Simon DeDeo's inquiry takes on the most immense topics: astrophysics, history, epistemology, culture. He brings the precision of a physicist, the capability of a data scientist, and the sensibility of a philosopher to thinking about how we live our lives; and his polymathic life might be the example we need to make sense of the world we are walking into, one requiring an evolution to our way of studying and understanding.

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Show Notes:

• David Spergel (08:40)
• The Santa Fe Institute (14:10)
• The Village Vanguard in New York City (16:30)
• The Applicability of Mathematics as a Philosophical Problem by Mark Steiner (24:30)
• Murray Gell-Mann (25:00)
• "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" by Eugene Wigner (26:00)
• "The civilizing process in London’s Old Bailey" Klingenstein et al (27:30)
• Michael Tomasello (31:50)
• Michael Palmer "Lies of the Poem" (34:50)
• Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel (37:20)
• Gregory Bateson "Where is the mind?" (40:20)
• The CANDOR corpus (42:50)
• Judith Donath on Origins (48:10)
• Marshall McLuhan (49:00)
• Science of Science (49:10)
• "New and atypical combinations: An assessment of novelty and interdisciplinarity" (49:10)
• Helen Vendler (51:20)
• The Anxiety of Influenceby Harold Bloom (53:00)
• C Thi Nguyen on Origins (57:00)
• The Scientific Landscape of Human Flourishing (58:00)
• eudaimonia (58:30)
• thumos (59:00)
• Lightning Round (01:04:50)
  • Book: American Pastoral by Philip Roth 
  • Passion: exercise
  • Heart sing: narrative
  • Screwed up: teaching and mentoring
• Find Simon online:
  • Website

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