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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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Ask A Genius 93 – Life and Death (8)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 93 – Life and Death (8) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 18, 2017 *Footnotes in the interview & references after the interview.* *This session edited for clarity and readability.* Scott: Two things come to mind there – well, three actually. One, all of evolution builds on previous structures and …

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Ask A Genius 92 – Life and Death (7)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 92 – Life and Death (7) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 17, 2017 *Footnotes in the interview & bibliography after the interview.* *This session edited for clarity and readability.* Rick: The people who might have the greatest intuitive understanding of the legal aspects of this stuff are the people …

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Ask A Genius 90 – Life and Death (5)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 90 – Life and Death (5) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 15, 2017 *Footnotes in & after the interview, & bibliography after the interview.* *This session edited for clarity and readability.* Scott: We have talked about medicine, technology, the devaluation of people, and the Golden Rule. Other aspects are …

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Ask A Genius 89 – Life and Death (4)

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 …

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