A theory of everything | Emily Levine
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- www.ted.com Philosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects. She's a brilliant trickster, poking holes in our fixed ideas and bringing hidden truths to light. Settle in and let her ping your brain.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10 - Zábava
"My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose."
I guess one has to be academic and philosophical to some extent to appreciate a talk like this, since it is a philosophical comedy after all.
I don't agree. All you need is to be compos mentis. She's wonderful!
20:27 that's a joke-ception right there , brilliant
Excellent! I've never heard of Emily Levine. Now I'll be seeking out more of her material. The trickster is one of my favorite "characters". :)
This woman had us on the floor laughing. She's brilliant.
May I know what she's wearing in the area of her ears
@@blrs4301 It looks like a symmetrical greying pattern to her hair. Kind of has an appearance of having cotton or dust stuck to her hair, but it's on both sides evenly.
This girl is funny and clever and I had never heard of her before. Thank you TED (and YT) !
You missed something.
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)
Loved this one! 6/5 stars, dammit!
esas son tablas!!!! qué señora, siempre he dicho que los más inteligentes siempre son los que tienen la capacidad de reírse de sí mismos y de hacer reír a los demás. Uno de mis favoritos de TED
Too bad that I don't get references to these people she is talking about because when it's about a larger spectrum it's a very nice, subtle and honnest humor :)
Nice, Fresh & Funny! Love it!
This was such a wonderful and funny performance
@leconfidant as someone who sees, meets and talks to scientists 5 days a week, I can tell you that they are acutely aware of the social factors that affect their research. Your contention that they aren't is at odds with the really intelligent points that I've read from you on this page.
She is wicked. Very funny. And smart.
I adore her!!!!!!!
Refreshing approach
Awesome sharing.. 👍👏🎯
She keeps her notes in a metal lunch box! That's awesomely classy. I wish she was my grandma.
Brilliant!!!
BTW, if you morphed "The Facts of Life"'s Mrs. Garrett (Charlotte Rae) into Lilly Tomlin and stopped the video in the middle you would have Emily Levine.
It's interesting how these videos get such high ratings even with so many negative comments
Well the comment section is full of experts...
Just my espert opinion ;-)
Trickster Makes this World 13:00>>>
'Strong beliefs held lightly' is definitely the way to live, especially when doing science. It's an easy mistake to see the strong beliefs and conclude that they must also be being held very strongly. You have to question any alternative very thoroughly, but if you find a flaw in your original position, of course you drop it without regard to how long you've held it and how much of the rest of your thinking you might have to re-evaluate. But you can't skip the question thoroughly part or else you'll never understand anything and will fall for every wrong idea. Having an 'open' mind is worthless if you don't have an active mind. If you're not evaluating ideas at all, whether because you reject them without considering them seriously, or because you accept them without considering them seriously, both don't work.
Of course, you would make exemption for the religion of “global warming”.
Hypocrite......!!!!!!!!!!!
This lady rules.
this talk was so funny and cool... although i dont really understand were she was going with it : )
OH god this lady cracks me up.
I came here for string theory
hilarious!
I found the comment she made about sometimes it takes outside people with little knowledge to show you that your own ideas are silly or not necessarily the best. People making fun of others allows them to think, "Oh anyway, why do I do this?" To CHVNX, think of self-hatred more as post-modernism. If you never question yourself, you could end up living an ineffective personality for the rest of your life.
@ssandell9 now i cant stop noticing it!
I can't get over the fact of how little importance her breathing dinamics has on her performance, which is also a very intriguing discourse on an alternative way of engaging reality. She's awesome.
Good call... lol
BRILLIANTLY FUNNY!
Yes, trick them into connecting ideas to shift beyond what is now the norm to lift us all to new understandings.
I like Carlin... I liked her too, rehearsal or not, a lot of her material was good...
LOL too many times to count.
And loads of (way subtle and woven deeply) brilliant points of connection made.
I didnt understand de Argentina part. Anyone?
IMF = International Money Fund. Her point is, though they they think they know everything (in general), Americans are fairly ignorant and still have an opinion on everything-- knowledge be damned.
"if they had an olympics in martyrdom, my grandmother would have lost on purpose" lol nice.
her comedy was alright, but she didn't rewire my thinking. and i'm not a big fan of continuing to call herself "the trickster", she isn't a superhero lol
Haha I love her
I said that because the people invited to TED talks are generally some of the smartest people around and I was surprised at how much they laughed at "so-so" material.
I love a good Ayn Rand joke.
Ah! I wish I hadn't read your comment! All I can hear is her breathing!!
u should Richard Dawkins too .. dnt remember the topic thou
lol, i understood most of the references, only some i actually didnt' understand probably cause of cutural things they only know haha
redpandacheese to answer your question, this video falls in the E category for Entertainment in the acronym TED
I thought it was a justification for laziness. "I don't need to know anything about something in order to be just as much an expert as someone who has studied it intensely."
But then again, what do I know?
I understand the premise. I get the idea of "The Trickster" as shaking up thinking and is not necessarily to be understood..
It just seemed to be poorly presented and didn't include any new ideas. I probably would have enjoyed it more live and in person. I'll try watching it again sometime, maybe I missed something.
And okay, it wasn't *completely* unfunny - there were a couple chucklers. :-|
THE PENETRATION MUST END!
Brilliantly funny...
my reply was to the individual who said "stop her yapping so much". how exactly is that a helpful comment on TED "talks", with emphasis on "talks"? it's just idiotic.
now, someone else said "not funny", now "that" is a comment directly relating to the talk/theme.
strange: I get a lot of joy out of this kind of talk full of contradictions, but I also get an almost equal amount of joy from the vigorous arguments of the scientists. Explain that.
