Avi Loeb is fresh, enervating stuff for my brain, and my esteem for Jenn hosting him is greatly expanded.
"Given that we're only allowed to see rocks in space, I say we're living in the stone age" (my paraphrase) Genius.
His description of academia as a cabal of egos preserving their turf, unjustified intellectual hubris, a bubble that believes it owns the truth, religiously faithful to materialism, is apt. Academia in BC has more in common with Catholicism and the Inquisition than Avi's dream of a place to develop and exercise curiosity. I'm lucky to have a good brain, but academia has nothing for new ideas but limitations, restraints, and friction created by weak-minded people, nothing for me.
(Read the Martlett (UVIC) and ask yourself if these scary people would jail and torture people for "wrong-think" if they could get away with it.)
Aside from the overwhelming probability that we're not unique on this plane, there are many questions about existence outside the constructs of time and space. Then there's the electromagnetic spectrum, of which we can experience approximately 0.035% with our tools (senses.) And so much data and evidence we don't understand (gravity, magnetism, most of the mass and energy in the universe) that should help us with our egos.
I am not my thoughts, but we're not certain of what I am, so who are we to dismiss... anything we can't prove. Are we still so unimproved that we ostracize (jail) folks proposing an ontological shift? That's sad and hilarious at the same time.
It would be wonderful and just if, after he shuffles off, Avi's self visits with Galileo, Copernicus (so many), to have a brewski and laugh and laugh...
Anyone else have “The Chase” earwig going through their head? I nearly lost it when Professor Loeb said he’d been on Coast to Coast. That said, I still really enjoyed this interview. He is clearly an interesting guy and a very compelling speaker and Jen did a superb job bringing out important angles of his position.
Avi Loeb is fresh, enervating stuff for my brain, and my esteem for Jenn hosting him is greatly expanded.
"Given that we're only allowed to see rocks in space, I say we're living in the stone age" (my paraphrase) Genius.
His description of academia as a cabal of egos preserving their turf, unjustified intellectual hubris, a bubble that believes it owns the truth, religiously faithful to materialism, is apt. Academia in BC has more in common with Catholicism and the Inquisition than Avi's dream of a place to develop and exercise curiosity. I'm lucky to have a good brain, but academia has nothing for new ideas but limitations, restraints, and friction created by weak-minded people, nothing for me.
(Read the Martlett (UVIC) and ask yourself if these scary people would jail and torture people for "wrong-think" if they could get away with it.)
Aside from the overwhelming probability that we're not unique on this plane, there are many questions about existence outside the constructs of time and space. Then there's the electromagnetic spectrum, of which we can experience approximately 0.035% with our tools (senses.) And so much data and evidence we don't understand (gravity, magnetism, most of the mass and energy in the universe) that should help us with our egos.
I am not my thoughts, but we're not certain of what I am, so who are we to dismiss... anything we can't prove. Are we still so unimproved that we ostracize (jail) folks proposing an ontological shift? That's sad and hilarious at the same time.
It would be wonderful and just if, after he shuffles off, Avi's self visits with Galileo, Copernicus (so many), to have a brewski and laugh and laugh...
Anyone else have “The Chase” earwig going through their head? I nearly lost it when Professor Loeb said he’d been on Coast to Coast. That said, I still really enjoyed this interview. He is clearly an interesting guy and a very compelling speaker and Jen did a superb job bringing out important angles of his position.
Wonderful! Courageous! Well worth the fee!