Our recurring guest (who rarely recurs these days), Alex Danco, comes back for his sixth appearance on Infinite Loops!
Important Links:
- Twitter: [https://twitter.com/Alex_Danco]
- Website: [https://alexdanco.com/]
- Newsletter: [https://danco.substack.com/]
Show Notes:
00:00 - Intro Clip
02:32 - Main Podcast
04:26 - Our planned, but unplanned conversations
11:25 -Where does decision making come from?
14:26 - Can you versus can’t you read people’s mind
16:16 - Jim throwing big fancy words like "Phylogenetic Inertia"
19:58 - Self-serving nature of memetic theory
24:01 - What is a “creator”?
25:05 - Communication theory by Gregory Bateson
31:22 - The Founding Murderer
45:35 - Hot media vs. Cool media
01:05:15 - Balancing mystery with transparency
01:12:28 - Knowing pop culture as a status symbol
And MUCH more including
- Pink Floyd were philosophers
- From Heraclitus, to Lao Tzu, to Gita, to Deutsch
- Projection 101
- Corn: The apex predator
- The Mirror Philosophy
- Consequences of eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge
- "The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.”
- The Wire, and dumb Stringer
- The state of accreditation
Books Mentioned:
- The Science of Storytelling; by Will Storr
- The Status Game; by Will Storr
- Happy; by Derren Brown
- The Selfish Gene; by Richard Dawkins
- Steps to an Ecology of Mind; by Gregory Bateson
- War and Peace; by Leo Tolstoy
