In-Sight Publishing Born to do Math 59 – Many Worlds Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 4, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Perspectives like the Many Worlds perspective. I have a feeling that when we understand things better. There will be optional perspectives, optional ways to frame existence that may or may …
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The Future of…1 – Welcome to the Future
In-Sight Publishing The Future of…1 – Welcome to the Future Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 2, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: We don’t think much about the future. The reason being that the future has looked much like the present. In the 14th century, if you lived in a village and …
Ask A Genius 101 – Life and Death (Part 16)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 101 – Life and Death (Part 16)[1] Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner February 26, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Jacobsen: We talked about the depressing aspects of life and death. Death in its rather bleak aspects as well as life in its gross aspects—sex, bodily functions. Another aspect …
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Ask A Genius 100 – Life and Death (Part 15)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 100 – Life and Death (Part 15)[1] Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner February 25, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Jacobsen: To the beginning of the conversation, the kind of the religious and modern secular taboos around sexual relations, and the way that bodily functions are all haphazard—boogers, eye …
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Ask A Genius 99 – Life and Death (Part 14)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 99 – Life and Death (Part 14)[1] Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner February 24, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Jacobsen: Society has many taboos around sex and sexual conduct, especially for the young and women (Sonny, 2012). These can be religiously based traditionally, but even in larger secular …
Ask A Genius 98 – Life and Death (Part 13)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 98 – Life and Death (Part 13)[1] Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner 2017/02/23 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: We’ve been talking about death. We’ve been talking about evolution (Moran, 2006).[2] We should tie those things together. One, death is kind of tied into evolution (Kucharski, 2013). Evolution only …
Ask A Genius 97 – Life and Death (12)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 97 – Life and Death (12)[1] Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 22, 2017 Scott: As a systems and institutional analysis, and in my experience in the academic system, and I know it pretty well, if you look at the way that the professorial system is set up and …
Ask A Genius 96 – Life and Death (11)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 96 – Life and Death (11) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 21, 2017 *Footnotes & in-text citations in the interview & references after the interview.* *This session edited for clarity and readability.* Rick: This book I am reading I great, and only 170 pages or so, because 1) he’s …
Ask A Genius 95 – Life and Death (10)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 95 – Life and Death (10) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 20, 2017 *Footnotes & in-text citations in the interview & references after the interview.* *This session edited for clarity and readability.* Rick: The last time we spoke, I had begun to read a book by Thomas Wolfe called …
Ask A Genius 94 – Life and Death (9)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 94 – Life and Death (9) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 19, 2017 *Footnotes in the interview & references after the interview.* *This session edited for clarity and readability.* Scott: What if these fundamental premises of the arguments we’re making about the future are not taken on hand by …
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