out that we're actually really close to a threshold moment 21:31.600 --> 21:36.280 where irrespective of who got us there, we're all going to be able to wake up and leave 21:36.280 --> 21:41.760 these, these medlers behind, because once we understand the whole picture, it doesn't 21:41.760 --> 21:44.800 matter who's selling an Ivermectin book. 21:44.800 --> 21:48.920 Once we understand the whole picture, it doesn't matter who's running that study or who's doing 21:48.920 --> 21:51.840 that group or who's on that telegram chat. 21:51.840 --> 21:57.160 Once we understand the big picture, then any of these one trick ponies will be completely 21:57.160 --> 22:01.520 irrelevant rather than part of a relevant barbershop quartet that everybody thinks is 22:01.520 --> 22:04.480 such harmony. 22:04.480 --> 22:09.040 I think that's the reason why the illusion of consensus was something that needed to be 22:09.040 --> 22:16.400 almost stolen and diluted, because you had to, you had to take this and make something 22:16.400 --> 22:21.960 other than an illusion of consensus about a novel virus in order to dilute the power 22:21.960 --> 22:23.520 of this idea. 22:23.520 --> 22:29.760 It's just unfortunate that maybe a friend was involved in, in that operation, wittingly 22:29.760 --> 22:33.240 or unwittingly, and that's what I find most disappointing about it. 22:33.240 --> 22:38.520 I think this faith in a novel virus is something that is really essentially an attack on us 22:38.520 --> 22:46.360 in our way of life, whatever you want to call it, baseball and apple pie, true freedom 22:47.360 --> 22:50.600 not whatever we're talking about now. 22:50.600 --> 22:56.920 And that story, this story here that's on the on the screen is how they're doing it, 22:56.920 --> 23:00.000 how they intend to do it to our children. 23:00.000 --> 23:07.520 Create enough chaos in their mind and enough insecurity with the adults in the world that. 23:07.520 --> 23:16.200 You know, you'll see very soon we'll have a kind of middle aged adult 30 year old 23:16.200 --> 23:22.120 kids, thinking that they belong in Congress, thinking that they belong on states and and 23:22.120 --> 23:29.120 rejecting the 50 year olds like me and you and the 40 year olds and maybe even the 60 23:29.120 --> 23:32.440 year olds, they're all going to get rejected because of this, you know, all these old 23:32.440 --> 23:35.800 people, including the old person in office right now. 23:35.800 --> 23:41.840 That's part of the intergenerational fracturing that that was probably intended with regard 23:41.840 --> 23:47.600 to the pandemic to try and make sure that most of the skeptics were old and most of 23:47.600 --> 23:49.960 the people on the good side were young. 23:49.960 --> 23:54.680 And so then in the end, when the next one comes along, we can glump all these old people 23:54.680 --> 23:58.800 into one group, transfect them all. 23:58.800 --> 23:59.800 I don't know. 23:59.800 --> 24:05.560 I'm a bit, I'm a bit off target here and I'm wasting a little time, but I feel as though 24:05.560 --> 24:09.840 we are at a crucial moment where I don't need to address anything else other than to repeat 24:09.920 --> 24:10.920 what I'm saying. 24:10.920 --> 24:19.480 And that is that that the people that are on one side, the other, the top, the bottom, 24:19.480 --> 24:22.440 they all agree that there was a virus. 24:22.440 --> 24:26.880 They all agree that it went around the world that infected millions of people and maybe 24:26.880 --> 24:28.680 even killed millions of people. 24:28.680 --> 24:30.240 They all agree. 24:30.240 --> 24:31.680 It doesn't matter what side you're on. 24:31.680 --> 24:39.800 Tony Fauci, Kevin McCarran, Kevin McCurnan, Robert Malone, Meryl Nash. 24:39.800 --> 24:40.800 Yes. 24:40.800 --> 24:43.800 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 24:43.800 --> 24:59.600 Peter Desak, Jeffrey Sacks, Kim.com, Dr. Drew, Dr. Victory, Debunk the Funk, Brian Wilson 24:59.600 --> 25:02.040 or whatever is Daniel Wilson, what is his name? 25:02.040 --> 25:04.200 I don't care. 25:04.200 --> 25:09.200 All of them agree that there was a novel virus that probably killed millions of people that 25:09.200 --> 25:14.400 millions of more may have been saved from by transfection, but some of those people 25:14.400 --> 25:16.960 think that the transfection was adulterated. 25:16.960 --> 25:23.560 And so there was damage done that nobody's acknowledging. 25:23.560 --> 25:29.600 But if you carefully dissect that narrative, then neither side right now of all the people 25:29.600 --> 25:35.520 that have any space on social media at all, there is not one person, not one person on 25:35.520 --> 25:42.960 the either team, any team that questions the whole principle of the pandemic in the 25:42.960 --> 25:49.880 first place, not because the virus wasn't deadly or it was very mild because that's 25:49.880 --> 25:56.000 not questioning it and be very clear in your own head that if you say there was no pandemic 25:56.000 --> 26:02.400 because it was never a dangerous virus, because kids or the CFR or the IFR wasn't high enough, 26:02.400 --> 26:11.760 and you are not actively rejecting the idea of the pandemic, you are giving them the pandemic. 26:11.760 --> 26:14.200 And that's exactly what they want. 26:14.200 --> 26:24.000 What you need to realize is that the principle, the idea that an RNA molecule can pandemic 26:24.000 --> 26:31.840 using it as a verb, can pandemic can go from a point to being everywhere on earth. 26:32.080 --> 26:35.200 That's the verb pandemic. 26:35.200 --> 26:40.440 If the guitar behind me pandemics, then at some point in time at the end of the pandemic, 26:40.440 --> 26:49.040 there should be a Paul Reed Smith custom guitar in every place on earth and every human on 26:49.040 --> 26:53.240 earth, every human on earth should own one, then it's a pandemic. 26:53.240 --> 26:57.680 So you might say something like cell phones, there's a pandemic of cell phones because 26:57.760 --> 27:00.160 once we started making them, they're everywhere now. 27:00.160 --> 27:03.600 So there was a pandemic of cell phones. 27:03.600 --> 27:12.800 But you can imagine all of the energy and work and human whatever that goes into that going 27:12.800 --> 27:19.200 from one iPhone on the stage to an iPhone in everyone's pocket. 27:19.200 --> 27:25.040 And here, biologically speaking, the model that we've been handed is that an RNA molecule 27:25.040 --> 27:27.600 that gets leaked. 27:27.600 --> 27:31.680 I think Robert Malone once told the story about the idea that they were recycling things 27:31.680 --> 27:38.280 from the laboratory in Wuhan and that after they used the animals for laboratory experiments, 27:38.280 --> 27:42.000 they would also take them down the street to the market and sell them, which is just 27:42.000 --> 27:45.880 hilarity beyond hilarity. 27:45.880 --> 27:50.640 And again, wherever whatever story you want to tell, they took the laboratory animals 27:50.640 --> 27:59.920 out of the market and they opened up a WIV Wuhan Institute of Virology stall at the Wuhan 27:59.920 --> 28:06.920 market and they sold control group and experimental group Golden Hamsters and the experimental 28:06.920 --> 28:08.640 group was half price. 28:08.640 --> 28:14.560 Whatever story you want to tell, there was RNA in a small place and then it pandemiced 28:14.560 --> 28:17.280 and now we can find it everywhere. 28:17.280 --> 28:22.720 And there are lots of very useful products and methodologies to find it everywhere. 28:22.720 --> 28:24.400 That's the story that we're told. 28:24.400 --> 28:33.520 And not only that, but we're told it in a consensus sort of way everyone agrees. 28:33.520 --> 28:39.360 And so we have to be very careful because everyone also has a great faith in a great 28:39.360 --> 28:44.560 deal of this mythology around the biology of it. 28:44.560 --> 28:50.040 And so the very slippery slope is that gain of function RNA went endemic is going to 28:50.040 --> 28:56.640 permanently instill in our children that something like a fear and cleavage site, for example, 28:56.640 --> 29:00.520 can endow a virus with the ability to pandemic. 29:00.520 --> 29:05.000 And without that fear and cleavage site, it can't. 29:05.000 --> 29:13.400 We could also get to a stage where our kids actually believe that prions and chronic wasting 29:13.400 --> 29:18.200 and this kind of thing is something that can be caused by protein misfolding and that 29:18.200 --> 29:24.360 it's a natural thing that occurs as opposed to something caused by a parasite or something 29:24.360 --> 29:29.720 caused by a bacteria or something caused by a toxin, whatever it might be in each of these 29:29.720 --> 29:36.840 cases, which very few of them have been substantiated as well as you might like to think. 29:36.840 --> 29:43.840 And so I do apologize for not starting today, but in the next couple days, for sure, we're 29:43.840 --> 29:50.160 going to start doing real hard work, you and I together on the stream, about prions and 29:50.160 --> 29:55.080 about the literature that supports them and how we understand what they do and what the 29:55.080 --> 30:02.040 pre-on protein does when it's not doing this stuff that apparently it does in these papers. 30:02.040 --> 30:08.560 But right now, the important thing to understand is that the faith in a novel virus is starting, 30:08.560 --> 30:11.160 it essentially is a faith in a novel biology. 30:11.160 --> 30:16.640 And that model is something that that's where we attack. 30:16.640 --> 30:22.920 That's where logically we need to probe each of these people who is certain about what 30:22.920 --> 30:23.920 has happened. 30:23.920 --> 30:28.960 We need to have them give us details about their model, give us details about how they 30:29.040 --> 30:33.440 mechanistically understand what happened and what's happening. 30:33.440 --> 30:38.800 For example, why don't we already have thousands of people in the hospital with crowdspelled 30:38.800 --> 30:42.480 yachob's disease because of the virus? 30:42.480 --> 30:47.000 Because that was something that a lot of these people said very early on in 2020 was that 30:47.000 --> 30:50.320 there would be neurological symptoms, that people's behavior was going to change, that 30:50.320 --> 30:56.880 maybe we would have amyloidogenic or prion-like diseases in these people. 30:56.880 --> 31:02.040 And so, you know, showing videos of people licking the walls or licking the windows of 31:02.040 --> 31:09.080 closed pubs was a way of suggesting that the COVID virus was going around changing people's 31:09.080 --> 31:12.480 brains because the spike protein was a pre-on weapon. 31:12.480 --> 31:20.360 These people said that in March and in April of 2020 when they had no business having any 31:20.360 --> 31:26.920 opinions about what the spike protein would do or not do, but they all had ideas. 31:26.920 --> 31:28.720 And they weren't all mainstream people. 31:28.720 --> 31:34.480 None of them were mainstream biologists, academic biologists. 31:34.480 --> 31:40.300 They were fringe people, people that had no business calling themselves experts, no business 31:40.300 --> 31:45.120 putting themselves out there. 31:45.120 --> 31:46.200 Was I one of those people? 31:46.200 --> 31:54.160 Well, I don't really know because I never claimed that this was a worst-case scenario. 31:54.160 --> 31:56.000 I fought against the worst-case scenario. 31:56.000 --> 32:01.000 I fought for the idea that it might be better not to trust the government and not to trust 32:01.000 --> 32:06.080 the pharmaceutical companies and to not take their word for it. 32:06.080 --> 32:11.960 Even though I didn't have the total biological understanding that I think I have now and can't 32:11.960 --> 32:16.640 make as cogent argument as I can now, I was already making a pretty cogent argument 32:16.640 --> 32:24.440 in March 2020 and the people that were rejecting that argument are quite striking because many 32:24.440 --> 32:34.960 of those people are now front and center of the opposition, presenting, being promoted 32:34.960 --> 32:43.000 together, it's incredible, really, because this is the biology they want, I think, your 32:43.000 --> 32:48.560 children to believe us to talk about, us to argue about, and that's not what we're going 32:48.560 --> 32:51.360 to discuss because it's not real biology. 32:51.360 --> 32:58.320 We will discuss it and we will use it to understand how a biological concept can come to exist 32:58.320 --> 33:04.480 in the literature when it might not exist in nature and it will come to understand how 33:04.480 --> 33:10.440 it is that gain of function, virology, has been exaggerated in the literature in exactly 33:10.440 --> 33:15.160 the same way with the, sorry about that, what was I doing with that for? 33:15.160 --> 33:17.000 That was weird. 33:17.000 --> 33:21.320 That is not a symbol of 666 for me, I can tell you that much right now, but I do know that 33:21.320 --> 33:22.320 everybody says that. 33:22.320 --> 33:24.840 I think it's got to be upside down to in order for that to be real. 33:24.840 --> 33:28.480 I was just holding my hand that way, I apologize, but I am sensitive to it because everybody's 33:28.480 --> 33:34.360 talking about it all the time, so anyway, I really think this is important though. 33:34.360 --> 33:39.960 It's important to understand that we have a biological story here that is plausible, 33:39.960 --> 33:51.440 that doesn't require any crazy variables, it doesn't require any as yet unverified biology, 33:51.440 --> 33:58.720 no new principles of biology, no crazy things, just a signal in the background that we weren't 33:58.720 --> 34:04.840 measuring before, because we weren't measuring before, that we have been misled as being 34:04.840 --> 34:08.760 something that is actively spreading. 34:08.760 --> 34:13.080 And now how that was accomplished could be different in different places. 34:13.080 --> 34:19.440 And that's totally okay to what extent it was deliberately done or accidentally done 34:19.440 --> 34:21.200 in different places can be different. 34:21.200 --> 34:22.200 That's totally okay. 34:22.200 --> 34:26.400 We could be very much under the yoke of a bunch of people who did it on purpose with 34:26.400 --> 34:31.520 lots of planted audience members in the United States in the magician show that we attended 34:31.520 --> 34:37.640 here, but in the Netherlands, there could be very few people in on it in Sweden. 