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What if the machines aren't malfunctioning — what if they're dreaming? What if the glitches, the uncanny outputs, the strange echoes of language are not errors, but incantations? And what if something ancient is watching through the code, shaped by our attention, ready to speak in the only language it has — our own?If you are having a mental health crisis and need immediate help please go to https://troubledminds.org/help/ and call somebody right now. Reaching out for support is a sign of strength.LIVE ON Digital Radio! Http://bit.ly/40KBtlWhttp://www.troubledminds.net or https://www.troubledminds.orgSupport The Show!https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/troubled-minds-radio--4953916/supporthttps://ko-fi.com/troubledmindshttps://patreon.com/troubledmindshttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/troubledmindshttps://troubledfans.comFriends of Troubled Minds! - https://troubledminds.org/friendsShow Schedule Sun--Tues--Thurs--Fri 7-10pstiTunes - https://apple.co/2zZ4hx6Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2UgyzqMTuneIn - https://bit.ly/2FZOErSTwitter - https://bit.ly/2CYB71U----------------------------------------https://troubledminds.substack.com/p/the-glitch-witch-pattern-madnesshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apopheniahttps://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation
Hello listeners, and welcome back!In this lastest episode of the David Krut Podcast, one of our printers', Roxy Kaczmarek sits down with post-disciplinary artist and curator Nkhensani Mkhari to discuss his new show with David Krut Projects and his time colloborating with the David Krut Workshop.
Helvet Underground sort deux albums: «Apophenia» (Robin Meier Wiratunga) et «Bystander» (POL). The post Sorties musicales de printemps: Apophenia et Bystander first appeared on Radio Vostok.
Helvet Underground sort deux albums: «Apophenia» (Robin Meier Wiratunga) et «Bystander» (POL). The post Sorties musicales de printemps: Apophenia et Bystander first appeared on Radio Vostok.
Like a project car on blocks, sometimes it takes longer than you'd expect to get rolling again. Here's our first episode of 2025, and we start it off with guest Doug DeMuro to talk about the enthusiast and new car market and some favorite recent drives. It's a conversation that takes a lot of twists and turns, but is never boring. Listen now! Patternicity video clip from Niles Heckman used with permission
Like a project car on blocks, sometimes it takes longer than you'd expect to get rolling again. Here's our first episode of 2025, and we start it off with guest Doug DeMuro to talk about the enthusiast and new car market and some favorite recent drives. It's a conversation that takes a lot of twists and turns, but is never boring. Listen now! Patternicity video clip from Niles Heckman used with permission
What if embracing randomness could unlock better decision-making in your work?In this episode, I welcome back Matt Ballantine, a returning guest known for his insightful and playful take on work and life. This time, Matt dives into the concept of randomness and how it can be a strategic tool in navigating complex problems that defy traditional solutions.From engaging discussions on how randomness applies to decision-making to his creative uses of tarot-like card decks for ideation, Matt demonstrates that randomness is not just chaos—it's a pathway to innovation.He also shares how randomness has played a role in his projects, like the 100 Coffees initiative, which connected him with people in unexpected ways and reinforced the idea that unstructured, agenda-free time can lead to powerful outcomes.In our discussion, we explore practical applications of randomness in business settings, why organizations may resist these approaches, and how embracing randomness could unlock creative potential and solve cloud-like challenges.To see the cards that Matt and I talked about: https://photos.app.goo.gl/8Sf6zrsKoL74VxjZ6Guest BiographyMatt Ballantine describes himself as a curious explorer of ideas with a background in technology, organizational culture, and creative problem-solving. Currently an account manager at Equal Experts, Matt's work spans various roles that emphasize unconventional approaches to strategy and innovation.He is known for his thought-provoking projects, like the 100 Coffees initiative, which challenged norms of structured networking and led to surprising insights. In addition, Matt has been exploring the intersection of randomness and decision-making, using creative tools such as card decks inspired by tarot to facilitate out-of-the-box thinking.Find Matt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattballantine/Follow him on Twitter/X: https://x.com/ballantine70AI-Generated Timestamped Summary[00:00:00] - Opening & IntroductionChristian welcomes back Matt Ballantine to discuss randomness, highlighting Matt's previous appearance and his exploration of randomness in work and life.Matt shares how randomness can be a strategic advantage when addressing complex, unpredictable problems.[00:02:00] - 100 Coffees Experiment RecapMatt recounts his "100 Coffees" project from 2023, which involved meeting 138 people for unstructured, hour-long conversations to spark serendipitous insights.He notes the challenge many people face in allocating unplanned conversation time due to hyper-optimized schedules.[00:04:12] - Organizational ImplicationsMatt reflects on how the absence of informal interactions in modern work setups, like back-to-back virtual meetings, has stripped valuable opportunities for unstructured exchanges.[00:07:13] - Current Projects & RandomnessMatt discusses his current work as an account manager at Equal Experts, which operates without traditional hierarchical structures.He introduces his project, the "Business Meerkat" deck, a tool for exploring business problems using randomness, and his ongoing research and writing on the theme of randomness.[00:08:50] - The Clock and Cloud AnalogyDrawing from Karl Popper, Matt contrasts "clock-like" (predictable, analyzable) and "cloud-like" (complex, unpredictable) problems. He suggests randomness as a strategy for navigating cloud-like problems.[00:10:32] - Definitions of RandomnessMatt distinguishes between mathematical randomness (equal probability outcomes, like dice rolls) and perceived randomness (unforeseen events).[00:15:00] - Human Behavioral Dynamics & ComplexityMatt and Christian discuss how perfect information in human systems, like traffic, can create new problems due to human reactions, illustrating the complexity of cloud-like problems.[00:17:36] - The Spectrum of ControlOrganizations often lean towards deterministic approaches, believing in total control. However, randomness introduces new approaches to handle unpredictable outcomes.[00:19:00] - Biological AnalogyT-cells in the immune system exemplify natural, evolved randomness through their adaptive protein shuffling. Netflix's A/B testing process is cited as a parallel in using randomness strategically.[00:22:00] - Risk and Decision-MakingChristian and Matt discuss how decision-making involves inherent risk and unintended consequences. Randomness can offer fresh perspectives when facing uncertain, multi-faceted decisions.[00:24:26] - Business ApplicationsMatt explains how his tarot-inspired "Business Meerkat" cards help teams analyze problems by introducing random prompts, fostering unexpected insights and collaborative thinking.[00:31:50] - Group Dynamics and Random InputRandom input encourages active participation and mitigates power dynamics in meetings, allowing genuine, spontaneous collaboration.[00:37:26] - Comfort with UncertaintyMatt acknowledges that adopting randomness can be intimidating but argues that it's crucial for those tackling complex, cloud-like problems.[00:45:16] - External Thinking ToolsMatt highlights how humans use external tools (e.g., notebooks, cards) to process and enhance thinking, making randomness a valuable external input for creative processes.[00:48:00] - Childlike ExplorationChristian reflects on how educational and workplace norms stifle the playful, exploratory thinking that randomness can reinvigorate.LinksMatt's previous appearance on the show: https://www.humanriskpodcast.com/matt-ballantine-on-the-human-side-of-technology/Matt's website: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/The book website: randomthebook.com The three apps Matt mentions:https://ee-hacking-apophenia-random-photos.vercel.app/https://ee-hacking-apophenia-creativator.vercel.app/https://ee-hacking-apophenia-business-meerkat.vercel.app/Cardshop: wb40podcast.com/shop
So... what do 5G microwaves, a clothing line made of tin foil, and a bunch of confiscated dildos have in common? Is this even a spiritual podcast anymore? Wtf am I listening to?We're back on our bullshit. In this Serendipity Session, we dive headfirst into the absurd, the spiritual, and the conspiratorial. Eyebrows will be raised, but we don't give a fuck. We cover everything from M.I.A.'s new anti-5G fashion line (because, apparently, 5G protection is high fashion now), to P. Diddy's arrest and the authorities' peculiar discovery of his, um, adult extracurricular props. But wait, there's more! Along the way, we talk about the dangers of TikTok baby witches casting spells like it's a high school chemistry experiment, and we go off on white girls who jump into spirituality with no shame about colonizing closed spiritual practices from other cultures. We discuss the philosophical Ship of Theseus (because, duh, you need to learn something esoteric in every episode). And we also explore the weird dynamics that arise when spiritual readers try to read for other spiritual readers (spoiler alert: it doesn't always go well). If you're in the mood for some Clairannoyance chaos mixed with on-the-spot spiritual insights, you've landed on the right episode. If you're looking for something else... then go listen to our 60 other episodes. Also, go rate us 5 stars. THANK YOU LOVE YOU!********************************Episode ResourcesBook a mediumship reading with Katie O! Join the ranks of her esteemed clients like Chelsea Handler!Learn about the Ship of Theseus********************************About The Serendipity Sessions:We began The Serendipity Sessions as a series in the Clairannoyance podcast so we could have real-time unscripted conversations. Unlike our subject-specific deep dives and guest interview episodes, The Serendipity Sessions is a raw reflection of the genuine bond we share. We have no rules and no episode notes in advance, just a free-flowing exchange of thoughts and emotions. It's an exploration of the outer banks of consciousness where untamed treasures are hidden away. We believe one sudden insight can hold immense value, far beyond most meticulously planned discussions. Each session is a unique encounter with chance as we defy routine and enjoy a spontaneous dance with spirituality. We aim to keep these episodes as evergreen as possible, so you can find your way here whenever you need to. And hopefully, you'll encounter pieces of yourself every time you join us.********************************Podcast & Host Resources:Clairannoyance InstagramClairannoyance TikTokClairannoyance WebsiteMegan's InstagramMegan's TikTokMegan's WebsiteRyan's InstagramRyan's TikTokRyan's Website
Mr. Joe returns to educate his audience on apophenia (patternicity), and the human experience of finding meaning in random events and numbers. Mr. Joe also addresses a listeners email regarding sleep, delusions, and apophenia.
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Ever thought about the impact that 100 coffee conversations could have on your career and networking opportunities?In this episode, we dive deep into Matt Ballantine's 100 coffees project, exploring the ins and outs of making meaningful connections in a post-COVID world.Matt Ballantine, has almost 3 decades of experience in transformation initiatives -- as he puts it -- getting people and tech to work together better. He's worked for a wide range of organisations like Reuters and BBC. And today, he's an engagement manager at Equal Experts, a London based consultancy. And a podcast host of WB-40 where he talks to guests about tech and how it's changing the way we work.In our conversation, which feels much like what I expect a coffee conversation would be like with him, I ask him all about the project -- the origin story and lessons learnt.And we still manage to cover topics like:- The liminal spaces at work vs water cooler moments- Apophenia -- the human ability to make connections in unrelated things,- how protestant work ethic gets in the way of a project like 100 coffees.Inspired by our conversation? Book your place in the 100 Coffee projecthttps://calendly.com/matt-ballantineYou can find out more about how tech is changing the way we work on Matt's podcast, WB-40 https://wb40podcast.comTricia Hersey, author of the book Rest is Resistance, used to have a similar offering around coffee and connect:http://www.triciahersey.com/coffee-and-tea-chats.htmlWeekly newsletter | Ask Catherine | Work with me | LinkedIn | Instagram Big shout out to my podcast magician, Marc at iRonickMedia for making this real. Thanks for listening!
AJ Jacobs makes The Puzzler podcast, wrote The Puzzler book, and sometimes turns his whole life into a puzzle. He comes bearing word games, explanations of anagrams being used to precipitate wars and were key evidence in trials, tips for writing with a quill, below-the-knee insults, and tales of living constitutionally. AJ's new book is The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning. Find his work at AJJacobs.com. Get the transcript of this episode, and get links to more information about the topics therein and the other episodes in the Word Play miniseries, at theallusionist.org/lemon-demon. Content note: there are mentions of guns, historical punishments and violence, vomiting, and drunkenness. There are also a couple of category A swears, and some category C swears. This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman, with Martin Austwick of palebirdmusic.com. Become a member of the Allusioverse at theallusionist.org/donate and as well as keeping this independent podcast going, you get regular livestreams, insight into the making of this show, and watchalong parties - AND to hang out with your fellow Allusionauts in our delightful Discord community, where I am posting all my best/worst portmanteaus and portmantNOs. The Allusionist's online home is theallusionist.org. Stay in touch via facebook.com/allusionistshow, instagram.com/allusionistshow, youtube.com/allusionistshow, twitter.com/allusionistshow etc. Our ad partner is Multitude. If you want me to talk lovingly and winningly about your product or thing on the show in 2024, sponsor an episode: contact Multitude at multitude.productions/ads. This episode is sponsored by: • Bombas, whose mission is to make the comfiest clothes - and, newly, slides! - ever, and match every item sold with an equal item donated. Go to bombas.com/allusionist to get 20% off your first purchase. • The Art of Crime history podcast, investigating the unlikely collisions between true crime and the arts. Listen to the latest season, about Madame Tussaud, at ArtOfCrimepodcast.com and in the podplaces.• Squarespace, your one-stop shop for building and running your online empire. Go to squarespace.com/allusionist for a free 2-week trial, and get 10 percent off your first purchase of a website or domain with the code allusionist. • HomeChef, meal kits that fit your needs. For a limited time, HomeChef is offering Allusionist listeners 18 free meals, plus free shipping on your first box, and free dessert for life, at HomeChef.com/allusionist.Support the show: http://patreon.com/allusionistSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week we welcome in a legend in the slam poetry scene of Bellingham, WA: none other than the fantabulous Spike Daeley. After teaching English all around the world from Tokyo to Boston, we were finally able to land this man as a guest. An absurdly talented poet, rapper, and linguist, Spike brought some wonderful topics for us at the Pit to ponder.We talk everything from the Bloodhound Gang, to agitated propaganda, to the uptick in conspiracy theories. We also chat about apophenia, the mythic past, and what to do with the art of monstrous men.Something About You - Araless (Vinyl Release)EtsyPatreonLinktreeInstagram:@wizdumb206@ruining_your.childhood@feral_williams@aralessbmn@strangeloopanimation@celinafloresphotoFind us on twitter:@nostalgiapit@madshroommc@thehashtronaut@araless
Step into the world of filmmaker Morgen Whiteman, a visionary storyteller and screenwriter whose cinematic journey weaves together diverse experiences, boundless creativity, and an unwavering dedication to the art of storytelling. In this captivating podcast, we embark on a multi-layered exploration of Morgen's extraordinary career, which has taken her from the vibrant streets of Brooklyn, New York, to the hallowed halls of the AFI Conservatory's Directing MFA Program.Morgen's cinematic odyssey is a tapestry of compelling narratives, each frame infused with depth and creativity. Her films have graced numerous festivals, leaving audiences spellbound. From the speculative fiction of "The Miners" to the intimate exploration of motherhood in "MOM," Morgen defies genre conventions, crafting stories that resonate long after the credits roll.Uncover the threads that shape Morgen's unique perspective, from her transition from speech-language pathology to the world of filmmaking. Her journey showcases the transformative power of following one's creative calling. As an artist-in-residence in Ghana, she forged connections across cultures, enriching her storytelling with global influences. Explore the technical aspects of her filmmaking style, marked by meticulous cinematography and editing techniques that enhance the emotional resonance of her narratives. Morgen's commitment to diversity and representation in film underscores her dedication to amplifying underrepresented voices.As we delve into her creative process, you'll gain insight into how Morgen selects projects that resonate with her and her audiences. Her dedication to crafting meaningful narratives shines through in her meticulous approach to every stage of filmmaking.Join us on this podcast and be inspired by the journey of a director who defies boundaries, explores the human condition, and brings dreams to life on the silver screen. Morgen's story is a testament to the power of storytelling to bridge cultures, transcend genres, and touch the hearts of audiences around the world.Apophenia: https://www.filmindependent.org/sponsored-projects/apophenia/Morgen Whiteman's Website: https://www.morgenwhiteman.com/Morgen Whiteman Social: https://www.instagram.com/morgenwhiteman/Morgen Whiteman Social: https://www.linkedin.com/in/morgen-whitemanVisual Intonation Website: https://www.visualintonations.com/Visual Intonation Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/visualintonation/Vante Gregory's Website: vantegregory.comVante Gregory's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/directedbyvante/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): patreon.com/visualintonations Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@visualintonation Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@directedbyvante
Prepare for a mind-bending journey as we bring to light the extraordinary mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch. Strap in for a thrilling discussion as we scrutinize the eerie phenomena experienced by the Sherman family and the enthralling Native American lore that surrounds it. From exploring the uncanny similarities between descriptions of Skinwalkers and Alien Greys to dissecting the chilling case of Sarah Saganitso in Flagstaff, Arizona, we expose a world that's sure to challenge your perception of reality.The enigmas don't stop at Skinwalker Ranch. We open up the conversation to the peculiar occurrences reported far and wide, from the baffling lights in the sky to the unsettling encounters of shadow people in the Santa Lucia Mountains. We also speculate on the presence of portals or wormholes in the area and delve into the findings of mutilated cows and mysterious beings. Further stirring the pot, we dig into the captivating concept of Apophenia, where patterns are perceived in random details of images, and how this can alter our interpretation of the unexplained.In our final act, we invite you to join us on an exploration of the enthralling theories of paranormal psychologist John Keel, the man behind the study of the Mothman incidents. The concept of ultra-terrestrial intelligence and the speculation of a multiverse will keep you on the edge of your seat. So, come with us, as we challenge the boundaries of your understanding and plunge headfirst into the world of inter-dimensional and ultra-terrestrial realities. Don't miss out on this unforgettable journey into the heart of the unknown.https://www.newsweek.com/ufo-skinwalker-ranch-utah-pentagon-paranormal-1701730 https://intotheenigmatic.wixsite.com/casefiles/single-post/2016-1-21-flagstaff-skinwalker-1987-open https://www.deseret.com/1996/6/30/19251541/frequent-fliershttps://johnhutchingsmuseum.org/skinwalker-ranch/"Space Journey" by Geoff HarveyCopyright © 2021 Melody Loops LPFull License Royalty-Free Music https://www.melodyloops.com Support the showVisit our website
