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Welcome to Arts and Ideas in the Air, Wondrous Wednesday, where I talk about
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something wondrous. So I thought I'd just talk today about kind of the wonder of our
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ability to make sense of, you know, our lives and just sort of really focusing
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on, you know, thinking about, really think about what we do, you know, think about
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breathing, think about sleeping, eating, talking, you know, just seeing, witnessing
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everything around us. Congratulations. So the ability to make a story that we go
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along with. Our minds are patching together this, you know, wondrous tale
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that, you know, it transcends the the actual physicalness that we are, right?
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Like there's so much that our bodies do that we just don't think of in some
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sense that way. Like, you know, I pick up, pick up a seed, you know, and I can feel
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it and I think about the picking up. But, you know, I don't really think of, you
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know, the particular fingers that are going to do it. I don't think of any of
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the all the chemical electrical impulses that are happening. I just, I just do so,
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right? And it makes sense. In my mind it's like I picked up this seed. Now I can, I
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can concentrate on it and I can feel it and I can feel more of of it all. And I
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can drop the seed because kind of a klutz. But I'm gonna drop it again. But, you know,
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that there's an abstraction even at that level of, you know, it's a very tactile
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experience. Then you think about talking and, you know, you know, there's the air
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coming out and the tongue and movement, the mouth movements and all of that. And,
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you know, you can think about it as you talk and get totally distracted from the
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actual talking. But in general we just, it's like, we just, you know, the words are
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coming out. I just think it's pretty wondrous that we are able to, in real
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time, abstract it all out. We are modeling the world in the very way that we are
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experiencing it. Filtering everything and putting it in a perspective that, you
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know, makes sense of it all and is useful. So that's what I'm wondering about today.
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Just that beautiful way that, you know, there's all the stuff going on in order
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for us to accomplish almost anything. And it just happens so so beautifully and
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wonderfully. So, yeah. Yeah, so that was my wondrous Wednesday for the day. I will
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see you when I see you.