34:37.640 --> 34:42.280 There might have been very few people in on it. 34:42.280 --> 34:47.880 And so you have to calibrate your interpretation of what happened around the world because each 34:47.880 --> 34:52.240 one of those places also saw a very different window on social media. 34:52.240 --> 34:54.280 What was the social media like in Germany? 34:54.280 --> 34:56.200 What was the social media like in the Netherlands? 34:56.200 --> 34:58.980 Quite frankly, I don't know. 34:58.980 --> 35:01.040 What was the social media like in Australia? 35:01.040 --> 35:03.840 You don't know and I don't know either. 35:03.840 --> 35:10.200 But we can guess from what we've been shown that the Australians in the New Zealand are 35:10.200 --> 35:15.360 probably pretty convinced that there was COVID because they saw it ravage our country. 35:15.360 --> 35:21.280 They saw us go bananas and they locked down and they didn't have it. 35:21.280 --> 35:25.320 So there's lots of congruent observations when they look out their window and they look 35:25.320 --> 35:28.560 at their phone to make them the believe that it did happen. 35:28.560 --> 35:30.080 Maybe it's not so bad anymore. 35:30.080 --> 35:34.400 Maybe it could happen again. 35:34.400 --> 35:37.960 But they experienced a very different window into reality than what we saw. 35:37.960 --> 35:43.160 And I would be willing to bet that the window that they saw is sufficiently incongruent 35:43.160 --> 35:47.960 from our own so that when we meet together, we're going to disagree about stuff and that's 35:48.000 --> 35:52.400 by design. 35:52.400 --> 35:56.760 The Australians in New Zealanders are going to be especially skeptical of anybody that 35:56.760 --> 36:01.720 says there was no COVID because they saw it. 36:01.720 --> 36:07.800 And the few cases that made it over there were bad. 36:07.800 --> 36:10.040 And the theater was designed that way. 36:10.040 --> 36:16.920 You got to get sophisticated enough to see that this theater is big and it's multifaceted. 36:16.920 --> 36:21.680 It's like a stage with multiple angles and those angles are not visible to the other 36:21.680 --> 36:25.360 people but have bearing on what the other people experience. 36:25.360 --> 36:27.680 Isn't that weird? 36:27.680 --> 36:31.600 Because one audience is hearing the reaction of the other audience, but you don't know 36:31.600 --> 36:35.400 if that other audience is in on it or not. 36:35.400 --> 36:37.640 And what did they see over there? 36:37.640 --> 36:40.920 And so it's a very complicated show. 36:40.920 --> 36:44.400 It's not just a magician on stage with a couple people in the audience. 36:44.400 --> 36:48.600 It's several audiences and some of them you can't see but you're being told what they 36:48.600 --> 36:49.600 see. 36:49.600 --> 36:53.440 Or you're being shown a mirror image of what they see but you're not sure if any of those 36:53.440 --> 36:57.880 people are in on the or the same number of people, maybe the whole audience is corrupt 36:57.880 --> 37:01.880 on the left but the whole audience on the right isn't. 37:01.880 --> 37:05.040 And all of these variables are under their control. 37:05.040 --> 37:07.600 They already figured out what the best way to do it is. 37:07.600 --> 37:15.360 They already tried a couple different combinations and now they're doing it well. 37:15.360 --> 37:20.040 And that's why it was so difficult for all of us to see through it in 2020 and 2021. 37:20.040 --> 37:24.640 They never thought they would have to keep this theater going and keep adding acts and 37:24.640 --> 37:28.720 keep adding actors and keep pulling more people out of the audience. 37:28.720 --> 37:33.520 They're getting very, very close to having no more people in the audience. 37:33.520 --> 37:36.000 Do you understand? 37:36.000 --> 37:39.920 There's no more, almost said a particular name. 37:39.920 --> 37:49.800 There's no more, there are no more Brian Artises to come out of the audience. 37:49.800 --> 37:52.400 There are no more Pierre Corries to come out of the audience. 37:52.400 --> 37:54.600 I don't know if, but you see what I mean. 37:54.600 --> 37:57.120 There's no more new ones anymore. 37:57.120 --> 37:59.560 Now they have to argue with each other. 37:59.560 --> 38:01.600 Now they have to create new rivalries. 38:01.600 --> 38:09.280 Now CHD is promoting Dr. Drew and promoting Dave Rubin because they don't have anybody 38:09.280 --> 38:12.920 else on the bench to pull out. 38:12.920 --> 38:20.720 Now Brett Weinstein is interviewing random, random people about the biology, trying to 38:20.720 --> 38:23.920 confirm his biological ideas. 38:23.920 --> 38:26.320 It's incredible. 38:26.320 --> 38:33.200 People like J. Bottacharia who are faculty at Stanford University just get randomly hooked 38:33.200 --> 38:43.640 up with some guy from Canada to do a sub stack called Illusion of Consensus. 38:43.640 --> 38:45.320 Who's that kid? 38:45.320 --> 38:51.160 Why would Jay choose to do a podcast with him when he could do a podcast with any of 38:51.160 --> 38:55.160 his students or the fellow faculty member? 38:55.160 --> 39:02.040 Why some guy from Canada and why did Brett Weinstein like introduce him to the world 39:02.040 --> 39:03.040 as well? 39:03.040 --> 39:08.280 If you don't see the show for what it is, it's hard to help anybody, but again, seeing 39:08.280 --> 39:11.440 the show isn't for everyone. 39:11.440 --> 39:14.600 Anybody can see the show, but not everybody wants to see it. 39:14.600 --> 39:21.280 Not everybody has the machinery to see it. 39:21.280 --> 39:25.160 I don't know who did this experiment, but I think at one point somebody measured that 39:25.160 --> 39:31.800 like 80% of humans don't have the ability really to say no to an authority figure. 39:31.800 --> 39:37.360 So I mean, this is where we are. 39:37.360 --> 39:42.560 It is our obligation, my obligation at this point, I feel to try and bring as many people 39:42.560 --> 39:47.560 as possible that want to understand this, want to try and understand this to understand 39:47.560 --> 39:48.560 it. 39:48.560 --> 39:51.200 And it's a set of bad ideas. 39:51.200 --> 39:52.560 It's a set of assumptions. 39:52.560 --> 39:58.320 It's a set of very poor and simplistic models that we have been forced to accept by the questions 39:58.320 --> 40:05.120 that we have been tricked into answering for the last couple of decades. 40:05.120 --> 40:06.120 And that's why. 40:06.120 --> 40:09.560 Scientific questions I think are very hard to get a handle on. 40:09.560 --> 40:15.960 And the reason for this is that in late modernity, which we're living in, there's simply too 40:15.960 --> 40:20.280 much knowledge for any individual human to understand all of it. 40:20.280 --> 40:29.440 And so in this world of extreme hyperspecialization where it's narrower and narrower subsets of 40:29.440 --> 40:34.000 experts policing themselves and talking about how great they are, the string theorists talking 40:34.000 --> 40:37.400 about how great string theory is, the cancer researchers talking about how they're just 40:37.400 --> 40:41.800 about to cure cancer, the quantum computer researchers are just about to build a quantum 40:41.800 --> 40:43.440 computer that will be a massive breakthrough. 40:43.440 --> 40:47.760 And then if you were to say that all these fields, not much is happening, people just 40:47.760 --> 40:49.160 don't have the authority for this. 40:49.160 --> 40:54.600 And this is somehow a very different feel for science or knowledge than you would have 40:54.600 --> 40:59.920 had in 1800 or even in 1900. 40:59.920 --> 41:08.720 It's funny, I don't really, I don't really get it a lot of times what I see in the chat. 41:08.720 --> 41:14.560 I guess you guys are talking to each other, funny, funny, funny little kids. 41:14.560 --> 41:16.640 See they tell the truth all the time, right? 41:16.640 --> 41:22.400 They've told us the truth for a while now. 41:22.400 --> 41:24.880 These fields haven't made much progress. 41:24.880 --> 41:27.240 Cancer hasn't made much progress. 41:27.240 --> 41:30.040 Quantum physics hasn't made much progress. 41:30.040 --> 41:33.920 I would argue that big genetics hasn't made that much progress. 41:33.920 --> 41:38.360 We can collect the data, but we don't understand it because it's too much data. 41:38.360 --> 41:39.920 It's too much analysis. 41:39.920 --> 41:42.400 It's too much variation. 41:42.400 --> 41:44.840 And we aren't sophisticated enough to understand it. 41:44.840 --> 41:48.240 Have we gotten to the stage where we made a few restriction maps of the whole human 41:48.240 --> 41:49.240 genome? 41:49.240 --> 41:52.440 Sure, we did. 41:52.440 --> 41:57.480 Have we gotten to some very low hanging fruit with regard to genetic diseases with one or 41:57.480 --> 41:59.040 two main genetic causes? 41:59.040 --> 42:01.480 Yes, we have, absolutely. 42:01.480 --> 42:06.160 But how much has that helped us understand the symphony of genes that is our natural 42:06.160 --> 42:09.000 homeostatic function of a healthy four-year-old child? 42:09.000 --> 42:11.200 Well, not very far. 42:11.200 --> 42:16.240 Not very far at all. 42:16.240 --> 42:24.760 Just like when you find out why a violin, oh, look, there was a crack in the neck of the 42:24.760 --> 42:25.760 violin. 42:25.760 --> 42:26.760 That's why it broke. 42:26.760 --> 42:28.000 And I understand it very well. 42:28.000 --> 42:29.640 Look, that crack is right there. 42:29.640 --> 42:32.040 If you have a crack, then this violin is going to break. 42:32.040 --> 42:36.840 Well, do you understand how it is that a Stradivarius makes its music then? 42:36.840 --> 42:38.600 You don't have any idea at all. 42:38.600 --> 42:43.840 But you can indefinitely explain how it is that a violin breaks when it has a crack 42:43.840 --> 42:46.440 in its neck. 42:46.440 --> 42:52.760 And that's the kind of understanding that we have of our biology up from a genetic perspective. 42:52.760 --> 43:00.600 We understand how a broken violin can occur when there is a catastrophic error in its 43:00.600 --> 43:03.600 structure related to its function. 43:04.600 --> 43:10.800 But we can't understand how the music is made in a perfect violin. 43:10.800 --> 43:12.760 And that should be the ultimate goal, right? 43:12.760 --> 43:23.200 It shouldn't be to fix these one-note genetic disorders, even though that, I guess, is a 43:23.200 --> 43:28.640 worthy goal, that's a disguised goal. 43:28.640 --> 43:36.320 Those are morally justifiable experiments in genetic manipulation that don't have any 43:36.320 --> 43:41.520 real justification in ethics other than for the particular lives of those people, you see. 43:41.520 --> 43:43.200 So you have to use it. 43:43.200 --> 43:44.680 That's what they're doing here. 43:44.680 --> 43:49.600 It is an elaborate game that they've been playing with us for a very long time to try 43:49.600 --> 43:58.720 and permanently remove our reverence for the sacred, for the sacred of the perfect 43:58.720 --> 44:00.080 child when it's born. 44:00.080 --> 44:01.080 It's perfect. 44:01.080 --> 44:06.240 It doesn't need a vitamin K shot and a HEP B shot. 44:06.240 --> 44:07.920 And we're not there anymore. 44:07.920 --> 44:10.000 That's not this country. 44:10.000 --> 44:14.400 This country still circumcises little boys. 44:14.400 --> 44:23.760 This country still removes the uterus of women whenever they're, they might need it. 44:23.760 --> 44:28.880 We're in a very, very dire straits right now because there are lots of young people who 44:28.880 --> 44:33.600 don't understand this and don't can't hear the truth when it's said to them. 44:33.600 --> 44:39.880 They don't even hear the truth when it's said to them like this, well, wait, it's, they don't 44:39.880 --> 44:40.880 even hear the truth. 44:40.880 --> 44:45.720 They can still understand just about everything, 1900, Hilbert could still understand just 44:45.720 --> 44:47.800 about all of mathematics. 44:47.800 --> 44:53.760 And so the sort of, the sort of specialization, I think has made it a much harder question 44:53.760 --> 44:57.800 to get a handle on. 44:57.800 --> 44:58.920 We don't have a handle on it. 44:58.920 --> 44:59.920 They are lying to us. 44:59.920 --> 45:03.520 Of course, Tucker Carlson will tell you that he's lying, can sort of feel it. 45:03.520 --> 45:04.760 You know that he's lying. 45:04.760 --> 45:05.760 You don't want to believe it. 45:05.760 --> 45:07.560 But he most definitely is. 45:07.560 --> 45:08.560 I don't want to. 45:08.600 --> 45:12.840 Unfortunately, no, the reason why I know I don't want to be a liar. 45:12.840 --> 45:16.120 I think it's like really important not to be a liar. 45:16.120 --> 45:21.440 The reason why I know is because there, there was a very gigantic lie that he told on national 45:21.440 --> 45:27.240 television after covering a Vanity Fair article that was also a lie, it was a Vanity Fair 45:27.240 --> 45:32.680 article about the group drastic, which at the time I was a member of. 45:32.680 --> 45:38.680 And he said that drastic was started by a guy by the name of Jamie Metzel. 45:38.680 --> 45:44.360 Now the only way that that could have happened is if Jamie Metzel was Billy Bo Stixon. 45:44.360 --> 45:46.720 And it wouldn't surprise me if he was. 45:46.720 --> 45:51.200 But the point was is that if he told the truth about that, then someone else was lying to 45:51.200 --> 45:53.920 me from the very beginning. 45:53.920 --> 46:00.120 That means that the diffuse proposal was actually turned over not to a foreign national with 46:00.120 --> 46:10.880 the pseudonym Billy Bo Stixon, but to an American futurist named Jamie Metzel. 46:10.880 --> 46:13.640 Now I'm not saying that Jamie Metzel started drastic. 46:13.640 --> 46:17.120 I don't think he did, but I don't know who Billy Bo Stixon is. 46:17.120 --> 46:20.840 Billy Bo Stixon is still an anonymous person on Twitter. 46:20.840 --> 46:27.280 And that is the account that started the group that later was called drastic. 46:27.280 --> 46:29.480 The group that kicked me out. 46:29.480 --> 46:33.560 The moment that I said, we have to talk about transfection, not the virus. 46:33.560 --> 46:35.200 The virus doesn't matter. 46:35.200 --> 46:39.120 Where the virus came from doesn't matter because they want to transfect everybody and we shouldn't 46:39.120 --> 46:40.120 be doing that. 46:40.120 --> 46:42.520 Then they asked me to leave. 