Constants of Nature are False Gods of Physics - Dr. Alexander Unzicker, Real Physics, DS Pod #227

It’s week 5 on the road, and we’re deep in the weeds about the question of what we, as scientists, owe the world. Technological progress alone seems like a weak orienting principle, as does abandoning the pursuit of knowledge completely. So how do we hew a path that makes sense, when it seems like the institutions and organizations around us have gone astray? To help us make sense of the interface between science and ethics, we turn to an essay called “To Young Scientists,” read by Ayn Rand at MIT in the 1960s. Rand was writing at the peak of the nuclear age, where the destruction of the species, if not the planet, seemed imminent. Today, the threat of nuclear conflict looms once again, but the cutting edge risk lies in the ceaseless development of machine learning and AI technologies that threaten to engulf all of human practice. There are no easy answers at hand, but we eke out a few basic principles that can serve as the starting point for building a life where progress & meaning can align. Check out the essay and support the podcast by purchasing Ayn Rand's Essays in Objectivist Thought: https://amzn.to/3UaKnH4 Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:04:11) The separation of science and spirit (00:14:00) To Young Scientists (00:23:28) The anthill of social collectivism (00:33:19) Ethics as a moral feeling (00:43:16) Can you divest from the machine? (00:53:51) Living through an ebb in institutional faith (01:02:28) Self-directed motion into the future (01:12:40) The dynamic arc of a single life #sciencepodcast, #ScienceEthics, #SpiritualityInScience, #EthicalScience, #FutureTech, #AIethics, #ScienceAndSociety, #ScientificResponsibility, #TechEthics, #ScienceCommunity, #EthicalInnovation, #EthicalAI, #TechProgress, #ScienceAndEthics, #AIResponsibility, #EthicalLeadership, #ScientificIntegrity, #ScienceAndEthicsDebate, #TechAndEthics, #EthicalTechnology, #ScienceFuture Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Marcell Fóti is an ancient mysteries researcher who is trying to figure out how the ancient Egyptians and other cultures were able to carve stones with sub-millimeter precision with relatively primitive bronze tools. Fóti’s experiments with geopolymers - ceramic polymers that can easily be mistaken for natural stone - have led him to the conclusion that the inexplicable stonework of the ancient world doesn’t have to remain a mystery. We talk to him about Natron Theory, the five part explanation for how Egyptians made their false stones, the role that natural salt deposits play in the development of a stone-making civilization, evidence that precise stonework and natron are correlated around the world, and the open questions about the ancient stone makers that remain. Check out Fóti’s website: natrontheory.com Follow Fóti on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoMaHun Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:03:55) Marcel Foti and Scoop Marks Mystery (00:09:11) Natron: The Key to Ancient Stonework (00:13:35) Figuring out the etching process (00:19:45) The Tomb of Rekhmire (00:23:24) Making waterglass (00:31:18) Geopolymers in the ancient world (00:40:18) Distinguishing between rock and geopolymers (00:51:32) Laboratory testing of geopolymers? (00:57:07) Were the great pyramid stones quarried or poured? (01:01:58) Spatial links between natron source and geopolymer construction (01:11:04) Intricacies of dating sedimentary rocks (01:18:51) Accidental creation of geopolymers? (01:29:15) Closing thoughts #sciencepodcast, #AncientMysteries, #EgyptianTechnology, #GeopolymerResearch, #StoneCarving, #AncientCivilizations, #BronzeTools, #NatronTheory, #Archaeology, #HistoricalTechnology, #AncientEngineering, #CulturalHeritage, #PrecisionCraftsmanship, #ArchaeologicalDiscoveries, #LostCivilizations, #StoneAgeTechnology, #HistoricalInnovation, #CeramicPolymers, #ExperimentalArchaeology, #AncientCraftsmanship, #MysteriesOfThePast Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

