[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What were the concepts of personal well-being before 1980, and how have they evolved up to now, or what might personal notions of well-being look like today? Rick Rosner: Alright, throughout human history, a key aspect of well-being has been our ability to overlook the inevitability of aging and death. …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are you thinking about recently regarding informational cosmology? Rick Rosner: All right, we were discussing Ed Fredkin and digital physics. I first came across the concept of digital physics around 1972, when a physics professor, who was the father of my brother's basketball teammate, lent me the book "Gravitation" …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Please go ahead. What are you talking about in terms of conceptual? Rick Rosner: So, you're using the money you make working hard around horses to pay for massages. Jacobsen: Oh yeah. Rosner: My experience in my 20s was in Boulder in the 80s. People worked incredibly long hours at …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How do you deal with comments that are awful aimed at you in all domains? Rick Rosner: I've faced terrible behavior in various settings. One experience was working as a bouncer in bars, where checking IDs and ejecting people often led to verbal abuse. It was part of the job, …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: In your time as a comedy writer, how do you learn to deal with belligerent social and political commentary; things so abhorrent happening in the social scene or legal scene or cultural scene in America that only a joke can make some sense of it? Rick Rosner: The political climate …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How can the universe manage contradictions, or what must it do with them to remain mostly non-contradictory and continue to exist? Rick Rosner: The parts of the universe that contradict its active center must be largely shut down, rendered unable to interact with the active center. We have mechanisms for …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: For the past eight years, we've been discussing the concept of Informational Cosmology (IC), and personally, I've been contemplating it since I was 21. That's when I first had more than just a hint of its significance. So, essentially, I've devoted 40 years to pondering these ideas. However, my latest thoughts …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Who's likely in his eighties now. Hold on, the heater just came on, so you'll need to start that second point again, and a bit louder, please. Yeah, I'm not entirely sure, but from your explanation, I'd probably need to read the paper or something. It sounds like he's suggesting that …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Well, my focus is on how our brains are filled up. You see, we have the same brains, genetically speaking, as people did 100,000 or even 10,000 years ago. But today, three key factors contribute to our brains being more saturated with information than they were 2,000 or even 500 years …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Okay, what this makes me think of is how the most thrilling games in sports happen during pivotal moments, like a World Series or a Game Seven that's still tied in the ninth, tenth, or eleventh inning. Or consider a Super Bowl going into overtime. The closer the match between two …
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