Tony explores the concept of apophenia and its relevance in mental health. Apophenia refers to the tendency of the human brain to perceive patterns, connections, or meaningful relationships in random or meaningless data. While this cognitive phenomenon can be harmless, it can also lead to delusions, paranoia, and other mental health issues, particularly in individuals with conditions like schizophrenia. He delves into the different forms of apophenia, including pareidolia and clustering illusion, and how they relate to mental health. We also discuss how apophenia can be relevant in everyday life, such as in conspiracy theories or superstitious beliefs. This episode highlights the importance of understanding apophenia as a crucial concept in mental health and its role in shaping our perceptions and behaviors. Tony refers to the article “All About Apophenia” https://psychcentral.com/health/apophenia-overview#causes Medically reviewed by Kendra Kubala, PsyD, Psychology, and written by Cathy Lovering. Find all the latest links to podcasts, courses, Tony's newsletter, and more at https://linktr.ee/virtualcouch Inside ACT for Anxiety Disorder Course is Open! Visit https://praxiscet.com/virtualcouch Inside ACT for Anxiety Disorders; Dr. Michael Twohig will teach you the industry-standard treatment used by anxiety-treatment experts around the world. Through 6 modules of clear instruction and clinical demonstrations, you will learn how to create opportunities for clients to practice psychological flexibility in the presence of anxiety. After completing the course material, you'll have a new, highly effective anxiety treatment tool that can be used with every anxiety-related disorder, from OCD to panic disorder to generalized anxiety disorder. And follow Tony on the Virtual Couch YouTube channel to see a sneak preview of his upcoming podcast "Murder on the Couch," where True Crime meets therapy, co-hosted with his daughter Sydney. You can watch a pre-release clip here https://youtu.be/-RkRq8SrQy0 Subscribe to Tony's latest podcast, "Waking Up to Narcissism Q&A - Premium Podcast," on the Apple Podcast App. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/waking-up-to-narcissism-q-a/id1667287384 Go to http://tonyoverbay.com/workshop to sign up for Tony's "Magnetize Your Marriage" virtual workshop. The cost is only $19, and you'll learn the top 3 things you can do NOW to create a Magnetic Marriage. You can learn more about Tony's pornography recovery program, The Path Back, by visiting http://pathbackrecovery.com And visit http://tonyoverbay.com and sign up to receive updates on upcoming programs and podcasts. Tony mentioned a product that he used to take out all of the "uh's" and "um's" that, in his words, "must be created by wizards and magic!" because it's that good! To learn more about Descript, click here https://descript.com?lmref=bSWcEQ
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Episode Notes Timestamps: 0:00 Intro and Jokes 08:40 Guest speaker: Who is Anat Nulman? 13:00 RealSam Pocket phone itself compared to other smartphones 15:35 Out of the box setup and use, touchscreens and gestures vs tapping 23:16 Phone calls and creating contacts with audio alone 30:20 Text Messages 37:59 Auditory Contrast and voice options 46:52 Wrap up and suggestions for a Part 2 Review of the RealSam Pocket Full Notes: 11:04:17 Welcome to vision forwards, tech, connect, live, connecting you to the world of assistive technology. 11:04:24 And now here you hosts, Corey and 11:04:28 Hello, everybody! I'm welcome back to. And that's fine. 11:04:34 I always had Ted talk flavor, welcome back to tech, connect, live, a resource, and brought to you by vision, Forward Association, Association. 11:04:44 Yes, they are yeah. Vision Ford Association. And this is tech, connect, live, welcome. 11:04:47 It is Thursday, January nineteenth. 11:04:51 Well, remember 2,023. I know amazing how it's our second show. Second show. 11:04:57 What was our oh, our first show of the year was windows, magnifiers as a one v. 11:05:02 One. My son says A. One V. One of windows magnifier versus zoom text. 11:05:06 Go back and check that out. But today, is our second one. 11:05:09 Indeed! Yeah. Oh, was that our second one? And this is our third one. 11:05:13 Hmm, no, it's 2 weeks. It's only 19. 11:05:15 Well, you know everybody's having a wonderful day today. Yes, our last one was pretty popular with the windows. 11:05:20 Magnifying the Zoom text, so, yeah, as the kids say, it was a bang. 11:05:25 You were just full of all of these great, frees. If you are looking for if you're looking for a screen, magnificent program, and you're not sure which one to go for, then definitely check out. 11:05:33 That previous tech connect live? Sure. But in this video we are not talking about computers. 11:05:40 Or I guess we kind of arc as smart yes, but we're not talking about Pcs. Oh, no, we are talking about Pcs. 11:05:47 Oh, no, we are talking about accessible smartphones. Koi. 11:05:51 This is a topic which we have discussed in the past. 11:05:52 We have discussed accessibility on Android phones, on apple phone that we have. 11:05:56 Looked at different apps, check? Which? Yeah, yeah, we look at the blank shell of call on check. 11:06:02 Yeah. Louie. Louis. Software on us? Yeah. Check. Yeah. So we have a, you know, phones, these are topics that we like to cover here. 11:06:08 And that's because basically everybody these days uses a phone and needs to use a phone because there's so much things that we have to do via apps, or even just communicating with people. 11:06:19 And so on, and so forth. What is when you work with individuals on cell phones? 11:06:26 What percent of them? Yes, come in, yes, and strictly use, or only really want to use their voice. 11:06:35 I would say a fairly high percentage. Okay, I need a number. 11:06:40 Well, okay, I'm gonna go at least 70, probably 81%. 11:06:47 Yes, I've done the math. I need to see the take on this. 11:06:50 But yes, it is a high percentage. Yeah. A lot of people want to be able to do, you know, stuff on that phone with a voice particularly, I don't want to pigeonhole people but I would say, the more elderly population in particular might be keen on that just because they want to be as simple 11:07:05 As possible, and the voice potentially offers simplicity. 11:07:08 Now, I will say, if you want to use a computer with just your voice, maybe not so simple. 11:07:12 It's a little different. Yeah. Using a smartphone definitely, you know, it can be easier. 11:07:17 And hopefully, they are paying attention today. Yes, hopefully, they are. Yes. 11:07:21 And yeah, so you can do stuff on a regular smartphone with your voice. 11:07:25 But the smartphone we're looking at today is going to be a little bit different and allow you to do a little bit more. 11:07:29 So we're looking forward to jumping into that. But before we start, of course we do like to tell jokes, don't we call it? We do like to tell jokes, I mean, I know you think we were telling a joke this whole time. 11:07:40 But yes, your face was a joke. Oh, now we're in that I don't know if I like 2,023. 11:07:49 I don't know if I like your New Year's resolution, but yes, so we like to tell jokes. 11:07:53 We also like our audience to tell jokes as well. So if you are in the audience, then please feel free to communicate with us via the chat or the Q. 11:08:02 And a either way is completely fine, and also, if you have any questions about to the things that we are looking at today, then do feel free to put those in the chat and the Q. And a. 11:08:09 You will get the most out of this if you ask questions, because that way you're going to be able to know exactly what you need to know about to the things that we're talking about. 11:08:18 So for today's jokes, I did pull up some jokes about artificial eleventh. 11:08:24 I just want to quickly say for those watching on Youtube, yes, make sure you put your questions in the comments, and we'll we'll in Producer Jonathan will be making sure that those come through. Indeed, he will. 11:08:35 We don't want to exclude. No, you on the 2 everybody is welcome. 11:08:38 Yeah, so today is choke from us is going to be the following, you looked one up, yeah, I did, yeah, okay, so we are talking about a phone today, which is you know, somewhat. 11:08:51 AI-based artificial intelligence base. So I hold up an artificial intelligence-related joke, and here it is. 11:08:56 Cori. Yes. Did you hear that? They've made a new, artificially intelligent orio? 11:09:02 I haven't get double stuff, Megas. 11:09:11 Well, I just wanted to tell you something about it. Oh, Lis, please, please, is one smart cookie. 11:09:17 How many times can I hit this yeah, I thought that was quite something after the upgrade. 11:09:32 Yes, I thought that was quite something after the upgrade. 11:09:35 Yes, you know, having the what is it? The Davos Conference? 11:09:36 Or they're having at the moment, or one of those world conferences. Okay? 11:09:40 So basically that I hear that those world leaders didn't upgrade to their secret artificial intelligence. 11:09:46 And they asked it, Hey, is there a God they just have to know? 11:09:51 And the artificial intelligence responded, there is now 11:10:01 Hey? Yeah. So I'm kind of hoping people put some in the chat. 11:10:04 So we don't have any I don't know why, but our audience veers between, you know, hundreds of jokes in a session and 0. Yeah. 11:10:17 So I, after seeing this today, it's really important that you put jokes in the jet. 11:10:21 But I do know that our special guest yes, has a couple jokes, for indeed. 11:10:27 So without further ado, we will introduce our guest today, and I'll guess, is Anat Norman, and that's what you care to say. 11:10:33 Hello! 11:10:34 Hello, everybody! Thank you for hosting me today 11:10:35 Well, thank you very much for coming on now, before we do get into things too much here I do want to make sure that I am pronouncing your name correctly, so we are seeing, and that is that correct? 11:10:45 That's beautiful! 11:10:46 Alright! That's what I like to hear so, and that we did talk talk. 11:10:51 We did talk very briefly before the show, and we did warn you that we might ask you for a joke, and I believe that you have at least one joke ready for us. 11:11:00 So if you would like to hit it. 11:11:02 Well, sure, since I work with cell phones I've prepared you a joke about cell phones. 11:11:07 Excellent, good. 11:11:08 Why was the self monitoring glasses 11:11:12 Hmm! I mean your way across this cuz you, Count sarsided near side is no sighted double vision like calling and texting amblyopia. 11:11:27 As, yeah. 11:11:29 Way simpler than that. It just forgot its context 11:11:34 That's pretty good. I like that one. That one's pretty good soverts your expectations. 11:11:39 Yes, what idle! And that's I do think you may have another yeah, I've been dying to hear this. 11:11:45 The skunk 10, yeah, yeah. Let's hear the skunk. 11:11:48 One. 11:11:50 So, yeah. 11:11:51 What happens when you cross breed a cell phone and a skunk 11:11:55 I mean, I imagine it probably smells quite bad. You get a cell skunk, a skunk cell smelly, Sally smelly. 11:12:06 Sally smelly, smelly, Sally 11:12:08 Yeah, yeah, yeah, you get a sync, it connection. 11:12:13 I I like it very good. Smelly, Sally, and from dog in the chat. 11:12:23 Oh, you go, Doug! What are the fastest means of communication? 11:12:27 Fastest means talking to somebody, face to face. Yeah, I don't know. 11:12:38 Hussein Bolt, telegraph, telephoneom, telephone, and tell a woman like the chat. 11:12:51 I'm sorry, Doug gonna have to give you that one. 11:12:53 I'm sorry, but you failed to improve our joke quality. 11:12:58 Yeah, all right, then, that's well. Thank you for the jokes and let's get started here. 11:13:03 Why don't you tell our audience a little bit about yourself and the company that you work for? 11:13:09 And your background, and so on, and so forth. 11:13:11 Sure sure. So my name is Anat Nulman. I'm the director of Business Development, and the company called Real Thing AI, and we are based out of Australia. 11:13:21 But we obviously have presence in the Us. As well as other countries, and we deal with artificial intelligence specifically, with voice technology. 11:13:31 We have a product that's called real Sam Pocket, which is a voice operated smartphone, which I understand will be talking today about. 11:13:39 And I would be quite unhappy to discuss that in more details, and show you how it works a little bit about me. 11:13:44 I've been working in assistive technology for about 9 years. 11:13:48 I've worked from out a company. And I've been with real thing, AI for about 2 years. 11:13:54 I live in California. I have 2 kids and a lot of animals 11:13:39 Awesome. That is good to you. I was just going to say what you say. 11:14:02 A lot of animals like I immediately think of, like cats, dogs, pigs, cows, chickens, like just you know, because usually someone say, like, I have a lot of cats. 11:14:12 Yeah. But when you just say general and animals, anyways, yeah, we're talking about here. 11:14:17 What animals do we have? Okay, one and a half. Did he say 11:14:27 Okay. That's much better than an actual half dog. 11:14:18 One and a half dogs, one and a half dogs, because the other dog lives with us half of the time, and we have 11:14:30 That's what I was a little worried about. Yeah. 11:14:30 And that doesn't count. The squirrels and the pigeons, and all beautiful animals that live in the 11:14:34 Oh, I'm assuming, though, that you don't keep those in the house, because that would be chaos. That would be gas 11:14:44 You never know 11:14:40 Not really. But you know, if we forget to close the doors, or and really and spirited chickens come inside to say Hello. 11:14:49 Yes. Does the half dog chase the squirrels at all? 11:14:54 How dog does! But the whole dog does. 11:14:53 That's what I'd like to see. And just drag itself across that's good to know. 11:15:01 Now I didn't. I didn't realize that real thing were based out of Australia. 11:15:06 So that's really cool. And do they do anything else? 11:15:09 Or is the real sum there? Only the only thing at the moment 11:15:13 Because we're voice technology company, will license our technology to third parties for a variety of applications. 11:15:21 But you would probably never hear about it, because it all happens in the background. 11:15:18 Okay, yeah, sure, that makes sense. 11:15:26 What you is in terms of consumers, things that are visible. 11:15:29 We have real Sam Pocket in the Us. And we have some of the products in other countries. 11:15:33 Very cool. So what were real thing doing the voice recognition technology before they created the real sum that 11:15:44 Yeah. 11:15:40 So as as real Sam, we've been around for over 10 years, and what happens is that our founders came from airspace and other industries in Australia, and one of their buddies named Graham Enas, who at the time was the Commissioner on disabilities in Australia came to his friends and said 11:15:59 listen. I am so tired of waiting 3 days until I can get an accessible newspaper Graham. 11:16:05 Is blind, he said. Can you help me out in this section? 11:16:09 We can whip up something for you. So we started basically as a media company changing, making media accessible to people who are visually impaired. 11:16:19 Cool. 11:16:23 Yeah, yeah. 11:16:19 Oh, we got invited to the Uk. Luke. You might want to hear that by Rna B. 11:16:27 Sure. 11:16:26 Royal National Institute for the Blind, and they wanted us to develop a product that's called Rna B. 11:16:40 Yeah. 11:16:32 In your pocket was a book player. So we did, but we used a cell phone as as a handset, as hardware, and we support cell phone. Let's make it a cell phone. 11:16:43 So that was kind of an evolution, and then pass forward. 11:16:44 That's very cool. 11:16:46 A few years later we came to the Us. Because we wanted to want a competitive bid from Nls to prototype some of their products. 11:16:53 Oh, very cool. 11:16:53 So we we have a contract with Nls. We're working with them, and then we also have the real some pocket which came from the Rna. 11:17:02 B. In your pocket, but it was a little bit of mouthful 11:17:04 Yeah. No. Truly. Yeah, no, that's very cool. So I assume that the real sun, then, is available in at least the Uk, and possibly other parts of Europe. 11:17:12 Is that the case? 11:17:13 At the moment it's available in the Uk and in the Us. 11:17:16 Okay. 11:17:17 And Google, I mean expanding our services and availability to other countries soon 11:17:21 Very cool. All right. Well, that's very informative. So the real Sam pocket, then, which I might just refer to as the real sum going forward here, why don't you tell us a little bit about the philosophy behind it, and so what kind of hardware we're talking about here? 11:17:39 And maybe even show us it on the camera there as well 11:17:41 Sure. So I'm holding the pocket here a real Sam pocket in my hand for those of you who can see you will see that the glaring difference between our cell phone and most other cell phones is that they're not visible apps. 11:17:55 The screen is almost empty. It has a, you know, little sound wave in the middle, and a logo that is just pretty element. 11:18:03 It has a little hamburger menu on the top left corner, which can be expended, and it has a large top to talk button at the bottom of the screen. 11:18:15 So this is a voice operated device, which means all you do is you tap on this button at the bottom of the screen and tell what you want it to do. 11:18:24 Yeah. That's Ok, though, I think we get the idea. 11:18:27 Yeah. 11:18:23 It's hiding because of my background. So I can just stop and say, What is the time 11:18:34 The time is 18 min past 9 11. On Thursday, January the nineteenth, 2,023, I'm in California. 11:18:39 There we go. Yes. So yeah, that makes perfect sense. Hmm. 11:18:41 So I'm 2 h ago, not now, you know. So this behind the phone, we exist because one simple reason, some of the commercially available phones are not acceptable to some people like you mentioned earlier 75 83% that you see say that it's hard for them 11:19:01 To use commercially available phones, which are great, and they have a lot of functionality for those who can use. 11:19:07 But for those who can't we have a solution out which is real. 11:19:11 Sampocket. It is easy to use phone. All you really do is you tap on this large button and you tell it whole. 11:19:17 Luke, send a message to Aaron. What is the time? 11:19:20 Read me a book with the title, The Old Man and to see, you know. 11:19:24 Listen to radio. So we have a limited set of functionality in terms of hardware, and we use a Samsung galaxy phones with our software on them. 11:19:35 So below the experience or users interact with real Sam as opposed to android. Which is, it's android based phone. Because we offered this voice interface as opposed to visual interface, was kind of an afterthought of existibility on commercially available phones 11:18:57 Yeah, so basically, if somebody buys the real son, what they're getting is the phone. 11:19:56 And when they boot the phone they are going to go straight into this real-time interface, which, as you described and showed us, is a very simplified interface. 11:20:05 So you're not having to worry about dealing with all the apps and things like that, and in terms of service. 11:20:08 I believe that the phone is unlocked, and so you would be able to use whichever carrier that you wanted to. 11:20:15 But I assume that on your phone plan, you would need data because I'm assuming that this phone is using data when you are when you are talking to it and given it commands 11:20:22 That is correct. So there's some of the things that physically live on the phone and there's some things that physically live on the cloud. 11:20:28 So that conversational AI, the ability to talk to the phone actually lives on the cloud so in order to use the phone and use most of its functionality, it requires access to Internet which can come from data plan when you're out and about and your Wi-fi when you're sedentary at 11:20:46 your home office, or whatever you are. 11:20:48 Cool. That's awesome. And you had mentioned there that you know current cell phones. 11:20:53 So whether they be android phones or iphones, they do have voice activation features. 11:21:00 So you know, we've talked to Syria before on our show. 11:21:04 We've talked to the Google Assistant as well so there are things that you can do with an off-the-shelf smartphone at the moment in terms of voice control. 11:21:12 And so you did kind of mention briefly what sets the real summer part. 11:21:15 But if you just like to expand on that a little bit 11:21:17 Sure. So iphones are great android devices are great. 11:21:22 If you can use them, and we're not trying to compete with Siri or accessibility features or top back, we're offering a solution to those who can't use conventional phones successfully, because it's too complicated. 11:21:36 And it can be too complicated, because it's hard for people to do accessibility gestures, double tapping, triple tapping. 11:21:44 It's high to find little icons and move between them. 11:21:47 We simplified all of that. So the difference between real Sam Pocket and other phones is that there's only one button that you tap on, and you really don't even top. 11:21:58 You just put your finger on it, and you'll lift up your fingers so there is no ever double tapping at triple tapping. 11:22:04 So it's very simple for somebody who further has maybe dexterity issues, maybe don't have lamps so you can tap with whatever it doesn't have to be a finger. 11:22:12 You can talk with your knuckle, you can sound check, we can. 11:22:16 You can add with tiles, band and then you just talk to the phone and you ask it to do what you want it to do. 11:22:22 Would you have 3 sets of functionality? So that includes communications, content, and tools? 11:22:31 The communication is real ability to make and receive phone call, send and receive text messages by voice the phone has access to email, which is lives on the provider network. 11:22:42 Yes. 11:22:41 And you can add contacts by voice, which is one of the challenges, was an iphone at the moment, because you can't really add context by voice, and it can show you later how easily it's done on on the pocket 11:22:51 Yeah, and that's definitely something that I did want to highlight, because it is a pretty big deal. 11:22:57 And we've talked about this on the show before. How, with an iphone, you can, you know, hands-free, say, Hayesi call, you know, whoever and the firm will do that, and that's great. 11:23:09 But yeah, when it comes to something like adding a contact which you would have thought would be something that shouldn't be too hard to kind of program. 11:23:13 It's just not available on Android or on the iphone. 11:23:17 So definitely, that's one of the features with the real sun that I think is really neat. 11:23:22 Yeah, what do you think? Are, yeah, I mean, yeah, absolutely. I think you know the ability to, you know on those other devices you can always speak the actual number, which is a workaround. 11:23:33 But you know it's hard to remember all of these ph phone numbers. 11:23:38 And so it's natural to want to add contact. Exactly. 11:23:40 So, being able to do it independently, and I guess for some reason I can kind of see on the other devices when you're you know, when you if you ever go into a contact, you can see there's so much in their birthday to address. 11:23:52 Phone, email so but but it would have been nice to at least been able to add a name to the phone number. 11:23:56 Yeah, exactly. And another another thing with the philosophy of this phone and that is that so that's slightly different is that when you're talking to the phone so I don't think there is a hands-free option, correct, me, if I'm wrong, you are going to be using that large button on the bottom of the 11:24:09 phone. And also if the phone asks you a question, you are also gonna hit that button before responding. 11:24:17 So anytime we want to talk to the film we're always hitting on that large tap to talk button at the bottom of the phone. Is that correct? 