Curt Jaimungal & Noam Chomsky , Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Chomsky on Terence McKenna, GPT-3, Sam Harris, Cryptocurrencies, Kierkegaard, Neuralink, and Hofstadter

24 Mar 2021 • 83 min • EN
83 min
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Noam Chomsky joins Curt Jaimungal for a wide-ranging conversation that touches on group selection, his own mortality, the Piraha language, and a host of philosophical and technological ideas.- 00:00:00 - Introduction- 00:02:17 - Iain McGilchrist: Language without thought?- 00:06:54 - Stuart Hameroff: X bar structure in microtubules- 00:11:16 - Roger Penrose's Emperor's New Mind- 00:11:59 - Veno Volenec: Derivational Theory of Complexity and Generative Grammar- 00:20:02 - Existentialism and Kierkegaard [John Clever]- 00:21:00 - Sam Harris and Islam [Naman Jain]- 00:21:54 - Terrance McKenna and Stoned Ape Theory (psychedelics aiding language development / evolution)- 00:22:58 - Group Selection [Slaventhefourth]- 00:23:32 - Cryptocurrencies and decentralizing money [ThrowingSn0w]- 00:31:35 - Elon Musk's Neuralink [Tarek]- 00:31:56 - Douglas Hofstadter strange loop and generative grammar [Ryan]- 00:34:25 - Peter Singer's "Drowning Child" Thought Experiment [The_platypus_king]- 00:42:31 - Steven Pinker- 00:43:48 - Yuval Harari's Sapiens and the origin of language as introspective [Brez]- 00:49:50 - Piraha language and Daniel Everett [Mahendra Varma]- 00:54:40 - Karl Friston's free energy principle [MediocreBat2]- 00:55:03 - What does Chomsky get awestruck by? [Mai April]- 01:03:58 - Žižek / Hegel / Heidegger [Zowhat]- 01:06:23 - What mysteries would Chomsky want solved? [Mai April]- 01:11:44 - Open AI and GPT-3- 01:12:22 - Do you fear death? [Wil-Waal]- 01:12:40 - How to be more like Chomsky? [Overboi1]SPONSORS:- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- PayPal: https://bit.ly/2EOR0M4- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802- Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Google Podcasts: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Id3k7k7mfzahfx2fjqmw3vufb44- Discord Invite Code: dmGgQ2dRzS- Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverythingRESOURCES:- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6MU5zQwtT4- Iain McGilchrist's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLo0Zwe579g- Better Left Unsaid documentary: http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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