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Physics vs Mysticism - Dr. M.S. DeLay & A. V. Bendebury, DS Pod
#279
We sit down for a discussion about the futility of rationalism, by way of William James' Varieties of Religious Experience.
We start with the question of utopias, and try to diagnose why, if they're doomed
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@aspiringpeasant
perpetually horrified by the way that rural life manifests as a battle between round-up armed man and blackberry brambled nature
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@haojibaer
generally an axis ought to start at zero, starting it at 8 makes the change look much bigger than it is
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is there a word for when you suddenly realize how naive your model of the world is?
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@BecomingCritter
Funny I trained myself at some point to sleep on command and to this day have to work really hard to not pass out before a plane takes off and wake up as it starts landing
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axis crime on the vertical, but still interesting. What do you figure drove the golden age?
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@hankgreen
I mean it's really, really hard to wrap your head around why the food industry has the runway it does to sell stuff that's unambiguously bad for you
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would it be weird if I printed this out really big and filled in one of the circles every week
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DemystifySci Ep 159 is with Joscha Bach (
@Plinz
) where explore if there really is such a thing as the hard problem of consciousness. We discover it hinges on your metaphysics. Is math a foundation of reality, or simply just one way of talking about what's down there?👇
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New discovery in china that pushes the earliest civilization back by AT LEAST 500 years but likely longer. Full of jade stones from ~1000 miles away, and carving style looks related to mesoamerica, holy cow 🤯
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Physics does not play by the same rules as the rest of science.
Instead of offering mechanistic explanations of material in motion, physics produces a zoo of supernatural actors. Particles, black holes, and warped space are features of the universe that even the physicists
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First release of the New Year, a conversation with
@drmichaellevin
about embodied cognition, cellular intelligence, and what insight galls give us into regenerative medicine and the flexibility of bodies:
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begging, pleading, screaming can someone please explain the hard problem of consciousness to me
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@primalpoly
I had a friend tell me about how at her company they have to report their wellbeing at the start of the day on a scale of one to ten, and if you reported less than an eight, it was the subject of immense concern and attention from everyone
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I don't think I've ever gotten more mileage out of a blog post than
@G_S_Bhogal
's piece on the perils of audience capture. What a gem...
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Ep 262 with Jim Keller (
@jimkxa
)! We talked about the soft-power side of progress - building teams, surviving bubbles, why small is best, the sweet spot between chaos and order, and the weird coincidence of living on a planet that’s basically made of computer stuff. Links 👇
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@ravenscimaven
imagine a dissertation writing fellowship for students living and working in urban areas that set them up in little cabins in different biomes for a semester while they wrote
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First episode of 2022! A conversation with
@drmichaellevin
about the not-so-distant future where medicine is able to fix what is broken simply by knowing the languages and motivational structures of cells:
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celebrating three years of marriage and ten years of sharing my life with this man in just a few days. I could fill books with what he has taught me and the riches he has brought into my world... what a miraculous creature to know and love and be loved by!
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@boygrrI
we buy nic + altoid smalls in bulk and make 2mg lozenges for pennies. there's a good reddit diy ecig thread about it if you're curious
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From our conversation with
@wbmosler
a few weeks back. We dug into the details of modern monetary theory and the biggest misconceptions about economics. Here Mosler lays out how no one seems to have an accurate model of where money comes from:
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Big news: an anonymous donor just gave us funding to write a book. It's gonna be a handbook to the next ten (or so) scientific revolutions, as told through what we've learned over our first hundred conversations.
@visakanv
, friendly ambitious nerd works 🥳
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For Ep 147 we have
@drmichaellevin
, who brings his unique insight to the most fundamental questions of biology: the will of cells, the meaning of their action, and how we can learn to speak their language. One of my favorite subjects on any given day!