On the road between Austin and Santa Fe we make a pit stop in Roswell, New Mexico and sit down to make heads or tails of the UAP phenomena. Both of us are skeptics who want to believe, but are cursed by a nature that prevents us from committing to a single perspective. Instead, we dive into the mythological signifiers that surround the phenomenon, the deep yearning for someone who can take care of us, and the psychological innovations that are driven by the fear of living on a planet whose uncaring systems are so immense that they appear wholly beyond our control. Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:04:10) Is there a there, there? (00:14:39) What's so tasty about alien invaders (00:23:49) Fear as a catalyst for psychological innovation (00:29:57) AI sky god vs alien sky god (00:35:30) UAP as a moral technological template (00:39:34) Memories of ancestral events (00:43:38) Luciferian tale of the gardener (00:47:19) Oddities of non-interference (00:52:43) An alien source of eco-consciousness (01:00:47) Supernatural gloss of civilization (01:04:41) Closing thoughts #UAP, #UFOs, #Extraterrestrial, #Mythology, #JungianAnalysis, #PsychoanalyticApproach, #PodcastConversation, #AlienEncounters, #AncientAliens, #UnexplainedPhenomena, #ConspiracyTheories, #Paranormal, #ExploringTheUnknown, #HumanHistory, #MythAndReality Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Steven Koonin is a theoretical physicist, former Chief Scientist at BP, former Under Secretary for Science at the Department of Energy in the Obama administration, and is currently a professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at NYU. He is also the author of Unsettled, a book about the abilities and limits of climate science. We talk with him about the great distance between the scientific reports and public conception, the social unrest that's seeded by unwarranted fear of impending catastrophe, and the delicate art of speaking out against motivated consensus. Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Support the podcast by buying Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn't, and Why it Matters (00:00) Go! (00:08:34) Koonin's entry into the climate sciences (00:16:14) Not trying to save the world, just doing science (00:26:53) Cleaning the air & global warming (00:36:30) What affects sensitivity of the models (00:53:10) Better simulations later? (01:08:02) Economics v. taking care of the Earth (01:28:45) Values discussion v. facts? (01:31:53) Working skeptically for the Obama admin (01:42:43) Energy externalities (01:46:23) Nuclear alternatives (02:01:25) Fusion possibilities? (02:09:02) Nuclear as transition - shaping our future (02:15:36) Cost of progressive policy #ClimatePhysics #ClimateScienceFacts #RealClimateScience #ClimatePhysicsDebate #ClimateRealityCheck #ClimateDissent #ScientificIntegrity #ClimateHysteriaDebate #ClimateScienceTruth #PhysicsOfClimate #ScienceAndSkepticism #ClimateFactsMatter #ScienceOverHype #ClimateDebateReality #PhysicsOfGlobalWarming Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 This is our second week on the road and we're broadcasting from uber-sunny Joshua Tree, California. Today we start out with the observation that a dominant faction of the techno-futurist community seems to believe that if our civilization maximizes intelligence, everything will be just fine in the end. We intuitively balk at this promise - and in general, we are skeptical at the lack of vision about what that future might look like. To understand this belief we have to understand what is meant by "intelligence." Then we have to consider the alternatives. We look at the evolution of this dream/nightmare from the earliest days of computer science through the lenses of sci-fi authors like Bradbury & PKDick up through a recent JRE interview with Ray Kurzweil. Tell us your thoughts in the comments! Follow our band Secretary of Nature as we're on tour! https://www.instagram.com/secretary.of.nature/ Listen to Secretary of Nature! https://soundcloud.com/laterisgone Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:06:14) Futurists value computation above all (00:08:14) Quality matters for vision (00:10:20) Intelligence: wisdom, insight, computation (00:14:45) Futurists dream to become god? (00:17:44) Insight & wisdom at the cellular level (00:23:13) False wisdom & hallucinatory insight (00:31:53) Comfort, computational value structure, and slavery (00:38:54) Bradbury corollaries (00:45:24) Soviet model: computational decision making (00:53:23) Exponential computation goes to bureaucratic singularity (00:58:09) We could be wrong. Let's be honest. (01:03:02) Tech should work for us, not the other way (01:09:19) Allure of authority (01:16:52) When computational futurists go blind (01:23:37) Caution for catastrophism. Looking within. #science #sciencepodcast #TechnoFuturism #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureVision #SciFiAnalysis #RayKurzweil #JoshuaTreeBroadcast #IntelligenceDebate #FuturistPerspectives #SkepticalViewpoints #ScienceFiction #TechnologyTrends #FutureSociety #EvolutionOfIdeas #JREInterview #Bradbury #PKDick #FutureOutlook #VisionaryThinking #PodcastDiscussion #SpeculativeFutures Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Today we are hanging out with our friend Dr. Michael Hughes, a post-doctoral fellow at St. Jude's Research Hospital in Memphis. Michael has a long history of trying to understand the role that water plays in fundamental biological operations from structural assembly to diseases like Alzheimers and Prion disorders. Presently, he is hard at work on a biological theory of everything where water plays out the role of central actor in biological processes from form to consciousness. Our conversation today begins with Michael's journey into the water rabbit hole, exploring the strange way that water structures itself within cells. We work toward an understanding of water as a photo-electrically, an electro-statically sensitive molecule capable of mechanically altering cellular function in response to conscious and external signals. We hope to have Michael back to explore a mutual fascination with the historic interface of spirituality and science by way of Rudolph Steiner and Western esotericism. Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Gilbert Ling's website & books: https://www.gilbertling.org/books.html Modern review based on the Association Induction Hypothesis: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32565181/ Rice University Archives of the Impossible: https://libguides.rice.edu/impossiblearchives (00:00) Go! (00:09:25) APS 2024 (00:11:01) Biochemistry to Cell Biology to Water Physics (00:12:49) Math has true answers (00:16:21) Prions, amyloids (00:25:49) Stress granules as proto-organelle (00:32:38) Aging as disease or no? (00:44:08) Water as biological theory of everything (00:57:19) Transient h-bonding structures (01:15:11) Water density as biological master switch? (01:26:41) Water as dark matter of consciousness (01:40:13) UAPs to be taken seriously? (01:54:36) Evidence-based beliefs? (02:11:43) Remote viewing (02:28:10) Science without spirituality? #science #sciencepodcast #BiologicalResearch #WaterInScience #ConsciousnessStudies #CellularFunction #MedicalScience #StJudesResearch #Biochemistry #AlzheimersResearch #PrionDisorders #ScienceAndSpirituality #PodcastInterview #MedicalInnovation #ResearchInsights #ScienceCommunication #HealthAndWellness #WaterMolecule #StructuralBiology #ConsciousnessExploration #SpiritualScience #SciencePodcast #structuredwater #waterscience #waterchemistry Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 We are finally en route to DEMYSTICON 2024! While we're on the road we've decided to take a moment each week to review and articulate our own insights the past year's podcast conversations. In our first On Tour Solo Edition we're examining how a theorist's metaphysics shape their inquiry. We establish metaphysics as the underlying assumptions that allow for the logical processing of a natural phenomenon. We see how several of our guests have differed in metaphysics, particularly with respect to fundamental physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. Follow our band Secretary of Nature as we're on tour this spring! https://www.instagram.com/secretary.of.nature/ Listen to Secretary of Nature! https://soundcloud.com/laterisgone Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:03:52) Wars are fought over metaphysics (00:08:49) Dualism (00:13:32) Metaphysics of QM (00:21:45) Unzicker & Roberts' metaphysics (00:28:27) Utility of materialist physics (00:32:18) Thomas Gold, Michael Levin (00:39:03) Proving metaphysical value (00:41:18) Cosmology, astro, planetary science revolutions (00:45:15) Monolithic cosmological narratives (00:49:44) Cosmic egg v. outsider cultures (00:56:34) Logic, reason, & immaterial actions (01:02:50) Mental illness & causelessness (01:08:42) Good v. bad, progress, & metaphysics (01:13:13) Intellectual generosity (01:16:11) Examination, the Aiello, Zharkova fires #science #sciencepodcast #MetaphysicsMatters, #PodcastReview, #PhilosophyDiscussion, #QuantumMetaphysics, #CosmologyDebate, #TheoreticalPhysics, #AstrophysicsInsights, #MetaphysicalInquiry, #LogicAndReason, #IntellectualDiscourse, #CosmicNarratives, #MaterialistPhysics, #SpiritualInquiry, #PhilosophicalDebate, #MindBodyDualism, #ScienceAndPhilosophy, #ExistentialQuestions, #IntellectualExchange, #MetaphysicalPerspectives, #PhilosophicalReflections Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Dr. Michel Barsoum is a materials scientist at Drexel University who is the champion of a controversial theory about the great pyramids of Giza, which says the pyramids were not fully carved from natural stone, but were cast from a geopolymer concrete mixture. For decades, Egyptologists have dismissed the notion that the pyramids incorporated any human-made cement-like materials. But Barsoum's team at Drexel University has uncovered startling new evidence from advanced microscopy analysis of pyramid samples. We talk to him about becoming entranced with the deep history of Egypt, the process of determining the true nature of a stone, and the open questions about this lost civilization that keep him up at night. What if these discoveries are enough to reshape our understanding of just how advanced and ingenious the ancient Egyptian builders were? Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:04:00) Who is Dr. Barsoum? (00:12:29) The romance of differential equations (00:18:47) Academic careers over the years (00:28:12) Geopolymers in Egypt (00:45:49) Visual vs. chemical analysis (01:04:05) The Impossibility of Egyptian Construction (01:17:25) Geometry of Pyramid Construction (01:20:36) Casing Stones alone? (01:25:07) Cast stone in other parts of the world (01:32:45) Geochemistry & material properties (01:44:45) Boundary conditions #science #sciencepodcast #AncientEgypt #Pyramids #Giza #Archaeology#Egyptology #MaterialsScience #Geopolymers #Concrete#SyntheticStone #AncientTechnology #AncientEngineering#ConstructionMarvels #PyramidCode Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 In this episode we are exploring the origins of the metaphysics that underpin the modern approach to a scientific understanding of nature with Dr. Helen De Cruz, who is the Danforth Chair in the Humanities at Saint Louis University. Professor De Cruz' research focuses on philosophy of cognitive science and philosophy of religion, with an eye for historic progressions through ideologies across the ages. In her own words, she is guided by the following question: "We spend what seem on the face of it outlandish amounts of time and energy on these pursuits, which appear to be inessential in keeping us alive in the struggle for survival and reproduction. Why do we make life even more complicated than it already is?" We aim this line of inquiry at understanding the state of today's modern physical conception of the universe: a highly mathematized, often paradoxical interpretation of fundamental material reality. Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Professor De Cruz' website: https://helendecruz.net/ (00:00) Go! (00:03:55) Seeking out the Renaissance (00:11:11) Missing piece of the middle ages (00:18:31) Downstream of the invention of the printing press (00:26:50) Eternal recurrence (00:34:30) Necessary waypoints for collaboration (00:44:51) A kind of thought that touches all domains (00:56:04) Aristotle - friend or foe to the age of reason? (01:06:55) Getting rid of the prime mover (01:14:45) Untangling "why" from "how" (01:18:51) Kant throws fuel on the fire (01:28:04) Crowning physics as king of the castle (01:36:54) Mystical power of mathematics (i.e. runes) (01:47:46) Wonder in Newton vs Wonder in Descartes (01:56:44) The Conduit of Inspiration to Reality (02:07:49) Is there such a thing as an "accident"? (02:13:48) Closing thoughts #science #sciencepodcast #philosophy #philosophypodcast #MetaphysicalOrigins, #PhilosophyofScience, #ModernScientificUnderstanding, #PhilosophicalInquiry, #IntellectualEvolution, #ScientificMetaphysics, #RenaissanceIdeas, #PhilosophicalPerspectives, #HistoricalProgressions, #CognitiveScienceInsights, #ReligionandScience, #PhilosophyofCognition, #ScientificInquiry, #IdeologicalEvolution, #ScientificRevolution, #MetaphysicalConcepts, #ContemporaryPhilosophy, #IntellectualJourney, #ScientificIdeas, #philosophicaldebate Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671