Richard Saul Wurman – the original founder of TED prior to its acquisition by its current “curator” Chris Anderson – once described TED along the lines of an annual “dinner party” for triple-A personalities in need of emotional and intellectual catharsis. And so it is that TED begins its second day with the best selling author and neurologist, Oliver Sachs sharing a compassionate perspective of his patient experiences and helping us all understand why we may misunderstand people who have hallucinations – sharing with us the incredible fact that 10 percent of those with visual or hearing impairment experience them. He was followed immediately by the glass blowing artist, Dale Chihuly. Yesterday it was futurist and venture capitalist, Juan Enriquez, who made us all think about what the world might be like as the boundaries between synthetic and biological life become less and less clear.