Alastair Duckworth discusses his book-in-progress, The Golden Extremes, a play on Aristotle's Golden Mean and a fascinating look at how a deeper understanding of polarity may help to heal our fractured society. Links to ideas mentioned follow the timestamps.
Timestamps 00:00 Introduction and Book Overview
07:22 The Paradoxical Nature of Design and Faith 22:39 The Relationship Between Courage and Virtue
25:48 The Importance of Polar Relationships in Marriage
30:14 The Transformative Power of Evil
35:46 The Relationship Between Truth, Goodness, and Beauty 41:06 The Relationship Between Fittedness, Goodness and Unity
46:18 The Importance of Every Part
53:46 The Importance of Implicit Elements in Building Community
1:00:36 The Challenge of Creating Meaningful Brands in Materialistic Companies 1:05:13 Life and Creativity as Polar Dynamics
Rupert Sheldrake and Mae-Wan Ho on Everything is Life:
Part 1: https://youtu.be/IwMWTD-nyck?si=ljcZv4Sfjqjxn2Zx
Part 2: https://youtu.be/9Z5D8v4EYHQ?si=p0sj_lVhR5LAfm2A
Stephen Talbott's book, free on-line
Organisms and Their Evolution - Agency and Meaning in the Drama of Life https://bwo.life/bk/index.htm
Unbearable Suffering and Unimaginable Love
Gabe and Glen: Time, Space, Tension and Creative Force, Part 1
Gabe and Ryan: Conceptual Mapping of the Relationship between Sensory and Motor Function
Delbert Larson, PhD in Physics with New Theory of the Aether: A Prejudice Towards Simplicity
Jordan Hall on The Pyramid of Relationality: Communication, Understanding, Faith, Hope & Love
Rick Walker: The Pursuit of Truth, Beauty and the Alignment of Embodied Action
Ryan on Memory Consolidation, Destabilization, Reconsolidation and the True Meaning of Love
Andrea Hiott: Mind as Movement, Ecological Perception, Attention and Measurement
Kirk Durston: Genetic Algorithms and The Needle in a Haystack Problem of Proteins
Balazs Kegl: A Discussion of the Nature of Podcasting and This Little Corner of the Internet
Moving Towards Meaning: Hope and Faith Find a Resting Place Together
Necessity of Redundancy and Flexibility due to Imperfection: Finite to Infinite
The Interconnectedness of Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-being
Valentine Special! How does a man orient his life in order to be a good husband and father?
Implicit and Explicit in Art and Narrative: LOTR, Space Trilogy and Dune
Out of Dawkins into Faith: From Existential Dread of New Atheism to Joy and Purpose in Jesus Christ
Nietzsche's Hammer, Free Will, and Forgetfulness as an Active, Potentially Creative Force
Ryan on the Physical, Intellectual, Emotional and Spiritual Breakthrough
Richard A. Watson's New Theory of Life and Mind as a Song
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