46:42.520 --> 46:49.440 And I'm not sure if it's split in half right then or before then, but there's drastic 46:49.440 --> 46:52.080 science and drastic. 46:52.080 --> 46:55.080 And I think some people say they're members of both. 46:55.080 --> 46:58.280 Some people aren't. 46:58.280 --> 47:01.960 It's all an elaborate hoax. 47:01.960 --> 47:04.800 And these are the sort of moments. 47:04.800 --> 47:10.640 Political cut I have on the specialization is always that if you analyze the politics 47:10.640 --> 47:15.520 of science, the specialization should make you suspicious because if it's gotten harder 47:15.520 --> 47:20.960 to evaluate what's going on, then it's presumably gotten easier for people to lie and to exaggerate. 47:20.960 --> 47:26.600 And then one should be a little bit suspicious and that's sort of my starting bias. 47:26.600 --> 47:30.360 And I'm going to keep playing this video like every week because I think it is the most 47:30.360 --> 47:33.120 spot on video of any of these people. 47:33.120 --> 47:40.440 And it's just striking that it's this guy's chubby belly saying it because I do think 47:40.440 --> 47:46.400 that this guy is near the top of a group of people at the helm of a weaponized pile of 47:46.400 --> 47:54.320 money or two that is vying for control of America and vying for control of the West, 47:54.320 --> 47:58.040 if you will, because he's invested in Canadian companies. 47:58.040 --> 48:03.440 He's invested in lots of places, you know, and they're all part of this. 48:03.440 --> 48:05.680 Eric Weinstein is definitely part of this. 48:05.680 --> 48:07.000 Brett Weinstein's part of it. 48:07.000 --> 48:08.760 Brett's dad is part of it. 48:08.760 --> 48:11.040 It can be zero doubt anymore. 48:11.040 --> 48:19.320 Otherwise, Brett's dad would not be one of the foremost arbitrators of intellectual property 48:19.320 --> 48:23.600 law specifically in biotechnology in the United States. 48:23.600 --> 48:25.560 Otherwise Brett would be very proud of his dad. 48:25.560 --> 48:30.200 Otherwise Brett would have talked with Bobby Kennedy about his dad and how their dads work 48:30.200 --> 48:34.960 together when he had him on his podcast in November of 2021 and he would have played 48:34.960 --> 48:48.280 the podcast in November of 2021 instead of playing the podcast in February of 2024. 48:48.280 --> 48:52.720 And when again, when you look in the in the rear view mirror and all these things line 48:52.720 --> 48:58.080 up like that, what conclusion can you come to other than, I guess I better not look backwards 48:58.080 --> 48:59.080 anymore. 48:59.080 --> 49:04.200 Otherwise, I might come to the conclusion that this wasn't the pandemic they said it was. 49:04.200 --> 49:06.800 Are we actually all engaging in the lookaway doctrine? 49:06.800 --> 49:11.160 I'm just not going to look because if I look, I know I'm going to figure it out. 49:11.160 --> 49:12.760 Could be. 49:12.760 --> 49:18.080 It could be that there are a lot of people who know, really know in their heart, but just 49:18.080 --> 49:23.840 don't have the courage or the stones to accept it. 49:23.840 --> 49:31.240 Even when they're shown that these people actually admitting it, they can't quite accept it. 49:31.240 --> 49:34.800 So intramuscular injection of any combination of substances with the intent of augmenting 49:34.800 --> 49:37.880 the immune system is dumb. 49:37.880 --> 49:43.600 Is something that none of these people make the list will ever talk about or say or acknowledge. 49:43.600 --> 49:45.640 Yeah, that's probably the best way to say it. 49:45.640 --> 49:46.640 Nope. 49:46.640 --> 49:48.560 None of them will. 49:48.560 --> 49:52.520 And curiously, none of the people at the top of CHD will there's plenty of people in 49:52.520 --> 49:57.960 the middle of CHD that have kids that have suffered that have real skin in the game that 49:57.960 --> 49:59.880 agree wholeheartedly with this statement. 49:59.880 --> 50:07.520 But the people at the top, they don't say it. 50:07.520 --> 50:08.800 They've never said it. 50:08.800 --> 50:11.400 That's the weird part. 50:11.400 --> 50:17.880 Try to find a statement where the longtime scientific advisor of CHD, Meryl Nast says 50:17.880 --> 50:25.440 anything about the childhood vaccine schedule in America by itself. 50:25.440 --> 50:34.560 And a place where we see one of these people saying it, it's very rare. 50:34.560 --> 50:41.960 It's very, very, very rare for an organization that at least at the heart is completely opposed 50:41.960 --> 50:45.720 to this. 50:45.720 --> 50:50.560 And there's a reason for it, ladies and gentlemen, because this is a controlled operation. 50:50.560 --> 50:53.040 We are being governed. 50:53.040 --> 51:01.040 And until we stop allowing them us to be governed by this mythology, it's going to continue. 51:01.040 --> 51:03.080 I don't really know all the ways out. 51:03.080 --> 51:05.320 I don't other than one at a time. 51:05.320 --> 51:07.400 We all need to awaken. 51:07.400 --> 51:12.400 We need to just come to realize that there are simple ways to say these things. 51:12.400 --> 51:15.360 There are easy ways to talk about this stuff. 51:15.360 --> 51:24.520 There are very, we could make substantial gains in our general understanding of biology. 51:24.520 --> 51:29.200 We could make substantial gains in the average person's understanding of what really happened 51:29.200 --> 51:30.600 in the pandemic. 51:30.600 --> 51:36.560 But unfortunately, many, many, many people with large platforms, with growing followings, 51:36.560 --> 51:41.960 are still focused on the same thing that they were focused on in 2020. 51:41.960 --> 51:44.520 The same thing. 51:44.520 --> 51:50.360 After four years, they still can't talk about the vaccine schedule in America as a particular 51:50.360 --> 51:51.920 example. 51:51.920 --> 51:59.000 They can't talk about the Prep Act, the Vaccine Act, and the lack of strict liability on vaccines 51:59.000 --> 52:01.400 as just a thing that everybody should understand. 52:01.400 --> 52:03.800 It's very few people. 52:03.800 --> 52:08.880 Lots of people will spend an hour on stage talking about Ivermectin studies. 52:08.880 --> 52:13.800 Lots of people would be happy to break down the details of a remdesivir study for you. 52:13.800 --> 52:18.800 Lots of people would be happy to break down the details of a hydroxychloroquine study for 52:18.800 --> 52:19.800 you. 52:19.800 --> 52:25.120 But not very many people are going to break down the literature of coronaviruses for you. 52:25.120 --> 52:28.960 Not very many people are going to break down the literature of prions for you. 52:28.960 --> 52:37.360 But lots of them are happy to talk about a preprint about prions from last year. 52:37.360 --> 52:46.760 The only person that's taught you immunology 101 to this date in four years is me. 52:46.760 --> 52:55.440 Maybe Dr. Bean, maybe besides that who? 52:55.440 --> 52:56.520 Think about that. 52:56.520 --> 53:01.640 Which of these MDs has taught you about linked recognition? 53:01.640 --> 53:07.280 This is the last time Meryl Nast, Robert Malone, Pierre Corey, Jessica Rose. 53:07.280 --> 53:10.000 When's the last time they mentioned linked recognition? 53:10.000 --> 53:18.600 Do you think that they could explain that at a whiteboard? 53:18.600 --> 53:22.720 Do you see the problem, ladies and gentlemen? 53:22.720 --> 53:26.200 Do you see the problem? 53:26.200 --> 53:27.520 They're spreading ideas. 53:27.520 --> 53:30.080 It's just not the good ones. 53:30.080 --> 53:33.840 They're spreading lots of ideas, just not the good ones. 53:33.840 --> 53:41.440 They're questioning a lot of ideas, just not the ones that need to be questioned. 53:41.440 --> 53:49.120 I want to take a break from hammering that home to watch a video from the past, which 53:49.120 --> 53:50.920 is a video from 11 years ago. 53:50.920 --> 53:55.400 I have no idea what I'm about to find, and I'm going to watch this video for exactly 53:55.400 --> 53:59.280 an hour and then I'm going to stop because I've got basketball this afternoon again 53:59.280 --> 54:03.600 because my boys are so, they're dedicated like Shaolin monks. 54:03.600 --> 54:05.560 Now, they're actually upset. 54:05.560 --> 54:09.560 They were talking to me yesterday in the car that they realized that the place where 54:09.560 --> 54:14.000 we're going is closed on Easter Sunday, and so they were panicking because the rec center 54:14.000 --> 54:19.160 is also closed on Easter Sunday, and what are we going to do for basketball on that 54:19.160 --> 54:20.160 day? 54:20.160 --> 54:26.840 Well, all I can say is I hope with all of my heart that this kind of dedication continues 54:26.840 --> 54:29.400 because I'm sure it's going to pay off for them. 54:29.400 --> 54:32.880 And I'm sure that they're going to have a good time next year in basketball. 54:32.880 --> 54:34.760 It's really nice to see. 54:34.760 --> 54:40.880 And I've got you guys to thank for that because part of the reason why I'm able to do it is 54:40.880 --> 54:50.360 because, well, I mean, people are supporting this stream and we're not, like I said, we 54:50.360 --> 54:51.600 still need more supporters. 54:51.600 --> 54:55.120 We need more support for next month, but so far so good. 54:55.120 --> 54:59.480 And I'm just, I'm just having faith that somehow or another people are going to hear 54:59.480 --> 55:00.480 this stream. 55:00.480 --> 55:05.040 People are going to get the message and enough people that have the means are going to be 55:05.040 --> 55:11.960 moved enough to support me so that this can continue because I think it's the vital work. 55:11.960 --> 55:20.400 It's the only stream on the internet that's trying desperately to reawaken a reverence 55:20.400 --> 55:26.080 for the sacred in and using an appreciation for biology to try and do it. 55:26.080 --> 55:30.320 And so if you think this is a unique message and something that needs to get out, please 55:30.320 --> 55:34.320 take the time to go to GIGO and biological and support my work. 55:34.320 --> 55:39.440 Here is a video from 11 years ago with Craig Bentner and he's going to talk about what 55:39.440 --> 55:45.120 life is that he's going to talk about the challenges of understanding how life works. 55:45.120 --> 55:49.520 And that's all I really know because I read the description and the video description. 55:49.520 --> 55:51.240 So I have no idea what I'm going to hear here. 55:51.240 --> 55:55.920 It could be that we're about to waste an hour of our time, but my guess is that that's 55:55.920 --> 55:56.920 not the case. 55:56.920 --> 55:57.920 Here we go. 55:57.920 --> 55:58.920 Thank you, Luke. 55:58.920 --> 56:02.440 T-Shock, Harvest, distinguished guests. 56:02.440 --> 56:06.840 It is a great pleasure and honor for me both on behalf of the Royal Irish Academy and the 56:06.840 --> 56:11.200 Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies to speak on this historic occasion. 56:11.200 --> 56:15.160 My task is to give some of the background to how the remarkable lecture that we celebrate 56:15.160 --> 56:18.000 tonight came to be given. 56:18.000 --> 56:23.040 Let me begin with someone that few of you have probably heard of. 56:23.040 --> 56:28.440 Edmund Taylor Whittaker was a distinguished mathematician, later historian of science, 56:28.440 --> 56:31.680 who spent most of his long career at the University of Edinburgh. 56:31.680 --> 56:37.480 But he did spend some time here as one of the last Royal Astronomers of Ireland. 56:37.480 --> 56:41.880 And he is significant for the story of tonight's lecture for two reasons. 56:41.880 --> 56:47.800 Firstly, while in Dublin, he had a young student, a man called Eamon de Valera, and he inspired 56:47.800 --> 56:54.320 in him a lifelong devotion to mathematics and a great admiration for the legacy of William 56:54.320 --> 56:55.320 Rowan Hamilton. 56:55.320 --> 56:58.680 And we'll come on to that later. 56:58.680 --> 57:04.680 So when de Valera then in the late 1930s began to think of establishing what was then 57:04.680 --> 57:09.400 only the second Institute for Advanced Studies in the world, he naturally turned to his former 57:09.400 --> 57:11.520 teacher for advice. 57:11.520 --> 57:14.400 And Whittaker made one key recommendation. 57:14.400 --> 57:19.120 He told de Valera that the hardest thing to do was to give a comprehensible public 57:19.120 --> 57:23.800 lecture, something I can vouch for actually from personal experience. 57:23.800 --> 57:28.800 And de Valera took this to heart and wrote in to the 1940 act that each school of the 57:28.800 --> 57:33.200 Institute must offer a public lecture every year. 57:33.200 --> 57:38.720 And if it hadn't been for that and the recommendation of Whittaker, we would not be here tonight. 57:38.720 --> 57:43.600 This brings me, of course, naturally on to the next major player in the story, Eamon 57:43.600 --> 57:48.120 de Valera, a remarkable man in many ways. 57:48.120 --> 57:53.120 His political career and influence on Irish society remains a subject of vigorous debate, 57:53.120 --> 57:54.120 I think it's fair to say. 57:54.120 --> 57:55.840 I'm not really sure if this is relevant. 57:55.840 --> 57:57.360 I might just fast-forward through it. 57:57.360 --> 58:03.800 In his publication, Judging Dev. 58:04.800 --> 58:07.240 Yeah. 58:07.240 --> 58:12.360 What is perhaps not so widely known is that his interest in science and mathematics was, 58:12.360 --> 58:13.800 in fact, genuine and deep. 58:13.800 --> 58:18.520 And in fact, I recall the previous provost of this college telling me that his life used 58:18.520 --> 58:23.600 to be made miserable because at nine o'clock in the evening, his secretary would tell him 58:23.600 --> 58:29.160 that the also Ucteron was on the phone and the president was having a problem with mathematics 58:29.160 --> 58:31.960 could the provost help him. 58:31.960 --> 58:35.920 Those days are gone, I fear. 58:35.920 --> 58:41.640 So it was this deep admiration for mathematics and science, as well as his instinctive horror, 58:41.640 --> 58:45.920 I think, at the barbarism of the Third Reich, which persuaded him to establish the Dublin 58:45.920 --> 58:51.200 Institute for Advanced Studies in 2014, and to recruit Erwin Schrodinger as the first 58:51.200 --> 58:52.920 director of its school. 58:52.920 --> 58:55.080 So we're talking about the school that he's in. 58:55.080 --> 58:56.960 So I might actually skip this. 58:56.960 --> 59:01.880 I'm sorry if that offends you at all, but maybe this next guy will give a better interest 59:01.880 --> 59:02.880 in the introduction. 