Different ways of knowing | Daniel Tammet

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Prevoditelj: Tilen Pigac - EFZG Recezent: Mislav Ante Omazić - EFZG
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I'm a savant,
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Ja sam naučnik,
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or more precisely,
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ili preciznije,
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a high-functioning
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visoko funkcionalan
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autistic savant.
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autističan naučnik.
00:23
It's a rare condition.
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To je rijetka pojava.
00:25
And rarer still when accompanied,
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A još rjeđa ukoliko joj slijedi,
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as in my case,
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kao u mom slučaju,
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by self-awareness
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samospoznaja
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and a mastery of language.
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i svladavanje jezika.
00:35
Very often when I meet someone
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Vrlo često kada upoznam nekoga
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and they learn this about me,
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a oni saznaju te stvari o meni,
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there's a certain kind of awkwardness.
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postoji određena doza nelagode.
00:43
I can see it in their eyes.
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Mogu im to vidjeti u očima.
00:46
They want to ask me something.
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Žele me pitati nešto.
00:49
And in the end, quite often,
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I na kraju, prilično često,
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the urge is stronger than they are
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nagon je snažniji od njih samih
00:54
and they blurt it out:
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i izbrbljaju se:
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"If I give you my date of birth,
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"Ukoliko vam dam svoj datum rođenja,
00:58
can you tell me what day of the week I was born on?"
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možete li mi reći koji dan u tjednu sam se rodio?"
01:00
(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
01:03
Or they mention cube roots
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Ili spomenu korijene
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or ask me to recite a long number or long text.
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ili me zamole da im izrecitiram vrlo dugačak broj ili dugačak tekst.
01:10
I hope you'll forgive me
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Nadam se kako ćete mi oprostiti
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if I don't perform
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ukoliko ne izvodim
01:15
a kind of one-man savant show for you today.
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danas neku vrstu predstave uobičajenu za naučnika.
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I'm going to talk instead
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Umjesto toga pričati ću
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about something
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o nečemu
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far more interesting
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puno zanimljivijem
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than dates of birth or cube roots --
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od datuma rođenja ili korijena --
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a little deeper
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malo dubljem
01:31
and a lot closer, to my mind, than work.
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i malo bliže mom umu, nego poslu.
01:34
I want to talk to you briefly
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Želim vam ukratko pričati
01:36
about perception.
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o percepciji.
01:39
When he was writing the plays and the short stories
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Kada je pisao drame i kratke priče
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that would make his name,
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koje će ga učiniti poznatim,
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Anton Chekhov kept a notebook
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Anton Čehov je imao bilježnicu
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in which he noted down
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u koju je bilježio
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his observations
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svoja opažanja
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of the world around him --
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o svijetu oko sebe --
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little details
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male detalje
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that other people seem to miss.
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koji su drugim ljudima promakli.
01:58
Every time I read Chekhov
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Svaki put kada čitam Čehova
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and his unique vision of human life,
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i njegovu jedinstvenu viziju ljudskog života,
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I'm reminded of why I too
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sjetim se zašto sam i ja
02:07
became a writer.
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postao pisac.
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In my books,
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U svojim knjigama
02:11
I explore the nature of perception
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istražujem prirodu percepcije
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and how different kinds of perceiving
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i kako različite vrste doživljavanja
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create different kinds of knowing
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stvaraju različite vrste poznavanja
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and understanding.
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i shvaćanja.
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Here are three questions
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Ovdje su tri pitanja
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drawn from my work.
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koja mogu izvući iz mog posla.
02:27
Rather than try to figure them out,
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Umjesto da ih pokušate dokučiti,
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I'm going to ask you to consider for a moment
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zamoliti ću vas na trenutak da uzmete u obzir
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the intuitions
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intuicije
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and the gut instincts
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i osnovne instinkte
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that are going through your head and your heart
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koji prolaze kroz vašu glavu i vaše srce
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as you look at them.
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kada ih gledate.
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For example, the calculation:
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Na primjer, računanje.
