Syllojism is a bi-monthly science, culture, and philosophy challenge podcast on the edge of chaos.
Challenge: Read The Duobomber WoMxnifesto ← Click for a Free audiobook read by Natasha.
Show Notes:
1:27 The Edison home
2:40 “Society everywhere is in a conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.”
12:37 What would Emerson think of Natasha’s TikTok?
14:10 Spiritual libertarianism
13:00 "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for
the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder,
because you will always find those who think they know what is your
duty better than you know it. It is easy the world is to live after
the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the
great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect
sweetness the independence of solitude." - Self Reliance
15:18 Brett is the devil
15:49 Emerson was a Pantheist, not a MAP (Minor attracted Person)
17:09 Kenny Powers Quote
17:20 Spinoza’s God
18:03 “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little
you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard
words again, though it contradicts everything you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall
be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?
Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and
Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that
took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
21:49: Emerson/Drake/Zucc meme
26:00 Natasha’s Pedigree
26:54 Erdos Number
23:56 Evidence of simulation
25:30 “Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the masterwho could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? Every great man is a unique. ”
31:30 Finite and infinite games
32:00 Yet another Consilient idea
32:20 Win Wenger and image streaming
34:27 Terrible movie Chaos walking
36:30 Pseudo-intellectualising entropy and negentropy
39:07 Berk Clerb pick for January: Civilized to Death by Christopher Ryan
41:49 Sneak Peaky to Episode 5 - The Unabomber Manifesto
42:49 Brett identifies as a humanist
43:40 Natasha identifies as a scientist
44:07 Can the Metaverse, Elon Musk, and Candy Crush preserve consciousness?
Episode 3 - Selfie-Reliance