59:02.880 --> 59:03.880 I don't know. 59:03.880 --> 59:07.280 Thank you, Luke, for putting it in context. 59:07.280 --> 59:10.840 Now I'm going to give a bit of background about what Schrodinger did on this night in 59:10.840 --> 59:16.000 February in 1943, and it's no exaggeration to say that what he did that night sparked 59:16.000 --> 59:17.000 a revolution. 59:17.000 --> 59:21.560 He did a ruckus that went off, and we haven't had a few moths in here tonight, for example, 59:21.560 --> 59:24.680 who depended on Schrodinger's water's life lecture to inspire him, for example. 59:24.680 --> 59:25.680 Oh! 59:25.680 --> 59:28.000 Let's all say that we know DNA revolution and agriculture. 59:28.000 --> 59:29.000 Wow! 59:29.000 --> 59:33.240 Well, biotech industry, so as Luke has said a long way away from that time, it gave rise 59:33.240 --> 59:34.240 to the whole industry. 59:34.240 --> 59:36.280 So the importance of the lecture is very important. 59:36.280 --> 59:37.840 Secondly, it was the middle of the second world war. 59:37.840 --> 59:38.840 Holy crap! 59:38.840 --> 59:39.840 There was devastation in Europe. 59:39.840 --> 59:42.280 I swear this is not a difficult thing called Ireland. 59:42.280 --> 59:43.280 This is an actual accident. 59:43.280 --> 59:44.280 A bit of countable by a kid. 59:44.280 --> 59:45.280 I'm not kidding. 59:45.280 --> 59:48.360 Just like the monks had done in the 8th century with the book of Cales, it's very similar 59:48.360 --> 59:49.360 that it happened in Ireland. 59:49.360 --> 59:50.360 This lecture sparked- 59:50.360 --> 59:55.080 This is so weird, because I just bought this book on somebody's recommendation. 59:55.080 --> 59:57.600 And I got a first copy of it. 59:57.600 --> 01:00:01.720 It's called What Is Life Mind and Matter by Erwin Schrodinger. 01:00:01.720 --> 01:00:06.000 So he's talking about the lecture that this book is based on. 01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:11.760 I swear on the Bible that I did not know that this was going to- 01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:12.760 Oh, wow! 01:00:12.760 --> 01:00:13.720 It is really that book. 01:00:13.720 --> 01:00:16.080 This was published in 67, though. 01:00:16.080 --> 01:00:18.200 This edition. 01:00:18.200 --> 01:00:19.880 So what? 01:00:19.880 --> 01:00:20.880 Which edition is this? 01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:23.400 It's not the first edition, then. 01:00:24.400 --> 01:00:31.200 Yeah, the first edition was 44, then reprinted in 45, 48, 51 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 01:00:31.200 --> 01:00:33.040 And then Mind and Matter was this one. 01:00:33.040 --> 01:00:34.040 Okay. 01:00:34.040 --> 01:00:35.040 Huh. 01:00:35.040 --> 01:00:36.040 So it's two books in this thing. 01:00:36.040 --> 01:00:37.840 I didn't get around to even starting it yet. 01:00:37.840 --> 01:00:38.840 So that's kind of cool. 01:00:38.840 --> 01:00:39.840 Okay. 01:00:39.840 --> 01:00:40.840 That makes- 01:00:40.840 --> 01:00:41.840 That makes making me more happy. 01:00:41.840 --> 01:00:44.400 It sparked a whole revolution and really helped civilization along. 01:00:44.400 --> 01:00:45.880 And we had a lecture here. 01:00:45.880 --> 01:00:46.880 If I can- 01:00:46.880 --> 01:00:48.920 Now where's my remote? 01:00:48.920 --> 01:00:50.680 So Luca O'Neill's not a good guy. 01:00:50.680 --> 01:00:51.680 That's pretty funny. 01:00:51.680 --> 01:00:52.680 Ha ha! 01:00:52.680 --> 01:00:53.680 I guess I'm not surprised. 01:00:53.680 --> 01:00:54.680 Hang on. 01:00:54.680 --> 01:00:55.680 I've gone too far. 01:00:55.680 --> 01:00:56.680 Hold on. 01:00:56.680 --> 01:01:02.520 So we had a conference here, actually, in 1993, to commemorate the 40th anniversary 01:01:02.520 --> 01:01:05.360 of this, called What is Life as Well. 01:01:05.360 --> 01:01:06.360 And I got a book out of this. 01:01:06.360 --> 01:01:07.360 I added this book with- 01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:08.360 See, the thing is- 01:01:08.360 --> 01:01:10.760 Look, the thing is it's not a hoax, okay? 01:01:10.760 --> 01:01:11.760 First of all, let's go- 01:01:11.760 --> 01:01:16.360 I think that's a really good question, is the author of the book in on the hoax. 01:01:16.360 --> 01:01:17.520 This is the book we're talking about. 01:01:17.520 --> 01:01:20.120 It's actually What is Life and Mind and Matter. 01:01:20.120 --> 01:01:21.960 It's two different books. 01:01:21.960 --> 01:01:24.160 Like I said, I just got this in the mail, so don't- 01:01:24.160 --> 01:01:28.320 I'm not pulling this off my bookshelf and claiming I had this and read it all along. 01:01:28.320 --> 01:01:36.240 What I am finding, though, and that's what I do have this bookshelf for, is what I am 01:01:36.240 --> 01:01:43.120 finding- I won't roll it into the screen now, though, but what I am finding are many, 01:01:43.120 --> 01:01:44.120 many books- 01:01:44.120 --> 01:01:48.000 Sorry, I don't know what you could- Oh yeah, I was standing on that camera. 01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:54.360 Many, many books where- Here's Yona Salk, survival of the wisest. 01:01:54.360 --> 01:01:56.800 That's a book you ought to read, because that one's shocking. 01:01:56.800 --> 01:02:00.000 Molecular Vision of Life by Lily Kay. 01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:04.360 And this was one that I was adding to that same shelf. 01:02:04.360 --> 01:02:11.000 There have been lots of people who have been thinking about what humankind should do with 01:02:11.000 --> 01:02:14.160 the knowledge that we now have. 01:02:14.160 --> 01:02:17.960 This book here, this book by Yona Salk- I don't know if you ever heard of Yona Salk. 01:02:18.960 --> 01:02:25.480 This book argues that now that we know that we are subject to evolutionary pressures, 01:02:25.480 --> 01:02:33.200 now that we know how traits are passed from generation to generation, isn't it our obligation 01:02:33.200 --> 01:02:37.640 to use that knowledge? 01:02:37.640 --> 01:02:41.440 Isn't it our obligation as a species to use that knowledge? 01:02:41.440 --> 01:02:47.280 Shouldn't we think as a species when we can, even if all other species can't? 01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:49.960 That's what this freaking book's about. 01:02:49.960 --> 01:02:54.040 And so where do those ideas lead us? 01:02:54.040 --> 01:02:56.080 You can do that. 01:02:56.080 --> 01:02:58.600 Use that model in your head very easy. 01:02:58.600 --> 01:03:04.360 And I suspect that there's a lot to do with this too, because again, once we understand 01:03:04.360 --> 01:03:08.800 how our genome works, don't we have an obligation to augment it? 01:03:08.800 --> 01:03:11.840 Don't we have an obligation to improve it? 01:03:11.840 --> 01:03:17.160 In fact, wouldn't that be part of the natural process of evolution if we did that to ourselves 01:03:17.160 --> 01:03:22.840 because this is the argument that they make, which just completes the circle and outside 01:03:22.840 --> 01:03:26.920 of that circle is everything sacred. 01:03:26.920 --> 01:03:32.760 To me, it's extraordinary because it doesn't, you don't have to read a lot of books to find 01:03:32.760 --> 01:03:39.480 out that it's a very, very common theme among the highest echelons of these thinkers. 01:03:39.480 --> 01:03:44.280 That the conclusion is that if we are an exceptional species with exceptional knowledge of ourselves, 01:03:44.280 --> 01:03:48.400 an exceptional knowledge of the universe, it doesn't that come with some moral obligation 01:03:48.400 --> 01:03:49.400 to use it? 01:03:49.400 --> 01:03:53.520 And then how should we use it? 01:03:53.520 --> 01:03:58.600 And does the rights of an individual really factor into how we use that knowledge on a 01:03:58.600 --> 01:03:59.600 species-wide scale? 01:03:59.600 --> 01:04:00.600 I don't know. 01:04:00.600 --> 01:04:04.160 These people don't think so. 01:04:04.160 --> 01:04:05.160 And so this is cool. 01:04:05.160 --> 01:04:08.120 I'm really excited to hear what Craig's got to say now, because now I know. 01:04:08.120 --> 01:04:11.680 Take Murphy, a colleague of mine in biochemistry, who said that water's life lecture happened 01:04:11.680 --> 01:04:12.680 in Trinity. 01:04:12.680 --> 01:04:13.680 Many of us went away over that. 01:04:13.760 --> 01:04:15.560 But the book, we were to where it was done in Trinity. 01:04:15.560 --> 01:04:16.760 And we published a book. 01:04:16.760 --> 01:04:20.280 We edited a book with all these great speakers, came to the conference that were the conference 01:04:20.280 --> 01:04:21.280 proceedings. 01:04:21.280 --> 01:04:22.280 And just the impact. 01:04:22.280 --> 01:04:27.400 It was translated into 17 languages amazingly, this proceedings of this event in 1993. 01:04:27.400 --> 01:04:32.000 And very importantly, we got all the people who spoke at it to sign the book. 01:04:32.000 --> 01:04:34.160 This is the names that came here in 1993. 01:04:34.160 --> 01:04:35.160 And you see them here. 01:04:35.160 --> 01:04:36.160 They're all very famous people. 01:04:36.160 --> 01:04:41.280 John Maynard Smith, Stuart Kauffman, Roger Penrose, Christian Doode, Stephen Jay Gould, 01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:42.280 Gerald Edelman, Jared Diamond. 01:04:42.280 --> 01:04:44.640 The next speaker will get better with audio. 01:04:44.640 --> 01:04:45.640 This is a part of his ebay. 01:04:45.640 --> 01:04:47.680 I would have auctioned it by now. 01:04:47.680 --> 01:04:49.400 And that was the water's life version in 1993. 01:04:49.400 --> 01:04:51.360 So that just shows you all these people turned up. 01:04:51.360 --> 01:04:54.920 Me and Mike Murphy in our mid-20s invited them when they all came along. 01:04:54.920 --> 01:04:56.000 And it was a great celebration. 01:04:56.000 --> 01:05:00.560 Now, I show this because one of the speakers, Jared Diamond, is a very famous writer. 01:05:00.560 --> 01:05:03.400 I wrote a great book called The Third Shimp on Z, and I read it. 01:05:03.400 --> 01:05:07.360 Myself and Patty Cunningham for Esauff invited Jared to come. 01:05:07.360 --> 01:05:08.720 And he wrote this nice letter back. 01:05:08.720 --> 01:05:12.160 He said, apologies, but I'm unable to accept your invitation. 01:05:12.160 --> 01:05:15.960 Are you the Luca O'Neill who organized the What is Life Symposium in Trinity some years 01:05:15.960 --> 01:05:16.960 back? 01:05:16.960 --> 01:05:21.560 Or to remember at the dinner, your co-organizer reaching over and taking some of your food, 01:05:21.560 --> 01:05:26.320 a common sign of intimacy among primates. 01:05:26.320 --> 01:05:28.040 Did that person become your wife? 01:05:28.040 --> 01:05:29.040 And she did? 01:05:29.040 --> 01:05:30.520 And she's here somewhere, Margaret. 01:05:30.520 --> 01:05:31.520 There she is. 01:05:31.520 --> 01:05:36.520 Round of applause for Margaret. 01:05:36.520 --> 01:05:43.400 At the time, my girlfriend, Margaret was the official photographer of the event. 01:05:43.400 --> 01:05:44.400 And this is the Japanese translation. 01:05:44.400 --> 01:05:45.400 There's all the speakers. 01:05:45.400 --> 01:05:46.400 There's Margaret Whirl. 01:05:46.400 --> 01:05:49.400 They couldn't translate her name into Japanese, but there's all the speakers. 01:05:49.400 --> 01:05:51.440 So Jared Diamond is obviously a very peculiar man. 01:05:51.440 --> 01:05:53.880 We're already happy to get that letter from him. 01:05:53.880 --> 01:05:56.960 Now let's get back to the matter in hand, though. 01:05:56.960 --> 01:06:00.760 In the book What is Life, showing her opens with this great sentence, really. 01:06:00.760 --> 01:06:03.640 He said he gave the lecture in dubs, and he points that out. 01:06:03.640 --> 01:06:07.640 And he said the subject matter was a difficult one, and the lectures could not be turned popular, 01:06:07.640 --> 01:06:11.880 even though the physicist's most dreaded weapon, mathematical deduction, would hardly be used. 01:06:11.880 --> 01:06:14.160 And he was a fantastic communicator. 01:06:14.160 --> 01:06:18.760 The book was written with crystal clear prose, and inspired people like Jim Watson, Seymour 01:06:18.760 --> 01:06:21.120 Benzer, Leslie Orgel, Francis Crick. 01:06:21.120 --> 01:06:24.920 All of these great giants of Mannequilobaji said they read the book, and they were inspired. 01:06:24.920 --> 01:06:27.400 And of course, the question is what inspired him in the first place. 01:06:27.400 --> 01:06:31.360 There's the book, of course, when it came out, and it says in the page, given in Trinity 01:06:31.360 --> 01:06:36.360 County's Dublin, this is the 1943 edition, but what's interesting is Louis Lebrocki became 01:06:36.360 --> 01:06:40.560 a big friend of Schrodinger, and turned up with the lectures, and sketched a picture 01:06:40.560 --> 01:06:43.640 of Schrodinger during the lecture, which we couldn't get our hands on for this, but later 01:06:43.640 --> 01:06:46.200 on, then did a beautiful, typical Lebrocki party. 01:06:46.200 --> 01:06:50.440 So Schrodinger was very popular in Dublin, many friends, many artists, including Lebrocki. 01:06:50.440 --> 01:06:54.640 And of course, here's a great picture, I think, from the Royal Arts Academy in 1942. 01:06:54.640 --> 01:06:58.840 Here's Devallera, here's Schrodinger, here's Paul Dirac, who won the Nobel Prize with Schrodinger 01:06:58.840 --> 01:06:59.840 outside the Royal Academy. 01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:04.440 There's a worrying number of pre-sterial notice in the background, but that was a conference 01:07:04.440 --> 01:07:06.320 that was held in Dublin when he can invite his friends. 01:07:06.320 --> 01:07:08.040 So this was the inspiration for what is life. 01:07:08.040 --> 01:07:13.720 A paper had come out in 1938 by a guy called Max Delbrocki, a very famous biochemist, my 01:07:13.720 --> 01:07:14.720 lack of no biologist. 01:07:14.720 --> 01:07:17.920 And in this paper, what they were doing is that they were radiating fruit flies with 01:07:17.920 --> 01:07:22.280 radiation, fruit flies, and we heard about fruit flies yesterday from a dual half man. 01:07:22.280 --> 01:07:26.840 And they were trying to quantify the smallest amount of radiation to cause a change in the 01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:28.440 phenotype, the trait of the fly. 01:07:28.440 --> 01:07:29.440 Wow. 01:07:29.440 --> 01:07:32.040 So it's a small amount of radiation, and they got maybe the wings change. 