Category: Podcasts
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Bradford Keeney on shaking up everything
The following is from an interview with Bradford Keeney on February 7, 2018. Bradford Keeney said (my emphasis in italics): (6:16) Everything that we admit is permissible and legitimate in our culture…is that it must be tame,…it must be convenient for words to map, express and articulate… But in fact…the old ways, the original forms…
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Retrospective 2024-38
This is a retrospective of week 38, 2024 (2024-09-16–2024-09-22). This week I’ve read Rupert Read’s review of The Matter with Things by Iain McGilchrist. Rupert Read writes (italics in the original): For me, the great value of McGilchrist’s work consists in (i) critiquing the existing picture; especially, by way simply of showing that it is…
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Retrospective 2024-25
This is a retrospective of week 25, 2024 (2024-06-17–2024-06-23). This week finished read Bridging Science and Spirit: The Genius of William A. Tiller’s Physics and the Promise of Information Medicine by Nisha J. Manek. Manek views the book as “a work in progress” and describes the “uneasiness” with writing it as follows: Any writer will…
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Retrospective 2024-24
This is a retrospective of week 24, 2024 (2024-06-10–2024-06-16). This week, I’ve read an article about the persistent inaccuracies which plague Large Language Models (LLMs). The authors argue that it’s more accurate and useful to describe “AI hallucinations” as bullshit. These models replicate human language without any concern for truth. This is a serious problem…
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Retrospective 2024-23
This is a retrospective of week 23, 2024 (2024-06-03–2024-06-09). This is a reminder to myself that I still haven’t finished my review of Robert Rosen’s book Anticipatory Systems which I started writing week 10. The reason I mention this is that I listened to Krista Tippett’s conversation with Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton this…
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Retrospective 2024-20
This is a retrospective of week 20, 2024 (2024-05-13–2024-05-19). As mentioned last week, I’m currently reading Biology Revisioned by Willis Harman and Elisabet Sahtouris. Harman and Sahtouris raise important questions about living systems and how to deal with self-organization. This has further implications for dealing with organizations and societies. Willis Harman mentions Margaret Wheatley’s eight…
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Retrospective 2024-19
This is a retrospective of week 19, 2024 (2024-05-06–2024-05-12). This week I’ve continued reading Biology Revisioned by Willis Harman and Elisabet Sahtouris. It’s a book which arrived last week. Harman and Sahtouris write: The self-forming characteristics of living beings…require a re-examination of the metaphysical assumptions that tend to underlie all of Western science. –Willis Harman…
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Retrospective 2024-18
This is a retrospective of week 18, 2024 (2024-04-29–2024-05-05). This week I’ve continued looking into the work of Forrest Landry. Here and here are my previous retrospectives on Landry’s work. Jim Rutt talks with Landry about his Small Group Method and the difficulties in scaling it up beyond 16 people in this podcast. Forrest Landry’s…