In-Sight Publishing December 2, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Ok, so, you have this idea about necessity, a lot of people do. Rick Rosner: I just have thought that just came to me that freedom from necessity is an emergent quality. Jacobsen: As in an increase in degrees of freedom? Rosner: Well, …
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In-Sight Publishing November 27, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I had some more thoughts. It's not a different stream. Yes, there are different stream of thoughts. I think that is a stream of thought, which is more precise. So, I think the vague notion that people who are in the non-religious …
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In-Sight Publishing November 27, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: If someone was to look out into the world, there appears to be objects. There appears to be subjects. You ask the question, “What is that object, or who is that to point out a subject?” How do those get slotted in thinking …
In-Sight Publishing November 27, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: This comes off of the idea that the actual worlds, the universes that could exist that are highly parallel to ours can't be magically different. You can't have a universe in which the South won the Civil War. Unless, you can explain how that …
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In-Sight Publishing November 26, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Rational and irrational, but all rooted in economic and psychological considerations that all, whether there square or not, they can explain why we do what we do. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: And so, what's the separation? Rosner: Drained by biology and sentimentality and economics. But …
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In-Sight Publishing November 26, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So in metaphysical inversion, that’s the idea, continuing from last session, I was in correspondence with a Christian professor friend. He recommended reading “Letters on Humanism” by Heidegger. As I read through some comments and the essay through the day, I wrote an …
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In-Sight Publishing November 25, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So, I'm in the tub today. Under lockdown, baths in the tub are still something you can take. My wife takes a lot of baths, and then I use the water before it cools down. I was thinking about how in America we tend …
In-Sight Publishing November 25, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Do you think the end point, the eventual end point, is, at some point, going to be the death of theology? Because it seems like we're seeing that in real time. Rick Rosner: The end point of theology, do you think that science …
In-Sight Publishing November 16, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So I think when we left off, it was somewhere around the idea that at least on our planet, the apex, the alpha information processors, the smartest beings dominate the planet with ethical behaviour towards each other, sometimes. But the lack of ethical behaviour …
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In-Sight Publishing November 16, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Ok, so, we're talking about values now. Values in the universe. Rick Rosner: We should talk about what things can feel well, which is in the realm of conscious beings. But maybe, there are some areas where things aren't quite conscious, but still …
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