Life Sciences

Metamorphoses

By Emanuele Coccia

We are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis. The caterpillar and the butterfly share nothing in common, and yet they are one and the same life.

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#34 Converations on Complexity

With Neil Theise

“We are not walking though the world; we are interwoven with it. In everything we do we participate in complexity"

Blot out and backcross: the butterfly’s genetic secret?

By Paul Evans

A controversial theory claims the reason butterflies and their caterpillars look so dissimilar is down to hybridogenesis

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We ARE the Universe

With Neil Theise

An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave

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#31 Our Mycelium Selves

With Merlin Sheldrake

In this talk Maurizio and Merlin discuss Merlin’s book Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Scientists Say They Can Reverse Time in a Quantum System

By Victor Tangermann

We can rewind to a previous scene or skip several scenes ahead

Science, Being, & Becoming: The Spiritual Lives of Scientists book Review

By Paul J. Mills

This groundbreaking book is an invitation to the public, to citizen scientists, and to professional scientists to reject the materialistic worldview of modern science

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#23 The Songs of Gaia

With Monica Gagliano

Listening to/with/as the whole planet is listening and sining, a conversation with world renoun bioacoustic researcher

Brain experiment suggests that consciousness relies on quantum entanglement

By Elizabeth Ferdandez

Maybe the brain isn't "classical" after all.

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Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science

With Dr. Leroy Little Bear

Comparing the foundational base of Blackfoot knowledge to quantum physics to an attentive audience at The Banff Centre as part of the Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science: Contrasts and Similarities event.

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The Mathematics of Consciousness

With Donald Hoffman

Donald Hoffman describes his mathematical theory that ties in with consciousness touching into neuroscience, computer science, perception, and how we construct reality.

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#15 The Healing Potential of Microdosing

With James Fadiman and Ayelet Waldman

explore psychedelics and their therapeutic uses in two entertaining and informative talks from SAND 18 and 19

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Perceiving Perception

With Susana Martinez-Conde

Susana Martinez-Conde gives her understanding of perception, brains, reality, memory, experience, music, aesthetics, and language from her experience as Laboratory Director of SUNY Downstate Medical Center

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What Do We Actually Know

With Bernardo Kastrup

A talk from SAND 15 exploring the brain, perception, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, panpsychism, and more.

The Minotaur Dances the Masculine Back into the Milky Way

By Sophie Strand

An excerpt from the new book "The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine"

The Big Bang Is Hard Science. It Is Also a Creation Story.

Even with its explanatory power, Big Bang theory takes its place in a long line of myths.

Michael Pollan on the New Science of Psychedelics

By Shawn Radcliffe

For many people, psychedelic drugs are intimately connected to the 1960s American counterculture, with…

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Exploring Consciousness with Lucid Dreams

With Stephen LaBerge

Stephen LaBerge discusses lucid dreaming techniques, Nisargadatta Maharaj, consciousness, and awareness.

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Relational Imaginaries, Kinship Highlights 7

With Stephen Jenkinson and Sophie Strand

Excerpts from Advaya: the role of mythology, stories, art, and poetry in cultivating kinship. How do stories create/relate to belonging?

Quantum Prediction: Something is Created from Nothing

By Ethan Siegal

In our common experience, you can't get something for nothing. In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing.

Drumming woodpeckers use similar brain regions as songbirds

By Darren Incorvaia

The complex behaviors may have a shared evolutionary origin

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Humanual Support

With Betsy Polatin

Experience your inherent support and understand why you lose it.

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Laozi and Quantum Physics

With Shantena Augusto Sabbadini

The connections between Quantum Physics, Daoism, and Nonduality in this interview with the Italian physicist

What if Competition Isn’t As “Natural” As We Think?

By John Favini

Scientists are slowly understanding collaboration’s role in biology

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#2 Wisdom in Death and Dying

With Stephen Jenkinson

The meaning of death and dying in a death-phobic culture and more on Sounds of SAND Episode 2

Why people across the world see constellations, not just stars

By Simon J Cropper, Duane W Hamacher, Daniel R Little, and Charles Kemp

While constellations and the stories attached to them have obvious artistic and spiritual significance, they also represent an elegant and effective solution to the problem of understanding complex physical environments.

Waking, Dreaming, Being

By Vikram Zutshi

Vikram Zutshi In Conversation With Evan Thompson This article was first published at the Sutra Journal…

It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are

By Mark Wolynn

A well-documented feature of trauma, one familiar to many, is our inability to articulate what happens to us.