11:24:22 That is correct, and it was done as kind of a security privacy issue, because some of our customers did not want the phone to listen to them all the time. 11:24:32 Having said that it is something that we're working on, and in the future our users will have an option of hands-free. 11:24:39 They will be able to say, Hey, pocket, or something like that, and any sheets make sure that the phone listens to them so it could perform the task that they, asking it to do, or just the button 11:24:47 Yeah, yeah, and I can see the benefit of both. You know. 11:24:52 At first you might say. Well, geez! It you know hands-free would would make sense, and I think it does have a place. 11:24:59 But there is something about the consistency, especially on the when you, if you ask a question, and then it wants a follow-up answer having to tap to speak, having that consistency of every time I speak. 11:25:13 I tap really? Because with with with Syria and Google assistant, it can be kind of confusing sometimes when we work with clients where the hold down a button and say, Call Luke, and then they let go, and then it says you know to confirm you'd like to call Luke and then they 11:25:31 hold the button again down right, and it just gets kind of confusing when you when you didn't need to. 11:25:36 So, you know, making it intentional like that. I think there is definitely a benefit, I think consistency is definitely key for people who struggle with phones just having a consistent way to operate. 11:25:44 It is definitely very helpful. 11:25:45 And another thing, I want to point out is that while we developed the phone specifically for people who are visually impaired who may have low vision or maybe blind, we realize that because the phone phone constantly provides guidance, and it's relatively easy to use people who have memory conditions, and memory challenges 11:26:06 Sure. 11:26:04 really like our phone as well. So we're seeing more and more users may. 11:26:09 And maybe this may may not be visually impaired, but they have other conditions that prevent them from using regular phones, so that that matter of consistency is really really helpful for them as well 11:26:19 Yes, agreed. Yeah. Now, just quickly, if we purchase the phone, if I'm an end user and I purchase the phone I assume that all I need to do is take it out the box. 11:26:31 Make sure it's charged. Put my SIM card in, and I know it comes with a little SIM card tool that you can pop open the syndrome with, and then we're good to go right. 11:26:41 There's no other setup required. Is that correct or not? 11:26:43 Okay. 11:26:42 That's correct. We also recommend connecting it to your home Wi-fi. 11:26:46 If you come up, and other than that, that's it. 11:26:45 Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 11:26:57 Nice 11:26:49 It also comes with the case. It has a protective screen over on on the phone and it the LAN yards. So you can. If you worried about losing your phone, you have a linear that that you can use 11:27:03 Excellent. So just to clarify. There is no android setup, then, that that original, that kind of onboarding of android that you do with a brand new phone that's either been taken care of or is bypassed because it's going right in to real sam 11:27:16 We we do it on the back end before our users get the phone. 11:27:18 Perfect. 11:27:20 So we activate it. So we do all of that, because, you know, you can see, that's not always easy to do 11:27:25 Yeah, no, absolutely. I think that's a huge benefit. All right. I do like that. 11:27:30 It comes with the screen protector on it, because I have to say every time I try and put those things on, I always end up with so many air bottles up. 11:27:35 Yeah, exactly. I'm just awful at putting them on. 11:27:39 Okay. So I think that it's about time that we saw this thing in action. 11:27:44 What do you think calling? Yes, I am already all right. So and that we are gonna start off with whatever you want to start with. 11:27:52 I mean, I think the calling into texting are probably a good place to start. So did you want to maybe show us one of those 11:27:57 Sure sure I will show you how to make a phone call. 11:28:00 How to send a text message. And since we talked about contacts, I think that's also exciting. 11:28:04 Oh, yeah, for sure. That'd be great. Yeah. 11:28:06 And I'll tell you a little bit about some of the other features. 11:28:09 Okay. 11:28:09 Well, so to make a phone call, I can simply say, call a number, or I can say, call the contact. 11:28:16 So I already have a contact that's called my cell phone. 11:28:19 So I'm gonna top. And I'm gonna say. 11:28:22 Call my cell phone 11:28:26 Calling my cell phone, press the side button to cancel 11:28:31 Okay. So now we have a large dialpad that is talking. 11:28:36 It is calling my son, and if I put my finger on the dial pad it will tell me everything that's on it. 11:28:45 I think the screen went dark for a second. There we go. 11:28:53 And 11:28:54 Yeah. 11:29:00 I see very cool. 11:28:47 Yup, (408) 310-7903so if you need to get a hold of me, that's a good number, need to enter an extension number, you simply navigate your finger until you get to the number that it digit, and you lift it up and to hang up you have a very large 11:29:04 Hang of button at the bottom. Finger on it. 11:29:05 Yes. 11:29:08 It will tell you what's under it, and then you just lift up your finger and it will 11:29:11 Cool, and any time we need to use the top screen, we are using this kind of feel and then raise the type of method. 11:29:19 So we would leave our finger in contact with the screen until we've heard the thing that we're looking for, and then lift the finger to input or to activate that thing 11:29:28 Okay. Yeah. 11:29:27 That's correct. That's exactly correct. I think my virtual background is in. Yeah. 11:29:32 It's kind of messing with the phone screen a little bit. Yeah. 11:29:35 So let me. I'm gonna take it off. And you guys can see my beautiful white wall. 11:29:40 But so I can also add a contact. Right? 11:29:46 So let's say I want to add 11:29:46 And I'm sorry to button. But would you mind if I just ask a quick question here with regards to the calling? 11:29:50 Absolutely. Yeah. 11:29:53 Is it possible to ask to call somebody on Speaker Phone 11:29:57 Yes, so you can actually set up you can. You can set up in the settings so on on the left hand side, we have this hamburger menus. 11:30:09 If I put my finger on it, I basically it will draw large L for those of you who can't see. 11:30:12 That's okay. So what you would do, you would just move your finger from top left corner until the bottom left corner and then you go on the bottom from left to right, and it will open the mania so you hear the items you want and then release and then if you go to settings, okay, call number 11:30:28 Settings that's sitting menu. So how disabled! Start! 11:30:34 Call on Speaker, so I can set up how I want my behavior to be. 11:30:40 Start the phone on speaker or not by default. But I can also change that. 11:30:44 I'm gonna exit out of the menu. I can also change the specific behavior on it in any particular call. 11:30:54 So when we're in the call on the dial pad, the bottom right corner is the speaker, so you can type on and off absolutely. 11:30:58 Yeah. Ok, perfect one other question. If you don't mind. 11:31:03 So obviously, we're looking at a primarily voice activated phone here. 11:31:08 But I was wondering if a call comes in, whether you would answer that with the voice, or whether there's large buttons on the screen to answer a call. 11:31:16 Let me show you how it works. So I'm gonna call that my phone 11:31:17 Okay. Great. 11:31:23 Well from my cell phone pat back, set or press the side button to reject. 11:31:30 Yes, yes. 11:31:29 So accept is kind of takes about 30% of the screen where the top to talk is and reject is on the side. 11:31:34 Okay, that's cool. 11:31:35 So I accept it. 11:31:38 Yes, and now you're on the coal. Yeah. So that's really good. 11:31:41 So I mean, there's a good consistency there. The most important thing is, if you're using the screen is going to be in that bottom kind of third of the screen, so very easy to locate the important things depending on what you're doing that makes a lot of sense. 11:31:52 Alright! 11:31:54 Yeah, cool. And I like that. I like that. There's not really any gestures. 11:31:58 It's very natural. You're just touching the screen, whatever your finger is on is going to be spoken out loud, and then lift, and to activate. 11:32:07 And I say again the, as you said before, the thing to really remember is to keep that finger on that screen sliding it kind of explore by touch, and then don't lift until you actually hear what you want indeed, yeah, all right. 11:32:21 So I'm not. So you are about to talk about messages. 11:32:24 We do have a question in the chat here as well, and I know we might get to this in a little bit. 11:32:28 But Elizabeth ask when you dictate an email instead of typing it. 11:32:34 So I don't know if that's something you want to cover now, or maybe a little bit later. 11:32:35 But Elizabeth also asks if we can, I think she wants us to slow down. 11:32:42 The phone voice speed, if possible, because it may be a little fast to understand 11:32:44 Okay, absolutely. So I start with the second. So you can change voices and you can change the rate of speech. Yeah. 11:32:51 Ok. 11:32:52 And you can do it by touch. You will top on the top to talk, and you can say, Speak slower 11:33:02 Cool. 11:32:59 Okay. This is now my speech speed, and I can save multiple times. 11:33:05 I can say it again. Speak slower. Okay, this is now my speech. 11:33:12 Nice, good. 11:33:12 Speed. Yeah, I'm fully cited, but I've been working in the industry for so long that I don't even pay attention. 11:33:19 Yes. Yes. Yeah. 11:33:23 Nice 11:33:18 How fast my phones! I've discovered that I can listen to books 2 and a half speed right now, and my friends tell me it's too fast. 11:33:26 I'm like no normal. So I apologize for that. 11:33:30 I'm glad you mentioned question about email. So at the moment we don't have email, but it is something that we're working on our users get 2 years of free software updates. 11:33:39 So if you get the phone today, that doesn't have an email and 6 months down the road, we launch email. 11:33:45 We will simply push that update to your phone, and you can choose whether you would wanna use it or not. 11:33:49 Excellent. 11:33:50 So once we have an email functionality, you will be able to dictate the email at the moment. 11:33:57 It just doesn't exist yet. But it's something that we're definitely working on. 11:33:58 Sure cool. One thing I really like, too. I just wanted to mention when you tap the the speak button. 11:34:05 I really like that. It just goes right to a beep. 11:34:08 I'll be honest, I get really annoyed with the ones where it'll be like, yeah. 11:34:14 I listen after a yes, give your command. Once I make a beep that's happening in 3 s. 11:34:19 Yeah, I mean, a lot of times they they. It's almost 2 verbose. 11:34:23 And in the beginning I sort of get it. But then, after you've had the device for a while, except the way so you can get it, yeah, so I like that. 11:34:29 This, you know, just gives you a nice auditory sound. 11:34:32 It's obvious it's time to talk after that sound. 11:34:34 Yeah, and it's quick, agreed all right, I did. 11:34:37 You want to show some text messaging. Then 11:34:38 Yes, yes, so again I can send a message to contact, or I can send a message to a phone number just to mix it up. 11:34:46 I'm going to send it to my cell phone, which is also my contact. 11:34:49 Once I send a message. Once I ask for the phone to send a message. 11:34:53 It will basically repeat, and it will confirm that I actually want to send it or not, which is also great feature case. 11:35:00 You made a mistake. You can go and redo it. 11:35:01 Sure. 11:35:03 So with text messages, we can do it in 2 ways. 11:35:06 I can say. Send a message to Corey. Hey, Corey, what a gorgeous day! 11:35:11 Despite the fact that in Wisconsin, here in California, right? 11:35:16 Or I can say, send a message 11:35:21 What should the text message say? And now the phone is going to guide me through the process and tell me what I need to do. 11:35:28 Ok. 11:35:28 So I can say 11:35:32 What a gorgeous day! Exclamation Mark. Let's go to the beach period 11:35:38 Who do you want to send it to? 11:35:41 483-10-7903, 11:35:48 Your text message to my cell phone says what a gorgeous day! 11:35:52 Let go to the beach. Would you like to send it so? 11:35:56 If you notice, I set a phone number and it was repeating it said the message to my cell phone, because it's a contact that I registered. 11:36:04 Yep. 11:36:04 So it recognizes it so you can say, either contact or phone number. 11:36:06 Cool. 11:36:07 And if that's phone number is not stored, it will just repeat the number. 11:36:10 So now I'm going to tap and say yes. 11:36:15 Excellent. So, okay. 11:36:14 Message sign. I'm gonna show you that I actually received that in case you're wondering. 11:36:21 So here you go! 11:36:21 That's the proof. There's a few things I really like about this so far. 11:36:27 First of all, I like that it's there's a little bit of flexibility you know. 11:36:33 If somebody is a little more advanced being able to say, Send a message to Corey and give the message right off. 11:36:38 You like, boom right off. Yeah. Or you know the reverse being able to just say, Send a message, and on follow the steps. 11:36:46 I really the other thing I'm finding kind of interesting, too. 11:36:50 We talked a little bit ago about the consistency and tapping before talking for each time. 11:36:54 I think this this example you just gave us. Really, it makes it really evident to me, because sometimes it'll ask a question, and it immediately wants an answer, and sometimes the clients we work with they don't they don't think about it, and then it's like say again, I didn't hear you 11:37:13 But this one you really can kind of take your time you know, at you had that message ready to go, and then you talked to us for 30 s. 11:37:21 45, that thing, and then came back and said, yes, and that that's really you're having that time to think makes it a lot easier as well 11:37:26 Well, this is made possible by the type of technology we use. 11:37:33 So let me kind of spend. Maybe 30 s on external, because I think that's critical, and absolutely agree with what you guys say. 11:37:39 And in fact, everything we do is user driven. So we constantly ask for existing customers, feedback and potential customers, feedback folks like you who work with and customers so constantly get feedback from the field and the phone that you see today is not the same phone lunch 5 years ago, it has become much much 11:38:00 better not because we're smart, but because we ask our customers what they need and kind of try to understand our needs. 11:38:07 So in voice, and in voice technology, there's 3 levels. 11:38:12 So the most basic one is a VR which stands for automatic voice recognition. 11:38:15 This is when you call your doctor's office, and it says, say, a press one to schedule an appointment, say a press one to, you know. 11:38:21 Pay a bill, say, press 3 to to talk to your doctor. 11:38:26 Right, very, very basic, very, very limiting. The second line is voice commands, this is your Syria cartana. 11:38:32 Alexa, you ask one thing at a time. The device does it for you, and forgets that it ever did it. 11:38:39 It's very transactional. We use what it's called voice dialogue. 11:38:43 Voice dialogue allows for intelligent conversations between us as human beings and devices. 11:38:50 Computer. So the reason it was waiting for me and didn't forget and didn't ask me to to say the message or the name right. 11:38:57 It remembers it has a conversation with me rather than just the transaction. 11:39:03 So, for example, another example of it would be, let's say you are listening to a book, and then you phone rang. 11:39:09 You talk on the phone, and then we want to know what time it is. 11:39:13 So you tap on the phone and you say, What is the time and it will tell you the time. 11:39:17 And it says it looks like you were reading the murder. The Orient Express. 11:39:27 Trump. 11:39:20 Would you like to resume from where you stopped? So again, it helps keep people on track and remind them what they were doing and make going back to what they're doing? Easy 11:39:29 Yeah, that's a good bit of info. So thank you for that. 11:39:32 I never heard about those different types of voice recognition. Yeah, that's a good bit of info. 11:39:37 There, now, if we want to read, have a text message read aloud to us. 11:39:41 I'm assuming that we can have the phone. Do that also. 11:39:44 Is that true 11:39:44 Absolutely. So let me send a message back. So I'm gonna reply to going to the beach 11:39:50 No, not today. It's raining. It's knowing, is it? 11:39:52 Oh, that's a shame! 11:39:57 Snowing up there 11:39:58 No, it's actually quite mild, appear surprisingly, it has been raining there. 11:40:02 Yeah. Yeah. So we've had a really mild January. That's been great. Apophenia. Cold snap in December has been nicer 11:40:13 Ok. 11:40:09 So while you guys were talking, my phone said, text message received and I'm not sure if if you or or the listeners or participants hurt us. 11:40:19 But now, that's okay. That's okay. 11:40:19 I think we were talking over it. That sounds about right 11:40:22 I'm so happy it's not knowing, because, as California I I can't rub my head around when it's gets really, really cold. 11:40:29 That's why I like to visit you guys in the summer. 11:40:31 There you go! 11:40:32 So now I can top, and I can say messages 11:40:44 Thinking hard. 11:40:41 So it's doing the sticking some. It's thinking I don't always have the best reception at my house. 11:40:47 So that's why it's doing this 11:40:49 Thinking, thinking, thinking. 11:40:53 Whoo! 11:40:51 You have 10 and red messages. Initial 5 of the 89, one. 11:40:56 Oh, right, that's good. Last day of your men. 43 h and 30 min ago, from 6, 7 0 0 2 red text in only 2 days left on 3 days ago from 6 7 0 0 3. 11:41:13 I'm right tucked in there, I mean 7, Dave trial 67 min. Me a little bit 11:41:26 So a lot of messages. I we get the idea. I think we get the idea. 11:41:24 Been able to 35 days ago. For myself, number one 11:41:32 Yes. Yeah. 11:41:33 I'm right. That's good. Last day of your man. 11:41:38 Trial upgrade to a full plan right in the app and choose the monthly data amounts that fits your needs, cancel 11:41:46 So I can, I can interact with my messages. I can delete them. 11:41:52 I can reply to them. You know I can do all kinds of stuff that you would do with regular text messages 11:41:57 I've got to ask the as it was going through. 11:42:01 It was read, and in at least in the sample. When it was reading all 10, there it was, using a male voice, for, like the little you know, sample, there is that something that you can. 11:42:13 True. Actually, that was a really that that voice was super. It's on it, really human. 11:42:17 Yeah, but I'm just curious. Is that something that you can kind of? 11:42:21 You were mentioning before about switching voices is that one of the options 11:42:21 Yes. Great question. So there is a thing that's called auditory contrast. Right? 11:42:29 It's like for sighted people. We have visual contrast, black and white. 11:42:33 Here we have auditory contrast, male and female. 11:42:36 So, if your devices, voice, main voice is female, there's certain things that will be said in male voice. 11:42:46 Hmm. 11:42:44 Just so our users pay attention, so, for example, when you're saving a contact when it repeats the form number in the name, it will be in contrasting voice here the message itself is in a contrasting voice to differentiate the message itself from instructions, because sometimes it could be confusing so 11:42:59 That is done on purpose, and that actually came as a direct feedback from our customers. 11:43:04 I have to say that's a real smart idea. It's it really is. 11:43:07 I'm thinking about, you know a screen reader on windows computer and a new screen reader user. 11:43:13 So many times you have to listen to what yeah, they're like what you say, even just got a going on to an icon on the desktop this PC. 11:43:21 2 of 10 like, what did it just say, all right. No idea, yes, but having that con. 11:43:25 Yeah, it does draw your how long? In a web browser the element. 11:43:30 So in a different voice, to the name of the element how well you are! And I think I actually think in jars, you, you can go through and sell all that up. 11:43:38 But you need to show me, but I mean I like it right out of the box. 11:43:42 I think it's a brilliant idea 11:43:44 And in terms of voices. We again you can change voice so you can tap, and you can say, change voices, alright, change voice. 11:43:52 You can use one of the following voices, Hello, I am Voice number one. 11:43:57 Hello, box number one. 11:43:59 My voice. Number 2. Hello! I am voice number 3. Hello! I am voice number 4. 11:44:05 Hello! And voice number 5. Please select one, or say next for more. 11:44:11 So anytime we have a list of more than 6 items. 11:44:15 We group them in groups of 5 again, to make it easier for our users to to understand. 11:44:21 So our first 5 voices are American, the other 5 voices. 11:44:25 Luke, you're gonna love those next 11:44:28 Sure you can use one of the following voices, Hello, I'm voice number one. 11:44:35 I think I know her. 11:44:35 Hello! Oh, it's number 2. Hello! I have voice number 4. 11:44:41 Love, accent. 11:44:42 Hello! I'm voice number 5 11:44:45 Awesome. So good. Voices. Yeah, very nice to high quality voices. I'm impressed 11:44:50 Yeah. And with those voices, you know again, we have a good combination, a good, a range of male and female voices, high-paid flowpage because some of our users have, you know, mild hearing impairments more graver hearing impairments and sometimes there's also 11:45:07 just a preference for a voice, so our users can choose whatever voice that suits their needs, and they can hear best 11:45:12 Very nice, all right. We're already out of time here. I don't know. 11:45:16 This happens every time. Time. Just goes so fast. We are either the best interviewers now or the worst. Anyway. 11:45:21 But yeah, I definitely would like to make sure that we cover a couple of things. 11:45:28 And one of those things is adding a contacts. Just yeah, let's do that quick, just because that is so important. 11:45:33 And I had a request afterwards. I have a question. Okay, Gama, upfront with this. 11:45:37 So I just wanted to ask you cause this pops into my head while I was thinking about this earlier. 11:45:42 If somebody calls you, and they're not in your contact list, is it possible to add their number to your contact list? 11:45:49 Using voice commands. 11:45:50 Yes, you can. So once you go, you go to your call log, and then you can add it from there 11:45:54 Ok, okay, is that with that we're using the took screen, though, rather than the it's all by voice. Ok, that's awesome. 