I used to believe that, like ya, there was the great genius who had the original idea. And have really come to kind of terms with the idea that if you're thinking something, i mean, back to your nurons right? One of the things that claud channon speculated, and actually psychiatrists are not speculating, might be one of the causes of skitzephrenia. I would love to hear it. What is a creator? Is somebody who re combines ideas, synthesizes them into something that appears new in whatever the gen brathe were talking about. Watch the creators, is basically what i say. Youud take back to your sort of freud observation
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