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The Science of Perception

With Chris Fields, Susana Martinez-Conde, and Donald Hoffman

Perception may be defined not only as how we experience the world through our senses, but also how we interpret those experiences to create meaning and provide a practically useful model of reality.

How to rebuild California forests, with climate in mind

By Ula Chrobak

While scientists can anticipate how climate change will affect larger regions, predicting the fate of a given 100-acre forest plot can be trickier.

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Once Upon A.I.

Inspired by Yuval Noah Harari' is an experimental short film featuring over 260 strange and spectacular images, generated by 13 different A.I. algorithms.

How James Webb Space Telescope data have already revealed surprises

By Lisa Grossman

“Definitely these galaxies are a big deal, but it remains to be seen how exciting they will look in the context of a few months’ progress with JWST,” Carnall says. The best is yet to come.

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A Look Back in Time

With Katie Mack

How NASA's Webb Telescope Gives Humanity a Revolutionary New View of Cosmos

How Animals Perceive the World

By Ed Yong

Every creature lives within its own sensory bubble, but only humans have the capacity to appreciate the experiences of other species. What we’ve learned is astounding.

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Champions of Illusion

With Susana Martinez-Conde

Visual illusions are those perceptual experiences that do not match the physical reality.

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Forget Emergence: Perception as Entanglement

With Chris Fields

Chris Fields suggests we abandon both the question "why this universe?" and the entire subsequent story about emergence

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Why elephants never forget

"Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant" (John Donne)

Ancient Green

By Robin Wall Kimmerer

Taking a long view of life on Earth, Robin Wall Kimmerer explores how mosses—ancient beings who transformed the world—teach us strategies for persisting amid a changing climate.

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Is Reality a Controlled Hallucination?

With Anil Seth

How does our biology give rise to the experience of consciousness?

Feeling & Knowing

By JP O'Malley

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the origin and evolution of consciousness

We Must Risk New Shapes

By Sophie Strand

I am a body plus. A body plus trauma, plus illness, plus pollen, plus spores, plus caretakers and friends and loved ones and wild kin.

How to Be Healthy in a Dopamine-Seeking Culture

By Brad Stulberg

the challenge of choosing deep-focus work and connection over superficial distraction and stimulation

Scientists Say Your “Mind” Isn’t Confined to Your Brain, or Even Your Body

By Olivia Goldhill

Exploring how the mind extends beyond the physical self.

Strange Illusion Shows The Human Brain Alters Time to Maintain Our Expectations

By Peter Dockrill

Just How Far Can Psychedelics Push The Boundaries of How We Assign Consciousness?

By David Nield

Our Brains Keep Us 15 Seconds 'in The Past'

By Mauro Manassi and David Whitney

So how does our brain create this illusion of stability?

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Dying to Live: Evolution Through Recycling

With Elisabet Sahtouris

Let’s start with Anaximander, who said everything forming in Nature incurs a debt which it must repay so that other things may form, which I see as the essence of evolution and a fascinating take on Dying to Live.

All is Vibration

By Tam Hunter

A new theory of consciousness rooted in vibration

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Theory Of Reality

With Zubin Damania

Why can't we explain how matter generates consciousness?

Cezanne, Shamans, and the Intelligence of Plants

By Betsey Crawford

"Vision is an art, and nature an old master painter teaching us how to see the underlying reality of things to be — before they actually are. "

Is Human Consciousness Creating Reality?

By Paul Ratner

An exploration of a groundbreaking assertion of a new paper published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Black Holes

By Ben Turner

Famous Stephen Hawking Theory About Black Holes Confirmed

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Evidence of the Afterlife

With Jeffrey Long

Dr. Long has investigated thousands of near-death experiences (NDEs) with the results of his research published in the New York Times bestselling book Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences.

Nature vs. Nurture

By Stephen Johnson

Which determines traits like sexual orientation, intelligence and behavior: genes or environment?

The Moment

By Margaret Atwood

from 'Eating Fire'

MDMA Reopens Child-like “Critical Periods”

By Alexander Beadle

New research with MDMA could lead to deeper therapeutic uses of the drug

Panpsychism

By Matthew Rozsa

The idea that inanimate objects have consciousness gains steam in science communities

Spooky Action at a Distance

By Ben Brubaker

Theorem showing that quantum mechanics really permits instantaneous connections between far-apart locations

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Why Do We Die?

With Chris Fields

All of our ancestors and most of our relatives are immortal. We aren't. How come?

