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Crisp conversations with critical thinkers at the leading edge of science, technology, politics, and social systems.
EP 314 Zak Stein and Marc Gafni on the Nature of Everything
The Jim Rutt Show
1 hour 38 minutes 59 seconds
3 months ago
EP 314 Zak Stein and Marc Gafni on the Nature of Everything
Jim talks with Zak Stein and Marc Gafni about consciousness, attention, and value as fundamental aspects of reality. They explore continuity & discontinuity in evolution, phenomenology & naturalism, emergence, value theory, selection theory, mathematics as both discovered & created, pre-life organic chemistry, sexual selection & evolutionary dynamics, attraction/allurement across different emergent layers, evolving value, first principles & first values, the intimacy equation concept, desire as disclosing value, consciousness in animals vs simpler systems, machine consciousness, group selection theory, the evolution of complexity, the role of contingency & necessity, religious & materialist perspectives on value, and much more.
The Jim Rutt Show
Crisp conversations with critical thinkers at the leading edge of science, technology, politics, and social systems.
