The Meaning Code | Balazs Kegl: A Discussion of the Nature of Podcasting and This Little Corner of the Internet @TheMeaningCode | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
Balazs Kegl, AI researcher and host of the podcast, I, Scientist, joins me for a wide ranging discussion of the purpose and the nature of podcasting, and the reason for the and the experience of participating in This Little Corner.
The lecture on truth by Nima Arkani Hamed, The Morality of Fundamental Physics : youtu.be/5aAMJNVmdoY?si=r3HO2Tx7ROaHJ796

Moving Towards Meaning: Hope and Faith Find a Resting Place Together

Psychotechnology versus Beauty: Which is the Best Pathway to Meaning?

Computation is the Covenant Between Truth and Language

Witness by Whittaker Chambers, Episode 3

Witness by Whittaker Chambers, Episode 2

Why Does the Monster Group Exist? Part One of a Possible Theory

Coding, Art and Life: The Fractal Nature of Suffering and Beauty

$Evolution 2.0 and Perry Marshalls Frame: Life is Fractal and All Cells are Self-Aware Perry Marshall, author of Evolution 2.0, along with a team of investors and entrepreneurs, offers a $10 million prize for anyone who can show an example of a code thats not designed. You only need one. We discuss evolution, cell awareness, cells ability to rewrite its own code and solve problems. Links to everything we discussed follow timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:11 Where does the genetic code come from? What gives life the ability to act on its own behalf? 02:54 Michael Levin has presented to the Cancer & Evolution working group 05:00 Russian dolls as an analog for the 7 layers of encoding 10:30 Packets of genes wound in spiral patterns in a 3 dimensional structure 13:58 Barbara McClintocks research. Cells can rewrite their own code. The gene is an organ under the control o the cell. 16:50 Genes build the plant, the plant modifies the gene. 19:00 Questions about cells and the role of anomaly in cell maturity and growth of the organism 24:20 A suggested framework: Lie is fractal. All cells are self-aware. Self-awareness goes down to the sub-cellular level. 30:10 Group sentience as a fractal analog of human community 34:45 Book recommended by Michael Levin: Soul of the White Ant, written in 1936 35:30 Rupert Sheldrakes experiments with dogs awareness 39:10 Natural selection through evolution, NOT evolution through Natural Selection. Natural Selection is an outcome, not an explanation. 41:00 Barbara McClintocks question: What does a cell know about itself? How did it know what to do? (Levins xenobots, also) 44:30 Cancer & evolution working group discussing the self-awareness of cancer cells 45:00 The frog is General Motors, the skin cells are the guys that got laid off. 50:00 The psychology of oneness 55:30 The church as the body 56:20 Cancer as a response to stress 1:01:05 Living things dont just obey mathematics. They create mathematics. 1:04:15 Computation as a symphony of choices over time. 1:009:00 The way to solve it is to understand consciousness & cognition & find the missing law of physics. Evolution 2.0 by Perry Marshall Biology Transcends the Limits of Computation by Perry Marshall: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610721000365#bib45 The Importance of Henry H. Hengs Genome Architecture Theory by R. Furst https://evo2.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Henry-Heng-Rafe-Furst-2021-Genome-Chaos.pdf The True Believer by Eric Hoffer: https://www.amazon.com/True-Believer-Thoughts-Movements-Perennial/dp/0060505915 Perry Marshalls channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Evolution2/videos Perrys conversation with Azra Raza about cancer: https://youtu.be/W2tbSS2dp9o Cancer and Evolution Symposium with James Shapiro and Denis Noble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_nVJWVtUDE$

Michael Levin and John Vervaeke on Free Will, Character, Attention and Causal Relevance

Sevilla King, Reminiscences on the Quest for a Spiritual Home, the Estuary Conference in Chino

Balazs Kegl: A Discussion of the Nature of Podcasting and This Little Corner of the Internet @TheMeaningCode