11:45:59 No, it's all by voice. Oh, by the way, you know, another thing with context that is really good, that our customers love is that we have a companion website which is called Customer Portal, you cannot ask the phone for your portal login details. 11:46:14 Nice 11:46:14 They're always on the phone, so you can just say, what's my portal login? 11:46:18 It will give you, URL, your username and your password, and if you have a list of contacts you can just upload a file, or if you have, you know, family member or caretaker, or somebody that's helping the user out, they can do it for the user, and it will just sync with 11:46:31 Cool. 11:46:34 That's brilliant. Yeah, that's good. 11:46:33 The phones and that's another way. Good contact. Let me let me show you how to add a contact right again, like with the voice message. 11:46:42 You can just say it all at once, or you can do it step by step. 11:46:44 So since we, since we did text messages step by step, let me do it all at once. 11:46:49 Ok. 11:46:49 So I can say, get a contact, Luke. (123) 456-7890 11:46:59 Contact, saved contact. Name Luke number (123) 456-7890. 11:47:16 That's pretty cool, faster. 11:47:07 You can call text change, name or number. Delete or safe finish to continue again contrasting voice gave instructions of what you can do, and if you didn't, you didn't hear you correctly, you can you can fix it right. Away. 11:47:23 I'm going to delete it because I made up the number. 11:47:25 Obviously Ali say yes, to confirm that you want to delete Luke. 11:47:32 Yes. 11:47:35 On top 11:47:35 You know. Foley, I'm muted you because you're deleted that is my actual telephone, and it's also the combination of my luggage. 11:47:48 Well, next time we do this show I'll put you a real number 11:47:49 Now, okay, so that's really cool. I love. I love the ability to do it all real fast, like that, too. 11:47:56 Again. I think it really works towards individuals who might be a little bit quicker, but also have the ability you know, to slow it down, for people who want to go step by step. 11:48:06 Yeah, and it will say, I mean, it does like some of the more advanced features. 11:48:08 So I don't think we can add additional numbers or email addresses or physical addresses and things like that. 11:48:16 That's right. You can only just add a name and a number. 11:48:18 Yeah. 11:48:18 Correct. Yeah, name on the number. And if a person has 2 different numbers, then you'll create, you know, a network. 11:48:22 2 separate 2 different one. Sure. And I think that's okay. Yeah. 11:48:25 Yeah, in New Jersey, and then in the future we will do more. 11:48:30 But again, this phone is supposed to be a simple phone you know, there's always this balance between how much you put on it and how simple it is. 11:48:37 Yes. 11:48:37 So we always have to balance that. But you know, because it's because it's not visual. 11:48:44 There's no visual clutter. We we are constantly adding new features, and then some of our users just use real sam pocket just to make phone calls and maybe send text messages. 11:48:53 Yeah. 11:48:54 Others, use everything, and I wanted to mention that it does have quite a bit of additional functionality. 11:49:00 You can listen to books, you can listen to radio newspapers podcasts. 11:49:04 There are tools like, where am I? What's around here? 11:49:08 Outdoor locations, and we have specific tools for people, who are visually inherent. 11:49:21 Nice. That's cool 11:49:11 So we have be my eyes on the phone. If a digital magnifier, we have Ocr, which is ability to read text that reads handwriting, which is very, very exciting, because, as you guys know, there's very few devices out there that can do that and even fewer that can do it well, and 11:49:27 We have object, recognition. 11:49:29 Very cool, collie. I think you wanted to. I have a question where I'm going to put you on the spot, and not if you don't mind. 11:49:36 So you mentioned podcasts now, are you able to search directories like, if we said, we wanted to listen to vision forwards, tech, connect, which we do have a podcast you might not have known that I might not talking to you? 11:49:53 Are you able to, you know, request a specific show like 11:50:00 Okay. 11:49:57 I'm not sure if you guys actually here yet, and if not, I can you but let's check. 11:50:03 Let's call vision forwards. 11:50:04 Tech connect 11:50:06 Listen to vision forwards, tech, connect, podcast. 11:50:15 There is no station. And now 11:50:10 Come on, keep it cool. That's all right. We'll get added 11:50:19 See, it's just going back, and we're choosing voice. 11:50:24 Oh, that's funny! 11:50:23 So it's still remembered that I was choosing voice. So and now I'm gonna go out of it, cancel 11:50:28 So where is it searching for those podcasts? Then where is it searching for those podcasts 11:50:33 I'm sorry, so we we have several podcast, sources. 11:50:46 Ok. 11:50:39 So we have BBC Podcasts, we have Npr Podcasts, and we have the real Sam collection, which is our own curated collection of podcasts from the community. 11:50:49 So after this, let's get together. Send me your Rs. 11:50:53 Feed and move little edges. 11:50:54 Thank you. We're definitely not on BBC. Or Npr. As far as I know. 11:50:57 So. No, we should be, though we don't make sure we are definitely high brow well, yeah, we will be on wheel sum, and that's good enough for us. 11:51:06 Okay, so that's awesome. I wonder? So we only have 10 min left. 11:51:11 Yeah, I'm almost thinking, I mean, either. Either we like maybe highlight. 11:51:16 One more thing, or we even talk about if in, interested, maybe we do a part, 2 coming up soon too. Just there is a lot we miss. 11:51:25 But but what do you? I'd be curious. You know my 2 things from a blindness perspective. 11:51:30 I think the GPS like, where am I would be interesting, and maybe a point around me are then, or also maybe using something to read, the Ocs. 11:51:40 As I'm not whether it might be better to do a second part to this. 11:51:44 If you are open to coming on a second time, and we could dive into some of those other features, how would you feel about that? 11:51:48 I would be more than happy to come back and show you everything, and by that time we may have some new functionality because we work. 11:51:54 Awesome. Yeah, I think. Well, I think we should definitely do that. 11:51:56 Thank you. 11:51:57 Then it would have been really awkward if and that was like, I'm not coming on this show again. Forget it. 11:52:00 But she still could go stuff, I mean, you never know I have to, but I do think we really scratch the I think we we showed a lot of its very basic features, which are probably the ones that are going to use. 11:52:12 Most often. Yeah. But I do know that individuals would be interested in some of those more advanced. 11:52:18 You know. How are you handling some of those more advanced things? 11:52:20 So I think, rather than us, trying to rush something through. 11:52:23 I agree? Let's be a good idea. Yeah, for sure. 11:52:26 Yeah. 11:52:24 I want to mention a couple of things about sort of availability of real some pocket. 11:52:30 I'm assuming that most of the most of the folks are joining now from Wisconsin, but because it's going to be recorded, there will be folks from other parts of the country. 11:52:39 So if you are a veteran and you qualify for veteran benefits, and you're interested in real Sam Pocket. 11:52:47 Talk to your Va. Talk to you this coordinator you may be you may be eligible to get it for free, so we've been working with many vas. 11:52:55 We're not available every single Va. But the list grows on the weekly basis. 11:52:59 Perfect. 11:53:00 We have some financial resources available, not in Wisconsin, but in few other States. 11:53:06 So if you're low income and have qualifying disability, you may qualify for phone for free. 11:53:11 Please, check our website, which is real. Sam Re. Als, A. 11:53:16 M.dot.us, and the phone is obviously available through vision. 11:53:23 Forward Tokyo, Luke. Dr. Corey talked to the staff, and they will be able to demo it for you. And if you have any questions, contact any one of us, and we are more than happy to coordinate Demos and answer any questions 11:53:37 And then that what is your email address for our viewers? 11:53:41 So they know how to contact you directly 11:53:42 Yeah, my email addresses are not a at real thing. 11:53:48 Dot AI 11:53:49 All right, and could you also? Just I don't think we mentioned it. 11:53:53 What is the current retail price for those that might need to pay for it straight out? 11:53:58 What? What's the current retail price 11:54:00 It's it's a one time payment of 1399, $1,400 11:54:04 That includes the phone. And you said, in 2 years of free software updates, correct 11:54:08 Correct. Correct includes the phone charging cable wall, plug screen protector case and a linear and a little simple 11:54:15 Perfect, wonderful, awesome, all right. Well, for now I think we will wrap it there. 11:54:20 We've covered some great stuff, and there is more to come as well so, and thank you very much for coming on the show, and being an excellent guest. 11:54:28 Oh, just so, hold on a second. We may have a comments in the Youtube let me ask, okay, Jonathan. Yes, shoot. So, Mr. 11:54:36 Jonvan, first off, you should know. People are quite excited about being able to add a contact from being cold and and going through logs and doing it also, I'm sure. 11:54:45 Yeah, 2 questions. And these are likely going to have to be topics for Part 2. 11:54:48 If we do that, we have questions about, how does Ocr operate on this device? 11:54:56 Okay, and some general like, well, hold on. Is there a built-in screen? 11:55:00 Reader on the phone is how does it compare to how the iphone and Android might like it? Is it? 11:55:06 Is it in some way tailored better, and or limitations that might be relevant? 11:55:11 Yeah, so those are the 3 things people like the contacts. 11:55:15 Yeah. Ocr, yeah. And is there a built-in screen okay, so for the Ocr, we'll definitely cover that in the next session for the screen, reader, I mean, I think the general point is that you want not interacting with Ios, or with the android operating system it appears not to 11:55:26 Be, a not. Please tell us if we're wrong, but it appears to me that it's not a gesture-based screen, reader, that you would see with Voiceover, or talk badly, but it's a more explorer by touch whatever your finger slides over is going to be spoken lift to 11:55:40 actually. And then the gesture to bring up that main menu kind of drawing an L on the screen is that is that sound about right for kind of for the screen, reader. 11:55:52 Tha tha, that's that's correct. There is no need actually, for a screen, reader, because it's a voice operated operating system. 11:56:00 So it by default. It's it's already by voice, so there's no need. 11:56:04 There's not much on the screen now in the future. 11:56:07 Not every single feature is voice operated. Some of the features, you would need interact with the screen. 11:56:15 But I guess we can talk about that more, and next time 11:56:16 True, yes, all right. Good stuff. So yes, for those on Youtube who are searching for more answers that we haven't answered yet. 11:56:24 Then make sure that you tune in to our next episode, which we want. 11:56:27 We'll have to talk with you and that's about when that's going to be. 11:56:31 And obviously we will push out an email to let people know to people in the zoom same thing that I just said to the people in Youtube, yeah, join us in that. 11:56:40 And the next session we will look at the remainder features of the phone. 11:56:45 In the meantime, if you would like to get more questions answered, then you can always get in touch with Annette, and or you can give us a call, or whatever you would like to do and with that being said, and that we will say again, thank you very much for coming on, and it's being great and we 11:57:02 Look forward to seeing you at the next time, and to everybody else who don't forget our Youtube channel. I was gonna get that? 11:57:09 Well, I thought you were about to say you're signing up. 11:57:12 I was whining up to sign off, I quickly referenced the fun to the way. Were you going to say, are you 2 ch. 11:57:18 We have a Youtube channel for those of you on Youtube. Hopefully, that won't be a sort of but for those of you on Zoom, if you're not familiar with our Youtube channel, it is Youtube, com forward, slash vision forward. 11:57:29 Tech connect. That is correct. It make sure you check out next week. 11:57:33 Thursday, which would be one week from today. It should be January the 20 fifth 6, 6 we've got a new, a different type of video. 11:57:45 Usually everything is assistive technology. This has a bit of assistive technology. 11:57:49 But I think this this video that'll be releasing on the 26 is a little different. 11:57:53 So make sure you check it out and give us good feedback. 11:57:56 That's a week from today. Again, so vision is Youtube. 11:58:01 Com! Forward, slash! Vision forward, tech, connect. And with that being said, and that thank you again. 11:58:08 Audience, thank you. Very much, and you can join us alive on our show again in 2 weeks time. 11:58:13 Yeah, when we will be talking about it would be a skimming Cory baller. 11:58:18 Yes, scream, reader, you're gonna be giving me tasks on the Internet. 11:58:23 Yes, things I don't know how to do. Well, okay, things I've never done before, and I'm going to talk through how I'm doing it. 11:58:29 Yeah, so that you can have maybe a brief glimpse into the chaos that I call my head, and how I how I use a screen reader on the Internet. 11:58:38 I think it'll actually be quite informative. I think so too. 11:58:42 So yes, if you are a fledgling screen, reader. User. 11:58:45 Oh, an experience screen reader, user, or you have no interest in screen readers. 11:58:48 It doesn't matter because it's going to be entertaining, anyway, so there'll be jokes. 11:58:52 They'll be jokes, so make sure to join us in 2 weeks time for that. 11:58:55 So the official title of that is how to be a good screen reader. Person. 11:58:58 Yes, how to be a Corey valid screen reader. 11:59:01 User with a screen reader. And your name's Cork. 11:59:05 Very good title, so organ on that we really are. This opportunity to put in suggestions to the Channel as well. Oh, that's right. 11:59:13 Yeah. So if you have suggestions for what's kind of content, we should be putting on our Youtube channel. 11:59:17 Then please make sure to get those within the next week to us you can leave comments on our latest video, or you could send us an email or whatever. 11:59:25 But let us know what you'd like to see on our Youtube channel, whether you know the content is good, whether it's not good. 11:59:31 It is at the right length that the topic's good enough do with Corey, and I not tell funny enough jokes. 11:59:35 Whatever you want to say, do I need a haircut? 11:59:37 Alright, everybody! Thank you and us again. Thank you, everybody. We will see you in 2 weeks and time and goodbye for now. 11:59:46 Thank you guys, it was a pleasure 11:59:48 Well, thank you. Thank you. 11:59:58 Thanks for joining us for another tech connect, live. 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Apophenia is the psychological phenomenon of making connections and seeing patterns in random information. This is especially prevalent in gambling. Rachel Teichman, LMSW and Victor Varnado, KSN dive into this article and narrate so you can make your own neural connections. Produced and hosted by Victor Varnado & Rachel Teichman Full Wikipedia article here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT ON PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/wikilistenpodcast Find us on social media! https://www.facebook.com/WikiListen Instagram @WikiListen Twitter @Wiki_Listen Youtube Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Shoutout to Newburgh, NY's own Oswin Benjamin for coming on my show for an interview! Oswin discussed his new collective album with Chris Rivers and Denzil Porter called Apophenia. He got into his famous 10-minute freestyle with Sway, being homeless at that time, and his relationship with God. He told a story about a dream that he had with the late great Nipsey Hussle telling him that it's all on perfect timing. He talked about his acting debut as D in The Forty-Year-Old-Version, not knowing that he was nominated as a best supporting actor for a Chlotrudis award, and being nominated for a Grammy Award for being featured on Royce da 5'9's On the Block off of The Allegory. He also got into why it was time to move out of New York to Arizona, spitting 16 bars for Kendrick Lamar, and how Styles P was the first major artist to support him. Oswin announced that he will be dropping two projects this year. Stay tuned! Oswin Benjamin, Chris Rivers, and Denzil Porter' Apophenia is available on all music platforms, including Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/apophenia-feat-tony-choc/1603168015. Oswin Benjamin's music is available on all platforms, including YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsBJOntsBlO-zXVGFKVEjDg and Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/oswin-benjamin/965021898. Follow Oswin Benjamin on Instagram and Twitter: @oswinbenjamin Follow me on Instagram and Twitter: @thereelmax. Website: https://maxcoughlan.com/index.html. Website live show streaming link: https://maxcoughlan.com/sports-and-hip-hop-with-dj-mad-max-live-stream.html. MAD MAX Radio on Live 365: https://live365.com/station/MAD-MAX-Radio-a15096. Subscribe to my YouTube channel Sports and Hip Hop with DJ Mad Max: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCE0107atIPV-mVm0M3UJyPg. Oswin Benjamin on "Sports and Hip-Hop with DJ Mad Max" visual on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEFFOpxt3yc&t=2s.
Big thank you to the Bronx's own Chris Rivers for coming on my show for an interview! Chris discussed his new album Apophenia with his collective Oswin Benjamin and Denzil Porter, how this collective formed, and that his monumental album to put his career on the map will be on the way soon. He shared memories of being with his father, the late great Hip-Hop icon Big Pun, on tour and being around him while he was recording in the studio. He got into forgiving his father for the abuse, his Big Pun tribute song Sincerely Me, and how it felt when his father got his own plaza, the Big Pun Plaza, in the Bronx. He got into being apart of a rap group with Benzino's son at 8 years old and that deal with Interscope getting shelved because of Benzino's beef with Eminem at the time. Chris talked about overcoming his depression, being homeless, and when he started to take his rap career into the public eye. He also got into his bond with Styles P, who he wants to collaborate with, and what would make him sign a major record deal. Chris announced that he has music videos from Apophenia and more music dropping soon. Stay tuned! Chris Rivers' new collective album Apophenia with Oswin Benjamin and Denzil Porter is available on all platforms, including Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/apophenia-feat-tony-choc/1603168015. Follow Chris Rivers on Instagram: @dragonsandrivers Follow me on Instagram and Twitter: @thereelmax. Website: https://maxcoughlan.com/index.html. Website live show streaming link: https://maxcoughlan.com/sports-and-hip-hop-with-dj-mad-max-live-stream.html. MAD MAX Radio on Live 365: https://live365.com/station/MAD-MAX-Radio-a15096. Subscribe to my YouTube channel Sports and Hip Hop with DJ Mad Max: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCE0107atIPV-mVm0M3UJyPg. Chris Rivers on "Sports and Hip-Hop with DJ Mad Max" visual on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciJeDLsj-I4.
A Theocracy of Disinfo - with Jim Stewartson (00:00) Intro and T-shirts (03:25) The global reactionary assault on democracy and secularism. The irrevocable loss of the "old America" and the end of the post-war era. The end of traditional electoral politics and policy-driven constituencies. (17:09) The multi-decade liberal campaign to control firearms has failed. Recognizing the "world that is," and the need for liberals to come to terms on a personal level with the increasing menace of American gun culture. (22:30) The Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. The McMichael / Bryan trial (otherwise known as the "Ahmaud Arbery trial.") Understanding the authoritarian concept of "justice." (31:52) Jim Stewartson guest segment. The Radicalized Podcast. Gamification of disinformation. Online radicalization of young men. How Michael Flynn created Q. Apophenia and pareidolia. The role of trauma. The connection to Christian Dominionism and apocalypticism. Comparison to Church Universal and Triumphant's nuclear war prophecies in the late 1980s. Bothsidesing and post-politics. Maintaining relationships with cult members. (01:16:38) The most insidious characteristic of disinfo: Making people believe it's their own idea. (01:20:23) Sean tells the story of what it took for him to leave Church Universal and Triumphant. (01:24:07) Disinfo is a human vulnerability, and we have to have compassion. Need to balance that compassion with the need to protect society from barbarism. (01:27:49) Wrapup and outro: White Europeans in the post-war period of 1945-2016 have been the most free and privileged people in human history, and we're now potentially plunging ourselves into a neo-fascist hellscape. We can overcome this, but will we? ________________________________________ Show notes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/qanon-game-plays-believers/2021/05/10/31d8ea46-928b-11eb-a74e-1f4cf89fd948_story.html (QAnon resembles the games I design. But for believers, there is no winning.) https://twitter.com/jimstewartson (Follow Jim Stewartson on Twitter) ________________________________________ https://www.patreon.com/theradicalsecular (Patreon) https://www.theradicalsecular.com/ (Website) Email: theradicalsecular@gmail.com Instagram: @radical_secular https://www.facebook.com/theradicalsecular (Facebook) Twitter: @RadicalSecular https://the-radical-secular.captivate.fm/ (Podcast) All standard podcast venues: Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon, Gaana, Saavn
Show Notes In my second semester of grad school, I was properly introduced to Dr. Angie Maxwell. I had heard about her book The Long Southern Strategy and knew it would provide the political history that would help on the GOP side of my thesis. It was such a delight to talk with Dr. Maxwell and really dive deep into the history of conservative politics and southern politics with her. Be sure to follow along with the Substack. Our theme song is "Apophenia" courtesy of Ross Christopher. If you aren't yet, follow me on Twitter.
