The DemystifySci Podcast

Jon White is the creator behind the Crecganford channel on YouTube, which explores ancient Indo-European mythology with a keen eye for how these stories converge upon a picture of some of civilization's most embryonic moments. Our conversation considers the roots of language, poetry, music, myth, and all things essential to our modern conception of humanity in all its riches and rags. Check out the  @Crecganford's channel on YouTube for more mythopoetic analysis of human history! 00:00:00 Go! 00:00:17 Who is Jon F. White 00:04:52 Ferryman of the Dead 00:12:33 Why do myths persist? 00:15:54 Why death? 00:21:47 Religion as an organizing principle 00:28:52 The heavy burden of kings 00:38:41 Technology & myth 00:45:40 The Oldest Story in the World 00:50:11 The Rainbow Serpent 01:01:05 Blank spots at the start of civilization 01:12:11 Transition to monotheism 01:17:39 Personification of God 01:27:27 The new myths 01:34:01 The oldest words 01:45:19 Origin of myth Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub#mythology #stories #mapsofmeaning Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Creon Levit is an R&D director at Planet Labs, where he mines satellite imagery data to find answers to myriad questions about the changing landscape, climate, and behaviors of humanity here on Earth. Our conversation explores our society's, and perhaps humanity's, persistent struggle to update our knowledge base and construct newer, more functional narratives about the world. Creon's blogging: https://creon.substack.com/ 00:00:00 Go! 00:00:17 Who is Creon Levit 00:12:35 Patreon Ask 00:13:46 Questions that Drive You 00:17:33 Is there really dissent in what is good? 00:23:32 Do psychedelics destabilize society? 00:33:45 Learning to ask the right questions 00:38:52 Contrarianism as an inherent orientation 00:41:26 Some people are destined to be contrarians 00:52:58 Lack of free ecosystems 01:00:11 Is siloing really so bad? 01:06:48 Quantum Physics 01:11:06 Does the future influence the present? 01:24:48 A different approach to quantum mechanics 01:27:27 Smooth arc between regenerative agriculture death cults 01:38:16 Taking back degraded land 01:49:45 Money exchanging hands at the beaver pond 02:03:39 Orientation to the Good 02:10:26 Opinion Jubilee 02:21:39 Closing thoughts 02:28:41 Chinese spy balloons Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub#climatechange #civilization #planet Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Gregg Braden, a researcher bridging science and spirituality, discusses institutional corruption, human origins, static science, climate change, social engineering, AI, and parallel societies cleaving the species in a thought-provoking podcast.

Dr. Michael Hudson is a professor of Economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City, political consultant, commentator, and journalist. His career has focused on the study of debt, both external and internal, with an eye on what happens when the exponentially growing debts of a society outstrip the profits from the real economy. In the second part of our conversation we talk about modern monetary theory, the path towards debt forgiveness, and the foundational rules of a more perfect society that is not getting devoured by the rentier class. Support the podcast by check out Dr. Hudson’s books through our amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/44F6J7n00:00:00 Go! 00:01:01 Modern monetary theory 00:06:43 Patreon Ask 00:10:03 Devaluation of the currency 00:20:52 A functional government or a functional press 00:26:25 Only revolution cancels debt 00:29:28 What follows collapse? 00:39:36 stumble - Public Pensions and Ideological Suicide 00:50:26 Worker Ownership 01:01:49 Evolution or Revolution? 01:15:29 A good billionaire? 01:20:33 Closing thoughts Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub#structuredwater #spore #pain Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Michael Hudson is a professor of Economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City, a political consultant, commentator, and journalist. His career has focused on the study of debt, both external and internal, with an eye on what happens when the exponentially growing debts of a society outstrip the profits from the real economy. We talk about GDP is a false marker of prosperity, the growing influence of the rentier class, fantasies of joining the one percent, and why there’s never going to be another debt jubilee, even if it means the whole system has to fall apart. We continue the conversation about possible solutions in part 2, which will be released on Thursday. In the meantime, check out Dr. Hudson’s books: https://amzn.to/44F6J7n 00:00:00 Go! 00:00:16 Who is Michael Hudson 00:16:39 Patreon Ask 00:16:47 Who does the economy work for? 00:22:15 Redlining and the Aspiring Rentier Class 00:26:25 Fantasy of the 1% 00:33:00 Real estate always rises 00:37:40 How governments and CIA betray the people 00:43:55 Rhetoric vs reality in the demagogue 00:45:45 Antiquity, Oligarchs, and Debt 01:01:12 Debt cancellation 01:10:29 Debt free life 01:14:31 Financial capital's destructive force 01:19:32 What oligarchs do 01:23:36 Depopulation agendas Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub#structuredwater #spore #pain Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

