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On Radical Uncertainty, "Phantastic Objects", And Blowing Bubbles - David Tuckett

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Uncertainty of Values

New narratives make sense in the context of existing narratives. The new narrative has to say to speak, link up with enough old stuff or prevailing beliefs. There's always a causal explanation somewhere inside a narrative as there is inside a novel. So it's a view of the future and it generates emotions. That's fundamental to it. And generating is either exciting or anxiety producing feelings based on what I said earlier about emotion. Now, but so, but all of this is necessary because of uncertainty. A fantastic object only operates in an area where we do not know.

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