I don't disagree with the concept of gentrification. It is entirely possible that somebody also discovered calculus 200 years before newton and livne, but we know about it because we weren't ready to hear it. When the student is ready, the teacher appears. Yeas. But when the teacher is ready, sometimes the student appears as well. I'm thinking less about upification, which is absolutely true. After five years, all the houses look perfect, they have the shops. Then the yuppis are like, oh, let's move there. That is a replicable pattern of behavior across all kinds of walks of life. What ideas are actually new? Ideas that are actually
Our recurring guest (who rarely recurs these days), Alex Danco, comes back for his sixth appearance on Infinite Loops! Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Our planned, but unplanned conversations
- Pink Floyd were philosophers
- From Heraclitus, to Lao Tzu, to Gita, to Deutsch
- Where does decision making come from?
- Projection 101
- Can you versus can’t you read people’s mind
- Jim throwing big fancy words like “Phylogenetic inertia”
- Corn: The apex predator
- Self-serving nature of memetic theory
- The Mirror Philosophy
- What is a “creator”?
- Communication theory by Gregory Bateson
- The Founding Murderer
- Consequences of eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge
- "The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.”
- Hot media vs. Cool media
- The Wire, and dumb Stringer
- The state of accreditation
- Balancing mystery with transparency
- Knowing pop culture as a status symbol
- And MUCH more!
Books Mentioned:
- The Science of Storytelling; by Will Storr
- The Status Game; by Will Storr
- Happy; by Derren Brown
- The Selfish Gene; by Richard Dawkins
- Steps to an Ecology of Mind; by Gregory Bateson
- War and Peace; by Leo Tolstoy