The Michael Shermer Show

229. Fritjof Capra on Patterns of Connection: Is there a Tao of physics? Is life a web? Is humanity at a turning point?

Nov 23, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
2
The Do of Physics and the Turning Point
03:40 • 1min
3
What Is Consciousness?
05:07 • 2min
4
A Brief History of Freejoff Capra
06:42 • 4min
5
Is Heisenberg a Scientist?
11:11 • 5min
6
What Is the Progress in Science?
16:01 • 3min
7
Essay on the Sixties in Patterns of Connection
18:33 • 4min
8
The Values of the Sixties
22:30 • 2min
9
Did the Civil Rights Movement Go Too Far?
24:41 • 6min
10
We're the 99 %
30:16 • 4min
11
Can We Afford a Big National Debt?
34:37 • 3min
12
Breaking Up the Tech Companies
37:07 • 2min
13
How Woulda Facebook Ever Get Big to Do What It Can Do Without Public No Money?
39:23 • 4min
14
Is There a Social Consciousness in Money?
42:56 • 2min
15
The Stock Market Can Go Up and Down Like a Saw Tooth
44:46 • 4min
16
What We Have Learned From the Pandemic
48:22 • 3min
17
We Don't Need Fossil Fuels, We Dont Need Nuclear
51:18 • 5min
18
Fusion Is Just Not There, You Know?
56:03 • 2min
19
Yen and Yang - A Review of the New York Review of Books
58:05 • 5min
20
The Sub Atomic Particles and the Ultimate Theory of Reality
01:03:03 • 3min
21
The Heart Problem of Consciousness
01:05:52 • 3min
22
What Is Consciousness?
01:09:16 • 2min
23
How Many Layers of Noal Networks Do You Need in the Cortex?
01:11:26 • 2min
24
Is Consciousness the Ground of All Being?
01:13:44 • 4min
25
Is There a Reductionism?
01:17:31 • 3min
26
Is There a First Move or a Prime Move?
01:20:02 • 3min
27
Are You a Spiritual Person?
01:23:20 • 2min
28
How Do You Think About Free Will?
01:25:22 • 4min
29
The Problem of Determinism Versus Freedom
01:29:04 • 2min
30
The Self Is Emergent From All the Different Parts
01:30:41 • 3min
31
Is There a Future for Humanity?
01:33:17 • 3min