A Sociologist Walks into An Estuary Conference and Interesting Things Happen @TheMeaningCode

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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.

$Michael Levin and John Vervaeke in Dialogos: Towards an Ontology of Causal Structures Dr. Michael Levin and Dr. John Vervaeke discuss findings on cognition, consciousness and placebo. Where is the line? Links follow timestamps. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:30 John begins with the question, “How do you define and differentiate cognition, intelligence, consciousness” 05:40 Mike tackles the same question 08:10 Can there be relevance realization at the cellular level? 14:00 Mike’s life turned upside down by the realization of the gradual development from oocyte to adult mind. Amazing plasticity. William James’ definition of intelligence 19:45 John asks about top-down causation and rejecting just a bottom up approach. The whole has a causal power not attributable just to the parts. 21:00 JV Identity going all the way down and emergence going all the way up. How to identify the ontology? 22:00 ML Let’s assume LaPlace’s demon could exist as a thought experiment. Tracking the micro states is an observer only, it cannot act. All the states are the same to you. But we want a worldview that helps you do things. A participatory worldview. KW: is he saying that one cannot act without a substructure of value? 25:45 JV: I’ve been making epistemological arguments around the idea that any proper worldview has to give ontological status to scientists making measurements. 27:00 JV introduces neoplatonism, emanation down and emergence up as a way to integrate science and spirituality in an intellectually rigorous way 28:50 ML: I’ve been thinking hard about this Platonic worldview but not when in the biology circles, only in a forum like this, focused on meaning. 30:00 Logic gates come with a truth table. Where does that come from? 30:55 An index into the world of possibilities. Where does the capacity come from for xenobots to form within 48 hours? 33:00 Evidence for fractal levels of cognition, information exchange… But have you ever looked at the placebo effect, which for a pure reductionist is a very hard thing to explain? 35:30 ML’s study on gene regulatory networks and the placebo effect. 38:30 Albert Mason on psycho dermatology (links below) 41:45 KW asks a “woo woo” question. Hilarity ensues. 45:00 JV The importance of rigorous scientific research to verify “experience” 49:30 ML Biochemical and bioelectrical signals and how they could eventuate change across layers 52:00 ML Can we train molecular networks to stimulate healing? Useful links for further study: Here’s the prep conversation I did with Glen, the physicist: Worlds in Collision: Intelligence through the Lens of Wolfgang Smith, Michael Levin, Stephen Wolfram https://youtu.be/3hmeamwZq9c Background material The full series of Awakening from The Meaning Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ John Vervaekes 4 Ps of Knowing https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuit-ucfcXN8QDPMc6DXbTHq Michael Levin: https://youtu.be/GVOxAOflRho Dr. Levins work on limb regeneration: https://youtu.be/N9Oli5MPLbY The Levin Lab at Tufts U: https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/research/newdirections.htm Erik Hoel: a great Substack column in addition to his science. See section b) on https://www.erikphoel.com/science.html Albert Mason: http://www7.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuaders/blog/albert-mason-medicine-magic-hypnotism/ https://npsi.us.com/uploads/documents/MasonInterviewMRobinson2011.pdf The book on causation mentioned by John: The Vertical Ascent by Wolfgang Smith A talk with Wolfgang Smith: Dr. Wolfgang Smith, Renowned Physicist, on Vertical Causation, Irreducible Wholeness and Meaning https://youtu.be/8NWHGX53agc Karens websites: https://karenwongart.com https://TheMeaningCode.com$

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$To See the World in a Grain of Sand: Vanitas and Viriditas, Rationalism and Sophia Josh Tiessen joins for a second episode looking at art as a vehicle for meaning and for understanding reality and the cosmos. https://www.joshtiessen.com Auguries of Innocence (from William Blakes poem, To See the World in a Grain of Sand) Moon moth and the fleeting glimpse of beauty Refracting Infinity, Blaise Pascal, a shadow that returns no more The sunflower, the golden ratio Disenchantment of the natural world due to modernity Art critics in New York speaking of peoples newfound search for deeper meaning Jonah and the whale - going into the depths, searching for meaning Pondering mortality and the limits of knowledge Kierkegaard v. Hegel, to take a leap of faith with fear and trembling Memento Mori - a decentering of his ego to find God Creation cathedral, ask the animals and they will teach you, the life of every one (Book of Job) Painting the visual order thats in the chaos The 5 G cell tower - a modern tree of knowledge Entertaining ourselves to oblivion The ferret trials - animal testing and vivisection Greening Power - the source of all vitality and growth The Kairos stones - traversing time with stone circles Medievals had a multidimensional approach to time (Charles Taylor) Greening the White Cube In This Birch Grove by Nikolay Zabolotsky A portion of In this birch grove..., translated by Daniel Weissbort In this birch grove, / Far removed from trouble and pain, / Where the pink, unwavering light / Of morning pulsates in the heavens... A soft answer turns away wrath Pursue Peace The doorway, Esther Nightcap Meek: It beckons us deeper into the heart of the real. It is pregnant with promise. A doorway suggests as well that we hold in tension the here and near, where we are, and the beyond. All this is why doorway is such a rich motif as we consider thoughtful artistry.$

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