"YOU SOUND SEXXXXXAAAYYYY!!!"
hillarious lol ;)
Very funny and insightful.
Only disagree with her statement of contradicting people's realities. Try talking to a fundamentalist. Especially one who has interests in politics as well.
@Looperberg Your missing 70%? Well, I seem to be missing 90% lol
LOL, good job! Deconstructing humor while being humorous at the same time, brilliant. Thanks for posting. Also, what amazing cheap comments fr some. Look, like some1 else posted, go somewhere else to watch guys lighting their farts or doing stupid skateboard tricks, falling over and twisting their ankles or spitting their wiener in two. that's where you belong. "Stop her yapping so much"?...Classic! Someone point a gun to your head to watch this video?
Why is this a TED Talk?
@leconfidant Such is the problem with 16 year old biology students loudly championing the cause of science (I was a particularly obnoxious variant a few years ago).
As far as I'm concerned, scientists simply don't champion their own causes enough with the general public (not sure if it's indifference, a lack of respect or a tendency to play close to the vest after a lifetime of scarring peer-review)
It takes a big person to apologize and I appreciate it
"lingua franca"... lingua this frankie. good stuff.
May I know what she's wearing in the area of her ears
Is that not her hair? I'm pretty sure she has gray wisps hair
when she was talking about market PENETRATION and all the sex stuff it reminded me a lot of comedian George Carlin talking about War and how it's all about fucking with people:
watch?v=sDkhzHQO7jY
scientists are supposed to be able to hold their ideas "lightly," tentatively, but ego gets in the way, i think.
Brutal
I guess I was just be facetious ;-)
redpandacheese
What a crappy thing to say...
They are so... post-modern!
This was intresting but I wonder, what does she have against scientists?
You're obviously going to make some very lucky girl so very happy some day.
@RaiSaix:
It's not the same; not until we have a matriarchal society where rich white men are enslaved. You know, the exact opposite of that which makes the kind of relativism she talks about the most moral choice.
I believe that the attack is a feminist argument. (I read about it in... Dawkins... maybe)
PS: argument that sounds quite absurd and self-exclusionist IMO
Greetings
Wait so tricksters...... Ted talks..... Elisabeth homes.... 🤔
Who was she talking about when she was talking about that disagreeable scientist... was it Richard Dawkins? Cuz I think he's the one who described the meme and also has a book called Selfish Gene, and also he's a cool scientist who doesn't stand for too much BS'ing around, so I can see how he'd get on her case.
Care to remind me of the purpose of the comments section, if not to give critical remarks upon a video?
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she doesn't hold a candle to dark humour when it comes to boundary stepping. Just look at George Carlin, Bill Hicks or Lenny Bruce
what's she's saying is pretty interesting but she should do something about that snorting and breathing at the same time.
Maybe she should ask the scientists for help HA
Was that a hypnosis game, JW
I've always wondered how liberals justify their hatred of non-liberals. This explains so much.
wow really? I thought she was absolutely brilliant.
Why is this a TED Video ?
Funny ...
Mathematician
pc is never a good policy, I think, because it always seems everyone can use a good dose of critique and self-reflection. Like why not make fun of gangsta rap culture? They're a minority, but they identify themselves in opposition to majority and take it too seriously sometimes...or people like Kanye West (recent episode of South Park)
But what's with the refrain of people like her sending a warning to the scientific community about being rigid, etc? She spends all her time in right brain.
she lost me when she said that arguments are about contradiction and she does not want a serious argument.
It doesn't have to be, but this is TED "Ideas worth spreading", I didn't see anything worth spreading.
To me this decreases the idea of what TED's trying to do. If they do more of this kind of stuff where the speaker has very little point and it's completely useless "information", then you won't have TEDtalks, you'll just have stand up comedy nights.
There are far more people in the world who know how to read but they dont against those who cant read at all. Comments listed below prove it is not enough to be literate.
Lol
She has a lot of empathy, in front of a positive audience. However if you really think about it, her jokes are not that funny. I also felt that the talk had no direction and had not gotten to the point in a more explicit way, so I felt that you have to had her experience and be close to her career to understand her statement.
Yes, we can question rationality, as we can question almost everything. But there is grey color in everything too. I would still have a bias towards rationality thou....
Why does everything have to be useful and intellectual to be worthwhile? Whether you enjoy the humor or not, being sour about it is entirely unwarranted. Just let people laugh for Christ's sake.
Hahaha!!!!
She leaves me utterly unimpressed.
i think it is more of a language problem ^^ I meant that i disagree.
Why be persuaded by someone who openly disparages logic?
Contradictions are humorous. Her talk is full of contradictions and straw-man arguments, purposeful obfuscation, misstatements of the arguments on the other side, and faulty reasoning.
Her talk is funny, and is very successful at making people laugh, but no one should follow her prescriptions.
She is just joking.
She can not even claim to be advocating for her own position. After all, other "realities" are as legitimate as her own.
An intelligent one... (and you spelled sense wrong)
I agree with some of her points but it just wasn't a good performance, in my opinion. George Carlin was a thinking man's comic and a trickster. He rehearsed his material over and over. Her performance is just awkward.
She's funny but her rejection of 'rationality' just because its rational is patently stupid.
So is talking at length about things you don't understand.
@ThermalHD "Your" spelling leaves a lot to be desired. A few of her 'jokes' were funny, but most of her presentation was not laugh-inducing. I guess the audience is made of intelligent people only.
What
sorry dude :P
Levine's Fountainhead selection is out of context. The sexual act is meant to defy the social convention of the time; hence its violent nature. As to the reason why the motif carries over to Atlas Shrugged, the same contextual principles apply.
I have no response to this
Shes an academic philosopher, what do you expect?