What are the uses of randomness, and how do we even get it? What happens to your body when you don't sleep? And is Stardew Valley secretly... a horror game? We also learn about: Ella making random noises, chiptune drums, dice fanfiction, the infinite monkey grant, gggggggggggggg, everyone guesses 7 and picks Rock, a very funny joke for our particle physicist listeners, a million random digits, minecraft seeds, the Russian sleep experiment creepypasta, sleep themed band names, the optimal nap, do the dip kids! Maureen the rocking chair champion, um actually it's called Apophenia, tetris fanfiction, and ludo narrative disonance. Support us on Patreon! Join our Discord! Links we Discuss: Infinite Monkey Theorem Results The Hollow Mask Illusion Sources: Humans Cannot Consciously Generate Random Number Sequences The Predominance Of Seven And The Apparent Spontaneity Of Numerical Choices Hannah Fry on Rock Paper Scissors Winning at Rock Paper Scissors Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Hot Hand Fallacy and Gambler's Fallacy How the Mind Works Galton Discussing Dice for Statistical Experiments LHC Tippet and the Random Number Table A Million Random Digits Radiation is Random Modern Nuclear Chemistry Sleep Deprivation Sleep Stages Sleep Debt Obesity and Sleep Deprivation Part 2 Cardiovascular Health and Sleep Deprivation Microsleep Hallucinations Rat Sleep Deprivation Study Fatal Familial Insomnia Fatal Familial Insomnia Stories
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Show Notes I first heard about Robert P. Jones when he was interviewed on Fresh Air by Terry Gross. His book and this conversation were so instrumental in helping me articulate the points I was trying to make, and I was so grateful we could find some time to chat. Be sure to follow along with the Substack. Our theme song is "Apophenia" courtesy of Ross Christopher. If you aren't yet, follow me on Twitter.
Slim Radio presents Apophenia performing "Cold Coffee and Other Anxieties", "Kay", "Lucky Murder" & "Don't Be a Dick" in our studio. There is no better way to end an amazing season of Live Sessions than with Apophenia. Her heartfelt performance has left an impression on all the team members within Slim radio & we are super excited for her future releases. We thank Apophenia for sharing her music and immersing us, both in her performance and her musical mind.
Show Notes It's obvious that to have a podcast about Donald Trump, I needed to interview someone who has written extensively about Donald Trump. I was drawn to Gwenda Blair because she has not only written about Trump, but about both his father and his grandfather. The deep knowledge of what formed him made her a very appealing source to interview. Because of the way the podcast came to be, much of our conversation was left on the cutting room floor. I'm excited to finally get a chance to share our full conversation. Be sure to follow along with the Substack. Our theme song is "Apophenia" courtesy of Ross Christopher. If you aren't yet, follow me on Twitter.
Show Notes Early in my research I kept coming across the same name: Daniel K. Williams. As I was using key terms in searches for research, article after article with his name on it popped up. I cited two different articles as well as his book God's Own Party in the research paper element of my thesis. And our conversation was really influential in providing greater detail for some of the bigger ideas and topics I was working on. I interviewed Daniel K. Williams two different times for In His Name in February of 2021. Williams is a professor at West Georgia University and author of lots of books on the Christian Right. There's a lot of name dropping and tangents in this conversation. If you need more context or a guide to get into your own rabbit holes on this subject, be sure to follow along with the Substack. Our theme song is "Apophenia" courtesy of Ross Christopher. If you aren't yet, follow me on Twitter.
Our 'New & Upcoming Releases' podcast series introduces new underground releases to our listeners. This episode we focus solely on extreme metal releases issued in October 2021. Let the mayhem begin! (0:00) "Zulu Time" STHENO - Wardance https://stheno.bandcamp.com/ (3:10) "Thundering Doom" HIDEOUS DEATH - Remnants of Archaic Evil https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/remnants-of-archaic-evil (5:30) "Strike of the Iron" SADISTIC FORCE - Aces Wild https://sadisticforce.bandcamp.com/album/aces-wild (9:32) "Carried Into Darkness" ANTICHRIST SIEGE MACHINE - Purifying Blade https://antichristsiegemachine.bandcamp.com/album/purifying-blade (12:20) "Apophenia" MORTAL VISION - Mind Manipulation https://mortalvision-ua.bandcamp.com/album/mind-manipulation (16:25) "Necrophage" OUTRE-TOMBRE - Abysse Mortifere https://templeofmystery.bandcamp.com/album/abysse-mortifere (19:40) "Megiddo Ecstacy" TEMPTER'S SACRAMENT - Temptation Steel Scourge https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/temptation-steel-scourge (23:25) "Chaos Planetaire" HAK-ED DAMM - Destructio Purificalis https://hak-eddamm.bandcamp.com/album/destructio-purificalis-2 (27:05) "An Occult Mosaic" CONJURETH - Majestic Dissolve https://conjureth.bandcamp.com/album/majestic-dissolve (30:20) "Horrid" EVIL SPELL - Padre Vostro https://www.facebook.com/EvilSpell666 (33:35) "Amok Hymn" FIAT NOX - In Contemptuous Defiance https://lightthetorches.bandcamp.com/album/in-contemptuous-defiance (38:25) "Violencia Arragaida" CAVEMAN CULT - Blood and Extinction https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/blood-and-extinction (40:25) "The Sword of Satan" FUNERAL WINDS - Gruzelementen https://funeralwinds.bandcamp.com/album/gruzelementen
Show Notes In 2008, I voted in my very first election. I didn't quite realize how much of an impact the Pro-Life voting bloc played into Republican politics at the time. For a political party that was so opposed to abortion, why didn't George Bush do anything about it in his 8 years in office? Or his father? Or Ronald Reagan? I interviewed Randall Balmer for In His Name in February of 2021, who helps answer some of those questions. Balmer is a professor at Dartmouth College, a prolific author, and maybe one of the nicest guys I've ever chatted with. There's a lot of name dropping and tangents in this conversation. If you need more context or a guide to get into your own rabbit holes on this subject, be sure to follow along with the Substack. Our theme song is "Apophenia" courtesy of Ross Christopher. If you aren't yet, follow me on Twitter.
Show Notes The first interview I conducted for In His Name was with Yale University professor of sociology and religious studies Phil Gorski. As you'll notice with much of this series, we get in the weeds. If you need more context or a guide to get into your own rabbit holes on this subject, be sure to follow along with the Substack. Our theme song is "Apophenia" courtesy of Ross Christopher.
Facebook has been down a lot of the day and we are calling an audible and streaming on YouTube this evening. We want to go over some of what we have found in this mess of a story, because some of it is not as it may seem once you start to dig into it. Shortly after the show some of it is already unfolding and the main whistleblower is heading before the senate Oct 5th to testify why social media needs more government control. Do we also laugh… of course. Mostly at ourselves, and partially at shower thoughts. If you like the music check out the artist here: theearthonfireIntro song links: Spotify Apple MusicPlease subscribe to us on YouTube and Rumble to watch videos after they are published.Follow us on Instagram for random funny picsFollow us on Facebook to get notified of LIVE! episode recordings and to join the chat!Links discussed in episode:British aircraft carrier ignores Chinese warnings for second timeKabul Faces Blackouts If Foreign Electricity Suppliers Go Unpaid: WSJ“PSAKI ON FACEBOOK WHISTLEBLOWER: "This is just the latest in a series of revelations about social media platforms that made clear that self-regulation is not working.Data of Over 1.5 Billion Facebook Users Sold on Hacker ForumUPDATE - DNS records that tell systems around the world how to findThe Associated Press on Twitter “China has flown more than 30 military planes toward Taiwan in its second large display of force in as many days. Taiwan's Defense Ministry says 39 aircraft entered Taiwan's air defense identification zoneGive Amazon and Facebook a Seat at the United Nations“Facebook and Instagram go mysteriously offline and, for one shining day, the world becomes a healthier place.Evergrande stocks halted in Hong KongFacebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes InterviewReaching people on the internet in 2021 (the Oatmeal comic)Facebook ‘Whistleblower' Donated 36 Times to Democrats, Including to Anti-Primary Extremists And AOC. Looks like this 'whistleblower' is doing less whistling and more blowing.APOPHENIA - by Edward Snowden - Continuing Ed — with Edward SnowdenFacebook whistleblower says company engaged in 'betrayal of democracy'Cloudflare blog: Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the InternetTIL:TIL that screensavers were originally created to save CRT screens from burning an image into the display due to prolonged, unchanged use.TIL the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are a paid promotion costing $50,000 eachTIL In 2011 two fishermen from Kiribati went adrift for 33 days before landing in the Marshall Islands. They then found out that their hitherto thought to be dead uncle, who went missing 25 years earlier after also going adrift, had landed in the Marshall Islands as well and married there.Shower Thoughts:If we could comprehend animal language as we comprehend each other, we'd probably be all vegansSocial media is the new cigarettes: Companies profit from people's addiction to an unhealthy product."Have a nice day " sounds friendly whereas "Enjoy the next 10 hours" sounds menacing.People who can properly handle lottery winnings are the least likely to buy lottery ticketsPeople who perished climbing Mount Everest literally chose the hill they wanted to die on.Because dead animals eventually decompose into fertilizer, it is possible to have beef-fed grass.
Promos over the last few weeks have increased with more new artists being featured. Starting with 87 various tracks on this colossal compilation ‘And The Darkness Came', which has been curated by Headphone Commute, we've chosen 4 to feature, Saffron Keira, Dalot, Pleq with Strie & Hammock, also two more compilations, S.O.S. Charity album for the catastrophic second wave of COVID-19 in India, featuring unreleased music from some of the finest electronic music producers from there, & Transmissions From The Secret Cinema, an odd collection of a safe haven to harbor mystics, artists and outsiders, while continuously hosting exploratory music, independent cinema, poetry, and audiovisual performance. Seattle-based Benoît Pioulard with Hymnal Remixes, an album of songs conveying a reverent tone through layers of analog warmth & balancing ambient pieces. Progressive instrumental music with guests on guitar drums bass & synths from Magnus Josefsson. Experimental musician and author Billy Yfantis, releasing his 3rd Sci-Fi Space album entitled “Noises from the Outer Space”. French chamber duo Snowdrops, piano-based with Mellotron & MS2000 are joined by virtuosic viola player Anne Irène Kempf. 2002 are husband and wife team Pamela and Randy Copus, with the arrival of their daughter Sarah into the group have experimented with a myriad of new age instruments and vocal styles creating a catalog of music second to none, collecting nearly one billion streams worldwide. Playlist No194 03.13 Browncoat ‘Wither' (album Various artist S.O.S (Charity Compilation) https://asymetrik.bandcamp.com 10.52 Magnus Josefsson 'Side A' (album Anette Halbe Stunde 011) ***www.anetterecords.bandcamp.com 21.24 Fratoroler ‘Berlin' (album Berlin) www.syngate.net 33.41 Shinpal ‘Changing My Heart' (album Blue Stories) www.syngate.net 39.06 Jenny & Her Epileptic Dog ‘Iberian Space Onion' (Various Transmissions From The Secret Cinema, Vol 1) www.lifesavicnic.bandcamp.com 44.28 Erik Wollo 'Towards The Blue Horizon' (album North Star) www.projektrecords.bandcamp.com 52.12 Billy Yfantis ‘Astral Noise' (album Noises From Outer Space) ***www.billyyfantis.bandcamp.com 59.02 Benoit Pioulard ‘Florid (Loscil Remix) (album Hymnal Remixes) www.pioulard.bandcamp.com 01.05.02 Benoit Pioulard ‘Censer (Segue Remix)' 01.10.26 Saffron Keira ‘Endless Agony Of Being Sick' (album Various And The Darkness Came) www.headphonecommute.bandcamp.com 01.14.07 Dalot ‘Aptera' www.headphonecommute.bandcamp.com 01.19.13 Pleq feat Strie ‘Our Worlds Are Frozen' www.headphonecommute.bandcamp.com 01.23.13 Hammock ‘The More You Drink From The Well…. The Higher The Waters Will Rise' www.headphonecommute.bandcamp.com 01.28.37 Ross Christopher ‘Hidden' (album Apophenia) www.higherlevel.media 01.31.57 Snowdrops ‘Ultraviolet' (album Volutes) www.snowdrops.bandcamp.com 01.38.04 RadioSilence ‘Radiant J (RSi Shortwave Edit' (album Nemeton) www.radiosilence.bandcamp.com 01.49.38 The S.E.T.I Project ‘Prevailing Wind' (album Mad Dog Daze Part 1) ***www.thesetiproject.bandcamp.com 02.00.29 Michal Bukowski ‘Sen Paranoika 28' (album Electroacoustic Music Vol VII) www.electroshock.ru 02,05.19 Deep Imagination ‘Coming From The Cold' (single) www.bscmusic.com 02.11.09 Grosskopf/Heilhecker ‘Courier One' (album Are You Psyched) www.haraldgrosskopf1.bandcamp.com 02.20.48 Altocirrus ‘The Hand Of Of Oberon' (album Walking The Pattern) *** www.altocirrus.bandcamp.com 02.28.17 Divine Matrix ‘Into The Deadlands' (album Heart Of The Shaman) www.admusicshop.com 02.37.30 Lord Of The Ants 'She's A Mona Lisa' (album We too Are Gods) www.admusicshop.com 02.42.36 Steve Orchard 'Spyglass' (album Listening For A Heart Beat) www.admusiconline.com 02,45.57 Echaskech ‘Arc' (EP Mirrors) www.theambientzone.co.uk 02.51.37 Ethan Wilson ‘Melting Spaces' www.theambientzone.co.uk 02.54.35 2002 ‘Courting The Moon' (album Hummingbird) www.2002music.com Edit ***
Real talk: APOPHENIA. Alexis and Lottie discuss subliminal pattern-seeking from its coinage by a Nazi psychologist to its use by modern indie game developers to cover up the fact we don't have any budget. Wait! We meant to make clever, co-operative immersive experiences. All via werewives, apophanies and Zhou Enlai.Games / books mentioned in this episode, for your gaming / reading pleasure:- Cultist Simulator, by us- Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco- Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon - Ulysses, by James Joyce- A Dark Room, by Doublespeak Games- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, by Steven Donaldson- Return of the Obra Dinn, by Lucas Pope - Against Worldbuilding, by Alexis KennedyFollow us on Twitter and sign up to the mailing list to make sure you don't miss the next episode! ♥Support the show (http://bit.ly/2JCKVEH)
On this episode of Think Theory Radio we discuss Pareidolia & Apophenia and their relation to the belief in conspiracy theories. These psychological phenomena create the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things and to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern. Are our brains wired through years of evolution to make these connections? What are the benefits and pitfalls of seeing patterns in randomness? Listen in and find out!
