In which I also discuss Lee Smolin, lots and lots of black holes of all sizes, the current crisis in cosmology, and the odd psychology of civilizations living in oceans under the surfaces of icy moons
Listening now and you mentioned RAW right at the front - I just listened to Douglas Rushkoff and Grant Morrison with the author of a new biography about RAW Gabriel Kennedy on the Team Human podcast. I just ordered it and thought you might like!
Oh, I am thrilled to hear there's a new biography of Robert Anton Wilson! Thank you so much for telling me. OK, I'm going to go listen to that episode of Team Human, and buy the book. Greatly appreciate you drawing both book and episode to my attention.
I would love to talk to Douglas! Big fan of Present Shock (it's one of my most heavily annotated books – he spins off so many intriguing ideas), and I've greatly enjoyed many episodes of Team Human. Please do suggest the idea to him; he'd be a perfect conversational partner for this subject.
Nice tip, thanks Ariel. Yes, I shall email her; she's an expert in an area that is, for obvious reasons, of enormous interest to me. Thanks again for bringing her to my attention. Do you know her personally?
It's been a while since that San Francisco meetup - it's been so cool seeing this evolve since then. The more you develop the theory, the more convinced I am you are onto something genuine.
As a child, I remember being intensely frustrated with the atheist camp. I'd moved away from the Church, and yet in that community I never saw the debate I expected being wrestled with. Why were they not arguing over HOW the universe? They just...stopped at the singularity, without ever asking how it came to be in the first place.
And while cosmological natural selection doesn't explain where the universes came from...it feels much more open to asking.
Thank you for the transcript - listened to it for a bit, but I tend to prefer text and I could basically see you emoting as I read along.
Hope you make your way back to the West Coast sometime soon!
Listening now and you mentioned RAW right at the front - I just listened to Douglas Rushkoff and Grant Morrison with the author of a new biography about RAW Gabriel Kennedy on the Team Human podcast. I just ordered it and thought you might like!
Oh, I am thrilled to hear there's a new biography of Robert Anton Wilson! Thank you so much for telling me. OK, I'm going to go listen to that episode of Team Human, and buy the book. Greatly appreciate you drawing both book and episode to my attention.
I also just listened to Rushkoff and Morrison and then this! Would love to see a conversation Between Julian and Douglas!
I would love to talk to Douglas! Big fan of Present Shock (it's one of my most heavily annotated books – he spins off so many intriguing ideas), and I've greatly enjoyed many episodes of Team Human. Please do suggest the idea to him; he'd be a perfect conversational partner for this subject.
I pinged Douglas and he said he pinged you thru your website!
Been a huge RAW fan since high school - going to have to pick this up, thanks for plugging it!
Julian, You should speak with Professor Caitlin Casey at University of Texas! https://www.as.utexas.edu/~cmcasey/research.html
Nice tip, thanks Ariel. Yes, I shall email her; she's an expert in an area that is, for obvious reasons, of enormous interest to me. Thanks again for bringing her to my attention. Do you know her personally?
It's been a while since that San Francisco meetup - it's been so cool seeing this evolve since then. The more you develop the theory, the more convinced I am you are onto something genuine.
As a child, I remember being intensely frustrated with the atheist camp. I'd moved away from the Church, and yet in that community I never saw the debate I expected being wrestled with. Why were they not arguing over HOW the universe? They just...stopped at the singularity, without ever asking how it came to be in the first place.
And while cosmological natural selection doesn't explain where the universes came from...it feels much more open to asking.
Thank you for the transcript - listened to it for a bit, but I tend to prefer text and I could basically see you emoting as I read along.
Hope you make your way back to the West Coast sometime soon!