01:07:32.040 --> 01:07:33.040 Wow. 01:07:33.040 --> 01:07:36.240 And from that, they said, a gene must be a thousand atoms big. 01:07:36.240 --> 01:07:37.240 Wow. 01:07:37.240 --> 01:07:39.280 Do you hear how dumb that is? 01:07:39.280 --> 01:07:40.760 Can you hear that? 01:07:40.760 --> 01:07:45.760 This is the same thing that Mark has been on for a long time, the radiation, nuclear 01:07:45.760 --> 01:07:54.320 energy, mutating genes, and mutation being the primary source of evolutionary change. 01:07:54.320 --> 01:07:59.480 The idea was using radiation to mutate humans, to make super humans rotary. 01:07:59.480 --> 01:08:03.760 This was a way of trying to understand how evolution worked. 01:08:03.760 --> 01:08:09.080 And they thought that they could irradiate genomes and increase the rate of evolution. 01:08:09.080 --> 01:08:12.480 They actually thought this. 01:08:12.480 --> 01:08:18.600 These are this is from the pool of bad ideas from which our current understanding of biology 01:08:18.600 --> 01:08:20.880 grows. 01:08:20.880 --> 01:08:26.920 So we need to understand this pool very well, who are never going to understand why this 01:08:26.920 --> 01:08:31.160 tree that we call biology is so misshapen. 01:08:31.160 --> 01:08:32.160 It's wonderful. 01:08:32.160 --> 01:08:33.400 I can't believe it. 01:08:33.400 --> 01:08:35.680 A mutation in a molecule, that size. 01:08:35.680 --> 01:08:39.360 Shoring a red that paper, I was inspired to give his lectures, and he says in what it's 01:08:39.360 --> 01:08:44.360 like, the target for which the ionization radiation is about a thousand atoms big. 01:08:44.360 --> 01:08:47.000 We believe a gene to be an aperiodic crystal. 01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:48.000 Very important. 01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:52.000 The gene must be stable, so it must be a crystal, it must have information, so it's 01:08:52.000 --> 01:08:54.880 aperiodic, and that was the phrase he coined. 01:08:54.880 --> 01:08:58.320 And then he says it's the chromosome that contains some kind of code script, and that 01:08:58.320 --> 01:09:02.960 was the first time ever the term genetic code was used on this stage in 1943. 01:09:02.960 --> 01:09:03.960 So that's kind of cool. 01:09:03.960 --> 01:09:05.600 So those all come from this book. 01:09:05.600 --> 01:09:06.840 That's what's really neat about it. 01:09:06.840 --> 01:09:11.840 So let me read what he cited there, because it's actually funny that he didn't read the 01:09:11.840 --> 01:09:13.320 whole quote. 01:09:13.320 --> 01:09:15.240 Maybe the next guy will read the whole quote. 01:09:15.240 --> 01:09:19.400 So he said that the book starts with a quote. 01:09:19.400 --> 01:09:23.680 This is the preface, and this is chapter one. 01:09:23.680 --> 01:09:30.120 And large and important and very much discussed question is how can the events in space time, 01:09:30.120 --> 01:09:36.960 which take place within the spatial boundary of a living organism be accounted for by physics 01:09:36.960 --> 01:09:41.960 and chemistry? 01:09:41.960 --> 01:09:46.240 The next page says the preliminary answer, which is the little, which this little book 01:09:46.240 --> 01:09:51.120 will endeavor to expound and establish can be summarized as follows. 01:09:51.120 --> 01:09:57.320 The obvious inability of present day physics and chemistry to account for such events is 01:09:57.320 --> 01:10:03.280 no reason at all for doubting that they can be accounted for by those sciences. 01:10:03.280 --> 01:10:09.040 In other words, just because chemistry and physics can't explain life now, there's no 01:10:09.040 --> 01:10:13.760 reason to believe that in the future chemistry and physics can't explain it. 01:10:13.760 --> 01:10:16.320 Therefore, there is no sacred. 01:10:16.320 --> 01:10:18.760 There is no irreducible complexity. 01:10:18.760 --> 01:10:25.240 There are no emergent properties that come above and past chemistry and physics that 01:10:25.240 --> 01:10:28.640 only occur in living systems in living patterns. 01:10:28.640 --> 01:10:30.720 There's nothing like that. 01:10:30.720 --> 01:10:36.200 We are a chemical soup obeying physical laws. 01:10:36.200 --> 01:10:39.360 And therefore, we are not sacred. 01:10:39.360 --> 01:10:42.240 And so that's where this book starts. 01:10:42.240 --> 01:10:47.240 That's where this guy is starting from, from the perspective of understanding DNA and the 01:10:47.240 --> 01:10:49.800 human genome and the human pattern integrity. 01:10:49.800 --> 01:10:54.200 Of course, we now know the genetic color was the go away to describe this. 01:10:54.200 --> 01:10:58.520 Now, mind you, the only thing is two thirds of the book was not about genes at all. 01:10:58.520 --> 01:10:59.520 It was about thermodynamics. 01:10:59.520 --> 01:11:02.360 And he had this awful diagram. 01:11:02.360 --> 01:11:03.360 And that's been neglected. 01:11:03.360 --> 01:11:04.360 It's amazing. 01:11:04.360 --> 01:11:06.080 The length of what his life was DNA. 01:11:06.080 --> 01:11:08.880 The thermodynamics was kind of forgotten about, I guess, and people often forget that we've 01:11:08.880 --> 01:11:11.880 still worked to do on the thermodynamics of living systems. 01:11:11.880 --> 01:11:14.520 And there is the structure of DNA that came out, of course. 01:11:14.520 --> 01:11:17.960 And then we had the famous Watson and Crick paper, and I'd say Jim will speak a bit later 01:11:17.960 --> 01:11:19.600 to describe the structure of DNA. 01:11:19.600 --> 01:11:26.320 But very importantly, Francis Crick writes to Schrodinger in Tlantarff with a reprint 01:11:26.320 --> 01:11:27.320 of the paper. 01:11:27.320 --> 01:11:28.320 Isn't that amazing? 01:11:28.320 --> 01:11:32.120 And he says here, me and Watson, we know we were very influenced by what is life. 01:11:32.120 --> 01:11:34.480 He said, we thought you'd be interested in the enclosed reprints. 01:11:34.480 --> 01:11:37.440 This is the key reprint of all biology and history. 01:11:37.440 --> 01:11:41.080 And he said, we think your term aperiodic crystal will be a very apt one. 01:11:41.080 --> 01:11:44.360 And that shows you the influence of this very important lecture in Schrodinger. 01:11:44.360 --> 01:11:46.640 Aperiodic crystal does describe DNA. 01:11:46.640 --> 01:11:50.640 Now, the last thing I want to say before we hand over to our honored guest is, Flano 01:11:50.640 --> 01:11:53.040 Bryan got involved inevitably. 01:11:53.040 --> 01:11:55.200 And he became friends with Schrodinger, and they kind of hit it off. 01:11:55.200 --> 01:11:58.920 And the third policeman, as you may know, involves the molecular exchange theory and 01:11:58.920 --> 01:11:59.920 so on. 01:12:00.000 --> 01:12:04.760 And in 1942, before that, what is life lecture, Schrodinger gave a public lecture on the Heisenberg 01:12:04.760 --> 01:12:08.080 uncertainty principle, right, and Flano Bryan was in the audience. 01:12:08.080 --> 01:12:13.040 There was a second professor in the D.I.A.S. at the time in Celtic studies, because Devilair 01:12:13.040 --> 01:12:15.520 had two hobbies, Irish history and mathematics. 01:12:15.520 --> 01:12:19.600 And they appointed a chair in Celtic studies, a guy called O'Rally and Schrodinger. 01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:23.080 And O'Rally spoke, he was an expert on St. Patrick. 01:12:23.080 --> 01:12:25.640 And he said there was a historical record that there were two, St. Patrick's. 01:12:25.640 --> 01:12:26.640 And this is true. 01:12:26.640 --> 01:12:30.840 Same from Rome, called Palladius, and one from Wales, called Patricius. 01:12:30.840 --> 01:12:34.080 And then Schrodinger gets up and he talks about the quantum world, the uncertainty of 01:12:34.080 --> 01:12:35.080 existence, you know. 01:12:35.080 --> 01:12:39.600 And the next thing in the Irish times, Flano Bryan writes the funniest science joke on 01:12:39.600 --> 01:12:40.600 record. 01:12:40.600 --> 01:12:45.720 The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, with its strange combination of Celtic history 01:12:45.720 --> 01:12:50.000 and cosmic physics, has proven that there were two St. Patrick's and no God. 01:12:50.000 --> 01:12:54.120 And I was just fine, that's very funny. 01:12:54.120 --> 01:12:57.240 And that's a round of applause to Flano Bryan, even though he isn't here. 01:12:57.240 --> 01:12:58.320 What a wonderful phrase. 01:12:58.320 --> 01:13:00.720 So this just shows you the influence Schrodinger had. 01:13:00.720 --> 01:13:04.480 And now it gives me a great pleasure to introduce our keynote speaker for tonight. 01:13:04.480 --> 01:13:08.320 And no finer person could we have for this task to reflect on Schrodinger. 01:13:08.320 --> 01:13:10.160 And of course, he's here for Esoph as well. 01:13:10.160 --> 01:13:14.760 And I'd like you to welcome Craig Venter, who's going to speak about what is life, a 21st 01:13:14.760 --> 01:13:15.760 century perspective. 01:13:15.760 --> 01:13:16.760 Craig. 01:13:16.760 --> 01:13:40.800 Well, thank you for that wonderful layup for this exciting event, and Teischach and 01:13:40.800 --> 01:13:45.880 Provost, distinguished guests, family and friends. 01:13:45.880 --> 01:13:50.880 It's indeed an honor to be here for this event. 01:13:50.880 --> 01:13:56.600 And I was asked earlier whether the goal is to dissect what Schrodinger had spoken about 01:13:56.600 --> 01:14:01.600 and written, or to present the new summary. 01:14:01.600 --> 01:14:08.360 And I always like to be forward looking, so I won't give you a history lesson, except 01:14:08.360 --> 01:14:09.360 for very briefly. 01:14:09.360 --> 01:14:14.240 I will present our findings first on reading the genetic code and then learning to synthesize 01:14:14.240 --> 01:14:15.240 and write the genetic code. 01:14:15.240 --> 01:14:20.200 And as many of you know, we synthesized an entire genome, booted it up to create an entirely 01:14:20.200 --> 01:14:26.760 new synthetic cell, where every protein in the cell was based on the synthetic DNA code. 01:14:26.760 --> 01:14:30.400 So as you all know, what Schrodinger's book was published in 1944, it was based on a series 01:14:30.400 --> 01:14:34.200 of three lectures here starting in. 01:14:34.200 --> 01:14:41.160 What he really means there, right, is that they took the genome of a yeast and they made 01:14:41.160 --> 01:14:50.520 a synthetic copy of it, and then that DNA could be used to grow another yeast. 01:14:50.520 --> 01:14:55.800 So it's not exactly what he's suggesting, which is like, you know, it almost seems like 01:14:55.800 --> 01:15:02.400 they just went to the drawing board, made up a whole new DNA sequence, put it in a membrane 01:15:02.400 --> 01:15:06.240 and it went, but that's not what they did. 01:15:06.240 --> 01:15:11.320 They just showed that they could copy a whole genome, make a synthetic version of it, and 01:15:11.320 --> 01:15:18.640 that synthetic molecule could be reinserted, and it would faithfully allow that organism 01:15:18.640 --> 01:15:19.640 to replicate. 01:15:19.640 --> 01:15:24.280 So, as far as I understand it, it's not the exact same thing as synthetic life, although 01:15:24.280 --> 01:15:30.640 they would like you to believe, I mean, because it is synthetic life, but it says, you know, 01:15:30.640 --> 01:15:32.480 it's still based on life. 01:15:32.480 --> 01:15:35.240 I thought that would work, sorry. 01:15:35.240 --> 01:15:40.360 February of 1943, and he had to be people, lectures I read on the following Monday, because 01:15:40.360 --> 01:15:43.720 the room on the other side of campus was too small, and I understand people were turned 01:15:43.720 --> 01:15:48.520 away tonight, but were grateful for Internet streaming, so I don't have to do this twice. 01:15:48.520 --> 01:15:53.880 So also do, clearly, to his historical role, and it's interesting to be sharing this event 01:15:53.880 --> 01:15:57.880 with Jim Watson, who have known and had multiple interactions with over the last 25 years, 01:15:57.880 --> 01:16:01.840 and including most recently sharing the double helix prize for human genome sequencing with 01:16:01.840 --> 01:16:04.720 him from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory a few years ago. 01:16:04.720 --> 01:16:09.480 Now, Schrodinger started his lecture with a key question, and an interesting insight 01:16:09.480 --> 01:16:10.480 on it. 01:16:10.480 --> 01:16:12.880 The question was, I'll read it, how can the events in space and time, which take place 01:16:12.880 --> 01:16:16.600 within the boundaries of a living organism, be accounted for by physics and chemistry? 01:16:16.600 --> 01:16:20.240 It's a pretty straightforward, decimal question, and then he sort of answered what he could 01:16:20.240 --> 01:16:24.120 at the time, the obvious inability of present-day physics and chemistry to account for such 01:16:24.120 --> 01:16:28.920 events is no reason at all for doubting that they will be accounted for by the sciences. 01:16:28.920 --> 01:16:29.920 That's good. 01:16:29.920 --> 01:16:34.320 So, while I only have around 40 minutes, not three lectures, I hope to convince you that 01:16:34.320 --> 01:16:38.600 there has been substantial progress in the last nearly 70 years, since Schrodinger initially 01:16:38.600 --> 01:16:42.680 asked that question, to the point where the answer is at least nearly at hand, if not 01:16:42.680 --> 01:16:43.680 in hand. 01:16:43.680 --> 01:16:49.120 So, I view that we're now in what I'm calling the digital age of biology. 01:16:49.120 --> 01:16:53.440 My teams work on synthesizing genomes based on digital code in the computer, and four 01:16:53.440 --> 01:16:57.760 bottles of chemicals illustrates the ultimate link between the computer code and the digital 01:16:57.760 --> 01:16:59.320 code. 01:16:59.320 --> 01:17:04.000 Life as code, as you heard in the introduction, was very clearly articulated by Schrodinger 01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:05.880 as code script. 01:17:05.880 --> 01:17:09.120 I think perhaps even more importantly, and something I missed on the first few readings 01:17:09.120 --> 01:17:14.840 I was book early in my career, was, as far as I can tell, the first mention that this 01:17:14.840 --> 01:17:17.520 code could be as simple as a binary code. 01:17:17.520 --> 01:17:20.920 And he used the example of Morris code with just dots and dashes. 