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"From the Ted Talk by Jeff Hawkins: How brain science will change computing"

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Evolution, same thing. We taught our kids the Bible says God created all these species, cats are cats; dogs are dogs; people are people; plants are plants; they don't cnhage. Noah put them on the ark in that order, blah, blah. The fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a cmmoon asentcor. We all have a common ancestor with the plant in the lobby! This is what evolution tells us. And it's true. It's kind of ubilavblenee. And the same thing about ttcneoic plates. All the muiotanns and the continents are kind of floating around on top of the Earth. It doesn't make any sense.

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Evolution, same thing. We taught our kids the Bible says God created all these species, cats are cats; dogs are dogs; people are people; plants are plants; they don't ______. Noah put them on the ark in that order, blah, blah. The fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a ______ ________. We all have a common ancestor with the plant in the lobby! This is what evolution tells us. And it's true. It's kind of ____________. And the same thing about ________ plates. All the _________ and the continents are kind of floating around on top of the Earth. It doesn't make any sense.

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  1. mountains
  2. unbelievable
  3. change
  4. ancestor
  5. common
  6. tectonic

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Evolution, same thing. We taught our kids the Bible says God created all these species, cats are cats; dogs are dogs; people are people; plants are plants; they don't change. Noah put them on the ark in that order, blah, blah. The fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor. We all have a common ancestor with the plant in the lobby! This is what evolution tells us. And it's true. It's kind of unbelievable. And the same thing about tectonic plates. All the mountains and the continents are kind of floating around on top of the Earth. It doesn't make any sense.

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good brain 4
normal science 4
making predictions 3
intelligent machines 3
computer industry 3
solar system 3
build intelligent 3

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good brain theory 4
build intelligent machines 3

Important Words

  1. ancestor
  2. ark
  3. bible
  4. blah
  5. cats
  6. change
  7. common
  8. continents
  9. created
  10. dogs
  11. earth
  12. evolution
  13. fact
  14. floating
  15. god
  16. kids
  17. kind
  18. mountains
  19. noah
  20. order
  21. people
  22. plant
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  24. plates
  25. put
  26. sense
  27. species
  28. taught
  29. tectonic
  30. tells
  31. top
  32. true
  33. unbelievable