DemystifySci goes solo. We talk about placebo mechanisms in psychedelic research, why no one can put together a good protest any more, and most importantly, Shilo lays out his structured water hypothesis for why spores stay asleep, in context of his recent Nature paper about hydration solids, a new kind of biomaterial: https://rdcu.be/ddZgd Evaporation Machines from the Sahin Lab @columbia   (set to Shilo's music): https://youtu.be/d_VkSPV7d2I Shilo's dissertation on the physical basis of spore germination: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8FJ3PNH 00:00:00 Go!00:00:17 psychedelics and pain00:20:42 Familiarity rules00:43:11 Ideal scientific discourse00:58:22 Lost idea of hypotheses01:00:19 structured water hypothesis for bacterial spore germination01:08:54 highly viscous spore water01:26:16 overcoming specialization silos01:36:51 2024 DS Conference Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub #structuredwater #spore #pain Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci:  https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics,  @MaterialAtomics   https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S   PODCAST INFO:  Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog  - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss- Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD- Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y  SOCIAL:  - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. James Tour is a Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science and Nanoengineering at Rice University who comes to defend a bold claim: that origin of life researchers are completely clueless about the mechanisms by which life arose on Earth. We start out with talking about Tour’s chemistry work, which includes a method of producing no cost hydrogen fuel and graphene too cheap to meter, the foundations on which he’s built his science empire, and get down to the vital chemistry questions that need to be answered before we can figure out what the earliest cells could have looked like. 00:00:00 Go! 00:00:17 Hydrogen fuel as a byproduct of graphene production 00:08:01 Cost of Production 00:10:58 Patreon Ask 00:12:30 Why graphene? 00:14:43 Concrete 00:19:53 How ideas happen 00:26:33 “T” People 00:31:44 Talking across disciplines 00:42:14 Making space for play in the lab 00:52:08 G_d 01:02:31 Pornography 01:14:11 The gospels 01:21:51 Synthetic Brain 01:27:55 Mechanism and miracles 01:31:26 What makes a mechanism? 01:34:21 Origin of Life 01:43:46 What is the beginning 01:49:40 The debate 02:15:12 Chirality 02:25:29 Closing thoughts Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub #originoflife #abiogenesis #syntheticchem Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Stephen Grossberg is a cognitive scientist, theoretical psychologist, neuroscientists and mathematician who, with Gail Carpenter, is the originator of Adaptive Resonance Theory - an explanation of how we learn without catastrophic forgetting. It also happens to be a solution to the hard problem of consciousness. We discuss the problem of catastrophic forgetting, the ways that resonant states lead to consciousness, the AI cliques that have taken over the industry, and why AGI is impossible under current design parameters. Check out his book, Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: https://amzn.to/3PshWnc00:00:00 Go! 00:00:17 Who is Steve Grossberg? 00:12:19 Patreon Ask 00:14:44 Learning without Catastrophic forgetting 00:22:26 Bottom Up vs Top Down Systems 00:26:07 Integrating Adaptive Resonance Into Existing Systems 00:30:01 The AI Clique 00:40:03 Gated Steepest Descent: A model for learning 00:54:21 Plagiarism and Progress 01:06:25 Pitfalls of Finite Markovian Chain Models 01:12:44 The Rockefeller University Years 01:26:30 BREAK 01:26:45 Cracking the Hard Problem 01:34:18 Why we have to be conscious 01:41:01 How representations become sufficient 01:51:31 Not All Resonances are Conscious 01:55:24 The Relief System 02:01:47 Steelmanning the hard problem 02:10:18 Integrating flawed ideas 02:13:12 The Solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness 02:17:29 On the Nature of Qualia 02:21:33 Information is a Vacuous Term 02:25:27 Evolution from Primitive to Complex 02:30:31 Putting ART in Evolutionary Terms 02:33:33 Learning Language Meanings 02:35:25 ChatGPT is a lookup table 02:39:39 Closing Thoughts Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Support Dr. Grossberg by buying his book, Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: https://amzn.to/3PshWnc Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub#consciousness #mind #resonance Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Alexander Unzicker is a neuroscientist, theoretical physicst, and award-winning non-fiction author who has just published a new book on Dr. Pierre Marie Robitaille’s liquid metallic hydrogen model of the sun. We speak to him about the theory, why Kirchhoff’s Law of Thermal Emission is so important, evidence for chemistry in the photosphere, and much more. Check out his book, The Liquid Sun: https://amzn.to/3Puq7iV00:00:00 Go! 00:00:17 Liquid Metallic Hydrogen Model of the Sun 00:09:19 The antenna model of light 00:12:06 Patreon Ask 00:13:23 Condensed Matter Model of the Sun 00:24:59 Kirchoff's law 00:35:42 Eddington's arguments 00:48:53 Breaking the CMB 01:00:05 Imaging the Unseen 01:10:24 Technological Promise 01:26:16 Changing the Sun's Parameters 01:48:11 Liquids and lattices 01:56:37 Closing thoughts Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub#solarphysics #sun #physics Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Shane Simonsen is a an experimental farmer and speculative biologist who breeds crops that can thrive under zero-input conditions in a post-industrial future. We talk about his vision for the lumbering collapse of the petroleum-fueled present, the rise of the biopunks, and the limitations of our imagination when it comes to military tech, psychological weapons, and the dark art of crowd control. Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Check out Shane's novellas about the biological technology driven future: https://amzn.to/3NxLK0w Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub#collapse #zeroinputagriculture #biopunk Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671