Ask A Genius 769: Hopelessly Divided Consciousness

[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You wanted to talk about consciousness in two different kinds of contexts. What do you think about it? Rick Rosner: All right. So, I just got done talking about our hopelessly divided country which includes a third of the country being persuaded to believe that any fertilized human egg deserves …

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Ask A Genius 768: Another Richard Feynman Quote

[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Richard Feynman – “The Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.”  Rick Rosner: Yeah, scientists especially scientists who become quotable by being recognized as great scientists have lots of aphorisms. Sometimes you can appreciate them as themselves. Einstein talked about ‘God doesn't play dice with the universe’, ‘If this Theory isn't …

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Ask A Genius 767: Richard Feynman Quote

[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: A Richard Feynman quote. This is from The Character of Physical Law, 1965, chapter one: the law of gravitation, page 15. “This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature– this idea that to look at the thing, to record the details, …

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Ask A Genius 764: Boris Sidis Quote

[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Boris Sidis -“If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.”  Rick Rosner: Okay, William Sidis is …

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Ask A Genius 763: Raymond Chandler Quotes

[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: “I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.” - Raymond Chandler. Rick Rosner: I believe Raymond Chandler worked for insurance, he was an insurance executive. I think he was married to a wife who was older than him and who was indisposed or a …

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Ask A Genius 760: Examples From History

[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: We don't know but we can look at other examples from history. A brutally pessimistic and also optimistic example is Nazi Germany. Germany broke irretrievably under Hitler. All social and moral norms were violated and a dictatorial criminal government took over and devastated the country. And there was no recourse to …

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