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can you feel where on the number line
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Možete li osjetiti gdje će na brojčanoj crti
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the solution is likely to fall?
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rješenje vrlo vjerojatno pasti?
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Or look at the foreign word and the sounds:
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Ili pogledajte stranu riječ i zvukove.
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can you get a sense of the range of meanings
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Možete li dobiti osjećaj za raspon značenja
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that it's pointing you towards?
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prema kojima vas nahodi?
02:57
And in terms of the line of poetry,
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A u terminima stiha poezije,
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why does the poet use the word hare
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zašto pjesnik upotrebljava riječ zec
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rather than rabbit?
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umjesto riječi kunić?
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I'm asking you to do this
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Zamolio sam vas da napravite to
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because I believe our personal perceptions, you see,
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jer vjerujem kako su naše osobne percepcije, vidite,
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are at the heart
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u srži
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of how we acquire knowledge.
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onoga kako prikupljamo znanje.
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Aesthetic judgments,
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Estetske procjene,
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rather than abstract reasoning,
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umjesto apstraktnog rasuđivanja,
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guide and shape the process
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vode i oblikuju proces
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by which we all come to know
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u kojem svi dolazimo do znanja
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what we know.
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kojeg posjedujemo.
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I'm an extreme example of this.
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Ja sam ekstreman primjer toga.
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My worlds of words and numbers
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Moji svjetovi riječi i brojeva
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blur with color, emotion
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se prepleću s bojama, osjećajima
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and personality.
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i osobnosti.
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As Juan said,
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Kako je Juan rekao,
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it's the condition that scientists call synesthesia,
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to je stanje koje znanstvenici nazivaju sinestezija,
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an unusual cross-talk
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neobična kros-poveznica
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between the senses.
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između osjetila.
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Here are the numbers one to 12
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Ovdje su brojevi jedan do 12
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as I see them --
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kako ih ja vidim --
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every number with its own shape and character.
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svaki broj sa svojim oblikom i znakom.
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One is a flash of white light.
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Jedan je bljesak bijelog svjetla.
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Six is a tiny and very sad black hole.
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Šest je mala i vrlo tužna crna rupa.
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The sketches are in black and white here,
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Skice su ovdje crno na bijelo,
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but in my mind they have colors.
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ali u mom umu one imaju boju.
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Three is green.
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Tri je zeleno.
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Four is blue.
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Četiri je plavo.
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Five is yellow.
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Pet je žuto.
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I paint as well.
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Isto tako i slikam.
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And here is one of my paintings.
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A ovdje je jedna od mojih slika.
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It's a multiplication of two prime numbers.
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To je množenje dva prosta broja.
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Three-dimensional shapes
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Trodimenzionalni oblici
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and the space they create in the middle
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i prostor koji stvaraju u sredini
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creates a new shape,
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stvara novi oblik,
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the answer to the sum.
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odgovor na iznos.
04:39
What about bigger numbers?
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A što je s većim brojevima?
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Well you can't get much bigger than Pi,
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Pa, ne možete ići puno više nego što je Pi,
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the mathematical constant.
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matematička konstanta.
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It's an infinite number --
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To je beskonačan broj --
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literally goes on forever.
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doslovno ide u beskonačnost.
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In this painting that I made
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Na ovoj slici koju sam naslikao
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of the first 20 decimals of Pi,
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a koja prikazuje prvih 20 decimala broja Pi,
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I take the colors
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uzmem boje
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and the emotions and the textures
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i osjećaje i teksture
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and I pull them all together
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i povučem ih sve zajedno
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into a kind of rolling numerical landscape.
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u neku vrstu koturajućeg numeričkog krajolika.
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But it's not only numbers that I see in colors.
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Ali ne vidim samo brojeve u bojama.
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Words too, for me,
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Riječi isto tako, za mene,
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have colors and emotions
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imaju boje i osjećaje
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and textures.
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i teksture.
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And this is an opening phrase
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A ovo je početna fraza
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from the novel "Lolita."
