[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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[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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 768: Another 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, …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: “The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it's how you recover from those failures - is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what did wrong and you make it right. I say that to …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: “The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it's how you recover from those failures - is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what did wrong and you make it right. I say that to …
[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 …
[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 …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Is the Giga Society label legitimate? Or is it more aspirational? Rick Rosner: Not legitimate but is it a meaningful distinction which is a less loaded way of asking it. Jacobsen: I mean to me it sounds more aspirational but a serious effort. Rosner: So anyway what else can you …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, your mom died and there's been some rude things that have come across and some stress. Rick Rosner: Well, it was sad because we've redirected her mail to us, so we got her first batch of mail including two letters from a bank; she's gone from being Ruth Kahn …
[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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