Oppenheimer was all too human when he tried to destroy bam's theory of hidden variables in quanta mechanics. The reason he chose to try to destroy that theory had nothing to do with the theory. And science, i think, can also have this very dictatorial stance of what it conceives as evidence. It applies very beautifully to the art market as well and to financial auction markets. This is fun. I can only imagine people would be staring at us in a restaurant. Heother thing that i love about what you said, and think very, very much. I wrote a thing called the thinker and the prover, based on a doctor ore who came up with it and
Johnathan Bi started out getting trained in Mathematics, and then eventually went on to study Philosophy and Computer Science at Columbia. He hosts a lecture series on René Girard’s Mimetic Theory and is also a founding member of Lonsdale Investment Technology. Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Becoming pessimistic with age
- Humiliation always comes back to bite you
- How Jonathan got introduced to Buddhism and Girard
- Why Jonathan left academia
- The driving human emotion
- Has modernity ignored the “spirit”?
- Girard’s apocalyptic predictions
- Wild, wild west of capitalism
- The mystery with the discovery of the skull
- What does eugenics say about science?
- Science becoming dictatorial
- Buddhism figuring out the inner telescope
- Physical vs. metaphysical desires
- Mimesis in asset valuation
- Price to magic ratio
- Nietzsche's will of power
- Is delusion bad?
- Can internet lead to greater violence?
- “The Buddhist Solution”
- Girard—A rescuer of spirit
- And MUCH more!
Books Mentioned:
- The Status Game; by Will Storr
- The Struggle for Recognition; by Axel Honneth
- Sapiens; by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Science of Storytelling; by Will Storr
- The Origin of Species; Charles Darwin
- Untimely Meditations; by Friedrich Nietzsche