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iz romana "Lolita".
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And Nabokov was himself synesthetic.
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A Nabokov je isto bio sinestetičar.
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And you can see here
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A ovdje možete vidjeti
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how my perception of the sound L
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kako moja percepcija zvuka L
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helps the alliteration
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pomaže aliteraciji
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to jump right out.
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da iskoči van.
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Another example:
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Drugi primjer:
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a little bit more mathematical.
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malo više matematički.
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And I wonder if some of you will notice
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I pitam se hoće li neki od vas primjetiti
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the construction of the sentence
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konstrukciju rečenice
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from "The Great Gatsby."
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iz "Velikog Gatsbya".
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There is a procession of syllables --
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Tamo se nalazi povorka slogova --
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wheat, one;
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pšenica, jedan;
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prairies, two;
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prerije, dva;
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lost Swede towns, three --
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izgubljeni švedski grad, tri --
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one, two, three.
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jedan, dva, tri.
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And this effect is very pleasant on the mind,
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I taj učinak jako povoljno djeluje na um
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and it helps the sentence
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i pomaže da rečenica
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to feel right.
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ispadne dobro.
06:09
Let's go back to the questions
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Vratimo se na pitanja
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I posed you a moment ago.
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koja sam vam postavio maloprije.
06:14
64 multiplied by 75.
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64 pomnoženo sa 75.
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If some of you play chess,
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Ukoliko neki od vas igraju šah,
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you'll know that 64
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znati ćete kako je 64
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is a square number,
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kvadratni broj
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and that's why chessboards,
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i zato šahovske ploče,
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eight by eight,
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osam puta osam,
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have 64 squares.
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imaju 64 kvadrata.
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So that gives us a form
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Dakle, to nam daje formu
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that we can picture, that we can perceive.
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koju možemo naslikati, koju možemo doživjeti.
06:37
What about 75?
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A što je sa 75?
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Well if 100,
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Pa ako 100,
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if we think of 100 as being like a square,
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ukoliko zamislimo 100 kao da je kvadrat,
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75 would look like this.
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75 bi izgledao ovako.
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So what we need to do now
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Dakle, ono što trebamo učiniti sada
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is put those two pictures
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je staviti te dvije slike
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together in our mind --
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zajedno u našim mislima --
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something like this.
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nešto poput ovoga.
06:57
64 becomes 6,400.
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64 postaje 6.400.
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And in the right-hand corner,
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A u desnom kutu,
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you don't have to calculate anything.
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ne morate ništa računati.
07:07
Four across, four up and down --
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Četiri poprijeko, četiri gore i dolje --
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it's 16.
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to je 16.
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So what the sum is actually asking you to do
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Dakle, ono što vas zbroj traži da učinite
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is 16,
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je 16,
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16, 16.
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16, 16.
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That's a lot easier
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To je puno lakše
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than the way that the school taught you to do math, I'm sure.
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nego što vas je škola učila matematici. Siguran sam.
07:24
It's 16, 16, 16, 48,
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To je 16, 16, 16, 48,
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4,800 --
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4.800 --
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4,800,
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4.000,
07:30
the answer to the sum.
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odgovor na zbroj.
07:33
Easy when you know how.
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Lako je kada znate kako.
07:35
(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
07:38
The second question was an Icelandic word.
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Drugo pitanje je bila islandska riječ.
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I'm assuming there are not many people here
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Pretpostavljam kako ovdje nema puno ljudi
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who speak Icelandic.
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koji pričaju islandski.
07:46
So let me narrow the choices down to two.
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Dakle, dopustite mi da suzim izbore na dva.
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Hnugginn:
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Hnugginn:
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is it a happy word,
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je li to sretna riječ,
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or a sad word?
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ili tužna riječ?
07:57
What do you say?
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Što kažete?
08:00
Okay.
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U redu.
08:02
Some people say it's happy.
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Neki ljudi kažu kako je sretna.
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Most people, a majority of people,
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Većina ljudi,
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say sad.
