Sure, I would like to see it, maybe the others too? I have a feeling that there
is something evil about the Weinstein brothers, though. I watched the
discussion between Richard Dawkins and Bret Weinstein for instance, and Richard
Dawkins was awesome, he focused on ideas and explained them clearly while Bret
only talked about himself and his ideas, and made flattering comments such as
Narcissists do, especially in the last 20 minutes. People with NPD do exactly
that, they are masters of self-promotion and flattery who mainly talk about
themselves https://youtu.be/hYzU-DoEV6kDawkins said in this interview that
genes and memes would tussle each other in a great soup of replicators. There
would be various kinds of replicators, genes and memes, and they are all
engaged in a kind of tussle with each other to survive as replicators. A whole
genome would be a massive collection of "cooperative" viruses who share the
same vehicle to go around as a gang and replicate themselves. This means that a
genome is a bundle of cooperative viruses, and a virus is like a selfish gene
that goes awry. A virus is like a gene with a narcissistic personality disorder
so to speak. Could a virus be seen as a selfish gene gone rogue? I like this
idea.-J.
-------- Original message --------From: [email protected] Date: 6/2/20
17:57 (GMT+01:00) To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Science Commits SuicideJochen,My
evidence about the brothers Weinstein comes solely from that one,
brother-to-brother, podcast which I watched with utter (watching a trainwreck)
fascination. I have never met an academic who doesn’t think that, in some
sense, s/he deserves a Nobel prize. Some of us are consumed by it, and, I am
guessing, it’s those folks get the Nobel prizes. The rest of us live out happy
lives of muted disappointment. As I read that podcast, Bret was not consumed
by it; Eric, on the other hand, was consumed by Bret’s lack of consumption.
Sounds like a soap opera, doesn’t it? Cult of the Individual. I was so moved
by it, I have been drafting a letter to them, which is only a synopsis of all
that it stirred up in me. Perhaps you would like to see it. God know it would
never break through to them. In any case, I recommend you throw out your
Vioxx. Nick Nicholas ThompsonEmeritus Professor of Ethology and
PsychologyClark
[email protected]https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jochen FrommSent: Tuesday,
June 2, 2020 12:19 AMTo: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
<[email protected]>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Science Commits Suicide I have heard of
Penrose and his idea of Quantum Consciousness. Some of the Weinstein podcasts
are interesting. But Eric works for Peter Thiel, who has not the best image.
And Bret seems to be eaten up by his bitterness and revenge fantasies, because
Carol Greider has stolen his idea and got the Nobel Prize and he has nothing.
From my own experience in the academic world I can confirm that there is a true
core behind the myth (or conspiracy theory) of the DISC. -J. -------- Original
message --------From: Jon Zingale <[email protected]> Date: 6/2/20 00:33
(GMT+01:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Science Commits Suicide
Jochen, What is kind of funny is that two episodes later,rather than forcefully
pushing his DISC-obsessedprogram forward, he invites Roger Penrose on tothe
show to have a really satisfying and verystraightforward discussion of
mathematics andphysics. They talk Gauge theory, Riemanniangeometry, light
cones, the mass of particles,spinors, twistors, Aharonov-Bohm, Maxwell,Lie
groups, and what makes 15 dimensionalspaces unique. Jon
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