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Climate Crisis, Fragmentation and Collective Trauma

With Bayo Akomolafe, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, and Gabor Maté

1:08:00 – FREE

Trauma and the Nervous System

With Stephen W. Porges and Gabor Maté

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From Incarceration to Compassion

With Fritzi Horstman, Gregory Nottage, Vandrick Towns, Zaya Benazzo, and Maurizio Benazzo

1:21:00 – FREE

Child-rearing That Does Not Traumatize

With Darcia Narvaez, Gordon Neufeld, Kate Silverton, Muffy Mendoza, and Gabor Maté

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Rising Consciousness of Trauma in Society

With Bessel van der Kolk and Gabor Maté

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Indigenous Resilience: Healing Trauma Through Tradition and Resistance

With Jesse Thistle, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Ruby Gibson, Patricia June Vickers, and Gabor Maté

1:10:00 – FREE

Trauma and Spirituality

With Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone, Sharon Salzberg, Henry Shukman, and Gabor Maté

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Finding Wholeness Through our Broken Places

With Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, and Gabor Maté

1:19:00 – FREE

Never Broken

With Jewel

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The Trauma in the Body of the World

With V (formerly Eve Ensler)

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Sensitivity, Creativity and Pain in a Traumatizing Culture

With Sia

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Examining the Root Cause of Addiction from an Indigenous Lens

With Gina Perez-Baron, Pat McCabe, and Daniel RYNO Herrera

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Trauma and the Somatic Connection

With Peter Levine and Gabor Maté

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Relationships as Mirrors of our Trauma

With Esther Perel and Gabor Maté

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Somatic Abolitionism: Nurturing Healing Communities

With Resmaa Menakem and Gabor Maté

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Healing Trauma in a Fractured World

With Thomas Hübl and Gabor Maté

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Living in a Living World

With Chris Fields and Davor Džalto

What happens when we drop our pretense of specialness

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The Coronation

With Charles Eisenstein

The initiation of Covid-19

Consciousness as Background Noise

By Thomas Nail

Consciousness may be an emergent property from a bunch of background chatter.

What Is Consciousness? Scientists Compete to Find Out

By Andreas Kluth

A new type of experiment could get us closer to grasping human consciousness.

Dissolving the Ego with Psilocybin

By Ephrat Livni

Philosophers and mystics have long contemplated the disconcerting notion that the fixed self is an illusion.

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The Feminine

With Bayo Akomolafe

Bayo tells a story and tries to characterize the essence of the Feminine at the "I of the Storm" event.

Human Brain and Universe

By Università di Bologna

Does the human brain resemble the Universe?

The Physicist’s New Book of Life

By Michael Brooks

Jeremy England says spiritual ideas can inform our scientific quest for the origin of life.

Why Physics Can’t Tell Us What Life Is

By Jeremy England

The origin of life can’t be explained by first principles.

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Interpersonal Neurobiology - SAND18 US

With Daniel Siegel

Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.

Conscious Birds

By University of Tübingen

Researchers show conscious processes in birds' brains for the first time

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Conscious Agent Dynamics - SAND18 US

With Chetan Prakash

We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world

A New Theory of Consciousness

By University of Surrey

Electromagnetic energy in the brain enables brain matter to create our consciousness

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Portals into the Realm of Consciousness - SAND19 US

With Donald Hoffman

A conversation at SAND19 US

Livewired: David Eagleman

By Andrew Dansby

Book Review: The brain is the next frontier

Is Consciousness Continuous or Discrete?

By Cell Press

Maybe it's both, argue researchers

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Altered States and the Self—Q&A

With Jack Allocca

A Q&A session following the presentation

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Altered States and the Self

With Jack Allocca

What altered states of consciousness can tell us about consciousness itself

What is Consciousness?

By Grant Currin

The ancient Greeks dove into this question. But what do modern scientists think?

A Polyvagal Primer

By Deb Dana

A Three-Part Exercise to Create Safety and Trust

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What is a Theory of Consciousness For?

With Stuart Hameroff, Chris Fields, Rob Nail, Paul Bush, and Riccardo Manzotti

A Conversation

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Our Embryonic Development: The Universe Within

With Tina Lindhard

Tina looks at the developing embryo through the eyes of Dr Jaap van der Wal

Is AI Already Conscious?

By Tristan Greene

The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness

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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain - SAND19 US

With David Eagleman

If the conscious mind—the part you consider you—accounts for only a fraction of the brain's function, what is all the rest doing?

