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People have a name for things. If they see a child

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draw pretty pictures, right away, they think the child is gifted.

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That means "I haven't the slightest idea how a six-year-old

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could draw a profile of a human being that looks so accurate."

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That's what they're saying when they say he's gifted.

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"I have no idea of how that occurs."

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When the fish migrates thousands of miles to the spawning grounds

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without [the] mother fish opening up a map of the world

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showing the fish how to get to the spawning grounds,

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they invented a word for that: 'instinct'.

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It means "I haven't the slightest idea of how these fish do that."

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Instinct is a dead word, noise.

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It tells us nothing. But a word that says

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"I'm gonna try to find out how it is that fish can do that."

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So they studied the magnetic currents under the Gulf Stream

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which fish follow. Once you begin to know

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that birds can follow Earth's magnetic currents

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because if you strap a small magnet to the bird's head

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he doesn't migrate. It becomes confused.

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So, it was called years ago 'A Mechanistic Point of View'

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and people hated that word.

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"Mechanistic?! I'm not a machine. I'm flesh and blood!

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I'm a thinking, feeling [being]." They loved that

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and they moved away from the mechanistic point of view

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which hurt society no end.

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It's a mechanistic point of view. All that it says is, look:

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You can't roll your eyes to the right unless there's a muscle

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and the nerve cells that feed that muscle.

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You can't twist your arm unless muscles run in that direction.

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That's all that a mechanistic point of view stated:

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that nothing occurs-... The mechanists also stated this:

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that nothing is self-activating.

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That's the most difficult thing for people to grasp.

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Trying to simplify that:

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A sailboat cannot sail. It is moved by the wind.

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A plant cannot grow, all that's nonsense, [and] still exists today.

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A plant requires warmth, temperature, moisture, gravity

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all of those things. Although you don't see the connection

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they're all connected.

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That living beings do not acquire knowledge or information

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through ethereal means.

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They acquire it by banging their head against the wall,

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slipping on ice ... then they design anti-slip systems.

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First you have to slip on the ice.

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No government to my knowledge ever anticipated the future.

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"This is the direction we're heading in,

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let's prepare for social change."

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No, they try to keep things as they are.