The Amazing Hypothesis

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francis crick's the book title, the astonishing hypothesis, which is that all this stuff is just the product of brain tissue. It reminds me a little bit of john nash who kind of overcame his schitzophrania. He mostly heard voices, though in the movie the beautiful mind, they made them visual hallucinations because it's a movie, not a sound track. Ah, but he managed to overcome it by just being aware, i know this is what's going on. And yes, i find brains, and i'm not at all e. I more interested in the humanities, anin culture. But neuro science i have developed quite an interest in, yes?

Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn’t practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society?

In this wide-ranging conversation Helen Pluckrose recounts the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields. Today this dogma is recognizable as much by its effects, such as cancel culture and social-media dogpiles, as by its tenets, which are all too often embraced as axiomatic in mainstream media: knowledge is a social construct; science and reason are tools of oppression; all human interactions are sites of oppressive power play; and language is dangerous.