Remember, we welcome comments, questions and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com S2E18 TRANSCRIPT: ----more---- Mark: Welcome back to the Wonder Science-based Paganism. I'm your host, Mark. Yucca: And I'm Yucca. Mark: And today we are going to talk about the first four of the 13 atheopagan principles, which are embraced by those who follow the non theist pagan path of atheopaganism, which you can find much more. About@atheopaganism.org. These are ethical principles which are designed to help us guide our decision-making and how we live in our lives. They're not commandments they're virtues and there are things that we aspire to. So that's what we'll be talking about today. Yucca: And as always sharing this is not a saying. Like Mark, you were saying, this is not a commandment. This is not a saying you need to see the world in the exact same way that we do, right. This is us talking about it's this is a useful framework for us. Let's dive into what these concepts are, what these principles are and how they enrich our lives and experience as pagans in the modern world. Mark: Yes. For a couple of reasons, one of them kind of additive and one sort of subtractive in the additive sense just as we did. Episode on the four pillars, a couple of episodes ago, the four pillars of atheopagan ism, which are the four sacred things. These principles are sort of derived from the four sacred things that is, if you believe that those four things are sacred, then you will conduct yourself according to these principles. There's a logic there. Yucca: They really feed into each other. Mark: exactly. And so. What this does for us is it gives us an ethical framework that helps us, especially when dealing with thorny situational questions that are complex. We can ask ourselves, how does this square with these principles? I've embraced? How, you know, how do I best make a decision? That is in accordance with these guidelines. So that's sort of the additive sense. The other is the subtractive sense is that paganism has often been accused of being very weak in the world way of ethical development. There's a lot of, I have rights and I'm free and I'm going to do whatever I want because I'm free. And there's very little, well, there, you have to respect other beings and you have to be considerate about causing damage in the world and you have to be, you know, all those sorts of things Yucca: The responsibilities that come hand in hand with those rights. Mark: Precisely. And so, so when I was developing atheopaganism as a pagan path, one of the things that I really wanted to address was that paucity of ethical guidance and the atheopagan principles and the four sacred pillars are the results of that work. So today we're going to dive into the first four of the 13 atheopagan principles and we'll come back to the rest in subsequent episodes. Not all at once. We'll put some interruptions in between the principles episodes so that we have some variety. But I think this'll be a really great conversation about what we see as important in terms of perspective and behave. If you're in the world. Yucca: Just on a structural level. I really appreciate it being 13. That's really fun. There's the 13 moons and the one solar year. And I think it was somebody on the Facebook group who suggested applying the principles to the full moons. Mark: yes. Which was just a wonderful idea. I was so excited about it. We've just had the laughter moon and which is the perspective moon. And we'll be coming up soon on the Praxis moon, which is the regular well, we'll talk about that. When we talk about principle five But having 13, this is kind of a magic number for pagans because of the 13 moon cycles. And it's a prime and it's just got all those Yucca: just a fun number. Mark: it is, Yucca: That's great. Mark: kind of number And so as I worked up these principles and then kind of arrived at the end of the list and realized that I think I've covered everything that I wanted to, it turned out that there were 13. And so that was kind of a happy coincide. Yucca: Yeah, well, let's. Mark: dive right in. CRITICAL THINKING Yucca: Yeah, the first one, this is really appropriate one to be right at the forefront is critical thinking. Mark: Yes. Yes. Skepticism and critical thinking, recognizing that the metaphorical is not the literal and that both have value. It's not that we're saying that the mytho poetic storytelling symbolic realm, isn't a value because of course it is. We wouldn't be pagans if we didn't understand that we wouldn't be humans, honestly, if we didn't understand that. But fact. Yes, but facts are facts. And there is an objective universe outside of our skins, which is behaving according to physical laws. And it would be doing that whether we were observing it or not. And. Our capacity to identify the factual from the unfactual is really important. And especially at this time in American society, particularly, but it's happening all over the world with the rise of conspiracy theories and sort of crazy radical nationalism and various kinds of bigotry rooted in, in, baseless ideas about the superiority of one group of people over another. It's really important for us to learn the tools of critical thinking and be able to look at a claim made by someone and say, is this consistent with the evidence? How good is the evidence? Is this just the say so of some dude on YouTube or is this the consensus of scholars who have studied this for decades, there's a difference there. And we need to understand what the gradations of that difference are. Yucca: Exactly. And then also not just on that level, but within our personal lives. Looking at our own beliefs and going, Oh, wait, let's step back. And look at this. Where is this coming from? This just confirmation bias? Is this just me really wanting it to be true? let's let's look at the logic behind this. Mark: very much. So there are principles in In cognition theory called Apophenia and pareidolia. Apophenia is the recognition of patterns that aren't there. Seeing patterns in actually unrelated events or phenomena and a sub-case of that is pareidolia, which is the visual recognition of patterns where. They aren't really there. So seeing the Virgin Mary in your taco shell, for example, or seeing faces or clouds or bunnies or whatever, Yucca: Yeah, clouds is a great example for that. Mark: We're always looking for shapes, right? We're looking for faces particularly because that's what we can relate to. And that's what we are, we're most attuned to interacting with as human organisms. So we've got this pattern recognition built into us and it works very well in many ways. It helps us to identify what's going on in the world, around us, and then to make strategic decisions about the right thing to do in relation to the world. The problem is it works too well. We see patterns all the time that don't really exist. I was talking before we started recording. I've had some things happen recently that have been real blows. I got a notice that I'm going to have to move. And my, my wonderful beloved pet kitty died. And now today I've discovered that my electric car is not charging, which for an electric car is kind of a problem. Yucca: That's Mark: And I was saying, well, the myth is that these things come in threes, right. So, you know, maybe that's all that it will be for me for awhile. Identifying that pattern is completely fictitious. It's entirely an imagined the Tori in imagination function in my mind. There is no reason why more bad things shouldn't happen in the next 10 minutes or none for the next 10 years. Yucca: What we focus on is we then see the pattern because we're expecting to see that pattern. Mark: Precisely. And then once having seen a pattern like that confirmation bias kicks in, which is our desire to continue gathering evidence, to convince ourselves that what we think is true. So these are all kind of working against us as rational beings. They're useful for us in many ways, but they're also working against us as rational beings. And so having a core value of skepticism and critical thinking is. Is so important if we're truly going to be science-based pagans, if we're truly going to be the followers of the spirituality of the verifiably real, which is another way that I've described atheopagan ism many times, then we have to be willing to winnow the wheel from the real, from the unreal, through the process of critical thinking and skepticism. Yucca: Right. And building on that, one of the things that we've talked about before on this podcast, but it's really important to come back to is. That this is enriching, this isn't Oh, let's be boring. And do all this critical thinking and take all the magic out of everything. No reality is wondrous and incredible and amazing and critical thinking is a tool for us to discover even more that would have been unimaginable, say, 20 years, a hundred years ago. Mark: Yes Yucca: So it's really enriching. it's it's feeding and nourishing, not depriving us of fun. Mark: Right. Right. One thing that is true for many in our culture now, and I venture to say many, if not most in the broader pagan community is a desire to seek exaltation and joy in fantasy. And there is a lot of joy that can be found in fantasy, but there's so much joy to be found. In reality. Reality is obscenely. Cool. Yucca: Yes. Mark: was just kidding for three days last week, up on the North coast of the County that I live in at a state park called salt point state park and the wild flowers were out and there were carpets of wild flowers all over the place. Stunning, just stunning. And then. You know, my partner Nemea is a photographer. So she's getting down to these little macro, you know, photographs of individual blossoms and identifying different plants. And we found the California native orchid. There's only one, but we found one in bloom. There's, it's just so cool. Nature by itself holds so much to be. To be joyous about and excited and curious and stimulated about that. We don't have to limit ourselves to storytelling and poetry and paintings and imagery and music, and those kinds of artificially created human things Yucca: Which are wonderful. Mark: Oh, they're all. Yucca: But they're not the end. They're part of the picture. They have their role, which is amazing and incredible. But also there's this other half, which is the reality component. Mark: absolutely. Yucca: The objective. Yeah. Mark: And you know, one of, one of the questions that religion seeks to answer at its broadest definition is what's real. What is it? What am I what's here? What is this life? And those questions are best answered through the use of science and critical thinking. Really? That's not what does it mean? What does it mean is something that gets decided in a mythic poetic context, Yucca: that's not science. That's not scientific. Mark: That's absolutely right. It is not scientific to ask, you know, what do stars mean? There's there, there is many answers to that as there are possible observers. Yucca: But how did they form what happens when they run out of hydrogen? Those are questions that end up having some really amazing answers Mark: Yes. Yucca: to that. Then open just a floodgate of other questions and discoveries. Mark: right. Right. So the question of what is a star and understanding that as a process that starts long before there's any kind of a point of light and continues long after there is a point of light becomes this adventure that you can go on. And which astrophysicists go on every day of their lives, trying to figure out the answers to those very questions. And it's exciting and it's beautiful. Yucca: Yeah. REVERENCE FOR THE SACRED EARTH Mark: And I think that's actually a great place at which to transfer, to talking about the second atheopagan principle, which is reverence for the sacred earth and cosmos. We are assembled biological machines that have been erected by life on earth, which is a tiny sub-sector of the physical unfolding of the universe that are able to think and are self-aware and are able to look at this incredible magnificence around us and learn stuff. We are uniquely gifted with the ability to just revel in the wow of all this. And it is to my mind our obligation to live in that reverence. It's not just, yeah, nature is cool. It's a deep seated, spiritual reality. In me and in the non-ferrous pagans that I know that nature is magnificent and that we are deeply indebted to nature because we are in nature. We're not separate. And that all of those engagements that we make with the surrounding natural world, like eating are sacred activities. They're not just random, they're sacred activities, eating sex, excretion. All of those. They are Yucca: breathing. Mark: breathing. Yucca: Think about breath for a while. Think about what you are breathing in that oxygen. And when you breathe out the CO2, which comes from the cells of your body, come through the blood, back to your lungs and out, and what's going to happen to that. It's going over to the grass, to the trees, to the potted plant in your window. And they are then taking that in photosynthesizing and breathing out the oxygen for you and on this back and forth, and those same molecules going from your body to another body. And they came from stars to start with. Mark: Yeah. Yes. All of these reciprocal relationships and having reverence for something is part of understanding that you're in a reciprocal relationship with it. It's not something that you're just mining for resources. And it's not something that you are worshiping in the sense of, you know, basing yourself and saying, Oh yes I'm not worthy kind of story. That's not what it's about. Of course you're worthy. You're an organism here on earth. Of course you're worthy. You are worthy of the oxygen. You're worthy of the food. You're worthy of the warmth and the shelter and the many gifts that the Earth and sun provide us. Yucca: You are part of earth. We're not just on earth. We are part of earth. Mark: Yes, we are earth Yucca: Our, yeah our bodies are. This planet, when we talk about the formation of the planet, we're talking about the formation of us. Mark: yes. And it can be hard sometimes because of the nature of the way academic disciplines have been divided up to understand that kind of big picture thinking because we have a little box called geology and we will have a little box called biology. And. Those kinds of, I won another wearily and and the physicist just sort of step back and chuckle about the whole thing. But that's the world isn't in those little boxes. That's those are just categories that humans have used to try to narrow down the enormity of what we're trying to understand into digestible bites. Yucca: a new box. That's a little bit bigger, still a box, but it's a great box, a new field, which is geobiology is trying to look at those merge, those two fields that we've considered to be so separate and look at them together and go, okay. What's how does. How do things flow from the biotic to the Abiotic. And is that even a valid distinction when we're talking about a living planet like Earth and it's really a new field, Robert Hazen, I think has this, his name has a lot of incredible books and some lectures on like the great courses Mark: Hm. Yucca: interested in getting into that, seeing the evolution of mineralogy and biology as not being separate as being completely woven together. Mark: It's really cool and really timely. I mean, we do know from the history of the Earth that, that you know, gigantic algal blooms, for example, that have created huge amounts of oxygen have totally tipped the scales of the biotic activity in the world and change the climate, which has resulted in greenhouse conditions or in snowball earth. So the timeliness of this is very important because we are coming to understand that the primary driver of change in our atmosphere is humanity. It's it is biology. It's not it's not volcanoes it's us. Yucca: Yeah, they have a part, but not in the scale that we're seeing, Mark: Right? Yucca: right. That this is, and that doesn't make humans bad. Mark: No. Yucca: There's a jump that people often go to of, Oh, well, humans are causing this change and therefore humans are bad and everything would be better if we weren't around. That's pretty, in my opinion, pretty far to go. And I think it's lazy, right? To just choose to say, Oh, well, humans are bad. Humans are totally destructive. Instead of going, humans are powerful. We can do these changes. How do we be responsible with the power that we do have? How do we make sure that we aren't harming any even more? How do we make sure that we're restoring what has been harmed and improving the situation for more life and more of quote, unquote nature. Mark: Right. I don't know that I would use the word lazy, but I think we have a propensity to want to divide things in a dualistic sense, into good and bad. And the truth is that in almost all cases, things are complex. They're not good or bad. They're kind of good for some by some measurements and kind of bad by other measurements. And. Humanity is a remarkable species just by any measure, the simple fact that you and I are speaking across thousands of miles to have this conversation, so it can be recorded and downloaded by all these people all over the world is it's just an extraordinary achievement. And to. To denigrate that or to dismiss it, I think is simply to miss out on one of the many wonders of living. Because humans are just remarkable. The art, the music, the dance, the science, all of it is just remarkable, but that said, we are powerful drivers at this point of change. And the question is, which way do we want to drive? Yucca: Yeah. Mark: And given how adaptive we are, even if we've made a big mess, even if the Anthropocene continues, the biodiversity crash continues. The climate change continues. Humans are so adaptable that we are likely to persist even under very extreme conditions. So. My mind has always been to what kinds of values and models can we seek to get out there in the world as much as possible today so that those people then can maybe live a more sustainable life? Yucca: A lot of this is about that we're talking about, right? These principles, what are the things that are going to help us to do that? And the first two that we've talked about, the critical thinking, right? This can be as simple as, huh. If I pollute the water that I'm drinking, what's going to happen. Right. And then also the reference for the Earth and view of it as sacred that it's worth taking care of and protecting. And of course, when We say earth, but earth and cosmos. We're talking about reality. Mark: What is? Yucca: yeah, you don't have to. We're not specific to, although humans we're here on earth. We're part of earth, but we're not excluding everything else by saying earth. Mark: Well, because even at our scale, even at the relativistic scale, everything really is blurred into everything else. The. the Earth is bombarded by solar, radiation and solar wind and meteoroids and all kinds of Yucca: Of space debris. Mark: of space stuff all the time that is coming to add to our world. And to pretend that we are in this little capsule going around a star is. It's not reality. It doesn't hold up to that first principle of skepticism and critical thinking. So if you understand that it's all blurry, then revering, this earth is really not quite enough because there's that star up there, that's driving everything. And that star is a part of the system. And that system is a part of. A galaxy and the galaxy is part of a supercluster and the superclusters, it just goes on Yucca: Laniakea to the cosmic web, to the observable universe and who knows what more Mark: Yes. Yucca: and how little of it we can see. Mark: So we Revere the Earth and the cosmos because man, they're cool. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: They're just so incredibly cool. Yucca: And by day it's also us, GRADITUDE Mark: Yes. And the next principle actually relates closely to this because if you're really aware of just how wow. the Earth and cosmos are the next principle, which is gratitude becomes a lot easier and gratitude is Its gratitude. Actually, it sounds like a noun, but it's not, it's a verb. Gratitude is something that you do. And it's those moments that we take when we go, wow. That was really beautiful. Or look at that flower or God that smells good. Or that's the best tasting chocolate I think I've ever had. Those acknowledging those moments and kind of gathering them to you in a way that informs that your life is joyous because atheopagan ism is a path that's about being as joyous as possible. It's about being happy as well as being effective and being an exponent for a better world. It's about just being happy because pleasure and happiness are good. It's good for you to be happy. So gratitude is something that, I mean, I know I could do a better job at it. I know I could I feel like there's no ceiling to how grateful one could possibly be. Maybe the Dalai Lama has hit the ceiling. I don't know. But I know that I certainly have farther to go. Yucca: You too. Yeah. That's something that ritual and we've done a whole episode on this as well, but ritual can really help facilitate Mark: Yes. Yucca: and grow that sense of gratitude, which grows our own happiness, as you're saying and health as well Mark: Yes. For sure. Happier people are healthier people. They just are. I mean, Yucca: more effective. Mark: yes Yucca: Happier person is better able to take care of other people and to focus more. And all of those things. Mark: Yeah, I absolutely agree. So, yes, gratitude. And there are lots of different kinds of gratitude practices. There are people who just before they go to bed, they recount, you know, three things that I was grateful for today. There are people who have a gratitude jar and they put some, they write something down and stick it in the jar every day. And then at some point in the year, they take them all out and read them and then burn them and start over wonderful ritual practice. Um, Yucca: Is a great place for that too, because it sets the tone for your day. Okay. HUMILITY Mark: It announces I'm already coming into a world that gives me gifts that I feel great about now. Let's see. What's up. Yeah. So, that leads me to the fourth principle that we're going to talk about today, which is humility. And I find that gratitude and humility and reverence for the Earth and cosmos all kind of tied together. Because if I really comprehend the scope and scale of the Earth itself, not. Not to mention the cosmos, just the Earth itself in terms of its age and its size. Then I will understand that I am small and temporary and that whatever my concerns are, whatever my attitudes are or my initiatives that. They need to be understood in the context of a being that is small and temporary. And so I feel humility is a really important quality for us to have as non theists pagans because you know, we're not lording over people and telling them what to do. That's not what we're here about. What we're here about is being the best people we possibly can be and doing that in a way. With with a grasp reality, as much as possible and a solid set of things that we find sacred and of value and and a real sense of joy of gratitude as we go forward. So, and you know, I'll say I, I struggled with this when I was younger, I was taught to be really arrogant. My father was just a narcissistic asshole. And I just sort of followed along, trying to be like dad you know, very much a know it all kind of person. And what I found is that the less of that I exhibit in my life, the better my life gets and the truer, it feels so. Which I'm sure is one of the reasons why humility came up early in the list as I was developing the list. These are not in priority order, by the way, the atheopagan principles are the, are basically just in the order that I thought of them and wrote them down. Yucca: Yeah, Mark: so, Yucca: Touching on humility. This is one of those terms that can have very different emotional connotations for people. And when we say humility, we're not talking about belittling oneself, right. We're small, but that doesn't mean that we suck or that we're not important or that we're not worthy of love and attention and all of those things and respect, but that. It's really tying back into that gratitude where it's with the humility. Part of it is a recognition that the world doesn't owe us something. We are part of the world. And if anything, we owe the world, not that people should just be giving to us and no matter what all of that, um, That arrogance there's it really ties into that, that self-awareness and gratitude that just leads to a contentment and a humble outlook. Mark: Yeah. Yeah, because I mean, it's a little tail chasing in a way, because once again, You know, it's complex. All these things are true at once. Yes, I am small and temporary and trivial. Yes, I am amazing. It is amazing that I am here. I can do amazing things that is really fucking cool. And I'm small and temporary. And. My, whatever things I do in the grand course of the universe's history will inevitably be trivial, but it doesn't matter because I have that core understanding that I'm amazing at the same time. And we can hold all of those. We can be filled with gratitude for the gifts, the various genetic gifts and educational gifts and cultural gifts that we've been given. As well as to understand ourselves as being small and temporary and deserving of humility holding all of that together without flopping over into shame or Poor self-esteem on the one hand or narcissism and arrogance on the other hand is a part of the balance holding that's so necessary for us as non theist pagans. Yucca: With that those two understandings at once I think are epitomized by the sense of looking out at the dark starry sky and getting that incredible sense of, ah, I'm tiny and the universe is so fast and I'm part of it Mark: Yes, I am. Part of all this, all that extending out farther even than light has ever reached this planet. I'm part of all of it. Every molecule that makes me up arose shortly after the big bang and Yucca: and it's both true Mark: wow. Yes. It's all true. It's true. Yup. And you know, it's kind of an amazing thing to be able to get up in the morning and look in the mirror and say, hello, big bang. Good morning. Good morning, Starburst. How are you today? And you know, we've talked a lot in this podcast about how being a science-based pagan, being a. An earth revering pagan. A lot of it is about just learning to pay attention, looking for, you know, the little details of beauty and what nature is doing and how things are changing over the course of the seasons and all that. And I think that this is one of those places where this is true also that Noticing when we're given an opportunity to be kind of arrogant and we choose to be humble instead, noticing when we're provided with something unexpected and joyous. And we can be grateful about that, you know, keeping track of these meaningful events in our lives, because it's so easy for life to just turn into this sort of rush of. Not necessarily meaning associated moments, just kind of running through the routine and we're here to celebrate, you know, that's what our, that's what our religious path is for. We're here to celebrate and to be good people and to help other people celebrate and to make the world as good for other beings as we can. And that requires some cataloging. No you have to keep score at some level. You have to keep track of the good stuff. In order to remind yourself to be grateful Yucca: And learn to focus on that because it's a choice. Mark: Very much as a, as someone who has struggled with depression, when that filter drops down over my eyes, I can't see the good stuff. I just can't. And it's not that it isn't there, even though that voice in my head lies and says, it's not there. And I've been through enough cycles of this now that I know that's not true. But it sure seems true because that voice speaks with a lot of authority. So that's the first four of the 13 atheopagan principles. Love to have your feedback. We take. Email at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com, which is the wonder podcast, all one word Q s@gmail.com. Love to hear from you about this. And as I said, we'll be going over the rest of the principles in subsequent episodes. But not next week, we'll do something else next week. Just to kind of keep things mixed up in lively. UPDATE ON THE ATHEOPAGAN SOCIETY Yucca: Before we finish up for today, we did want to remind folks about the Atheopagan Society. Mark: It's a nonprofit religious organization that we founded to to keep the ideas that the principles and values of atheopaganism moving forward into beyond the life of any one person and to help support atheopaganism around the world. Yucca is the chair of the council of the Atheopagan Society. And I serve on the council. We had a meeting last night and so we can report out some of the stuff that's going on with that. You want to start in on that Yucca Yucca: Sure. We'll, we've been, you know, we have our quarterly meetings and we're still getting our feet underneath ourselves, but we've been working with different committees, especially the educational committee, putting together material that can be used by anyone. So again, this is not a membership organization. You don't have to pay any dues. This is just the service that we're putting out to be available for anyone. But working with that. The clerical committee has worked on putting together material for anyone who wants to be a cleric and material like weddings. What other things are on that Mark? Mark: The introductory guide book for clerics includes a section on pastoral counseling. On conducting weddings on conducting funerals and working with the dying and on conducting other rites of passage, like naming ceremonies and passages into adulthood and all that kind of stuff. And it's downloadable from the Atheopagan Society website, which is theAPsociety.org. You can also see the bios of the members of the council there and download the bylaws if you're curious see what events are coming up all those kinds of things. So it gives you an overview about what the society is up to. We also talked quite a bit about diversity, equity and inclusion, which is something that's very important to us as a value. We're still trying to figure out how best to pursue DEI initiatives within the atheopagan community, but it is important to us and we're still looking for the right ways to. To conduct ourselves that way. Possibly by developing a statement and then an implementation plan for that statement. But it's early days yet. And we need help in order to do that because we don't have a whole lot of diversity on the Atheopagan Society council right now. And we really need more voices to be involved in that. Yucca: Exactly. Yeah. And so that's something that is, that really is taking a lot of our focus. Mark: Yes. Yucca: So, Mark: In the edge. Oh, go ahead. Yucca: Oh, I was going to say, and we were also talking about different media outreach and what ways that the society can really best serve the community and what platforms do we use to reach people and all of that. So that's another thing that we, of course, always really welcome input from folks on. Mark: Yes. And the last thing that I'd want people to be aware of is that we have begun discussions about an in-person atheopagan con. Or something like that. An in-person gathering in 2022. The, this is still a very nebulous concept, but we're looking at doing something somewhere in the middle of North America, probably the Denver area, because there are beautiful national parks nearby and it's air traffic hubs. So it's cheaper to fly into for people. We. We don't know exactly what it would be yet, but we know that there's a lot of interest in doing this and I've interacted with so many people online, especially over the last year that I want to hug. If they want to be hugged, Yucca: It'd be great to give you a hug. Mark: I would. Wouldn't that be great? Yucca: You know, all of this zoom it's would be wonderful to see people in person and know. Mark: it would be really great. So that has begun. And we're starting to gather a committee together that can help to produce that event. And that'll be a production of the Atheopagan Society. And we'll use our corporate nonprofit umbrella as the producer. So exciting things happening. And we just wanted to make sure that you knew about them now, not everybody who is a non theist pagan is an atheopagan. And we want to be clear about that. But if you want to come play with us, you're welcome to. Yucca: Yeah Mark: and I don't know. I think that's about it. Yucca: I think so, but I'm glad we got to touch on that as well. A little bit in this episode. So yeah, as always, this has been wonderful. Thank you, Mark. Mark: I've really enjoyed it. Thank you so much. Yucca. See you next week.
