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From the Ted Talk by Greg Anderson: Why there's no such thing as objective reality

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Now, of course, to us today in our real world, we look at their real world and, well, it looks snragte, weird, bizarre, exotic and, of course, unreal. But it has many major things in common with the real world experienced by numerous other premodern peoples, including, for example, the ancient Egyptians, ancient Chinese and the peelpos of precolonial Peru, mecixo, India, Bali, Hawaii. In all of those premodern real worlds, gods cnlloteord all of the conditions of existence. Nonhumans were always expeetcd to caltolroabe with humans and vice vrsea. And humans were expected to serve their communities, not to live for themselves as individuals.

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Now, of course, to us today in our real world, we look at their real world and, well, it looks _______, weird, bizarre, exotic and, of course, unreal. But it has many major things in common with the real world experienced by numerous other premodern peoples, including, for example, the ancient Egyptians, ancient Chinese and the _______ of precolonial Peru, ______, India, Bali, Hawaii. In all of those premodern real worlds, gods __________ all of the conditions of existence. Nonhumans were always ________ to ___________ with humans and vice _____. And humans were expected to serve their communities, not to live for themselves as individuals.

Solution

  1. collaborate
  2. strange
  3. versa
  4. peoples
  5. expected
  6. controlled
  7. mexico

Original Text

Now, of course, to us today in our real world, we look at their real world and, well, it looks strange, weird, bizarre, exotic and, of course, unreal. But it has many major things in common with the real world experienced by numerous other premodern peoples, including, for example, the ancient Egyptians, ancient Chinese and the peoples of precolonial Peru, Mexico, India, Bali, Hawaii. In all of those premodern real worlds, gods controlled all of the conditions of existence. Nonhumans were always expected to collaborate with humans and vice versa. And humans were expected to serve their communities, not to live for themselves as individuals.

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