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A Philosopher and a Scientist engage each other and Ideas.
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Sunday Jan 13, 2019
Sunday Jan 13, 2019
Yeats repeats “a terrible beauty is born” in his poem “Easter, 1916”. The poem expresses the emotional limbo of Yeats as he grapples with the post World War I Irish rebellion in response to the broken promise of Irish liberation. Out of acts of violence, comes the hope of freedom. Or is it the hope of freedom that fuels acts of violence?
Whence progress?
Do we make progress with ideas, and if so, does it not require a "terrible beauty" as a means of initiation?
In this episode the Dawdler’s use Sabine Hossenfelder’s book “Lost in Math” as a guide to explore where, if anywhere, we ought to place appeals to beauty in our intellectual searches. It’s a theme that has surfaced now and again on the podcast and here the Dawdlers take a bit of a plunge.
Settle down with your inner chimp. It’s about to get unreasonable.
00:06:43 – Topic Introduction
00:12:54 – Philosophy of Aesthetics? // Two Theses on Taste
00:22:44 – G.E.P. Box’s Scientific Feedback Loop
00:26:16 – Falsifiability vs. Unplausifiability // Constraints on the Foundations of Physics
00:37:36 – Arguments from Beauty/“Naturalness” // Symmetry Stuff
00:52:24 – Biases
00:56:00 – Harland and Ryan duke it out about aesthetic concerns in ideas?
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I detect a conscious decision to not say "all the damn time."
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
The last time I drank Chock Full O' Nuts coffee was a year or so ago. It's probably still available.
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
"I think of it as a wine glass-in-hand, looking-at-a Rothko-style activity." heh
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Beauty is the Enemy, perhaps?
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
I learned the metaphor about being unaware of one's cultural immersion like a fish swimming in water in an Anthropology 175 class. That teacher assigned a reading from the book Ishmael (the part about jellyfish) and there just happened to be a copy my sister had gifted to my dad in the house so I read the whole book. The professor said she'd found that copy of Ishmael at a hostel or something, and it's part of a series.
Sunday Jan 13, 2019
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