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They are numerous. They are patient. They are COMING for the United States in droves this spring: They are cicadas. *The* Cicada guy Dr. Gene Kritsky joins to chat all about the annual cicadas you may see every summer vs. the periodical ones that cycle through the states in broods of giant numbers. Learn how they survive underground for decades, what they are doing down there, all about their lifecycle, why some cozy up underground for 17 years while others get moving 4 years quicker, plus get inspired to take a cicada safari, download Cicada Safari, and appreciate their songs, which can be as loud as an ambulance. By the end, you’ll want to don a bug costume and take a road trip to one of the 18 states expecting a periodical emergence this spring!

Dr. Gene Kritsky’s new cicada book A Tale of Two Broods: The 2024 Emergence of Periodical Cicada Broods XIII and XIX

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(00:00) Introduction

(02:47) Bret on religions being “Literally false, metaphorically true” NOT “a mind virus”

(05:35) Jon’s definition of religion

(07:57) Bret – all scientists have faith, i.e. base assumptions, axioms

(11:15) Jon’s definition of faith, as levels of understanding

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(15:45) Bret’s article of faith in evolution

(17:56) Jon’s refinement: religion is the “patterning” of being

(20:07) Emergence is the jump between levels

(21:45) Jon’s emergence

(23:34) Adaptive evolution and group selection

(26:45) Why does cooperation exist?

(28:05) Survivability of individual or group or lineage

(32:05) Google Vs Catholicism

(33:26) Point of attention

(35:55) Evolution predicts the behavior of religions

(38:46) Richard Dawkins’ memes

(42:35) Self sacrifice

(45:56) Confessions in a congregation

(49:30) Jon on importance of self sacrifice

(53:44) Rapist gene

(59:24) Geneva Convention

(01:00:39) Flip the table on the genes

(01:01:49) Purpose of organisms

(01:03:13) Consciousness and purpose

(01:05:16) Purpose

(01:09:15) One homogenous religion

(01:13:55) Centralized digital identity and mark of the beast

(01:19:59) Genes are self replicating patterns

(01:23:19) Bret’s “obsession” with genes

(01:25:09) Starting from experience, not genes

(01:31:06) Consciousness is recognizing patterns

(01:33:35) Consciousness is good

(01:39:36) Technological systems are driving us into madness

(01:42:59) We need to upgrade our consciousness

(01:45:44) Wokeism and COVID measures

(01:48:49) Damned if we do…

(01:53:59) Religion has predicted this

(01:56:39) Gain of function research and fission power

(02:01:06) Aiming for a higher good

(02:02:33) The atheist’s advantage and heaven

(02:07:13) Descendants 10,000 years from now

(02:11:14) Building of an arc, remnants, and end of civilization

(02:18:56) Update religious texts?

(02:20:39) Tools and religion

(02:24:39) Is lineage the wrong level of abstraction?

(02:29:43) Follow-through tennis analogy

(02:35:57) Cynicism around religion

(02:40:23) Consciousness comes down on existence and forms identities

(02:44:17) Tetrapods and speciation

(02:48:40) Identity and purpose

(02:50:33) Wrap up

Those of us who think that that the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely known tend to also think that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon that must be compatible with those laws. To hold such a position in a principled way, it’s important to have a clear understanding of “emergence” and when it happens. Anil Seth is a leading researcher in the neuroscience of consciousness, who has also done foundational work (often in collaboration with Lionel Barnett) on what emergence means. We talk about information theory, entropy, and what they have to do with how things emerge.

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They are numerous. They are patient. They are COMING for the United States in droves this spring: They are cicadas. *The* Cicada guy Dr. Gene Kritsky joins to chat all about the annual cicadas you may see every summer vs. the periodical ones that cycle through the states in broods of giant numbers. Learn how they survive underground for decades, what they are doing down there, all about their lifecycle, who eats them and why, plus get inspired to take a cicada safari, download Cicada Safari, and appreciate their sexually desperate songs, which can be as loud as an ambulance. By the end, you’ll want to don a bug costume and hitchhike to the Midwest. (Don’t do that.)

Dr. Gene Kritsky’s new cicada book: Periodical Cicadas: The Brood X Edition

Download the Cicada Safari app at the Apple Store or Google Play Store.

Gene’s website: genekritsky.com

Also see CicadaMania.com, and follow Instagram.com/CicadaMania

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Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be unto all people. Luke 2:10 

The divine child appears when least expected, new potential born from the womb of the unconscious. Helpless and blessed and against all reason, the divine child represents the creative union of opposites that births a new beginning. Every new beginning is a divine child, and mythological revelations since ancient times greet new psychic potential with awe and adoration. Miraculous birth signals initiation into individuation and the preordained destiny of sacred and heroic figures across cultures and through time is also our own.

The lives of Moses, Jesus, Buddha, Heracles, Horus, and Ganesha portray a Guiding Self-sustaining them through the hard human work of growing toward wholeness. Jung says, “You open the gates of the soul to let the dark flood of chaos flow into your order and meaning. If you marry the ordered to the chaos you produce the divine child, the supreme meaning…” 

Here's the dream we analyze:

"I am perched high on a cliff looking down on a horrifyingly beautiful sight. There is a rugged coastline with clear blue water that is inexplicably and immensely deep immediately at the shoreline. Just off the shoreline there are monstrously large (dinosaur comes to mind) sea creatures resembling otherworldly breeds of whale and shark that appear to be dead- floating perfectly still and suspended in the deep, clear water."

This is Part 2 of my talk with the absolutely brilliant Dr. Dan Siegel. Listen to Part 1 here.

Dr. Dan Siegel is an internationally acclaimed author, award-winning educator, and child psychiatrist. He is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he also serves as a co-investigator at the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. He is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals, families, institutions and communities. His five New York Times bestsellers are Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence; Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human; Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain; and two books with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.: The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline.

In Part 2 of our talk, we discuss:

• The mathematics of the mind
• The concept of emergence
• The inevitable interdependence found in the system called 'Life on Earth'
• The Pando Forest analogy
• The etymological meaning of religion
• What it means to live in the Realm of Nouns vs. the Realm of Verbs
• The definition of energy as the general process of the movement from possibility to actuality
• The Generator of Diversity, or G.O.D. churning possibility into reality
• The incredible story of Dan comforting his late father on death. "We start as a possibility. We actualize for 100 years. Then, we dissolve back into a sea of possibility."

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Sam Harris speaks with Geoffrey West about how biological and social systems scale, the significance of fractals, the prospects of radically extending human life, the concept of “emergence” in complex systems, the importance of cities, the necessity for continuous innovation, and other topics.

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You might have read that 'love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs,' but would it really be better explained as the behavior of a large aggregation of elementary particles and their quantum mechanical and electrodynamic properties? Would a perfect a scientific worldview ultimately reduce all explanations to fundamental physics, or is there genuine novelty at the higher levels of complexity we find in everything from superconductors to politics? Join Robert and Joe for a journey into the innerverse of complexity, reductionism and emergence.

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