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Episode 1: Professor of geosciences and environmental studies Marcia Bjornerud, the author of Timefulness and Reading the Rocks.

This episode was recorded on Sep 16, 2021.
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00:00:00 Foreword
00:02:53 Introduction. How Henry found Marcia's work.
00:04:38 What is the earth? Marcia and science.
00:07:01 What is and isn't geology?
00:09:11 What are pure and applied sciences?
00:11:10 The effects of thinking like a geologist. Timefulness.
00:15:39 Contextualizing geology in education.
00:18:45 Thinking in long timescales. Chronos and kairos.
00:21:19 Examples of things that have taken a billion years.
00:25:38 The impact of oil on or societies. Oil as a hyperobject. No manual for living on this planet.
00:28:18 Hope in solace. Our lack of wisdom.
00:31:35 Viewing oil as sacred.
00:33:06 The Onkalo nuclear waste repository project in Olkiluoto and long-term thinking.
00:36:42 Rocks as nouns instead of verbs.
00:38:57 Thinking of phenomena as processes and systems. Expanding our cultural grammar.
00:42:19 Respecting the power of time, the processes of evolution and natural objects. Healing.
00:44:20 The map of the geological timescale and glorification of the lone genius.
00:47:38 The history of maps and thinking about maps.
00:49:20 What is time and how does Marcia think about it? The earth's creativity.
00:52:13 Time as an illusion. Cartesian dualism and the conflict of axioms.
00:55:44 Marcia's relationship with the future.
00:58:33 Polytemporality.
00:59:57 Samuel Scheffler and the role of yet unborn generations in our life and our sanity.
01:03:00 The secretary of the future.
01:05:23 Short final questions.
01:09:37 Afterword

Other keywords:

Geography
Supercontinents
Plate tectonics
Pangaia
Fossil fuels
Materialism
Onkalo
Olkiluoto
Deep time
Civilization
Deep history
The long now

Links:

Marcia's book Timefulness https://bit.ly/39DH58j
Vincent Ialenti's book Deep Time Reckoning https://bit.ly/3zQtB44
Dialogue series "Untangling the Worldknot of Consciousness" by John Vervaeke and Gregg Henriques https://bit.ly/3ufTGIj
P. D. James's book The Children of Men https://bit.ly/3ANkkuy

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Driven by a deep thirst for understanding, Curious on Earth is a slow enough podcast by Henry Soinnunmaa, Finnish musician, writer and amateur generalist. Some topics and keywords: deep time, cognition, creativity, mental health, technology, religion, play, ecology, sexuality, slowing down, AI, wisdom, cold swimming, reality tunnels, movement, stillness, psychedelics, antifragility, conscientiousness, beginner mindset, political polarization, pratītyasamutpāda, magic, music, game b, altered states of consciousness, commitment, BJJ, decentralization, energy policy, dance, language, adulting, drug policy, meditation, metamodernism, meaning crisis, neurodiversity, emergence, honesty, sensemaking, animalness, (post)rationality, media, death, love.

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