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Philosophy in the real world. Interviewing intellectuals across the globe. Grappling with the biggest ideas.
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![Three Confirmed Paradoxes in Mathematics [Narration]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1219659/post/174131717/cfb17069891c492dfa51f4af86fca5bb.jpg "Three Confirmed Paradoxes in Mathematics [Narration]")
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We've become desensitized to the novelty of the Trinity. I am joined by Dr. Jared Ortiz to discuss the history and importance of the Council of Nicaea. Guest's website: https://hope.edu/directory/people/ortiz-jared/index.html Guest's book: The Nicene Creed: A Scriptural, Historical, and Theological Commentary Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack.com/subscribe
![Intelligence and Pattern Recognition [Narration]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1219659/post/171142901/cfb17069891c492dfa51f4af86fca5bb.jpg "Intelligence and Pattern Recognition [Narration]")
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![Everything in Discrete Space [Narration]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1219659/post/169967229/cfb17069891c492dfa51f4af86fca5bb.jpg "Everything in Discrete Space [Narration]")
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There are too many anomalies in archaeology to ignore. Our paradigms will have to be revised.My conversation with Michael Button, a rising star from the next generation of scholars. Check out his YouTube channel here. Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack.com/subscribe
![Geometry as Logic [Narration]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1219659/post/169965173/cfb17069891c492dfa51f4af86fca5bb.jpg "Geometry as Logic [Narration]")
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![Mechanics before Ethics [Narration]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1219659/post/169963586/cfb17069891c492dfa51f4af86fca5bb.jpg "Mechanics before Ethics [Narration]")
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![How to Deal with Spiritual Hierarchy [Narration]](https://s3.castbox.fm/1a/a5/b6/624b255ca339e5da3dba09ca947c063733_scaled_v1_400.jpg "How to Deal with Spiritual Hierarchy [Narration]")
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Textbook calculus is wrong because it's fundamentally continuous. We can do better, and a discrete calculus might even change how we build computers. Interview with Ryan X Charles. Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack.com/subscribe
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I'm joined by Aaron Day of the Daylight Freedom Foundation to talk about... a completely different subject than we originally planned. He shares his story about moving away from atheist materialism, and we also discuss the role (and dangers) of social hierarchies and other topics. Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack.com/subscribe
![Complexity and Natural Systems [Narration]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1219659/post/165681144/cfb17069891c492dfa51f4af86fca5bb.jpg "Complexity and Natural Systems [Narration]")
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The biggest hangup I have with Catholicism (and all the mainline branches of Christianity) is the Trinity. I can understand a lower-case-t trinitarianism—that the concepts of “Father God”, “Son of God” and “Holy Spirit” are valid and useful—but the official doctrine of the Trinity still confuses me. Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack.com/subscribe
The best Christian philosophy I’ve heard comes from the ancient traditions—Catholicism and Orthodoxy. I would never have expected it five years ago, but I’m coming around to Catholicism in particular… Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack.com/subscribe
![The Problem of Physical Interaction [Narration]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1219659/post/164906991/cfb17069891c492dfa51f4af86fca5bb.jpg "The Problem of Physical Interaction [Narration]")
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![The Objectivity of Structure Outside our Concepts [Narration]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1219659/post/119749359/cfb17069891c492dfa51f4af86fca5bb.jpg "The Objectivity of Structure Outside our Concepts [Narration]")
The world outside our mind is actually glued together; relations are mind-independent; and patterns are objectively real. Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack.com/subscribe
Trying to envision life alongside AI. How will our culture change? What will the norms be around beloved robots? Should we let the machines hijack our emotional circuitry? Will AI become the highest-level decision makers within governments? Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack.com/subscribe
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interesting topic on free will
this was a hard one to follow between the two speakers
I have really enjoyed this one episode. You have wonderfully managed to articulate in a very understandable manner, different aspects of reality perception and theological/religious/intellectual expression of its manifestations. I have, on different occasions, entertained myself with some thoughts and musings that resemble very closely your personal thoughts in this regard, which obviously fascinates me because I can see that not matter how far away in distance and time, some ideas/thoughts are very similar, if not the same. BTW, I have somehow attempted to articulate my personal, similar thoughts about this topic in a book that I am about to publish, hopefully soon. This is, indeed, a very deep and fascinating subject, worthy of consideration by many gatekeepers of religious, theological and scientific tradition. Unfortunately, and under the current, prevalent paradigms and ethos of our world, this reasoning of what God is and is not -or could be- is rejected and not even considered
Well, I do firmly believe there must be an objective truth and reality lying outside of our best attempts to grasp it. However, I also believe that we are able to look at this objective truth from a very specific angle or perspective... that we only have little glimpses, at best, of this objective truth, which makes it unavoidable to express this perception of truth in different manners. I also believe that subjective perceptions of truth and reality may give room to contradictions and inconsistencies in one's own belief system. As a result of the latter, there will be different ways of stating this perception of truth, which, in the surface, may seen to change or evolve from time to time. Does that makes me a fashionable thinker, according to your definition of such?