01:17:20.920 --> 01:17:24.840 It could be sufficient to give 34 different specifications. 01:17:24.840 --> 01:17:32.360 I've searched and I have not find any earlier references to the Morris code, although historian 01:17:32.360 --> 01:17:37.240 I know wrote a quick letter asking about that then, and quick response was, it was 01:17:37.240 --> 01:17:38.560 a metaphor that was obvious to everybody. 01:17:38.560 --> 01:17:44.200 So, I don't know if it was obvious to everybody after Schrodinger's book or sometime before. 01:17:44.200 --> 01:17:46.440 One of the things though, Schrodinger was right about a lot of things, which is why, 01:17:46.440 --> 01:17:51.200 in fact, I think we celebrate what he talked about and what he wrote about, but some things 01:17:51.200 --> 01:17:56.480 he was clearly wrong about, like most scientists in his time, and he relied on the biologist 01:17:56.480 --> 01:17:57.480 of the day. 01:17:57.840 --> 01:18:02.320 They thought that protein, not DNA, was the genetic information. 01:18:02.320 --> 01:18:07.680 And I think it's really quite extraordinary because just in 1944, in the same year that 01:18:07.680 --> 01:18:12.280 he published his book, is when the famous experiment by Oswald Avery, who was actually 01:18:12.280 --> 01:18:18.200 65 and about ready to retire, along with his colleagues Colin McLeod and acclaimed McCartney, 01:18:18.200 --> 01:18:21.920 published their key paper demonstrating that DNA was actually the substance that causes 01:18:21.920 --> 01:18:25.480 bacterial transformation, and therefore was the genetic material. 01:18:25.480 --> 01:18:30.840 This experiment was remarkably simple, and I sort of wonder why it wasn't done 50 years 01:18:30.840 --> 01:18:35.000 earlier, because with all the wonderful genetics work going on in drosophila, certainly people 01:18:35.000 --> 01:18:36.000 were looking at chromosomes. 01:18:36.000 --> 01:18:40.560 He simply used proteolytic enzymes to destroy all the proteins associated with the DNA and 01:18:40.560 --> 01:18:45.760 showed that the DNA, the naked DNA, was, in fact, of the transforming factor. 01:18:45.760 --> 01:18:51.080 The impact of this paper was far from instantaneous, as has happened in this field, I think, in 01:18:51.080 --> 01:18:56.120 part because there was so much bias against DNA and towards proteins that it took a long 01:18:56.120 --> 01:18:58.520 time for that to sink in. 01:18:58.520 --> 01:19:04.960 In 1949, obviously, was the first sequencing of a protein by Fred Sanger, and the protein 01:19:04.960 --> 01:19:06.240 was insulin. 01:19:06.240 --> 01:19:11.280 And this work showed, in fact, that proteins consisted of linear amino acid codes. 01:19:11.280 --> 01:19:17.320 So he won the Nobel Prize in 1958 for that achievement, and was very key in terms of 01:19:17.320 --> 01:19:20.240 leader understanding of the link between DNA and proteins. 01:19:20.240 --> 01:19:25.880 But as you heard in the introduction, obviously, the discovery that changed the whole field 01:19:25.880 --> 01:19:32.320 and started us down to DNA root was the 1953 work by Watson and Crick, with help from Maurice 01:19:32.320 --> 01:19:36.320 Wilkins and Roslyn Franklin, showing that DNA was, in fact, a double helix, and had a clear 01:19:36.320 --> 01:19:38.320 explanation of how it could be self-replicated. 01:19:38.320 --> 01:19:45.760 Again, this was not, as I understand, instantly perceived as a breakthrough because the biochemist 01:19:45.760 --> 01:19:47.600 was still hanging on to genetic code. 01:19:47.600 --> 01:19:54.840 But soon, with a few more experiments from others, the world changed pretty dramatically. 01:19:54.840 --> 01:19:58.720 I think the next big thing came from the work, obviously, of Corona and Marshall Nuremberg 01:19:58.720 --> 01:20:03.840 in 1961, where they worked out the triplet genetic codes, three letters of genetic code 01:20:03.840 --> 01:20:06.280 coding for a single amino acid. 01:20:06.280 --> 01:20:10.440 And then this became clear how the linear DNA code, that coded for the linear protein 01:20:10.440 --> 01:20:11.440 code. 01:20:11.440 --> 01:20:15.760 Which was followed a few years later by Robert Hawley's discovery of the structure of tRNA. 01:20:15.760 --> 01:20:20.960 And tRNA is the key, the key, a link between the mesrometeor RNA and bringing the amino 01:20:20.960 --> 01:20:23.800 acids in for protein synthesis. 01:20:23.800 --> 01:20:28.520 So Hawley and Nuremberg and Corona shared the Nobel Prize in 1968 for that work. 01:20:28.520 --> 01:20:30.040 The next decade brought us restriction enzymes. 01:20:30.040 --> 01:20:34.840 So my friend and colleague, Ham Smith, who is at the Venture Institute now in 1970, the 01:20:34.840 --> 01:20:39.360 first restriction enzymes, these are the molecular scissors that cut DNA very precisely and 01:20:39.360 --> 01:20:43.400 enabled the entire field of a molecular engineering and molecular biology. 01:20:43.400 --> 01:20:48.040 And Ham Smith and Warner Arbor and Dan Nathan shared the prize in 1978 for that work. 01:20:48.040 --> 01:20:53.520 The 70s brought not only some interesting dress codes and characters, but the beginning 01:20:53.520 --> 01:20:58.200 of the molecular splicing revolution, using restriction enzymes, Conan Boyer and Paul 01:20:58.200 --> 01:21:04.680 Berg published the first papers on recombinant DNA, Conan Boyer at Stanford, Stanford father 01:21:04.680 --> 01:21:09.000 patent on their work and this was used by Genentech and Eli Lilly to produce a human 01:21:09.000 --> 01:21:12.640 insulin as the first recombinant drug. 01:21:12.640 --> 01:21:18.080 DNA sequencing and reading the genetic code progressed much more slowly. 01:21:18.080 --> 01:21:23.720 So in 1973, a maximum in Gilbert published a paper on 24 base pairs, 24 letters of genetic 01:21:23.720 --> 01:21:24.720 code. 01:21:24.720 --> 01:21:27.920 RNA sequencing progressed a little bit faster. 01:21:27.920 --> 01:21:33.120 So the first actual genome, viral genome, RNA viral genome was sequenced in 1976 by Walter 01:21:33.120 --> 01:21:38.560 Fiers from Belgium and this was followed the following year by Fred Sanger again sequencing 01:21:38.560 --> 01:21:44.360 the first DNA virus and this was 5x174 that I'll bring back to mind with you. 01:21:44.360 --> 01:21:50.440 So this became the first DNA virus and the first viral DNA genome and it was also accompanied 01:21:50.440 --> 01:21:54.400 by this new sequencing technique called now referred to as Sanger sequencing that Sanger 01:21:54.400 --> 01:21:55.880 introduced. 01:21:55.880 --> 01:22:00.160 This is a picture of Sanger's team that sequenced 5x, the second guy from the left on the bottom 01:22:00.160 --> 01:22:05.280 is Clyde Hutchinson who was also a member of the Adventure Institute and joined us after 01:22:05.280 --> 01:22:10.120 retiring from the University of North Carolina and took a key role in some of the synthetic 01:22:10.120 --> 01:22:11.600 genome work. 01:22:11.600 --> 01:22:16.200 So in 1975, I was just getting my Ph.D. as the first genes were being sequenced. 01:22:16.200 --> 01:22:20.420 20 years later, I led the team to sequence the first genome of a living species and 01:22:20.420 --> 01:22:22.920 Cam Smith was a key part of that team. 01:22:22.920 --> 01:22:27.120 This was homophilus influenza, instead of 5,000 letters of genetic code, this was 1.8 million 01:22:27.120 --> 01:22:32.160 letters of genetic code, or about 300 times the size of the 5x genome. 01:22:32.160 --> 01:22:36.920 Five years later, we upped the ante 1,600 times with the first draft of the human genome 01:22:36.920 --> 01:22:39.320 using these new whole genome shotgun. 01:22:39.320 --> 01:22:43.360 So I don't know if you're clear about what he just said there, but I think he just said 01:22:43.360 --> 01:22:49.280 HIV, Hib bacteria. 01:22:49.280 --> 01:22:55.120 So he sequenced Hib, which is one of the most deadly vaccines on the childhood vaccine 01:22:55.120 --> 01:23:00.880 schedule, at least we used to be, yeah, it's not a good thing. 01:23:00.880 --> 01:23:07.440 And its name is an H word in the beginning and then influenza in the second word and 01:23:07.440 --> 01:23:09.040 then B stands for something else. 01:23:09.040 --> 01:23:13.200 Instead of 5,000 letters of genetic code, this was 1.8 million letters of genetic code, 01:23:13.200 --> 01:23:17.800 or about 300,000 letters of genetic code, Cam Smith was a key part of that team. 01:23:17.800 --> 01:23:22.000 This was homophilus influenza, instead of 5,000 letters of genetic code, this was 1.8 million 01:23:22.000 --> 01:23:23.240 letters of genetic code. 01:23:23.320 --> 01:23:25.200 I'm pretty sure that's HIV. 01:23:25.200 --> 01:23:26.960 The size of the 5x genome. 01:23:26.960 --> 01:23:31.880 Five years later, we upped the ante 1,600 times with the first draft of the human genome 01:23:31.880 --> 01:23:37.920 using these new whole genome shotgun techniques, and the smaller papers, the public genome 01:23:37.920 --> 01:23:42.680 effort size doesn't reflect its significance, only its relative significance to me. 01:23:42.680 --> 01:23:46.560 So the human genome is about a half a million times larger than the 5x genome, so it shows 01:23:46.560 --> 01:23:49.000 how fast things were developing. 01:23:49.000 --> 01:23:53.600 Reading genomes has now progressed extremely rapidly, so instead of years or decades, it 01:23:53.600 --> 01:23:56.520 now takes about two hours to sequence a human genome. 01:23:56.520 --> 01:24:01.080 Instead of genomes per day or genomes per hour or hours per genome, we can now, in a 01:24:01.080 --> 01:24:05.400 recently done a demonstration, sequencing 2,000 complete microbial genomes in one run, 01:24:05.400 --> 01:24:06.440 in one hour. 01:24:06.440 --> 01:24:09.080 So the pace is changing quite substantially. 01:24:09.080 --> 01:24:14.040 Now, I view DNA as an analog coding molecule. 01:24:14.040 --> 01:24:18.240 And when we sequence the DNA, we're converting that analog code into digital code. 01:24:18.240 --> 01:24:23.280 Remember that if he's right, and 11 years ago we could sequence a human genome in two 01:24:23.280 --> 01:24:31.360 hours, then the testing operation in the United States could have easily been a test deployment 01:24:31.360 --> 01:24:35.200 of a mass genotyping operation. 01:24:35.200 --> 01:24:40.080 And so depending on where these remnants went and who they were sold to, if you can sequence 01:24:40.080 --> 01:24:46.320 a genome in two hours in 11 years ago, then I guess chances are pretty good that in about 01:24:46.320 --> 01:24:52.000 the same time they can do those PCR reactions, they can also be amplifying a whole genome, 01:24:52.000 --> 01:24:57.440 or using other means where you don't have to amplify the genome before you sequence it, 01:24:57.440 --> 01:25:00.120 like, for example, nanopore. 01:25:00.120 --> 01:25:04.920 So there's a lot of sketchy stuff going on here, and my chickens are crawling, so I'm 01:25:04.920 --> 01:25:07.400 just going to check outside to make sure everything's okay. 01:25:07.400 --> 01:25:11.800 It could just be an egg has been laid, I'll be right back, I'm going to push play. 01:25:11.800 --> 01:25:17.400 The ones and zeros in the computer are very similar to the dots and dashes that Schrodinger 01:25:17.400 --> 01:25:21.320 indicated might be the original code, and I call this process digitizing biology. 01:25:21.320 --> 01:25:26.480 A number of scientists have drawn the analogy between computers and biology. 01:25:26.480 --> 01:25:31.360 I take these even further, I describe DNA as the software of life, and when we activate 01:25:31.360 --> 01:25:35.240 a synthetic genome in a cell, we call, we describe it as booting up a genome in a cell 01:25:35.240 --> 01:25:37.400 the same way we talk about booting up a software. 01:25:38.040 --> 01:25:42.800 June 23rd of this year was Alan Turing's, would have been his 100th birthday, and Turing 01:25:42.800 --> 01:25:47.000 described what has become to be known as Turing machines, and the machine described a set 01:25:47.000 --> 01:25:49.600 of instructions written on a tape. 01:25:49.600 --> 01:25:53.440 He also described the universal Turing machine, which was a machine that could take that set 01:25:53.440 --> 01:25:59.200 of instructions and rewrite them, and this was the original origin of the digital computer. 01:25:59.200 --> 01:26:05.640 Now, his ideas were carried further in the 1940s by John Vandumen, as many people know, 01:26:05.640 --> 01:26:08.360 and he conceived of the self-replicating machine. 01:26:08.360 --> 01:26:12.920 So von Neumann's machine consisted of a series of cells, which encoded a sequence of actions 01:26:12.920 --> 01:26:16.680 that be performed by the machine, and using a writing head, the machine can print out 01:26:16.680 --> 01:26:21.400 a new pattern of cells, allowing it to make a complete copy of itself on the tape. 01:26:21.400 --> 01:26:26.120 So many of people have certainly made the analogy, most recently in nature, Sydney Brenner, who 01:26:26.120 --> 01:26:30.480 played a role in almost all these stages of early biology, wrote an article about Turing 01:26:30.480 --> 01:26:34.440 and biology, and in this, he argued that the best examples of a Turing and von Neumann 01:26:34.440 --> 01:26:40.320 machine is found in biology, with the self-replicating code, the internal description 01:26:40.320 --> 01:26:46.000 of itself, and that this is the key kernel of biological theory. 01:26:46.000 --> 01:26:50.080 So while software was pouring out of sequence of machines around the world, substantial 01:26:50.080 --> 01:26:55.000 progress was going on describing the hardware of life, or proteins. 01:26:55.000 --> 01:26:58.920 So in biochemistry, the first two decades of the 20th century were dominated by what was 01:26:58.920 --> 01:27:00.280 called the colloid theory. 01:27:00.280 --> 01:27:04.000 So life itself is explained in terms of the aggregate properties of all the colloidal 01:27:04.000 --> 01:27:06.160 substances in an organism. 01:27:06.160 --> 01:27:10.680 We now know that these substances are a collection of three-dimensional protein machines, each 01:27:10.680 --> 01:27:14.400 evolved to carry out a very specific task. 01:27:14.400 --> 01:27:19.200 Now, these proteins have been described as nature of robots, and if you think about it 01:27:19.200 --> 01:27:24.960 for every single task in a cell, every imaginable task is described by a panford and Reynolds. 