The Ralston College Podcast

Ep. 13 - On the Freedom of Thought and Nature: Freeman Dyson and Stephen Blackwood

Dec 18, 2020
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
Freeman Dyson: The Courageous and Independent Thinker
03:00 • 4min
3
The Power of Authority
06:55 • 2min
4
The Importance of Freedom in Life
08:44 • 3min
5
The Inherent Freedom of Thought
11:51 • 3min
6
The Unbounded Prodigality of Mind and Life
15:03 • 2min
7
The Problems With the PhD System
17:17 • 3min
8
The Perversities of the PhD System
20:06 • 2min
9
The Importance of a PhD
21:46 • 3min
10
The Importance of Independent Learning
25:14 • 2min
11
The Paradox of Educational Institutions
27:18 • 2min
12
The Contrast Between Napoleonic and Tolstoyan Education
29:00 • 3min
13
Tolstoy's Opposite Philosophy
31:42 • 2min
14
The Tolstoyan Nature of Science
33:21 • 3min
15
How to Cultivate a Creative Spirit in the Young
36:17 • 2min
16
The Power of Mathematics
37:49 • 2min
17
The Power of Imagination
39:44 • 4min
18
The Independence of the Mind
43:25 • 2min
19
The Importance of Truth in Science
45:37 • 4min
20
Fermi's Theory of Physics
49:57 • 3min
21
The Role of Intellectual Humility
52:42 • 3min
22
The Non-Reductive Quality of Reality
55:36 • 2min
23
The Dialectical Thinking of Reality
58:01 • 2min
24
The Non-Reducible Character of Reality
59:38 • 5min
25
The Evolution of Sexual Preferences
01:04:43 • 6min
26
The Coherency and Purpose of the Universe
01:10:41 • 2min
27
The Evolution of Neanderthals
01:12:12 • 3min
28
The Evolution of Consciousness
01:15:10 • 3min
29
The Mind Is Inherent in Every Electron
01:17:56 • 2min
30
The Negative Effects of Reductivist Materialism
01:19:26 • 2min
31
The Nature of Things Is Non-Reductive
01:21:14 • 3min
32
The Non-Deterministic Concept of Science
01:23:49 • 2min
33
The Non-Reductivist Mode of Thinking
01:25:43 • 2min
34
Freeman Dyson on the Late Mathematician Polymath
01:27:36 • 2min