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just realized that aperiodicity is what allows crystal structures to contain meaningful information
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Ep 198 is with Dr. Anna Ciaunica (
@AnnaCiaunica
) of the Co-Embodied Self Lab, about the material source of consciousness, awareness, and experience. Check it out here 👇
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Can't get enough of this conversation. Why don't psychedelics help with narcissism? with
@algekalipso
on DS Pod 225
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so glad to see people working on a bottom-up solution to the hard problem!! Can't solve it without cells as the smallest unit of life (a state of matter that predates cells but needs cells for goal directed action)
Advocating bottom up approaches to sentience and consciousness 👇🏼
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any graphic designer followers? could use some insight into designing an infographic for the material atomics book
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Were the bank bailouts a 700 billion dollar placebo? Investor & economist Warren Mosler (
@wbmosler
) tells his TARP story on DS Pod 251
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@algekalipso
The refresh rate of human perception and encounters with DMT entities, Ep 225 of the DemystifySci Podcast.
Listen here:
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so if they don't crash the universe will they acknowledge there's a basement reality, or just turn themselves to the task of crashing it?
Scott Aaronson: if we live in a computer simulation, running complex calculations on quantum computers could crash the universe
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Ep 195 of the DS Pod - Dr. Subash Kak on why life is about preparing for death
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@Helenreflects
the illusion of explanatory depth is perfect - now if only there was a german word the length of a sentence for it
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@___frye
what if there is none, and it's just for being able to do your email job that much faster?
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@iamscicomm
#Hottake
: scientists should have to write two versions of their papers - one for a general audience, one for a specialist audience. Can't tell you how many times I've had researchers tell me they didn't think it was their responsibility to help someone understand their work.
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Ch-ch-check it out!! Nearly three hours of insights into the machinations at work at the world's biggest tech companies, the impossible stuff Jim's working on now (tabletop semiconductor fab! 3d printed cars!) and a glimpse into his bullish take on human potential
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@Aella_Girl
Isn't it possible to find someone who you pair match with so well that intimacy with others just seems paltry by comparison?
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@PaulSkallas
All we do is throw things. Ideas, rockets, parties. We're animals of the target 🎯
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@Aella_Girl
My read is that people don't want to consider the hypothetical because they know somewhere in the back of their minds that it's going to force them to change what amounts to an unreasonable perspective and they have piled a lot of sandbags around that castle to keep it safe
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The reviews are in for our conversation with
@algekalipso
"One of the best convos I've ever heard. Not exaggerating. Absolutely amazing interview"
What are you waiting for? Seek out DS Pod 225 anywhere you listen!!
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@ZachWeiner
It might be that people are VERY suspicious of men who want to be around children
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A roundup of recent episodes, because I can never remember what I've posted and what I haven't. Something for all tastes - why the big bang is a big bust, the sumerian mesoamerican connection, biofield therapy, aliens, and NASA's new Venus mission. lfg!! 🧵
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The hallmark of a strong, stable civilization is the extirpation of extreme poverty. Many countries have realized this and implemented small-scale universal basic income (UBI) plans as a safety net for cataclysmic setbacks. Dr. Jim Pugh elaborates...
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New episode! We talk the refresh rate of perception, DMT entities, and team replicator vs team consciousness with the singular Andres Gomez Emilsson (
@algekalipso
).
Check the replies for the link or search DS Pod 225
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so what's official line for the justification of this distribution?
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Ep 195 of the DSPod with Dr. Subash Kak on transhumanism, computer consciousness, and stigmergy.
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New Episode!!
Jason Padgett was once a boozin', girl chasin', fun loving, futon salesman of a man. Everything changed after he was badly beaten during a mugging. As his concussion subsided, Padgett discovered an astounding fluency in mathematics. This is his story. Links 👇
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Got to spend the morning digging into the metaphysics of physics with
@DrBrianKeating
at his studio, and remembered to take a picture to make it last longer 🌠
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As above, so below - how the fractal visual patterns of hallucinogens reveal a resonance with a larger sense of self that is most easily understood as the universe itself.
Listen to the full conversation with
@algekalipso
of the Qualia Research Institute on DS Pod 225
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Our Future Must Be Interstellar? Ep 260 with
@Devon_Eriksen_
, all about cultivating a realistic optimism about the future of humanity, space exploration, and the explosion of tech that's coming down the pipeline
YouTube:
Anchor:
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Isn't it weird how almost no one gets their tonsils removed these days? From our conversation with
@forrestmaready
, DS Pod 266
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@bayesianboy
but why would the machines we invented to tell us what we wanted to hear tell us what we wanted to hear???