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kaže tužna.
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And it actually means sad.
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A zapravo i znači tužno.
08:12
(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
08:15
Why do, statistically,
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Zašto, statistički,
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a majority of people
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većina ljudi
08:20
say that a word is sad, in this case,
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kaže kako je riječ tužna, u ovom slučaju,
08:22
heavy in other cases?
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teška u drugim slučajevima?
08:25
In my theory, language evolves in such a way
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Prema mojoj teoriji, jezik se razvija na takav način
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that sounds match,
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da se zvukovi poklapaju,
08:30
correspond with, the subjective,
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korespondiraju sa subjektivnim,
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with the personal,
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s osobnim
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intuitive experience
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intuitivnim iskustvom
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of the listener.
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slušatelja.
08:40
Let's have a look at the third question.
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Pogledajmo treće pitanje.
08:44
It's a line from a poem by John Keats.
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To je stih iz pjesme Johna Keatsa.
08:47
Words, like numbers,
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Riječi, poput brojeva,
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express fundamental relationships
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izražavaju osnovne veze
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between objects
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između objekata
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and events and forces
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i događaja i sila
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that constitute our world.
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koje sačinjavaju naš svijet.
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It stands to reason that we, existing in this world,
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Dolazimo do logičnog zaključka kako bi mi, postojeći u ovom svijetu,
09:02
should in the course of our lives
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trebali tijekom naših života
09:04
absorb intuitively those relationships.
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intuitivno apsorbirati te veze.
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And poets, like other artists,
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A pjesnici, poput ostalih umjetnika,
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play with those intuitive understandings.
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se igraju s tim intuitivnim shvaćanjima.
09:13
In the case of hare,
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U slučaju zeca,
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it's an ambiguous sound in English.
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to je dvosmislen zvuk u engleskom jeziku.
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It can also mean the fibers that grow from a head.
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On može ujedno značiti i vlakna koja rastu iz glave.
09:21
And if we think of that --
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I ako pomislimo na to --
09:23
let me put the picture up --
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dopustite da prikažem sliku --
09:25
the fibers represent vulnerability.
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vlakna predstavljaju ranjivost.
09:29
They yield to the slightest movement
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Ona popuste na najmanja kretanja
09:32
or motion or emotion.
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ili pokret ili osjećaj.
09:35
So what you have is an atmosphere
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Dakle, ono što imate je atmosfera
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of vulnerability and tension.
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ranjivosti i tenzije.
09:41
The hare itself, the animal --
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Zec sam po sebi, životinja --
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not a cat, not a dog, a hare --
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ne mačka, ne pas, zec --
09:46
why a hare?
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zašto zec?
09:48
Because think of the picture --
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Jer razmislite o slici,
09:50
not the word, the picture.
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ne riječi, slici.
09:52
The overlong ears,
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Predugačke uši,
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the overlarge feet,
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predugačka stopala,
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helps us to picture, to feel intuitively,
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nam pomažu da zamislimo, da intuitivno osjetimo,
09:59
what it means to limp
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što to znači šepati
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and to tremble.
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i drhtati.
10:05
So in these few minutes,
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Dakle, u tih nekoliko minuta,
10:07
I hope I've been able to share
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nadam se kako sam uspio podijeliti
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a little bit of my vision of things
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malo svoju viziju stvari
10:12
and to show you
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i pokazati vam
10:15
that words can have colors and emotions,
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kako riječi mogu imati boje i osjećaje,
10:18
numbers, shapes and personalities.
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brojeve, oblike i osobnosti.
10:21
The world is richer,
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Svijet je bogatiji,
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vaster
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prostraniji
10:25
than it too often seems to be.
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nego što se činio.
10:28
I hope that I've given you the desire
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Nadam se kako sam vam usadio želju
10:31
to learn to see the world with new eyes.
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da naučite gledati svijet novim očima.
10:34
Thank you.
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Hvala vam.
10:36
(Applause)
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(Pljesak)
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