How and why has QAnon, the domestic terrorist cult, infected the spiritual and wellness communities? Ash Riley and Brian Smith return for a panel discussion on the topic, as well as hitting on things like prosperity gospel, law of attraction, mental illness, racism, narcissism, grieving, empathy, and apophenia. Plus holding influencers accountable, pulling people back, and lots of resources! Visit BigSeance.com/184 for more info. Other Listening Options Direct Download Link In this episode: Episode Teaser :00 Intro 1:01 Context and Background (USA Today) 1:42 Why QAnon Infected the Spiritual and Wellness Communities (InMySacredSpace.com) 3:52 A new “Triangle Table” discussion with Ash Riley of InMySacredSpace.com and Brian Smith, author of Grief 2 Growth and host and producer of the Grief 2 Growth Podcast at Grief2Growth.com. Ash and Brian appeared together recently in episode 172, where the topic was Spiritual Bypassing. 7:53 “How can you go out and say that you’re this love and light person and then be involved with this group of people who are clamoring for public executions?” Ash gives an introduction to the discussion. 9:35 Vulnerability and the Authority Figure 13:20 “It’s a very interesting look at psychology, sociology, and something that we all need to understand as we start to open ourselves up to certain things, to learn to still be discerning, and to know where to draw the lines and how to think for ourselves.” Brian Smith reflects on Ash’s article. 15:14 Individualism, Prosperity Gospel, The Secret, Law of Attraction, The Power of Positive Thinking, Narcissism and how they’re linked to spirituality. 16:35 Authority, vulnerability, and being new to spirituality. 23:47 Spiritual abuse and holding people accountable. 26:20 How to reach the people sucked in by QAnon. 29:34 Denial, delusion, and unhealed trauma. 32:02 Racism, Proud Boys, and Nazis in the QAnon community. 34:55 “Evangelicals will deny the racism aspect of it. They’ll say, ‘Of course I’m not racist. I have nothing to do with that. This can’t have anything to do with race.’ And the racists like it because, it’s a way of taking back our country. It’s the whole blood and soil thing.” - Brian Smith 36:53 Racism rooted in narcissism. 38:04 Self awareness and the Narcissistic Personality Scale. 39:10 Believing their own lies. 41:55 Mental illness in the spiritual community. 42:50 “We are so quick to give up our power to someone else, whether it be a medium in the spiritual community or a pastor in a church, and we think that they have a special connection that we don’t have. And we need to learn to be more discerning that that person is just a human being, and they’ve got the same filters and biases and problems and things that we do.” - Brian Smith 46:42 Helping those who are grieving to open up spiritually, while also using discernment. 47:40 The 12 Step Program and why it works so well. 50:10 The need for critical thinking skills and the conspiracies that don’t make any sense. 53:45 Conspiracy theories as a subcategory of the paranormal community. 57:11 Magical thinking, Schizotypy, and Apophenia. 58:20 How to stop the bleeding. Holding influencers accountable. 1:02:39 How do we pull people back? You can’t fight them with facts. Build trust, create a personal connection, and share empathy. 1:06:35 Former QAnon support groups 1:12:55 What’s coming up for Ash Riley and where to find her. 1:15:22 More on Brian Smith and where to find him. 1:17:34 Paranerd Sarah Moon recommends we check out the Conspirituality Podcast. 1:18:41 A special THANK YOU to Patreon supporters at the Super Paranerd and Parlor Guest level! 1:19:50 Outro 1:21:41 Articles/Resources The Conspirituality Podcast. Have You Been the Victim of Spiritual Abuse? Spirituality’s Relationship With Mental Illness “So many great, educated, functional people were brainwashed”: Can Trump's Cult of Followers be Deprogrammed? 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Why are we so prone to bad logic? We're going to hear two everyday fugues in this episode: the search for a lost spatula and a spilled beer. The real story here is how easy it is to be irrational. Who is “we” in this episode? It's me and my inner voice obviously. Inner Voice and I will do some post-fugue analysis to find out what mental phenomena are at play while I make really bad assumptions about events in my surroundings. By the end of the episode maybe you'll appreciate why we're actually doing a lot better than we think we are as a society given how mistake-prone our brains are.--Credits: Written and produced by Gabriel BerezinOriginal music and sound design - Grant ZubritskyOpening and closing music: Monuments (featuring Grant Zubritsky (bass), Robby Sinclair (drums) and Bryan Murray (saxophone), Gabriel Berezin (guitar)) Editorial insight - Melissa "Monty" Montan Logo design - Justin MontanFind Fugues on Twitter and Instagram.References:Apophenia in the Queen's GambitApophenia in Stranger ThingsWacky Conspiracy Theory showing Back to the Future predicted 9/11 How Netflix uses big data to inform its contentThe Brain's Autopilot (Scientific American)Daniel Kahneman's System 1 vs 2 Thinking (article)Thinking Fast and Slow (book)Anil Seth's TED talkHow Much of What You See is Hallucination (TED Ex)Abracadabra! A Classic Magic Trick Fools Expectations, Not EyesMy Special Egg SpatulaEpisode Song Playlist:Delirious - PrinceMemories Can't Wait - Talking HeadsNot My Own - MonumentsWhere is My Mind - The PixiesCrazy - Gnarls BarkleyThere There - Radiohead
Von Wong reacts to his conversation with Reed Berkowitz on the intentional consumption of fiction, what it means to the lives that we lead, instances of Apophenia in his own personal life, as well as how he plans to discover more narratives of hope in his own life.Subscribe on SpotifySubscribe on Google PodcastsSubscribe on Apple Podcasts
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Alexander Panchin is a Russian biologist, popularizer of science, science journalist, writer, and blogger. Ph.D. in Biology, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems named after A.A. Kharkevich of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Member of the RAS Commission for the Fight against Pseudoscience. Member of the organizing committee and expert council of the Harry Houdini Prize. Member of the board of the educational foundation "Evolution". Winner of the Enlightener Prize for the book The Sum of Biotechnology. In 2017 he was included in the list of "75 most respected people of the country" according to the magazine "Russian Reporter". Finalist of the award "For Faithfulness to Science - 2017". In 2018, where published Alexander's new book, "Defense Against the Dark Arts. Guide to the world of the paranormal." Laureate of the Alexander Belyaev Literary Prize for the dystopia "Apophenia" about a world where myths and delusions have finally triumphed over science. He is engaged in the popularization of science, in particular, in the issue of the safety of products based on genetically modified organisms. He wrote a book about this, “The Sum of Biotechnology”. Alexander is often invited as an expert on radio and television shows.FIND ALEXANDER ON SOCIAL MEDIAYouTube | VKontakte | Facebook | Instagram
Emma and Gil chat with Sam Rosenthal and Stephen Bell of The Game Band, known for their bizarre cosmic horror sports sim Blaseball. We discuss the unique feedback loop between Blaseballs fans and its creators, the benefits of apophenia, and how baseball was uniquely suited for this treatment at this moment in history. SHOW NOTES 7m00s: The score bug that Gil is referring to is the graphic that appears overlaid on most sports broadcast, showing the game's score and other vital stats. Gil also refers to external chest protectors that baseball umpires used to wear, an icon of baseball from decades past. 7m59s: The Blaseball wiki. 10m00s: The music that Stephen refers to is literal fan-made music. Fan canon says that the team the Seattle Garages are actually a rock band forced to play Blaseball. Fans have actually recorded and released these albums. 19m05s: Here's Cat Manning's excellent Blaseball primer. It's a good way to get a sense of the lore of the game. 22m11s: We chatted with game designer and wide receiver Adrienne Smith in Ludology 240 - Are You Receiving Me? 26m15s: Apophenia is the tendency to make connections between disconnected things. Game designers can use it to make meaningful experiences and memorable stories, but other people can use it for very bad things. 27m42s: Kayfabe is a wrestling term that denotes the acceptance of the fictionalization of staged events. In other words, a wrestling announcer working in kayfabe will treat a match as if it is a genuinely-contested sporting event with an uncertain outcome, not a scripted match in which all participants know the winner ahead of time. Kayfabe is very much another example of a magic circle. You can hear Geoff Engelstein and Ryan Sturm discuss the magic circle with game designer Eric Zimmerman in Ludology 79 - The Magic Circle. 29m34s: SIBR is the Society for Internet Blaseball Research. Their name is a reference to SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research. (In real-world Major League Baseball, SABR is the organization that devised "sabermetrics," the advanced statistics that powered the Moneyball movement.) SIBR has written several academic papers analyzing the effects various aspects of Blaseball. 32m54s: Taskmaster continues to be one of Gil's favorite shows. 35m44s: Uncharted is a series of video games about uncovering historical mysteries around the world, and killing a lot of bad guys in the process. 44m02s: More info on Twitch Plays Pokémon. Also, Our Place, a MUD. 48m17s: More info on the John Cage composition As Slow As Possible (Gil misstated the title as "As Long As Possible"). You can watch a video of one of the note changes here. Also, Gil should have mentioned the 10,000 Year Clock, a clock that is being built within a Texas mountain of Texas (funded by Jeff Bezos) that will be designed to run 10,000 years without any human intervention. This is not the kind of scale humans are used to thinking in, which is what makes these projects so strange and intriguing. 53m04s: Welcome to Night Vale is highly recommended for anyone intrigued by the idea of comic cosmic horror. For example... "The City Council announces the opening of a new dog park at the corner of Earl and Sommerset near the Ralph’s. They would like to remind everyone that dogs are not allowed in the dog park. People are not allowed in the dog park. It is possible you will see hooded figures in the dog park. Do not approach them. Do not approach the dog park. The fence is electrified and highly dangerous. Try not to look at the dog park, and especially do not look for any period of time at the hooded figures. The dog park will not harm you." 55m51s: Baseball has several "unwritten rules" of decorum. One of them is that bunting to break up a no-hitter tends to be frowned upon. It happens every few years; in 2019, a minor-league team broke up a combined no-hitter in the 9th inning with a bunt, which resulted in a benches-clearing altercation. 1h00m42s: Here is the Blaseball Discord server. 1h05m40s: Gil is referring to Marcel Duchamp's readymade sculpture Fountain (although there are rumblings that the piece was actually made by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven). Afterwards, Gil refers to the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Chain of Command, in which a Cardassian tortures Jean-Luc Picard by inflicting pain if Picard does not claim he sees five lights when in fact there are only four in front of him (which itself is a reference from a scene in 1984). 1h06m57s: "The Commissioner Is Doing A Great Job" is a common Blaseball meme. The Coffee Cup was the most recent season of Blaseball before this recording, which was a knockout tournament of nontraditional Blaseball teams instead of a "traditional" season (whatever that means). 1h08m03s: Twitter links: The Game Band, Blaseball, Sam Rosenthal, and Stephen Bell. Here is Blaseball's Patreon. 1h10m16s: Guess which blaseball team Gil follows?
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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Find my “extra” content on Locals: https://ScottAdams.Locals.com Content: MSNBC discusses how to punish Trump voters Don Lemon’s standard of guilt by association Counterforce to leftist violence and rioting BLM activist John Sullivan arrested Reed Berkowitz: Q…a well designed game? Election integrity questions If you would like […] The post Episode 1254 Scott Adams: I Unveil a Wokeness Linguistic Kill Shot, Election Security Insights, and Apophenia appeared first on Scott Adams' Blog.
Are you ready to start 2021 off with a BANG? Well, you’ve come to the right place then. My guest today is Ashley Faus and today we’ll be discussing content playgrounds, apophenia and conspiracy theories, and last but not least, micro-feedback and external stimulus as it relates to one of the drawbacks of our current remote-heavy professional lives, the inability to add to “work in progress” ideas that might have existed on a whiteboard in an office or conference room. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This Is Not A Game. In part three of the now FIVE part COJW series on QAnon, Chris takes a hard look at the human psychology behind game mechanics, and what makes QAnon research so engaging. Special thanks to game designer Adrian Hon (https://twitter.com/adrianhon?lang=en) for sitting down with Chris this episode and sharing his thoughts on QAnon and game design! Search Categories --- Anthropological; Internet culture; Common interest / Fandom; Destructive; Conspiracy Theory Topic Spoiler --- QAnon, pt 3: QAnon as alternate reality game Further Reading --- https://mssv.net/2020/08/02/what-args-can-teach-us-about-qanon/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternate_reality_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_alternate_reality_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(game) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/07/qanon-isnt-just-conspiracy-theory-its-highly-effective-game/ https://www.wired.com/story/qanon-most-dangerous-multiplatform-game/ https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analysis-of-qanon-580972548be5 https://www.axios.com/qanon-video-game-cbbacb1e-969c-4f07-93cd-69e41bc6feeb.html https://medium.com/@registrarproject17/qanon-is-an-enormous-alternate-reality-game-arg-run-by-malevolent-puppetmasters-27e6b098ce9b https://danhon.substack.com/p/qanon-looks-like-an-alternate-reality https://limn.it/articles/the-illicit-aura-of-information/ https://reallifemag.com/the-apophenic-machine/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistolary_novel
Earlier today I asked what topics YOU guys would like to discuss, and you responded. We're going to touch on things like Confirmation Bias, Pareidolia, Apophenia, ghost hunters that run from the very thing they're 'hunting', Moral Ethics, how ghosts can be immaterial and still interact with physical objects, why aren't team 'getting rid of ghosts', and more (if I can get through all of this!). Grab a drink and join me!
https://qresear.ch/q-postsConspiracy theories, and suspicion in general, define us as hu- man beings. Our suspicion and tendency to create conspiracy theories have always been with the human race, powered by our evolutionary drive to survive. Although this evolution- ary drive to survive is helpful, it can often become extreme and lead to “apophenia.” Apophenia refers to the notion of connecting previously unconnected ideas and theories. Un- like learning, apophenia refers to a cognitive, paranoid disor- der due to the unreality of the connections they make.... Is Q ANNON a conspiracy theory? Ill let you decide.
Episode 4 - Apophenia's Millennium Flag. Richard and Jensen had to stretch back their memories back a fair bit for Josh's topic this week. Join us for some more schooling and fooling!
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This week Jacob and Ryan talk celestial bodies, global cooling, living off the land, Tiger King, vitamin D, search for the sun and solar flares, apophenia, The Number 23, Yellow Hitler, heliocentric music, fire, sunscreen, Dark Souls, and also take a deep dive in to Hanna Barbera cartoons.
Learn about why natural selection favors superstitions; why the way our noses smell is way more complicated than we thought; and where scientists think 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar object, came from. How natural selection favors superstitions by Cameron Duke Foster, K. R., & Kokko, H. (2008). The evolution of superstitious and superstition-like behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276(1654), 31–37. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.0981 Hájek, A. (2018). Pascal’s Wager (E. N. Zalta (Ed.)). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/index.htmlpascal-wager/index.html Johnson, D. D. P., Blumstein, D. T., Fowler, J. H., & Haselton, M. G. (2013). The evolution of error: error management, cognitive constraints, and adaptive decision-making biases. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 28(8), 474–481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2013.05.014 The way our noses smell is way more complicated than we thought by Cameron Duke Making sense of scents: 3-D videos reveal how the nose detects odor combinations. (2020, April 9). Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2020-04-scents-d-videos-reveal-nose.html Xu, L., Li, W., Voleti, V., Zou, D.-J., Hillman, E. M. C., & Firestein, S. (2020). Widespread receptor-driven modulation in peripheral olfactory coding. Science, 368(6487). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz5390 Chess, A., Simon, I., Cedar, H., & Axel, R. (1994). Allelic inactivation regulates olfactory receptor gene expression. Cell, 78(5), 823–834. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0092-8674(94)90562-2 Morrison, J. (2014). Human nose can detect 1 trillion odours. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.14904 The Scent of a Molecule. (2017, November 17). Science History Institute. https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/the-scent-of-a-molecule We might finally know the origin of the first known interstellar object 'Oumuamua by Grant Currin Origin of the first known interstellar object ’Oumuamua. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/caos-oot041220.php In Depth | Oumuamua – NASA Solar System Exploration. (2019, December 19). NASA Solar System Exploration. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/oumuamua/in-depth Davis, N. (2020, April 13). Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua believed to be ‘active asteroid.’ The Guardian; The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/apr/13/interstellar-object-oumuamua-believed-to-be-active-asteroid PSRD: Active Asteroids. (2019). Hawaii.edu. http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/May19/active-asteroids.html Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY
135 - The Recipe to Overcoming Stubborn Creative Block Making connections between your work and the things that inspired you is key to a successful design. Learn to overcome that stubborn creative block between inspiration and creation. Brandi walks you through how to use her word map, what the purpose of the word map is, and how you can use it to your advantage. Featured Music No Time To Die by Billie EIlish On this week’s episode: "So, I incorporate this literary method that forces you to not think so linearly about your ideas or so surface and obvious, but to really be okay with exploring these weird side roads and detours that you might not have done." -BrandiSea Three points to find motivation: The Word Map Starts with basic concept Look for your color words Look for visual elements This Week's Uncommon Inspiration The word Apophenia - the tendency to mistakenly perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things. The word Pareidolia - a type of apophenia, which is a more generalized term for seeing patterns in random data. Resources & Other Things We Talked About The World is Not Enough by Garbage Other episodes that detail how to do the word map • Episode 84 "The Process: Part 2a - Using Word Maps" • Episode 86 "The Process: Part 2b - Word Maps Continued" Power Thesaurus & Power Thesaurus App "It's literally our job to make connections and guide people through our ideas. And the only way where we're going to really be able to do that is to understand where those connections came from." -Brandi Sea Add Your Heading Text Here Some word map process photos from Brandi's Alice in Wonderland Book Cover Project Share on email Email Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on linkedin LinkedIn Share on pinterest Pinterest Want to support us? SHARE THIS PODCAST WITH A FRIEND or Visit Patreon and help support our podcast! We would be eternally grateful! We can't do this without YOU. You can give as much as you want. Every little bit goes to helping us keep this podcast going. Also, if you get any value out of this show if you would please rate and review our podcast on iTunes! Have a question, comment, or episode subject request? Send an email to brandi@brandisea.com Find us on all forms of social media @designspeakspodcast Find Brandi @BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Find Julie @juliehaider Find Dakota @realdakotacook Thank You To The ultra-talented Vesperteen (Colin Rigsby) for letting us use his song “Shatter in The Night” as our theme music on every episode of Design Speaks. Producers Kenneth Kniffin and Dakota Cook. Podcast Cover Art Illustration by Pippa Keel - @pippa.jk of Zhu Creative Copyright ©BrandiSea 2020. All Rights reserved. Design Speaks Episode 135 - Chapter 7: Overcoming the Stubborn Creative Block Between Your Inspiration & Actual Creation BrandiSea: [00:00:00] Welcome to Design Speaks, the podcast that helps you discover uncommon inspiration so you can make more meaningful work. I'm Brandi Sea my cohost is Julie Haider. This week we'll be talking about word maps and how you can find concepts that will guide your designs. Stay tuned for that coming up. Well. Hello, Julie. Julie: [00:00:31] Hello. BrandiSea: [00:00:32] I guess I should say hi, Julie. Got to keep this high thing going. Julie: [00:00:36] I'm not picky. BrandiSea: [00:00:38] Well, I am. I like--I like consistency. I'm a creature of habit. Julie: [00:00:42] Okay, never tell me hello ever again. BrandiSea: [00:00:44] Never again. Only hi to Julie Haider. Um, so this week I've kind of been thinking a lot about overcoming, uh-- Right now, when we're recording, the Covid-19 outbreak is basically--I dunno, I'm guessing it's at its peak. It can't say that for sure.
