Emily Levine: How I made friends with reality
إيميلي ليفين: كيف كوّنتُ صداقات مع الواقع
Humorist, writer and trickster Emily Levine riffs on science and the human condition. Full bio
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in my grandmother
are you ready?
هل أنتم مستعدون؟
so cavalier an attitude.
brilliant and happy and wonderful.
وسعيدة ورائعة.
the Democratic leadership --
to give it some money.
under my belt.
tweeted me a year ago.
أحدهم لي بتغريدة قبل عام.
of the American male."
all the credit, but ...
is to do what I did:
وهي القيام بما قمت به:
with reality than I did.
أسوأ مع الواقع أكثر مني.
عندما التقيتُ بالواقع،
the same goals --
but without the hard work.
والمحاولة والمحاولة
the executive brain function --
won't have me to kick around anymore.
على إحراز هدف بعد الآن.
to leave me alone --
أن يتركني الواقع وشأني،
in a nice house
في منزلٍ جميل
and Sub-Zero refrigerator ...
وثلاجة نوع سب زيرو ...
a development deal at Disney.
in my new office
I should be proud of ...
they sent me to celebrate my arrival --
للاحتفال بقدومي،
I've heard of other people getting,
كما سمعتُ أن الآخرين يحصلون عليها،
stuffed Mickey Mouse
بطول ثلاثة أقدام،
to order some more stuff
رغبتُ في طلب المزيد من الأشياء
this three-foot-high mouse cost,
and chaos theory
ونظرية الفوضى
حتى بدأنا في تصوير الفيلم،
after we shot the movie,
ولم تتماثل للشفاء بعدها،
and then it didn't heal,
another surgery a year later,
into contact with actual reality:
my whole life denying
creativity and my entire skill set.
ومجموعة مهاراتي كاملة.
at actual reality.
relationship with the zeitgeist ...
مع أفكار ومعتقدات روح العصر ...
is in the market for a Betamax --
لشراء بيتماكس...
I fell in love with reality,
في لحظة وقوعي في حب الواقع.
to go in the opposite direction.
إلى الاتجاه المعاكس.
or the alt-right or climate-change deniers
أو اليمين المتطرف أو منكري التغير المناخي
by saying that I absolutely love science.
عن حبي المطلق للعلم.
everything about science,
كل ما يتعلق بالعِلم
make sense to me.
منطقية بالنسبة لي.
from the vibrations of these teeny --
هذه الحلقات الخيطية المتناهية الصغر
can manifest as two things ...
أن يبدو شيئين ...
as a wave and a particle
كموجة وجزيء
variation on that,
of those two things,
to "defeat death" and "overcome death."
والتغلب على الموت.
without killing off life?
this extraordinary gift --
على هذه النعمة الرائعة...
for a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow
على سيارة رولز رويس ذات لون فضي
a salad spinner instead.
with an expiration date.
to dominate nature,
to withstand our intellect --
quantum physics as I have --
كما فعلتُ أنا...
from someone who'd read it, but --
من شخص قرأها، ولكن ...
clockwork universe anymore.
المنتظمة مثل الساعة.
to know everything
the old woman in that joke --
هو المرأة العجوز في تلك الطرفة،
in the passenger seat,
والتي تجلسُ في مقعد الركاب،
right through a red light.
anything that makes it sound like,
goes through a second red light,
as tactfully as possible,
two red lights?"
I'm the Evel Knievel of mental leaps;
لأنني إيفل كنيفل للقفزات الفكرية؛
to come with me on this,
that is so out to defeat death
التي ترغبُ في هزيمة الموت،
identified with nature.
منذ فترة طويلة.
a book called "The Human Condition."
يدعى "الحالة البشرية".
who perform labor
with the biorhythms,
مع الإيقاع الحيوي لأمور الحياة المتكررة.
environment for women
as descendants of slaves,
from a banana-peel-universe point of view,
الكون العشوائي الذي لا تحكمه قوانين،
"Emily's universe."
my name live on after me.
to be part of that process.
من هذه العملية.
of a German biologist,
عالم الأحياء الألماني،
of the gift economy.
من النعمة الاقتصادية.
وهي الحياة،
said, "Life is a banquet" --
"الحياة وليمة".
just the way I am,
I think, is that it's real.
أعتقد بأن ذلك حقيقي.
been enriched by other people.
من قبل أشخاص آخرين.
to a whole network of people
my website designer,
مصممة موقعي الالكتروني،
and turn it into something
the executive brain function ...
لاستخدام وظيفة دماغي الرئيسي...
as we're two separate things.
of quantum physics, again.
من وجهة نظر النظرية الفيزيائية الكمية.
are not exactly sure what happens
ماذا يحدثُ تمامًا
through an interaction.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Emily Levine - Philosopher-comicHumorist, writer and trickster Emily Levine riffs on science and the human condition.
Why you should listen
Humorist Emily Levine works a heady vein of humor, cerebral and thoughtful as well as hilarious. Oh, she's got plenty of jokes. But her work, at its core, makes serious connections -- between hard science and pop culture, between what we say and what we secretly assume ... She plumbs the hidden oppositions, the untouchable not-quite-truths of the modern mind.
Levine's background in improv theater, with its requirement to always say "yes" to the other actor's reality, has helped shape her worldview. Always suspicious of sharp either/or distinctions, she proposes "the quantum logic of and/and" -- a thoroughly postmodern, scientifically informed take on life that allows for complicated states of being. Like the one we're in right now.
For more on Levine's thoughts about life and death, read her blog, "The Yoy of Dying," at EmilysUniverse.com, along with updates on "Emily @ the Edge of Chaos" and pronouncements from Oracle Em.
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