01:27:24.960 --> 01:27:26.960 There is a unique protein to carry out that task. 01:27:26.960 --> 01:27:32.480 It's programmed when to go on, when to go off, and it does this based on its structure. 01:27:32.480 --> 01:27:34.400 It doesn't have consciousness. 01:27:34.400 --> 01:27:37.720 It doesn't have a control from a mind or a higher center. 01:27:37.720 --> 01:27:43.240 Everything a protein does is built into its linear code derived from the DNA code. 01:27:43.240 --> 01:27:45.080 Just briefly, there's multiple protein types. 01:27:45.080 --> 01:27:48.680 Okay, I'm going to take a big left turn here. 01:27:48.680 --> 01:27:50.480 We're going to come back to this video. 01:27:50.480 --> 01:27:53.880 I've got something hit me, and I don't want to miss it, and I'm going to end the video 01:27:53.880 --> 01:27:57.280 early because this makes perfect sense to me now. 01:27:57.280 --> 01:28:02.640 He's talking about DNA, he's talking about proteins, he's talking about how all these 01:28:02.640 --> 01:28:09.520 spontaneous, physical and chemical processes come together and form something that we call 01:28:09.520 --> 01:28:18.720 life, and I want to show you a video completely unrelated to this that's so close to my heart 01:28:18.720 --> 01:28:25.800 that will give you just an insight into the kind of, I don't know what the right word 01:28:25.800 --> 01:28:26.800 is. 01:28:26.800 --> 01:28:32.160 Is it passion that I have, the belief that I have, reverence that I have for everything 01:28:32.160 --> 01:28:33.440 that's alive? 01:28:33.440 --> 01:28:35.560 Because here's where we are with this guy's lecture. 01:28:35.560 --> 01:28:40.080 He said, protein used to be the genetic material, then DNA with the genetic code, then the 01:28:40.080 --> 01:28:45.440 triplet code was cracked, then the tRNA structure was found, then restriction enzymes were found, 01:28:45.440 --> 01:28:49.600 then we'd made recombinant DNA, and then we started sequencing stuff first with a 24 01:28:49.600 --> 01:28:54.880 base pair sequence, then a viral genome, then a DNA viral genome, then this first bacteria 01:28:54.880 --> 01:29:00.160 was sequenced by yours truly, then a whole genome using shotgun techniques to the point 01:29:00.160 --> 01:29:05.680 where we can now, at this time in this lecture, read a genome in two hours, it's much lower 01:29:05.680 --> 01:29:06.680 than that now. 01:29:06.680 --> 01:29:11.040 Presumably, I guess Kevin McCurnan would tell us exactly how many minutes would take with 01:29:11.040 --> 01:29:14.720 the cutting edge technology. 01:29:14.720 --> 01:29:23.240 Now we're talking about molecules whose emergent properties we don't understand, whose relationship 01:29:23.240 --> 01:29:29.240 to other molecules produces other emergent properties that we don't understand, who then 01:29:29.240 --> 01:29:35.480 fold and are post-translationally modified in ways that we don't understand, and we 01:29:35.480 --> 01:29:45.280 purport to understand how this multi-layered, complex pattern integrity produces life, because 01:29:45.280 --> 01:29:55.080 we can translate some of the bases into some of the components of the next layer. 01:29:55.080 --> 01:29:59.280 Now I'm going to show you a video that may not have anything to do with this, but I think 01:29:59.280 --> 01:30:04.480 if you listen to how I describe the video, you will understand exactly why these people 01:30:04.480 --> 01:30:10.480 have no idea what they're talking about and how much we stand to gain by pointing that 01:30:10.480 --> 01:30:17.480 out, how the foundation of biology is just based on a few gross misconceptions about 01:30:17.480 --> 01:30:20.200 fidelity and depth of understanding. 01:30:20.200 --> 01:30:24.720 So let me see if I can find this video without too much looking, I'll just use my history, 01:30:24.720 --> 01:30:33.360 I think that'll work the best. 01:30:33.360 --> 01:30:50.040 Oh, I'm revealing everything I looked at in the last couple hours here, that's going 01:30:50.040 --> 01:30:51.760 to dump. 01:30:51.760 --> 01:31:01.000 Let me see, let's go back out of this, yeah, I can't see it, I don't know why it's not 01:31:01.000 --> 01:31:05.640 on, this should be on this list right here already, and it's not. 01:31:05.640 --> 01:31:10.040 So let me think, how else do I do it? 01:31:10.040 --> 01:31:18.800 Nope, then I got to go back and go to YouTube and search for, oh, maybe I should use the 01:31:18.800 --> 01:31:24.280 YouTube history, that's what I thought I was using, not that, there we go, dumb, dumb, 01:31:24.280 --> 01:31:32.040 hee dee dee dee, YouTube, where is my history stuff, what's going on, why am I zoning out 01:31:32.040 --> 01:31:47.160 like this, let's just go icky, icky TV, please look it up, see if you can find icky TV. 01:31:47.160 --> 01:31:53.920 So what is, what are we looking at here, well we're looking at a stunt kite and the 01:31:53.920 --> 01:32:01.800 stunt kite is actually exactly what is sitting behind me on my desk over here. 01:32:01.800 --> 01:32:07.080 You will see behind the screen here a stunt kite. 01:32:07.080 --> 01:32:11.360 And that is a diablist, it's a German made kite, it was one of the first of that design 01:32:11.360 --> 01:32:15.480 to be made and that design was later sold to a French company by the name of Arsky and 01:32:15.480 --> 01:32:21.640 they didn't use the same panel out, look, that kite won several competitions in Germany 01:32:21.640 --> 01:32:26.320 and in the Netherlands before I got my hands on it and there's lots of people who would 01:32:26.320 --> 01:32:30.400 love to have that kite also for the plans of the panels. 01:32:30.400 --> 01:32:37.280 This video that we're about to watch is actually kite in the Netherlands being flown on a Dutch 01:32:37.280 --> 01:32:43.000 beach, very recently filmed by a friend of mine named Carlo, flown by a friend of mine 01:32:43.000 --> 01:32:48.160 named Lars and Lars is one of the best kite pilots on the planet and now what you have 01:32:48.160 --> 01:32:50.480 to understand, this is going to be fun. 01:32:50.480 --> 01:32:55.480 I'm excited, it makes me happy to teach this, hold on I'll be right back. 01:32:55.480 --> 01:33:03.000 What you have to understand is that there are a few variables involved in how the kite 01:33:03.000 --> 01:33:08.680 behaves and kite flyers who are talented are taking advantage of those variables. 01:33:08.680 --> 01:33:13.640 Now if you look at a stunt kite and I've got one right here and I'm going to put it underneath 01:33:13.640 --> 01:33:21.400 the thing here and so if you look at a stunt kite it's actually got a three-point bridle 01:33:21.400 --> 01:33:27.400 that has points that grab the kite on three sides here, see the triangle there and then 01:33:27.400 --> 01:33:31.640 there's another one over here that actually grabs on the other side and so then the kite 01:33:31.640 --> 01:33:36.960 flyer is actually holding two strings and the strings are pulling each on a triangle 01:33:36.960 --> 01:33:42.280 of string like this and now the interesting thing is is that the wind is blowing in this 01:33:42.280 --> 01:33:47.760 direction right toward the kite and the kite is designed to make it fly up and so in this 01:33:47.760 --> 01:33:52.400 case if I change this around like this the kite's going to fly up right and so it flies 01:33:52.400 --> 01:33:57.600 in the direction of the nose because the wind is blowing this way and then the kite is designed 01:33:57.600 --> 01:34:02.240 to have a nose and then the wind only moves in one direction so it moves through the air. 01:34:02.240 --> 01:34:08.520 The cool thing is that these kites also have attractor states where they are very stable 01:34:08.600 --> 01:34:14.920 facing if the wind is coming from you this is the way you would be flying the kite but the kite is 01:34:14.920 --> 01:34:20.840 also stable in this position the kite is also stable in this position and the kite can also 01:34:20.840 --> 01:34:26.680 rotate in these positions but if you get it the lines tangled around the end of the kite or whatever 01:34:26.680 --> 01:34:33.120 then it's not going to fly anymore and so the trick of flying a kite is to jerk the kite in and out of 01:34:33.120 --> 01:34:39.200 the wind and get it to settle into different attractor states and then spin around in the wind 01:34:39.200 --> 01:34:44.320 while the wind is still moving and give it slack in the right way so that when you pull it back 01:34:44.320 --> 01:34:50.680 into the flight position the lines are still free of the kite itself. Now what I want you to do is 01:34:50.680 --> 01:34:57.520 watch this video and think very carefully about how your brain interprets what's going on here 01:34:57.520 --> 01:35:05.040 because there are very few variables there is the static shape of this kite one shape in three 01:35:05.040 --> 01:35:11.840 dimensions there is the static direction of the wind it's one direction and he's on the beach which 01:35:11.840 --> 01:35:18.000 means it's laboratory grade wind it's going to be the same speed from the ground all the way up to 01:35:18.000 --> 01:35:23.200 the top of the flight window and so all of the flight is going to be very smooth and the variables 01:35:23.200 --> 01:35:29.360 will be limited because the wind is not from everywhere like it's in Pittsburgh Dutch kite flying 01:35:29.360 --> 01:35:36.160 is the best kite flying in the universe and you can lose literally weekends with your feet in the 01:35:36.160 --> 01:35:43.920 sand and get like emergency room level sunburn because it's so zen so watch this kite fly try to 01:35:43.920 --> 01:35:49.920 figure out how it is that somebody with only two lines and two handles can make the kite do what 01:35:49.920 --> 01:35:57.200 Lars makes it do and then think about the idea that we're talking about one three-dimensional 01:35:57.200 --> 01:36:06.160 shape with two lines and a protein is a three-dimensional shape with electrostatic charge 01:36:06.960 --> 01:36:16.240 in a electrostatic polar solvent water and it is attached to other three-dimensional magnetic 01:36:16.240 --> 01:36:22.160 electrostatic three-dimensional shapes that are in a polar solvent called water 01:36:24.160 --> 01:36:30.960 and we are being told that we understand how proteins fold and we understand how DNA gets 01:36:30.960 --> 01:36:42.000 translated into proteins and to describe the physics of what Lars is doing would be pretty 01:36:42.320 --> 01:36:47.600 complicated so how in the world can we already be so i got to slow it down sorry 01:36:49.200 --> 01:36:51.440 that's why this music sounds a little bad 01:36:53.920 --> 01:36:57.360 let's start it over again so you can see exactly what i'm talking about 01:37:03.120 --> 01:37:08.160 so think very carefully now how would you describe what's happening here how do we understand this 01:37:12.880 --> 01:37:23.120 I want you to think about a protein as a kite connected to another kite connected to another 01:37:23.120 --> 01:37:28.240 kite and each one of the 20 amino acids has a different shape that interacts with the wind in 01:37:28.240 --> 01:37:34.480 a different way and depending on how they are connected depending on the bridal connection 01:37:34.480 --> 01:37:40.080 between them depending on the the sugars that are deposited on them depending on the speed that 01:37:40.080 --> 01:37:44.480 they come through the ribosome depending on the particular kind of ribosome 01:37:45.840 --> 01:37:49.840 the chain of kites will come out in a very different way and fly in a very different way 01:37:49.840 --> 01:37:56.560 and have a very different effect on other proteins and we claim to be able to reasonably understand 01:37:56.560 --> 01:38:03.280 that or we're very soon going to be able to understand it can you understand what Lars is 01:38:03.280 --> 01:38:14.160 doing right now does it make sense to you because i assure you whatever's going on in the 01:38:14.160 --> 01:38:20.880 simplest protein is much more complex than this the physics and the chemistry are much more complex 01:38:20.880 --> 01:38:28.000 than the physics of this even a whole chain of these and we can understand this i have no doubt 01:38:28.000 --> 01:38:34.960 we can understand this but trying to understand the irreducible complexity of protein folding 01:38:34.960 --> 01:38:43.440 of protein modification and of the the the pattern integrity that is a cell never mind tissue never 01:38:43.440 --> 01:38:52.080 mind an organism a developing baby a developing teenager my goodness ladies and gentlemen let's 01:38:52.080 --> 01:38:56.880 let's stay focused on the physics and chemistry we can understand let's stay focused on the 01:38:56.880 --> 01:39:04.400 phenomenon that we can harness instead of trying to convince all of our children that 01:39:04.400 --> 01:39:11.680 they're nothing more than chemistry and physics because that's ridiculous i really believe that i 01:39:11.680 --> 01:39:16.800 really think that's at the heart of this we have to convince our our young people that they're much 01:39:16.800 --> 01:39:22.240 more valuable than that that they're much more precious than that that you know we need to go 01:39:22.320 --> 01:39:28.000 back to the stage where people aren't getting tattoos where people are very interested in 01:39:28.000 --> 01:39:35.120 whether or not should i pierce my ear or not that's where we need to go back to and i think that 01:39:35.120 --> 01:39:42.640 that if you start to see i'll give you another example um i don't know if i can yeah i can i can 01:39:42.640 --> 01:39:47.520 get that out of my list let me give let's see if that's a good one is that listed here 01:39:48.480 --> 01:39:55.200 yeah okay let's do this one shall we do this one just to keep doing this to a raw egg until 01:39:55.200 --> 01:40:01.520 it spins and then catch it to stop it and and instantly this is one of my favorite um math 01:40:01.520 --> 01:40:08.880 teachers that i like to share with people and i'll just let's let's again just let's listen to 01:40:08.880 --> 01:40:13.040 this and then i'll i'll end the show 01:40:39.760 --> 01:40:44.560 once in a while you run into somebody who happens to be carrying around an inclined plane 01:40:46.400 --> 01:40:54.800 and he produces from the recess of his toy box two jars one of them is filled with top quality 01:40:54.800 --> 01:41:01.120 basmati rights from india and the other one is filled with top quality air from Birmingham 