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 rt, in Afghanistan, Germany had proved to be the NSA's "most prolific 
partner."Both the BND and BfV, Germany's foreign and domestic intelligence 
bureaus, respectively, would not comment on their employment of XKeyScore, 
according to Der Spiegel.Apparently, the NSA declined to comment, as well, 
referring instead to President Barack Obama's statementon the topic, made 
during a recent visit to Berlin,that therewas nothing to add.Obama, during 
the visit, said, What I explained to Chancellor Merkel is that I 
came into office committed to protecting the American people but also committed 
to our highest values and ideals, including privacy and civil liberties. 
Im confident at this point that we have struck the appropriate balance, 
The Washington Post reported.Merkel reportedly told various media outlets, 
present at her traditional summer press conference, Germany is a country 
of freedom, and that sometimes, with regards to counterterrorism and espionage, 
the ends dont justify the means.Merkel was replying, specifically, to inquiries 
regarding Germanys use of PRISM, another NSA program, a mass data-collection 
system whose existence was leaked this spring by ex-NSA contractor Edward 
Snowden.Snowden fled America, where officials have charged him with espionage 
and theft of government property, on May 20, and he is now 
reportedly holed up in Russia.According to Agence France-Presse, Merkel 
said during the conference she wasnt up to speed on the deta
 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

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