Ask A Genius 287 – Apocalypse Now, For You (2)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 287 - Apocalypse Now, For You (2) September 11, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: And six million of them just slaughtered and the rest just scattered just kind of forced out of their countries. Got right, you know any place you have genocide you to go cross, you know …

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Ask A Genius 286 – Apocalypse Now, For You (1)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 286 - Apocalypse Now, For You (1) September 10, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: There could be a disruption index which is a framework for looking at the lives of generations of people. And kind of gauging how much disruption they have in their actual physical lives, their physical …

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Ask A Genius 284 – A-Atheist (6)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 284 - A-Atheist (6) September 8, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What if the universe is its own container somehow? Rick Rosner: Well, I don't know. I mean that’s a possibility. I don't know how that would work or it's a possibility that you don't need infinities and …

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Ask A Genius 283 – A-Atheist (5)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 283 - A-Atheist (5) September 7, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: There’s information within consciousness, we experience it as the feeling of consciousness but that information should be character risible physically and mathematically; you should be able to model that information as interacting with itself in some kind of information …

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Ask A Genius 282 – A-Atheist (4)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 282 - A-Atheist (4) September 6, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: The brain when we’re awake at least is… and even when we’re not awake, being asleep is also a best bet type of deal where our brains have biological limitations. We can’t be awake all the time, or maybe …

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Ask A Genius 280 – A-Atheist (2)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 280 - A-Atheist (2) September 4, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: I have beliefs that don’t entirely coincide with that view; it still comes from the same place from both, in math and science, and the rules of existence from which we get the laws of physics and the rules …

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Ask A Genius 279 – A-Atheist (1)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 279 - A-Atheist (1) September 3, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Well, we were just talking in another session about worldviews and limitations and knowledge; you're not an atheist, why? Rick Rosner: I’m not an atheist? Jacobsen: Yeah, why? Rosner: Alright, so, I'm not a full-on atheist. I …

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Ask A Genius 278 – The Future for Kindness (4)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 278 - The Future for Kindness (4) September 2, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: According to the definition of racism, basically making judgments based on people’s appearances and what you know about them, whether or not you act on those judgments or discriminate.  That’s one form of racism is …

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Ask A Genius 277 – The Future for Kindness (3)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 277 - The Future for Kindness (3) September 1, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: But maybe that thing would be more effective with feelings, and maybe there is an argument to be made for sophisticated piece of machinery like that, that simulates feelings to have actual feelings.  I don’t …

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Ask A Genius 276 – The Future for Kindness (2)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 276 - The Future for Kindness (2) August 31, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: And under that system somebody could argue that those are the people that deserve all of our considerations because they are feeling things much more intensely with all of their added cognitive power.  You want …

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