In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 89 – Life and Death (4) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 14, 2017 *This session has been edited for clarity and readability.* Rick: If everybody is given a fair chance under democratic American values, we embrace those values because we consider ourselves everybody. One way that the American …
Ask A Genius 88 – Life and Death (3)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 88 – Life and Death (3) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 13, 2017 *This session has been edited for clarity and readability.* Rick: My eye is sore. I only have one contact in, so I am working with ¾ of a brain. So, excuse any nonsense. We were …
Ask A Genius 87 – Life and Death (2)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 87 – Life and Death (2) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 12, 2017 *This session has been edited for clarity and readability.* Scott: Things continue to ramp up, though (Investopedia, 2017; Encyclopædia Britannica, 2015). There’s a sense in which the natural development of technology and medicine through better, …
Ask A Genius 86 – Life and Death (1)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 86 – Life and Death (1) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 11, 2017 *This session has been edited for clarity and readability.* Scott: Death is a profound topic. It raises profound feelings, and questions (Markman, 2008; Murphy, 2015; Alper, 2015). It raises exceptional circumstances for people, especially their …
Ask A Genius 85 – Connectome and Genome (2)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 85 - Connectome and Genome (2) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 10, 2017 *This session has been edited for clarity and readability.* Scott: You mentioned the digital trace someone leaves. So, if you take the current popular social medial like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, people might be able …
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Ask A Genius 84 – Connectome and Genome (1)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 84 - Connectome and Genome (1) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 9, 2017 *This session has been edited for clarity and readability.* Scott: There’s the idea of the connectome, which is a structural-functional mapping of the brain. It is supposed to be used in connection with the genome …
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Ask A Genius 83 – Chaos and Order (2)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 83 – Chaos and Order (2) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 8, 2017 *This session has been edited for clarity and readability.* Scott: What else would “flavors” of order and chaos imply (Pippard, 2015)? Rick: There’s the idea that if you step all of the way back that …
Ask A Genius 82 – Chaos and Order (1)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 82 – Chaos and Order (1) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 7, 2017 Scott: So, there’s a little argument to be made that you can get chaos in pockets of an ordered system, but, I would argue, you would probably need a, not a nothingness chaos but, bubbly-inconsistency …
Ask A Genius 81 – Other Arms Races
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 81 – Other Arms Races Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 6, 2017 Scott: We’ve talked, off tape, about overlapping arms races. Let’s label and describe some. Rick: The biological arms race is one. It is considered weird to be living as long as possible outside of the normal …
Ask A Genius 80 – Present-Day America (3)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 80 – Present-Day America (3) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 5, 2017 Scott: Polarization is another issue. Rick: There could be belligerent yahoo-ism to the point where violence and riots break out among the Trump-ish states and the Liberal states. You could imagine something like that happening. It …
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