Dirk Meulenbelt, AI graduate, co-founder of based.guide, digital nomad, and organizer of CR events—joins me for a wide-ranging conversation at the edges of critical rationalism. We explore discipline and the Fun Criterion, creativity as compression, the construction of emotion, and the role of consciousness in grounding agency and judgment. Along the way, we dig into epistemology: the distinctions between explicit and inexplicit knowledge, expressible versus inexpressible understanding, and what it really means for knowledge to be explanatory.📚 Mentioned ResourcesLisa Feldman Barrett - How Emotions Are Made - https://amzn.to/3Lcq8bG James Russell's Circumplex Model of Affect -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion...What is the 'Fun Criterion'? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idvGl...Edwin's essay on Fun - https://edwindoit.com/funBrett Hall on the unknowns in evolution - https://bretthall.substack.com/p/know...Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman - https://amzn.to/4jolfstDavid Chalmer's hard and easy problem of consciousness - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_pr... Lobotomy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LobotomyDescartes' Error by Antonio Damasio featuring the story of "Elliot" - https://amzn.to/4psBdmZRichard Byrne, ‘Imitation as Behaviour Parsing’ - https://pages.ucsd.edu/~johnson/COGS2...Range by David Epstein - https://amzn.to/3MVzOIdIndustry challenge board https://www.innocentive.com/⏱️ Timestamps 00:00 Intro01:08 Emotions11:10 Discipline25:30 Open-questions with the Fun Criterion31:31 The role of constraints in knowledge-creation38:08 Non-randomness of creativity42:27 Explanatory, explicit and inexplicit knowledge01:06:59 Proto-creativity01:28:17 Invention & functional ignorance01:36:59 Consciousness: the easy vs. hard problem01:50:59 Critical rationalism events01:55:10 Outro🧠 More from meBook: https://edwindoit.com/4actsWebsite: https://edwindoit.comNewsletter: https://edwindoit.substack.comProductivity blog: https://medium.com/@edwindoitX: https://x.com/Edwindoit