Post Wave

How does addiction affect our motivation? Why do we feel a resistance to achieving our goals? 

References:

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield: https://stevenpressfield.com/books/the-war-of-art/

Jennifer McCurdy: https://www.jennifermccurdy.com/

The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death 

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius

This is Water by David Foster Wallace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhhC_N6Bm_s

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest

BLOrk: https://www.colorado.edu/music/ensembles/blork-boulder-laptop-orchestra#:~:text=Contact%20BLOrk&text=The%20emergence%20of%20the%20laptop,live%20interaction%20between%20the%20two.

Wintergatan MMX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q

Dopamine detox: https://www.livescience.com/is-there-science-behind-dopamine-fasting-trend.html

Gifted kid burnout bingo: https://images.app.goo.gl/NHeQiuN8nkrDL5hr5

Outro Music: Dopamine by Glossolalia Online (Trevor Villwock): https://soundcloud.com/glossolalia-online/dopamine

Trombonist Matt Flores joins us for an exploration of the musical practice of Spectralism as well as the broader subject of microtonality. Stay tuned to the end for a group improvisation!

References:

Spectral Music - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_music

Harmonic Series - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(music)

Gerard Grisey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Grisey

Melt Banana - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1s0ZOIKtp8

Pentatonic Scale - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale

Tristan Murail - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Murail

Adam Neely Major Chord Video (4:5:6 polyrhythm) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tRAkWaeepg

Well-Tuned Piano - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXxZCSAWUP8&t=736s

SPEAR - http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/

N.E.O. Voice Festival - http://www.neovoicefestival.com/

Voice Science Works - https://www.voicescienceworks.org/

Voce Vista - http://www.vocevista.com/

Sara Corry - https://saracorry.com/

Shepard Tone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9VMfdG873E

“in vain” by Georg Friedrich Haas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAwvWLVfSkM

Ring modulation - http://synthesizeracademy.com/ring-modulator/

George Cantor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor

"Périodes" by Gerard Grisey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yljhvouhh2Q

What's it like to be a bat? What does it mean to 'be'? What is consciousness? We explore Thomas Nagel's groundbreaking essay, What Is It Like To Be A Bat.

References:

What Is It Like To Be A Bat by Thomas Nagel: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/study/ugmodules/humananimalstudies/lectures/32/nagel_bat.pdf

Very Bad Wizards on 'What Is It Like To Be A Bat': https://www.verybadwizards.com/175

David Chalmers Hard Problem of Consciousness: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Hard_problem_of_consciousness#:~:text=The%20hard%20problem%20of%20consciousness,with%20phenomenal%20qualities%20or%20qualia).

Daniel Kish 'I use sonar to navigate the world': https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kish_how_i_use_sonar_to_navigate_the_world?language=en

Mary the Color Scientist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument

Giulio Tononi components of consciousness: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-fundamental-nature-consciousness-giulio-tononi-excerpt/

FMRI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_magnetic_resonance_imaging#:~:text=Functional%20magnetic%20resonance%20imaging%20or,and%20neuronal%20activation%20are%20coupled.

Closer To Truth: https://www.closertotruth.com/

Deepak Chopra everything is made of consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXC0RUH1axE

Panpsychism: https://iep.utm.edu/panpsych/#:~:text=Panpsychism%20is%20the%20view%20that,psyche%20(soul%20or%20mind).

Michio Kaku Hyperspace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspace_(book)

Inverted Spectrum thought experiment: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-inverted/

Douglas Hofstadter I Am A Strange Loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop

Sterocilia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereocilia_(inner_ear)

Jungian Archetypes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes#:~:text=Jungian%20archetypes%20are%20defined%20as,as%20proposed%20by%20Carl%20Jung.&text=They%20are%20unclear%20underlying%20forms,and%20the%20flood%20among%20others.

Ego Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death

Douglas Harding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Harding

Inside Out: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673/

Walking forests: https://www.livescience.com/33663-walking-tree-socratea-exorrhiza.html#:~:text=There%20is%20one%20unique%20exception,exorrhiza)%20found%20in%20Latin%20America.&text=The%20tree%20slowly%20'walks'%20from,with%20its%20wanderlust%20to%20die.%22

Roger Penrose quantum consciousness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind

Quantum biology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_biology#:~:text=Quantum%20biology%20is%20the%20study,are%20quantum%20mechanical%20in%20nature.

Bernard Barr brain limits consciousness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_workspace_theory

In this episode of the podcast we discuss Alan Watts' 1960 essay "This Is It."

References:

This Is It: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432223.This_is_It_Other_Essays_on_Zen_Spiritual_Experience

What if you could control your dreams?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz-RJXaaMW8

Mindfulness: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/mindfulness

Hierarchies of Agents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-agent_system

Genetic Algorithms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm

Leonard Bernstien’s Mass - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5imPUq39jlg

Many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics -https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/#:~:text=The%20Many%2DWorlds%20Interpretation%20(MWI,and%20thus%20from%20all%20physics.

