Never Alone: The 223rd Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
May 5, 2024
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as posted by the channelIn 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
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
Nature editorialWhat happens when climate change and the mentalhealth crisis collide?
Animation about mental health and climate change
Growing up is hard to do (do not pay others to do your thinking for you)
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Welcome and Bret's trip to the UK
(10:25) Sponsors
(18:12) Third man syndrome
(27:50) Metaphorically true?
(35:10) Rejection of Darwinism
(47:25) Complexity in science
(54:00) Models and replication
(01:08:15) New climate model
(01:14:50) Climate change activists' mental health
(01:22:25) The Trojan Horse
(01:34:55) Beltane Festival
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