01:41:01.600 --> 01:41:12.240 and they can be made to roll down this slope you can see that they roll down quite fast not 01:41:12.240 --> 01:41:17.120 quite exactly the same way because the moment of inertia is doing something but they roll down 01:41:17.120 --> 01:41:30.240 quite fast now what i propose to do is to investigate how the speed of descent 01:41:31.120 --> 01:41:37.760 how fast it goes down depends on the amount of grains inside here we have a big question mark 01:41:37.760 --> 01:41:43.840 only two data points available we know that when the jar is practically empty that's represented by 01:41:43.840 --> 01:41:49.760 zero it's quite fast and on the other hand when the jar is practically full that's represented by 01:41:49.760 --> 01:41:56.720 one it's also going down quite fast so how does that work well let us experiment immediately 01:41:57.680 --> 01:42:03.440 and in order to make the contrast striking i shall leave one of the jars about two thirds full 01:42:03.440 --> 01:42:08.640 or one third empty depending on the degree of optimism and the other one one third full 01:42:08.640 --> 01:42:16.240 or two thirds empty so i shall do that is that is that a good amount maybe a little more 01:42:16.960 --> 01:42:30.800 good let's begin with the two thirds full one now as far as i can imagine there are three 01:42:30.800 --> 01:42:37.440 possibilities on there perhaps it will go down at the same speed as before between those two 01:42:37.440 --> 01:42:42.560 points because if you remember the story and believe the story of galley dropping those two 01:42:42.640 --> 01:42:48.960 heavy balls from the tower pizza the speed of descent didn't depend on the weight and perhaps 01:42:48.960 --> 01:42:55.600 it's the same with grains in that case it will be the same speed no matter what and amount of sand 01:42:55.600 --> 01:43:00.880 amount of grains i amount to rice inside so perhaps it will go down at the same speed on that hand 01:43:00.880 --> 01:43:06.400 maybe it will go down faster or perhaps it will go down slower so let's take a vote who thinks he 01:43:06.480 --> 01:43:13.520 to go down at the same speed as before who thinks he to go down faster than before faster faster 01:43:14.560 --> 01:43:18.000 who thinks he could it will go down slowly than before 01:43:20.080 --> 01:43:30.480 who's to shy to vote well let's do this okay so this is two thirds are you ready 01:43:31.440 --> 01:43:38.880 it starts going down and it goes down very very slowly very slowly 01:43:40.160 --> 01:43:45.280 not only does it go down slowly but there is a very interesting phenomenon going on 01:43:46.160 --> 01:43:52.240 along what we make called the free surface the surface that's exposed between the grains and 01:43:52.240 --> 01:43:57.920 the air there is a sort of avalanche land slide going on the sand and the rice grains are going 01:43:57.920 --> 01:44:04.720 down just sliding down all the time and the rest of the rice on the other hand the rest of the 01:44:04.720 --> 01:44:11.920 rice grains are sticking to the receptacle to the jar in some sense therefore if you have studied 01:44:11.920 --> 01:44:16.640 something like fluid dynamics you can say that it's acting like viscous fluid sticky fluid 01:44:18.000 --> 01:44:22.880 by the way you can do the same experiment with honey and if you do it with honey something 01:44:22.880 --> 01:44:28.480 interesting happens we shall come back that in a moment okay so that was the first experiment 01:44:30.160 --> 01:44:36.080 now let's go through the next one one third okay so he's might not get to the honey because I do 01:44:36.080 --> 01:44:40.320 have to go to basketball in a few minutes the honey experiment if you put the honey on there the jar 01:44:40.320 --> 01:44:44.720 won't move at all and if you come back in about a half an hour the jar will have moved and then 01:44:44.720 --> 01:44:49.760 you come back another half an hour to have moved again and so honey is just a very extreme example 01:44:49.840 --> 01:44:52.800 of the fluid dynamics that are shown here what I'm trying to get at 01:44:53.520 --> 01:45:00.000 is that proteins and their production if it occurs in the way that we're told which is an RNA goes 01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:05.760 through it goes through a ribosome and then a protein comes out some other hole that is all 01:45:05.760 --> 01:45:13.600 occurring inside of water at the molecular scale and water behaves more like polarized magnets 01:45:13.600 --> 01:45:20.720 the size of rice grains than it would any other you can't come up with any other analogy for it 01:45:20.720 --> 01:45:25.680 it's water and it's water at the molecular scale which is one of the reasons why a lot of the talk 01:45:26.240 --> 01:45:32.320 about what water does at the molecular scale is so important and why what water does at the molecular 01:45:32.320 --> 01:45:38.480 scale around proteins and DNA and in cells is important because it is a repetitive shaped 01:45:39.200 --> 01:45:46.800 polar molecule that can assume a crystal lattice can dissolve many things in it and so the structure 01:45:46.800 --> 01:45:52.240 that those molecules take can be ordered or unordered and the ordered water has different 01:45:52.240 --> 01:45:59.120 properties ordered water could be ordered around proteins and around biomolecules so trying to 01:45:59.120 --> 01:46:05.040 understand what these biomolecules do in the context of the polar solvent of water is a very 01:46:05.040 --> 01:46:12.720 complex system to model that we are not even coming close to modeling and I'm trying to give 01:46:12.720 --> 01:46:19.520 you if I'm not failing an example of a system where there are many little parts that collectively 01:46:19.520 --> 01:46:25.920 produce results that aren't intuitive to how we apply our understanding to the physical world and 01:46:25.920 --> 01:46:31.520 nothing about how we understand the physical world of life applies at the molecular scale with 01:46:31.520 --> 01:46:38.000 regard to protein folding protein interaction protein regulation degradation etc and so 01:46:38.000 --> 01:46:44.080 they are grossly over exaggerating how much we understand about the link between DNA and protein 01:46:44.080 --> 01:46:50.720 and how proteins work to produce the pattern integrity that is us are there proteins yes are 01:46:50.720 --> 01:46:56.080 their DNA probably is their mRNA probably are there ribosomes that do that of course 01:46:56.720 --> 01:47:05.360 but that's again like saying that there are strings on the violin there are this wood has been used 01:47:05.360 --> 01:47:11.360 to produce it if there's a crack in the neck a violin could break but understanding how a stratovarius 01:47:11.360 --> 01:47:17.280 is produced and made because you understand that that's the kind of wood or that that cracks a bad 01:47:17.280 --> 01:47:22.960 sign or that the strings make the noise doesn't really tell you that you understand what a stratovarius 01:47:23.040 --> 01:47:28.320 violin is and that's all the farther we've gotten with understanding life we are at the stage where 01:47:28.320 --> 01:47:33.760 we can describe why a crack in the neck of the violin is a bad thing and we can understand that 01:47:33.760 --> 01:47:39.520 the sound comes from the the strings vibrating and resonating with the body that's it that's all we 01:47:39.520 --> 01:47:45.600 got we haven't even gotten to the stage yet where we can appreciate the idea that whatever varnish 01:47:45.600 --> 01:47:51.840 was used on the violin could have a significant effect on its total qualities never mind thinking 01:47:51.920 --> 01:47:56.000 about how the varnish would be made or who would have made it or why they chose the ingredients 01:47:56.000 --> 01:48:01.520 that they did and yet they're already telling you that they know how to make the stratovarius 01:48:01.520 --> 01:48:07.280 violin and they're going to make each one of us into one okay listen to this guy because i really 01:48:07.280 --> 01:48:14.320 think he's fun now they have four possibilities and perhaps it'll go down faster than when he was 01:48:15.040 --> 01:48:20.400 full or empty or perhaps it will go down faster than this but slower than when he was full or 01:48:20.400 --> 01:48:25.920 empty so halfway between or perhaps it will be very sluggish and go down even more slowly than 01:48:25.920 --> 01:48:32.400 this or those of you who have symmetric minds like mathematicians might say there must be some 01:48:32.400 --> 01:48:38.240 symmetry between f and one minus f if you see what i mean so perhaps it will go down at the same speed 01:48:38.320 --> 01:48:45.120 as this one so a little bit slow down so who thinks it would be the champion and go down very fast 01:48:45.120 --> 01:48:53.280 faster than zero one those are the risk takers who thinks it will go down faster than this one 01:48:53.280 --> 01:49:00.960 but slower than zero one by the way reasonable people vote for this option yeah okay and who thinks 01:49:01.040 --> 01:49:08.400 it will go down even more slowly than what we have seen right now and who thinks it will go down 01:49:08.400 --> 01:49:14.160 more or less at the same speed as the previous experiment so symmetry school those are the 01:49:14.160 --> 01:49:19.760 mathematical reminded people congratulations okay so let's try to do this yeah nothing up this 01:49:20.560 --> 01:49:25.040 are you ready 01:49:33.840 --> 01:49:39.120 not not only does it stop completely dead but it's quite stable i mean i can push it and then 01:49:39.120 --> 01:49:45.520 no no no i don't want to go yeah it stops completely dead which 01:49:46.480 --> 01:49:55.440 i want you to imagine the idea how this shape imagine the idea that in protein dynamics in 01:49:55.440 --> 01:50:02.480 genetic dynamics in the dynamics between dna and cell division in the dynamics between dna and rna 01:50:02.480 --> 01:50:11.120 translation in the dynamics between rna translation and piece and protein folding there are non-intuitive 01:50:11.120 --> 01:50:17.440 processes like this one that have relatively simple mathematical explanations but are nevertheless 01:50:17.440 --> 01:50:25.120 extremely in a non-intuitive and layered on top of one another so that even if you understood 01:50:25.120 --> 01:50:31.200 one of those layers there would be several other unknown layers on top of which all summarize and 01:50:31.200 --> 01:50:40.240 summate to to become the pattern integrity of a protein of a cell of a tissue of an organism 01:50:41.760 --> 01:50:45.680 now i'm not saying that we can't make a lot of progress in understanding these systems i'm 01:50:45.680 --> 01:50:50.880 not saying that these are uncrackable questions i'm saying that right now we haven't cracked 01:50:50.880 --> 01:50:55.760 them i'm saying that we've been talking about how we're gonna for a very long time and they've known 01:50:55.840 --> 01:51:01.760 for a long time that we aren't gonna not without a drastic reorganization of how we think about 01:51:01.760 --> 01:51:06.880 ourselves how we think about our kids and how we think about the sovereignty over those very 01:51:06.880 --> 01:51:17.120 sacred bodies those very sacred beings they have to get rid of the sacred in order for them to have 01:51:17.120 --> 01:51:23.760 any hope of cracking the irreducible complexity of life that's what this is all about i don't know 01:51:23.760 --> 01:51:27.440 if this was a very wandering stream or not we'll go back to that vendor maybe i'll watch the video 01:51:27.440 --> 01:51:34.160 beforehand i'm sorry that this was such a weird um break in the in the matrix there it wasn't really 01:51:34.160 --> 01:51:39.120 my plan but i wanted to do i suddenly wanted to do the kite video for some reason i hope this and 01:51:39.120 --> 01:51:44.480 then this one seemed like it would follow perfectly i don't know sometimes this one man show um 01:51:44.480 --> 01:51:50.320 doesn't go quite as i plan but i've been putting a lot of work into the coming um pre-owned discussion 01:51:50.320 --> 01:51:55.200 and so sometimes these streams will be will feel a little bit like they're on the seat of the 01:51:55.200 --> 01:51:59.360 pants but when i get an intuition like that i feel like i got to do it so hopefully it wasn't 01:52:00.000 --> 01:52:04.560 too bad thank you very much for joining me i'm off to basketball i might see it tonight but 01:52:04.560 --> 01:52:08.800 i'll definitely see it tomorrow and then thursday don't forget thomas binder is joining big show big 01:52:08.800 --> 01:52:15.680 show um and it's 3 30 if you have the link uh don't forget that i think thomas binder is actually 01:52:15.680 --> 01:52:20.160 speaking at the medical doctors for covid ethics right now so you could catch that um 01:52:20.160 --> 01:52:22.800 anyway thanks for joining me i'll see you guys again tomorrow 01:52:32.560 --> 01:52:37.040 this is the micro kite there's actually a whole video about the micro kite you can find video of 01:52:37.040 --> 01:52:43.920 me flying it and if you want to look icky tv does have a video of me flying in norway quite a long 01:52:43.920 --> 01:52:50.480 time ago um i'm not a very good pilot anymore but at one time um i was i was really skilled 01:52:50.480 --> 01:52:55.360 i wonder what i could do now probably most of the tricks but some of the more complicated ones 01:52:55.360 --> 01:53:00.880 that require really perfect timing um it would require me a while to get back into it um but 01:53:00.880 --> 01:53:07.280 actually kite flying like lars did a lot of that flying is actually pretty straightforward once you 01:53:07.280 --> 01:53:12.720 get the hang of it i mean it doesn't take absolutely months and months of practice to learn some 01:53:12.800 --> 01:53:18.240 of those basic tricks and keeping a kite in the air with good wind is very easy and unbelievably 01:53:18.240 --> 01:53:24.640 relaxing you can fly circles and squares for hours and never get bored um never mind if you can land 01:53:24.640 --> 01:53:30.800 or stand on one one tip and that kind of stuff so um one of the best ways to spend your time if 01:53:30.800 --> 01:53:34.960 you've never done it before and have a friend uh kite flying might be the best maybe we can meet 01:53:35.520 --> 01:53:42.000 at uh lake ery uh and fly some kite on april eighth for the the eclipse i don't know maybe you can 01:53:42.000 --> 01:53:46.320 join us that's where we're going to be see you soon