Kelly Corrigan

What else?

Go on.

Like I can hear anything you want to tell me.

That loving space that's created that's so painful and terrifying cannot be replicated by a mom bot or a parenting bot.

Because the mom bot isn't afraid.

The mom bot doesn't know pain.

The mom bot cannot love you.

The mom bot does not need courage to stay.

And so Duncan's talk has left me feeling glad to be human, feeling glad to be living inside the tremendous risk that comes with deep human relationships.

There's nowhere I'd rather be.

I have had loss.

I've suffered it.

And that suffering feels a lot like love, just in a different form.

Duncan put humanity in the absolute center of the conversation.

He put our deepest humanity, our most human moments, dead center.

And I know not everyone agrees with me or the questions and thoughts that we've explored here this week.

And of course, that's great.

But for me, in the wake of all my speakers, I find myself feeling strongly that I am just so team human.

I believe what I said in my own TED talk more than ever, which is that the reward of all this interpersonal bravery is a full human experience.

Knowing every emotion, even the worst ones, at maximum dosage.