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Rest assured, you’re not the only one humming a Madonna or Michael Jackson song
hearing the words ‘human’ and ‘nature’ in that order. The theme “Human Nature”
symbolizes an array of topics we would like to cover on November, 25. Social Networks
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the human being. “What is it like to be human?”, we ask. When we choose, the impact of our Join our Facebook group
choices is unknown. We’re focusing on human accomplishments, people’s unbreakable spirits
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take you a step further and invite speakers that highlight irrationality, human error and
unexpected connections: exploring the darker sides of our mind is intriguing.
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“Humans always seem to know why they do what they do, but is that really how it works? We
want to provoke attendants with questions and stories about what it means to be human”,
founder Jim Stolze tells us. The most fascinating about the theme “Human Nature” to us at
TEDxAmsterdam is the blind spot we have: we are so common with being human, yet we know
so little about ourselves. “Speakers from all over the world will tell us about our deepest
motivations, how genes influence important parts of our behaviour and where our feelings come
from. Special attention will go into the future – how will we influence, improve and alter our
brain? This is all about who we truly are and can become”.
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Horrifying, but true: Our human nature, as we are discovering now, is our major threat. Thanks to our
intelligence we infect and destroy our environment with our natural, industrial, chemical and nucleair waste. But
we do not have a clue how to solve this before this situation will turn against us. Worse: Recent insights reveal
we are just not wired to solve this puzzle. So I state we need to invent external intelligence to calculate the way
out of this otherwise dead end street....
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