Outro Music: From Fireflies to Thunderstorms by Eric Mulhern

Would we all be better off having never been born? We take close look at the philosophy of anti-natalism, which argues that procreation is morally wrong. Be warned that this episode contains mentions of suicide and depression.

"Kids? Just Say No" by David Benatar - https://aeon.co/essays/having-children-is-not-life-affirming-its-immoral

Anti-natalism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism

The Brothers Karamazov - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Karamazov

Depressive Realism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism

Dukkha - https://encyclopediaofbuddhism.org/wiki/Dukkha

Nick Bostrom on Dangerous Technology (The Vulnerable World Hypothesis) - https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf

Marcus Aurelius - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius

Intro and Outro music: "Garbage Patch Kids (How to learn the Art of Being Without Lifting a Single Finger)" by Trevor Villwock, performed by Matthew Farquharson, Vela Mrdjen Farquharson, and Charles Lovell 

Continuing the Books You Haven't Read series, we explore a selection from Dostoevsky's pivotal novel 'The Brothers Karamazov', wherein the brothers Ivan and Alyosha discuss life, suffering, and god (Book 5).

References:

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ian Hutchinson on Lex Fridman's Podcast: https://lexfridman.com/ian-hutchinson/

The Athiest Experience on contradictions in the bible: https://youtu.be/DtY4wWNZ7-Y

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

Very Bad Wizards on T.O.W.W.A.F.O: https://www.verybadwizards.com/163

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Different kinds of infinity: https://youtu.be/elvOZm0d4H0

Trolley problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

Outro Music - From Fireflies to Thunderstorms by Eric Mulhern: https://soundcloud.com/faero/from-fireflies-to-thunderstorms

What will future developments in AI bring? What is free will? What is pain? In the second installment of "Books You Haven't Read" we react to ideas shared by Nick Bostrom in Chapter 9 of 'Superintelligence' with Trevor providing perspective from the rest of the book.

References:

Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/do-humans-have-feelings 

Joscha Bach: http://bach.ai/

Alan Watts on Opposition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hMP8TucpDg 

Wait But Why: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html

Akira: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(1988_film)

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations

After On by Robert Reid

Outro Music - The Heart Asks by Trevor Villwock: https://soundcloud.com/inversionensemble/the-heart-asks-by-trevor 

Continuing the 'Books You Haven't Read' series, we explore the first chapter of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.

References:

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Sam Harris Podcast: https://samharris.org/podcast/

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

Simulation Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKRuI2zHp0

Anne Sexton: "Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."

David Foster Wallace Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5R8gduPZw4

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy

How to Create a Mind by Ray Kurzweil

Outro Music - Dopamine by Glossolalia Online (Trevor Villwock): https://soundcloud.com/glossolalia-online/dopamine?in=glossolalia-online/sets/glossolalia-online

We explore Donald Hoffman's theory that our experience bears no resemblance to actual reality.

References:

Donald Hoffman on reality: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality-20160421/

Roger Penrose on consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXgqik6HXc0

AI progress due mostly to improvement in computation power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me96OWd44q0

Anthropic (not Anthropological) Principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

Cosmological Natural Selection (Lee Smolin): https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-logic-and-beauty-of-cosmological-natural-selection/

2nd Law of Thermodynamics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

Heat Death of the Universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

Higgs Boson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_Boson

Standard Model of Particle Physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model

Mandelbrot Fractal Zoom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFyC68CIEio

Holographic Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klpDHn8viX8

Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mechanics#Copenhagen_interpretation

Outro music: "Moss" by Eric Mulhern

What are makerspaces? What is it like to work in a startup? Does being an engineer affect the way you communicate? We speak with special guests Luke Collier and Richard Franklin (Product Engineer and Marketing Agent of EdBoard) about their experiences with makerspaces, school, and working in a startup company.

EdBoard: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edboard/edboard-story-based-circuit-building-for-children

Zometool: https://www.zometool.com/

 The Way Things Work by David Macaulay and Neil Ardley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Work

TinkerMill: https://www.tinkermill.org/

The Creative Class by Richard Florida: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_class 

BTU Lab: http://btulab.com/

Hunter Ewen: http://www.hunterewen.com/main.html

Hackathons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon

Continuum by György Ligeti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPgwF3G5i4k

Raspberry Pi: https://www.raspberrypi.org/

Milton Babbitt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Babbitt

Little Bits (from Rick and Morty): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj4-E5Hs3Kc

Outro Music - Dopamine by Glossolalia Online (Trevor Villwock): https://soundcloud.com/glossolalia-online/dopamine?in=glossolalia-online/sets/glossolalia-online