Category: Podcasts
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Retrospective 2024-51
This is a retrospective of week 51, 2024 (2024-12-16–2024-12-22). I’ve listened to podcasts with Bill Plotkin1 and Penelope Smith2,3 this week. Bill Plotkin recited All True Vows by David Whyte and said: Life serves life. —Bill Plotkin https://youtu.be/S25UKlLq5m8?t=2948 Help a small child feel totally welcomed in this world. … The fact that they are seen…
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Retrospective 2024-50
This is a retrospective of week 50, 2024 (2024-12-09–2024-12-15). I mentioned last week that I’ve started reading The Dreaming Way by Toko-pa Tuner. This week I’ve been reading Belonging by Toko-pa Turner. Toko-pa Turner writes: …I write to you not as an expert in belonging, but as an orphan who needed to discover that there…
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Retrospective 2024-48
This is a retrospective of week 48, 2024 (2024-11-25–2024-12-01). I have listened to the following podcasts this week: Jeffrey Mishlove said: Limits of Science Science itself is incapable of addressing first principles. … Why was the universe created in the first place is not a question that science can answer. … What are the limits…
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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…