Theory (video)

Dr. Ajit Varki presents his Mind Over Reality theory in this March 3, 2017 talk at a symposia on Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality held by the Center for Academic Research & Training in Anthropogeny.

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For explaining why humans are odd
To Varki and Brower we applaud
A great mystery they solved
With denial we evolved
And created the Higgs, overshoot, and God

The human brain, the God it believes in, and the overshoot it enabled and denies, all resulted from the same improbable genetic mutation that occurred about 100,000 years ago.

The most amazing thing about human overshoot is that we do not discuss it.

Our only choices are do we want to fall from a higher elevation later, or climb down from a lower elevation sooner?

Things that can’t continue usually stop too late.

Truth is like poetry and most people hate poetry.

All 7 billion of us owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains; 6 billion of us also owe our existence to Haber-Bosch.

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

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