23:00 – FREE

My Unusual Brain - SAND19 US

With Joel Salinas

What science and my unusual brain are teaching us about the convergence of reality, love, and the senses

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What Are Neurons For? SAND19 US

With Chris Fields

We are aware of thinking and acting, and we typically think this is what neurons and brains are for.

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Can A.I. Feel Real Love? - SAND19 US

With Donald Hoffman

Can we rejig our space-time interface?

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Mimicking Nature's Relationships - SAND19 US

With Sara Aly El Sayed

Biomimicry is not just about emulating; it is also about reconnecting and rekindling our relationship with nature.

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Befriending the Beloved Mystery with Magic Mushrooms
SAND19 US

With Katherine MacLean

the perspective of individual humans and their amazing encounters with psilocybin mushrooms

Microglia: a new target in the brain for depression?

By Donna Jackson Nakazawa

More than a decade ago, I was diagnosed with a string of autoimmune diseases

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Can A.I. Feel Real Love? SAND19 US

With Donald Hoffman

Can we rejig our space-time interface to open new portals into the preexisting realm of conscious agents?

Does Consciousness have a Function?

By Ryota Kanai

Contents of consciousness are the results of active reconstruction of the reality.

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My Unusual Brain
SAND19 US

With Joel Salinas

What science and my unusual brain are teaching us about the convergence of reality, love, and the senses

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What Are Neurons For? SAND19 US

With Chris Fields

We are aware of thinking and acting, and we typically think this is what neurons and brains are for.

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Heart-Mind Consciousness

With Tina Lindhard

Zaya Benazzo interviews Tina Lindhard at SAND19 Italy

RNA Modifies DNA

By Louise Lerner

A surprise discovery shakes up our understanding of gene expression

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How we Experience Awe

With Beau Lotto and Cirque du Soleil

Neuroscientist Beau Lotto conducted an ambitious study with Cirque du Soleil on the emotion of awe

The Scam of Nonduality: Why I Left Teaching and Why I’m Coming Back

By Scott Kiloby

I grew up with trauma followed by 20 years of addiction to drugs and alcohol.

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The Skeptics Have No Clothes

With David Lorimer and Zaya Benazzo

Zaya Benazzo interviews David Lorimer at SAND19 Italy

DMT: "It's like dreaming with your eyes open"

By Aristos Georgiou

Scientists discover psychedelic DMT creates waking dream state in brain

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SAND18 US - Being Human through the Engine of Creation

With Bruce Damer

21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being

A New Type of Signal in the Human Brain

By Mike McRae

Scientists have discovered a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that's not been seen before.

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SAND18 US - Microdosing: A conversation with James Fadiman

With James Fadiman

James Fadiman fieds questions at SAND18 US

26:00 – FREE

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain - SAND19 US

With David Eagleman

If the conscious mind—the part you consider you—accounts for only a fraction of the brain's function, what is all the rest doing?

22:00 – FREE

The Brain: A computer or Quantum Orchestra?

With Stuart Hameroff

The latest research into the relationship between the brain's neuronal firing and consciousness.

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SAND18 US - Inventing a Self

With Chris Fields

How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.

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SAND18 US - Mushrooms, Mycelium & The Mycology of Consciousness - Part I

With Paul Stamets

An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness

An important quantum algorithm may actually be a property of nature

By Emerging Technology from the arXiv

Evidence that quantum searches are an ordinary feature of electron behavior may explain the genetic code, one of the greatest puzzles in biology.

A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision

By Kevin Hartnett

Mathematicians and neuroscientists have created the first anatomically accurate model that explains how vision is possible.

How Science and Nonduality Helped My Recovery from Brain Injury

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SAND18 US — Being Human in the Engine of Creation

With Bruce Damer

A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.

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Synesthesia

Hearing Color, Seeing Sound. This Is Synesthesia

He Invented a Surgery and Cured Himself

By Ryan Prior

This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years.

28:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Are We Just Another Primate?

With Robert Sapolsky

Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?

By Donation

Beyond Trauma, Falling into Love

With Julie Brown Yau and Vera de Chalambert • Recorded Sept 28, 2019

A Community Conversation moderated by Vera de Chalambert

Is Reality Real? How Evolution Blinds us to the Truth About the World

We assume our senses see reality as it is—but that could be just an evolved illusion obscuring the true workings of quantum theory and consciousness

Integrating the Shadow in Awakening

The striving for spiritual attainment while excluding the personal dimension of life, is often a big error on the path of spiritual inquiry.

If music breathes new life into old blood...play on!

By John Stuart Reid

Testing a 2,500-year old hypothesis

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