The Meaning Code

Brantley Vosler is a worship pastor and joins Karen to talk about the nature of meaning as it relates to music, as a language and as a path forward.

Haris, computer scientist, mathematician and student of the classics, joins Karen to discuss the concept of risk understood through the lens of human cognition and pattern recognition.

Timestamps:

00:00 Exploration of Meta-Hypotheses and Platonic Philosophy

07:30 Mount St. Helens and Ecosystem Regeneration

11:30 Quantum Concepts and Universal Fittedness

20:15 Hypothesis Generation and the Nature of Mathematics

28:05 Discussion on Mathematics, Physics, and the Nature of Discovery

39:05 Human Pattern Recognition and Forecasting

51:12 Distinctions Between Teleology and Teleonomy

55:02 Platonism and the Concept of the Demiurge

1:05:02 Decoding Plato's Cryptic Passage through Prime Numbers and Primordials

1:24:18 Holographic Principles and Chiastic Structures The concept of risk understood through the lens of human cognition and pattern recognition

A noted mathematician and philosopher, William A. Dembski is a Founding and Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture and a Distinguished Fellow with the Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. His most recent books relating to intelligent design include Being as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information (2014), Evolutionary Informatics (2017, co-authored with Robert Marks and Winston Ewert), and the second edition of The Design Inference (2023, co-authored with Winston Ewert). More info here: https://www.discovery.org/p/dembski/

Clara Gaddie, graduate student at University of Notre Dame in Sociology, has been studying This Little Corner for awhile now, and she took the opportunity of attending the Estuary Northwest Conference in Olympia to check it out, encountering Face to Face.

Ben Lyons recently gave a talk on Michael Levin's Academic Channel with his theory that price in economics relates to Levin's theory of bio electricity as the cognitive glue of collective intelligence. Marcus Shera, expert in Austrian Economics, joins us to discuss this theory and how it might apply to the wider view.

Timestamps:

0:00 Introductions

04:28 Exploring the Concept of Value in Economics and Biology

19:47 Discussion on Cellular Level Decision Making

24:02 Brain Function and Finance Analogy

29:15 Economic Perspectives and Transaction Costs

39:05 Computational Irreducibility and Reducibility

41:30 Contracts and Social Institutions

52:32 Discussion on the Role of DNA in Biological Systems

58:20 Discussion on Subjective Theory of Value and Scarcity

1:02:48 Discussion on Entropy and its Relationship to Choice and Economics

1:19:00 Exploring the Relationship Between Opportunity Cost and Entropy

1:26:04 Discussion on the Role of Price System in Coordinating System

Ben Lyons presentation to Michael Levin: https://youtu.be/0Oo4ng6dWrQ?si=vzfUAjNG6pSqOXmg

Ben Lyons website and an article on Memory in Mathematics: https://benjaminflyons.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/memories-in-math-3.pdf?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Lauren and Kara were new to TLC and still got up the courage to attend the Northwest Estuary Conference in Olympia, WA. We talk about their experience.

Karen and Cory David Barker discuss the book "Foundations of Arch Disciplinarity" and the contributions of Brendan Graham Dempsey starting with Cory's early life and his interest in comparative religion and Carl Jung's work, which led him to develop archidisciplinarity, including scopes of inquiry towards a broader discussion on the evolution of human advancement and the integration of disparate domains for joint problem solving.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:15 Cory's new book, The Foundations of Archdisciplinarity with Brendan Graham Dempsey as one of the co-authors and Cory's background with comparative religions and Jungian archetypes.

05:19 Universal computability as an archetypal pattern that manifests across various frameworks of human knowledge.

12:10 Universal patterns and their impact on human understanding and decision-making, touching on

19:45 The cyclical nature of conservatism and progressivism. The scientific process as a form of universal computability pattern, drawing parallels between the process of painting and making decisions in life.

24:27 Anomaly as a necessary transcendental function of nature. The categorization of human endeavors in academia, emphasizing the relationship between utility and aesthetic in art and its parallels to scientific exploration.

28:25 The importance of context and the underlying principles of universal computability and the subconscious processes involved in creating art, as well as the historical and societal influences on art, reflecting the unconscious development of a society through artistic expression.

36:23 Recursivity

39:40 A detailed discussion about arch disciplinarity, exploring its connection to universal computability and the energy, design work, and power involved in creating objects.

48:05 The release of the first edition of the Foundations of Arch Disciplinarity book, emphasizing the plan to release a second edition with more examples and stories to bring the concepts to life for readers.

Go to Arc.voyage to read the book for free.

Michael Bull, author of Bible Matrix and numerous other works joins Tomer Solomon to discuss the question, "Is the chiastic structure a literary device or does it reflect a deep core pattern of reality?" Tomer draws on his knowledge of Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe and A. N. Whitehead's process philosophy to discuss the isomorphisms of these structures that keep showing up everywhere as scale invariants.

For more information on the Encountering Face to Face conference in Olympia, WA in September, https://estuarynorthwest2024.com

Michael Bull's website: https://www.biblematrix.com.au This is chock full of great resources.

Previous conversation on Bowtie Structures in perception: https://youtu.be/Iz7yC6Ux0Jk

The paper Karen and Ryan were discussing in that video: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.09426

METABOLIC PATHWAY MAP. https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/bio_sim/articles/metabolic_pathways.png

Michael Levin, developmental and synthetic biologist from Tufts U meets Jordan Hall, pioneer of disruptive technologies. What's the crossover? Come along to find out!

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

02:34 Bowtie concept in cognitive systems

08:54 Collective Intelligence and Embodiment

17:15 Markets and Cognitive glue

19:33 Scaling

22:14 Mechanisms of Cognitive Glue

24:47 Identity question

25:12 Mechanisms of Cognitive Glue

29:33 What is OODA?

36:37 Hyperobjects

39:48 Complexity and Effort in Biological and Social Systems

48:05 Patterns and Collective Intelligence

53:17 Nature of Poetry and its relation to Consciousness

Can the price mechanism be seen in biology?

Signups for Olympia Face to Face conference at: https://estuarynorthwest2024.com

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

23:01 How is the price mechanism influenced by collective intelligence?

27:06 What is the role of subjective value in determining prices?

44:43 How does profit provide different kinds of information compared to prices?

1:03:38 Is inflation an evil force that keeps people down?

1:21:06 What does it mean to witness and observe in the context of economics?