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@VividVoid_
the challenge comes down to finding ways to hold your ground that aren't vicious - see the masculine urge to carpet bomb tokyo, etc.
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Herping makes a front page debut! What a time to be alive
I’m on the front page!! If you haven’t already check out !
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What are your favorite low status beliefs? Aliens, human pig hybridization theories, viruses don't exist, etc etc etc
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🎉 !! Thursday Release !! 🎉
An Eye for Evidence: Catching 4,000 Scientific Frauds - Dr. Elisabeth Bik, DS Pod
#230
. Check out the episode at the links below, and follow
@MicrobiomDigest
for insight into how she's caught big fraud, little fraud, in between fraud and the
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Color without context is physically meaningless, inspired by a recent
@AkiyoshiKitaoka
tweet - with
@Nalhek_Morgan
on episode
#260
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If we don't leave the planet, everything turns to dust. Every tree in every forest, every bird in every flock, every flower in every meadow, every symphony in every hall. All ashes. We are the seeds of the fruit of this planet, destined to make the stars bloom
There's something impetuous and ungrateful about the desire to be multi planetary. Toddler thinking. How many of these people have done anything to make this planet, our home, better to live on? I bet very few. It's everything-is-disposable mentality.
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about to drop the most mind-bending theory we've ever had on the show, wow. really looking forward to people picking it apart to see if it works or not
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@ProfSteveKeen
Ds Pod Ep 203 - How finance Capitalism Ruined the world, with Michael Hudson and
@ProfSteveKeen
Listen here:
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From our forbidden talk with Forrest Maready (
@forrestmaready
), where we unpack the long, dark history of manmade disease. Check out the full conversation at all the podcast stores by searching for DS Pod 266
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@tsarnick
I mean in the sense of profits for those who control the systems yes but that seems like a limited definition of "growth," buddy
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@lastpositivist
lol. Ask the guy to define science, bet you it's something to do with mathematics
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@styropyro_
I dunno it sounds exactly like you're ripping open the fabric of the universe to me
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New Episode! We talk with Dr. Alexander Unzicker about how the raw power of mathematics blinds us to the reality of the cosmos - a map for territory error that is entwined with the foundations of all science. Search for DS Pod 227 anywhere you listen, or look for the link below
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@Aella_Girl
I would bet that the people who don't check in regularly have a less deep understanding of what the fights are about, and so think they're always fighting about new things when it's really some underlying pattern they can't put into words
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Getting read for our conversation with
@forrestmaready
. Is the real story of vaccines and modern medicine dramatically different from the one we've been told? Ready to get my heart broken...
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omg look how happy they are to be grass. aspirational.
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Our discord server, when we told them we're gonna go to LA to interview Terrence Howard
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An excerpt from our conversation with
@Nalhek_Morgan
, where we challenge the rationalist paradigm that says the universe can only be seen through a material lens. Who can truly say the stars aren't alive?
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Digging into the edge of physics this week on the podcast - nothing quite like finding people who can make even the most mysterious phenomena make sense. Thank you
@memcculloch
for the wisdom!
My recent interview with
@demystifysci
is now online. This channel is providing a fantastic service for new physics. They encouraged me to talk at length about the philosophy of
#QI
& new results & plans. Youtube link: Podcast link:
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Just got done recording a rollicking conversation about progress, space exploration, libertarianism, and the failures of compassion politics with
@Devon_Eriksen_
. Much is left to talk about. Check out his book, Theft of Fire while you wait for the editing cycle to complete
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stop the presses, what??
Sonoluminescence.
If you collapse an underwater bubble with a soundwave, light is produced, and nobody is totally sure about why this happens.
There are in fact several competing theories still evaluated by scientists.
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Are you in SF tonite? Do you have ears? Do you like to use them? Come to Gestalt in the Mission (16th between Valencia & Guerrero) from 8-10PM!!! Sax, loops, synths, vibes. All ages, no cover!!!
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@wholebodyprayer
I have a feeling that the default natural state is stressed - wild animals, except for apex predators and isolated pockets where there's no risk of interspecies conflict, seem like they're constantly in a high state of alert
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@lastpositivist
I call these people the Tegmarkians and they will tell you with a straight face that reality is made of mathematics
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