Never Alone: The 223rd Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2024
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
In this 223rd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.
In this episode, we discuss science and religion, materialism and other ways of understanding our world. Can analysis and quantification explain everything? Can narrative, intuition, and creativity? All are or should be part of the scientific process; science is incomplete with only one mode. We also discuss models, how they fail, how difficult they are to assess, and what one recent climate model has to say about the role of air pollution in Earth’s temperature. Enlightenment values require that we use our freedom to inquire about all things that we are curious about. Also: happy Beltane!
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Mentioned in this episode:
Third Man Syndrome and Shackleton: https://twitter.com/brianroemmele/status/1785827941718614291
Clearer skies may be accelerating global warming: https://www.science.org/content/article/clearer-skies-may-be-accelerating-global-warming
Hodnebrog et al 2024. Recent reductions in aerosol emissions have increased Earth’s energy imbalance. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1):166: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01324-8
Nature editorial: What happens when climate change and the mental-health crisis collide? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00993-x
Animation about mental health and climate change: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/publications/all-publications/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-mental-health-and-emotional-wellbeing-current-evidence-and-implications-for-policy-and-practice.php
Growing up is hard to do (do not pay others to do your thinking for you): https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/growing-up-is-hard-to-do
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks welcome to the dark course podcast live stream number 223 I I am Dr. Brett Weinstein, you, I assume, are Dr Heather |
| 0:16.0 | Hying, but only you know for sure and maybe not even that. And I have the sense that |
| 0:21.8 | 223 is probably prime but I've come to the point that my feeling is it's not it's not even worth looking into the matter because we'll have plenty of time in the gulag. |
| 0:36.4 | 223 is prime. |
| 0:37.6 | Okay. |
| 0:38.6 | It's the first prime in a while. |
| 0:39.7 | It's been, we've had some widely spaced primes these last 24 episodes. We had a prime 12 ago for |
| 0:47.0 | 211 and another 12 before that for 199 and none in between but this is the first of a cousin prime, four part, and a sexy prime, |
| 0:59.2 | six apart, making it also the first of triple a prime prime. |
| 1:02.4 | Whoa! |
| 1:03.0 | And then we just got, it's prime season guys, that's what it is. |
| 1:06.4 | So let's put it this way. |
| 1:08.0 | We have had a drought of Primes, which is the same thing as having a torrential downpour of factors. |
| 1:15.0 | So many factors. |
| 1:17.0 | Too many factors. |
| 1:18.0 | So many factors. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:20.0 | There's no accounting for factors at this level. It's just too many. |
| 1:23.2 | I kind of feel like that's exactly what it's done. |
| 1:25.2 | The accounting, yeah, you're right about that. |
| 1:26.9 | All right, I take it back. But nonetheless, here we are. |
| 1:29.8 | Here we are, 223. |
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