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From the Ted Talk by Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness

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Second, understanding society and culture. We should look at how socetiy and ctlurue in this socio-cultural regulation are a work in progress. And finally, medicine. Let's not forget that some of the worst diseases of humankind are diseases such as depression, Alzheimer's disaese, drug addiction. Think of strokes that can devastate your mind or renedr you unconscious. You have no prayer of treating those diseases eevefitlfcy and in a non-serendipitous way if you do not know how this works. So that's a very good reason beyond curiosity to justify what we're doing, and to justify having some interest in what is going on in our brains.

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Second, understanding society and culture. We should look at how _______ and _______ in this socio-cultural regulation are a work in progress. And finally, medicine. Let's not forget that some of the worst diseases of humankind are diseases such as depression, Alzheimer's _______, drug addiction. Think of strokes that can devastate your mind or ______ you unconscious. You have no prayer of treating those diseases ___________ and in a non-serendipitous way if you do not know how this works. So that's a very good reason beyond curiosity to justify what we're doing, and to justify having some interest in what is going on in our brains.

Solution

  1. disease
  2. effectively
  3. render
  4. society
  5. culture

Original Text

Second, understanding society and culture. We should look at how society and culture in this socio-cultural regulation are a work in progress. And finally, medicine. Let's not forget that some of the worst diseases of humankind are diseases such as depression, Alzheimer's disease, drug addiction. Think of strokes that can devastate your mind or render you unconscious. You have no prayer of treating those diseases effectively and in a non-serendipitous way if you do not know how this works. So that's a very good reason beyond curiosity to justify what we're doing, and to justify having some interest in what is going on in our brains.

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