Yeats repeats “a terrible beauty is born” in his poem “Easter, 1916”. The poem expresses the emotional limbo of Yeats as he grapples with the post World War I Irish rebellion in response to the broken promise of Irish liberation. Out of acts of violence, comes the hope of freedom. Or is it the hope of freedom that fuels acts of violence?
Whence progress?
Do we make progress with ideas, and if so, does it not require a "terrible beauty" as a means of initiation?
In this episode the Dawdler’s use Sabine Hossenfelder’s book “Lost in Math” as a guide to explore where, if anywhere, we ought to place appeals to beauty in our intellectual searches. It’s a theme that has surfaced now and again on the podcast and here the Dawdlers take a bit of a plunge.
Settle down with your inner chimp. It’s about to get unreasonable.
00:06:43 – Topic Introduction
00:12:54 – Philosophy of Aesthetics? // Two Theses on Taste
00:22:44 – G.E.P. Box’s Scientific Feedback Loop
00:26:16 – Falsifiability vs. Unplausifiability // Constraints on the Foundations of Physics
00:37:36 – Arguments from Beauty/“Naturalness” // Symmetry Stuff
00:52:24 – Biases
00:56:00 – Harland and Ryan duke it out about aesthetic concerns in ideas?
Shorts - E17: Life is Meaningless
Shorts - E16: The Good Life
Shorts - E15: Health
Shorts - E14: Fairness
E29: Hustling Past the Graveyard - Ideation in the New Gilded Age
E28: The Pleistocene - Part II
E27: The Pleistocene - Part I
Shorts - E13: The Future
Shorts - E12: Scarcity
E26: Hofstadter's Scrumptious Edibles - Analogy as the Core of Cognition
Shorts - E11: Authority
Shorts - E10: End ofs
Shorts - E9: Stupidity
Haunting the Margins - E2: Terence McKenna
Shorts - E8: Artificial Intelligence
E25: A Fetish of Fallacies - Are All Fallacies Created Equal?
Shorts - E7: Anything is Possible
E24: In Lieu of Arguments - The Gettier Problem
Shorts - E6: What Came First: Thinking or Language?
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