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t take that at all to mean that we're
constructing reality," he told LiveScience.All in the mindAs members of
society, people create a form of collective reality. "We are all part
of a community of minds," Freeman says in the show.For example, money,
in reality, consists of pieces of paper, yet those papers represent something
much more valuable. The pieces of paper have the power of life
and death, Freeman says but they wouldn't be worth anything if people
didn't believe in their power.Money is fiction, but it's useful fiction.Another
fiction humans collectively engage in is optimism. Neuroscientist Tali Sharot
of University College London studies "the optimism bias": people's tendency
to generally overestimate the likelihood of positive events in their lives
and underestimate the likelihood of negative ones.In the show, Sharot does
an experiment in which she puts a man in a brain scanner,
and asks him to rate the likelihood that negative events, such as
lung cancer, will happen to him. Then, he is given the true
likelihood.When the actual risks differ from the man's estimates, his frontal
lobes light up. But the brain area does a better job of
reacting to the discrepancy when the reality is more positive than what
he guessed, Sharot said.This shows how humans are somewhat hardwired to
be optimistic. That may be because optimism "tends to have a lot
of positive outcomes," Sharot told LiveScience. Optimistic people tend to
live longer
ast thousands of devotees in
an open-topped vehicle, a plan that would put the thousands of police
and soldiers dispatched to protect the pope on high alert and require
more plainclothes security.Brazil's justice and defense ministers, along
with a top army commander, urged the pope to use an armored
popemobile instead, but the Vatican has responded that Francis likes to
jump in and out of his vehicle to greet the faithful, which
wouldn't be possible in the more protected vehicle."The bulletproofing would
lessen our worries, it'd be better if he had it," said Gen.
Jose Abreu, the top officer overseeing the military's role in the security
scheme. "It's a personal choice and we'll respect it, but it's not
remotely pleasant for security forces."On the top of everyone's minds are
the massive and sometimes violent anti-government protests that swept this
continent-sized country last month. They've continued, albeit with fewer
people, less than a week before Francis' arrival Monday.Last week, a small
protest in Leblon, one of Rio's poshest neighborhoods, erupted into looting
and destruction, with demonstrators smashing storefronts, defacing street
signs and setting piles of garbage on fire.A handful of protests are
planned. If violence breaks out near the pope, the world may once
again see images of demonstrators enveloped by clouds of tear gas, stun
grenades ricocheting off stately buildings and rubber bullets whizzing through
the air.Jose
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