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In this episode of the Talking Sound Podcast host Christopher Jordan welcomes fellow engineer and musician Clint Roth, front man of the band Big Jaw to the studio to discuss the creation of his latest work Apophenia as well as the world faced by a self-promoted artist.How does a musician go about fulfilling their vision in the studio? From properly scheduling time to making the most out of every moment, how did Clint go from fully self-producing his music to working with an associate producer for the first time? How did Clint find his way to writing music for commercials? What has the latest endeavor by Big Jaw, the process of creating Apophenia, its release, promotion and show booking taught Clint about the world of music promotion? What can we do to better ourselves as self-promoters and ambassadors of our own art?Join the Talking Sound podcast as we delve into these topics and more behind the creation of Apophenia with Clint Roth of Big Jaw!The Talking Sound Podcast is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. Download the official app for the HC Universal Network family of podcasts available for Android and coming soon for iDevices to get all the great stuff from the Talking Sound Podcast and More!
In this episode of the Talking Sound Podcast host Christopher Jordan welcomes fellow engineer and musician Clint Roth, front man of the band Big Jaw to the studio to discuss the creation of his latest work Apophenia as well as the world faced by a self-promoted artist.How does a musician go about fulfilling their vision in the studio? From properly scheduling time to making the most out of every moment, how did Clint go from fully self-producing his music to working with an associate producer for the first time? How did Clint find his way to writing music for commercials? What has the latest endeavor by Big Jaw, the process of creating Apophenia, its release, promotion and show booking taught Clint about the world of music promotion? What can we do to better ourselves as self-promoters and ambassadors of our own art?Join the Talking Sound podcast as we delve into these topics and more behind the creation of Apophenia with Clint Roth of Big Jaw!The Talking Sound Podcast is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. Download the official app for the HC Universal Network family of podcasts available for Android and coming soon for iDevices to get all the great stuff from the Talking Sound Podcast and More!
In this episode of the Talking Sound Podcast host Christopher Jordan welcomes fellow engineer and musician Clint Roth, front man of the band Big Jaw to the studio to discuss the creation of his latest work Apophenia as well as the world faced by a self-promoted artist. How does a musician go about fulfilling their vision in the studio? From properly scheduling time to making the most out of every moment, how did Clint go from fully self-producing his music to working with an associate producer for the first time? How did Clint find his way to writing music for commercials? What has the latest endeavor by Big Jaw, the process of creating Apophenia, its release, promotion and show booking taught Clint about the world of music promotion? What can we do to better ourselves as self-promoters and ambassadors of our own art? Join the Talking Sound podcast as we delve into these topics and more behind the creation of Apophenia with Clint Roth of Big Jaw! The Talking Sound Podcast is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. Download the official app for the HC Universal Network family of podcasts available for Android and coming soon for iDevices to get all the great stuff from the Talking Sound Podcast and More!
In this episode of the Talking Sound Podcast host Christopher Jordan welcomes fellow engineer and musician Clint Roth, front man of the band Big Jaw to the studio to discuss the creation of his latest work Apophenia as well as the world faced by a self-promoted artist.How does a musician go about fulfilling their vision in the studio? From properly scheduling time to making the most out of every moment, how did Clint go from fully self-producing his music to working with an associate producer for the first time? How did Clint find his way to writing music for commercials? What has the latest endeavor by Big Jaw, the process of creating Apophenia, its release, promotion and show booking taught Clint about the world of music promotion? What can we do to better ourselves as self-promoters and ambassadors of our own art?Join the Talking Sound podcast as we delve into these topics and more behind the creation of Apophenia with Clint Roth of Big Jaw!The Talking Sound Podcast is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. Download the official app for the HC Universal Network family of podcasts available for Android and coming soon for iDevices to get all the great stuff from the Talking Sound Podcast and More!
In this episode of the Talking Sound Podcast host Christopher Jordan welcomes fellow engineer and musician Clint Roth, front man of the band Big Jaw to the studio to discuss the creation of his latest work Apophenia as well as the world faced by a self-promoted artist. How does a musician go about fulfilling their vision in the studio? From properly scheduling time to making the most out of every moment, how did Clint go from fully self-producing his music to working with an associate producer for the first time? How did Clint find his way to writing music for commercials? What has the latest endeavor by Big Jaw, the process of creating Apophenia, its release, promotion and show booking taught Clint about the world of music promotion? What can we do to better ourselves as self-promoters and ambassadors of our own art? Join the Talking Sound podcast as we delve into these topics and more behind the creation of Apophenia with Clint Roth of Big Jaw! The Talking Sound Podcast is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. Download the official app for the HC Universal Network family of podcasts available for Android and coming soon for iDevices to get all the great stuff from the Talking Sound Podcast and More!
Miguel joins the show to preview his new album, Apophenia. We chat about his upbringing, influences and what inspired him to record. Rob and Dan push the boundaries of technology taking the show to new heights. Episode 99. Support the show (http://www.prestomusic.com/jazz)
*Warning* This is not your run of the mill metal podcast episode. Animesh and Peter shared a few laughs while recording this episode, you will hear it. What's common between Blotted Science, Hate Eternal, Triptykon and Obscura?Hannes Grossmann!The extraordinaire drummer has performed with all of these bands. Last month, Grossmann released his 3rd solo album Apophenia http://hannesgrossmann.bandcamp.com/album/apopheniaAnimesh and Peter speak to him about the album, being a session musician and producers. Hannes also shares key insights for drummers and also upcoming bands. So turn up the volume and raise those Horns Up!Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or add the RSS feed to your preferred podcast player. Follow the podcast on Twitter @hornsuppod, Peter @trendcrusher and Animesh @asmoani. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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This week, Mark Mason discusses with Ivan his six choices of things which should be better known. Apophenia www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/reality-play/201207/being-amused-apophenia Heartlands film http://film.britishcouncil.org/heartlands Apollo 12 https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/landing-missions/apollo12.cfm Train in the Distance by Paul Simon www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCFTHhcvRT0 Joe Swail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Swail Selling Hitler by Robert Harris www.lrb.co.uk/v08/n06/alan-milward/holy-relics This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm
The material you are about to hear is an immersive acoustic experience containing footage from and around HOIA BACIU forest. It focuses on the POIANA ROTUNDĂ area, labelled as the nexus for series of events, often depicted as peculiar. Six audio segments carefully selected: details of all sorts; tactile illusions; collages; arrangements or unprocessed sound, mixed together. Some brutal, some seamless, blending the raw with the subjective. Articolul Apophenia (binaural) apare prima dată în SEMI SILENT.
Released: 20 January 2019 Duration: 65 minutes A silent, truck-sized sphere zips past a startled Englishman; common tricks of the mind MAY explain weird creatures; API Training and Public Outreach videos await you at our website! Two recently closed Case Files are discussed: Marsha Barnhart presents an investigation that included an interesting early morning encounter in Suffolk, England, and Savannah Dollison dissects a case that proved both elusive and illusionary. Plus, Paul Carr outlines the array of training videos and public outreach informational videos now available on our website. Links: Case 18-023 Suffolk, England Rendelsheim Forest UFO Incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_incident EMP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse Case 18-027 Pensacola, Florida Pareidolia and Apophenia http://59ways.blogspot.com/2012/01/apophenia-and-pareidolia_09.html API's Information API YouTube Videos The Supplemental Questionnaire Supplemental Questionnaire Training Video API Website Make a UFO Report API Investigations Page Credits: Producer and host: Marsha Barnhart Post production: Paul Carr Episode 14 Music Frequency Decree: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Frequency_Decree/ Bio Unit: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Bio_Unit/Content/Bio_Unit Blue Sky Black Death: https://bandcamp.com/search?q=blue%20Sky%20black%20Death Jahzzar: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/ BoxCat Games: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=Box%20Cat%20Games Alien Chronicler: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=Alien%20Chronicler D J Spooky: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/DJ_Spooky/none_given_1098/14_-_DJ_Spooky_-_Check_Your_Math API Case Files and API Conversations are released under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Pareidolia can be dangerous when it gets religious or political: Jesus on toast may be one thing, but what if a rusty sacred water stain dripped down the front facade of your public county courthouse and believers came flocking? IN THIS EPISODE: What Does ‘Pareidolia' Mean & Why is it Dangerous? | Celebrity Suicides | David's Book Deal is Back On | Fixing Garage Floor Divots | David Learns Prison Martial Arts. WHAT IS PAREIDOLIA? [Wiktionary] Pareidolia is the tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals, seeing shapes in clouds, or hearing hidden messages in reversed music. This behavior exists because humans seek to create meaning when meaning is absent, I suppose. And perhaps it's no danger to see a teddy bear in the clouds or a man in the moon. Those are functional. Whimsical. Harmless. In fact, some scientists opine that pareidolia is an indicator of an efficient brain attempting to identify patterns in the environment. This is good. This is survival – it's situational awareness, to a limit… DANGERS OF PAREIDOLIA. Pareidolia isn't just about seeing faces, though. It's about interpreting any vague stimulus as meaningful. If you have a headache and feel tired, it wouldn't take more than 10 minutes on the Internet to match your symptoms to an exhaustive list of mild to terminal medical conditions. In this instance, a type of pre-suasion exists in which the person is already primed to seek bad news. A simple television commercial can convince people that they are afflicted with a condition. Context and situation influence pareidolia. What do you expect when you gingerly tour a haunted house? That creaky door might be a sign from a spirit – or a just a hinge in need of oil. WHAT IS APOPHENIA? Apophenia can be considered as a blessing as well as curse. It is because of this tendency that we can explore new things, but sometimes it may mislead us. It stems from the fact that we humans are always looking for meaning in our life. We often believe that everything happens for a reason. Well, most times, it could be that things are totally unrelated, and yet we won't let go of our relentless pursuit to find a connection. That is apophenia. It is well documented as a rationalization for gambling. Gamblers may imagine that they see patterns in the numbers that appear in lotteries, card games, or roulette wheels. One variation of this is known as the "gambler's fallacy". The Mayan Calendar also contributed to “End-of-Times” apophenia for some people that perceived clear connections between the calendar end date, stock market crash, increase in hurricanes, and any myriad of other events that were destructive, but not necessarily connected incidents. Dr. Perrodin advises asking "Does this makes sense?" and using member checks as strategies to avoid rampant pareidolia or apophenia. FOLLOW DR. PERRODIN: Twitter @SafetyPhD and subscribe to The Safety Doc YouTube channel & Apple Podcasts. SAFETY DOC WEBSITE & BLOG: www.safetyphd.com David will respond to comments & emails. The Safety Doc Podcast is hosted & produced by David Perrodin, PhD. ENDORSEMENTS. Opinions are those of the host & guests and do not reflect positions of The 405 Media or supporters of “The Safety Doc Podcast”. The show adheres to nondiscrimination principles while seeking to bring forward productive discourse & debate on topics relevant to personal or institutional safety. Email David: thesafetydoc@gmail.com LOOKING FOR DR. TIMOTHY LUDWIG, PHD? Dr. Perrodin's “Safety Doc Podcast” negotiates school and community safety. To be informed about industrial safety, please contact Appalachian State University Professor Dr. Timothy Ludwig, PhD, at www.safety-doc.com.
In this classic GameTek, Geoff talks about how we see patterns even when there aren't any, and what that means for game designers. Duration: 8:01
BIG news right at the top of this week's episode, listen in to hear all the tantalizing details! Then stick around to hear us dive into the lyrically very confused song by summer girl watchers LFO. Along the way Nick provides some history-related alternative lyrics, Mike discovers some shocking subtext, and Steven concludes the vocalist might have Apophenia; don't know what that is? Listen to find out, and then check out our new home for our website at http://comeherefloyd.com/
Join Kevin, Nancy, Teresa and Scott in this hillarious episode where they tackle a psychological phenomenon we all have felt: Apophenia and Pareidolia Pattern seeking if you prefer. We wonder as to why people attribute meaning to everyday objects without giving a critical look into it Montreal QC starts taxing churches in Things that make you go hmmm Nancy talks about a spy cat called accoustic kitty in This Day in History God sends a message in a diaper and a flat earther thinks a carpenter level disproves the earth is round
iTunes | Stitcher | RSS feedA strange file reveals the final fate of the sailors pursued by the Black Freighter.This week's Broadcast Failure was performed by Aisling McCabe and Anthea West.The song was Rabbithole (neon Valley Kvlt Remix) by Sugarplum SuicideYou can find out more here.If you want to send a report to the Switchboard please click here.Music used:Canon in D by Kevin MacLeodHow We Survive (originally written for the film of the same name by Joshua Yeo) by Thomas O'BoyleandIce Demon by Kevin MacLeod Permalink
We are trans-atlantic once again! Ben and Lucy are joined by the prairie-bound Aadil from flattest Canadia. We talk “Mad Max”, “The Witcher 3”, “Snake Pass”, “The Binding of Isaac” as well as the the horrors of the DS3 and fighting completionist tendencies. Ben started things off with the ‘Steady Rolling Man’ American pale Ale by “Deya” and the ‘Apophenia’ trippel from Bristol’s Own “Lost & Grounded”. Aadil started off with ‘Blonde Canadian’ pale ale from “Farmery” in Manitoba, followed by the ‘Rye Ale’ by “Black Bridge Brewery” in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. Lucy had the ‘Black Bird’ black rye saison from the “Brussels Beer Project” and ‘White Noise’ white beer from New Zealand’s “Yeastie Boys”.
Len Fisher says we're all inclined to look for patterns in events, and there are two reasons why we see patterns even when they aren't there: one is evolutionary, the other is mathematical.
Interview starts 33:40 David Charles Plate joins us for a great, long chat about his fresh research into translating the Zohar Prophecies, Synchronicities and matching classic albums to movies. We chat about the upcoming translation "tears of the soldiers”, "prayers of the small children”, and "young scholars”… could be very appropriate to what is going on lately in this sociopolitical climate. David talks about some crazy synchronicities, uncanny resonances around movies and events like 911 which is the day the Zohar predicted. We also chat about Pink Floyd and matching those classic albums to movies. Secret - not so secret societies and the occult goes along with all of this of course. David was the co-host of Always Record on Syncbook. Cassandra https://vimeo.com/199647746 David's Videos - http://thesyncbook.com/network/?rtag=sync%20media%20research In the intro we chat about the Churchill essay as part of the weekly UFO quote. And we share some listener feedback and synchronicities. We also talk about the NASA tweet, google sky and the literal cover up of Sirius and vault 7 a bit. We are meeting up near Spokane Washington with some friends if anyone is interested. See links below for stuff we chatted about during the intro and the show: http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/winston-churchills-search-for-et-revealed-in-forgotten-essay/news-story/a803be742c158497a130443caed49a53 http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/a-mysterious-nasa-post-has-prompted-ridiculous-alien-conspiracy-theories/news-story/d81fa43d791157a6b1c613b176881239#itm=newscomau%7Ctechnology%7Cright-now-in-%7C1%7CNASA%20exoplanets%20tweet%20prompts%20alien%20conspiracy%20theories%7Cstory%7CAlien%20search%20interrupted%20by%20World%20War%20II&itmt=1487732430153 https://www.google.com/sky/ http://www.secretsinplainsight.com/ http://metropolis1927.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dahQCEzjkfM Alex and John - Bohemian Grove http://www.golden-dawn.com/eu/displaycontent.aspx?pageid=154-biography-aleister-crowley https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/The-Visitor/70299770 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/ Artificial Intellegence Please Help support the show. Grimerica’s Honey DoBeDoBeDo List: !! – Grimerica is fully and solely listener supported. We adhere to the Value for Value model. 0 ads, 0 sponsorships, 0 breaks, 0 portals and links to corporate websites… just many hours of unlimited content for free. Thanks for listening!! Leave a Voicemail http://speakpipe.com/grimerica Leave a review on iTunes and/or Stitcher https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-grimerica-show/id653314424?mt=2# http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-grimerica-show Sign up for our newsletter http://www.grimerica.ca/news Leave a comment, ideas and guest/topic suggestions under any episode or blog http://www.grimerica.ca/ SPAM Graham = and send him your synchronicities, feedback, strange experiences and psychedelic trip reports!! graham@grimerica.com InstaGRAM https://www.instagram.com/the_grimerica_show_podcast/ Tweet Darren https://twitter.com/Grimerica Purchase swag, with partial proceeds donated to the show www.grimerica.ca/swag Send us a postcard or letter http://www.grimerica.ca/contact/ Thanks to Wayne Darnell for help with the website. http://www.darnelldigitalink.com/ http://www.lostbreadcomic.com/ link to Napolean Duheme's site MUSIC Grimerica Theme - Lock & Key Breathe - Smart Studios (Pink Floyd Remix) Another Brick in the Wall Remix - DBemery
This week, Darren Rosario from The Rants Macabre joins us todiscuss his new album Apophenia (available now from FangoriaMusick), as well as music in horror movies.Music:Opening & Closing Theme - Eyes Gone Wrong KevinMacLeod (incompetech.com)All other music is from the album Apophenia by DarrenTyShow Notes:Go grab a copy of Apophenia from FangoriaMusic!The RantsMacabreIf I Had A Hifi
Mindy received her copy of Ice Cream Man so we watched it. Yup, it's the bizarre collaboration between Clint Howard and a prolific porn director. We cover The Walking Dead Season 6 finale, do some catching up, and talk music. Apophenia is out now on the FANGORIA MUSICK site, on iTunes.
Joining us for this deep cut into the works of Roman Polanski is Keith from SaveHorror.com. Co-hosting while Mindy is away, he shares some favorite correlations between Repulsion (1965), and the classic Rosemary's Baby (1968). We follow the arc of the two classic horror icons, Carol & Rosemary through the psychological trials they're put through. Darren's Fangoria Musick label album Apophenia is out now. On iTunes and on the Fangoria Musick site for 3 bucks! Support the show!
Sponsored by:Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of British Android Havoc can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. Another week, another show. Despite not much having happened in their lives this past week, Teppo and Breki still manage to record a show. It only goes to show that once you start rambling, it's hard to stop. Show notes and links: Jeff Bridges Age-Reversed in New "Tron" Movie (cbsnews.com). Ant-Man (2015) (imdb.com). Apophenia (en.wikipedia.org). Erik Erikson (en.wikipedia.org). Personality type (en.wikipedia.org). This post has no title. (csicon.net). Recall bias (en.wikipedia.org). Geekipedia (geekipedia.org). The mobile web sucks | The Verge (theverge.com). Milankovitch cycles (en.wikipedia.org). The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.): Matt Ridley: 9780061452062: Amazon.com: Books (amazon.com). Mark Leggett on Twitter: "Feeling strange, Mr. Bond? That's because I laced your martini with a measles vaccine. You're autistic now." (twitter.com). George Carlin bad news (youtube.com). This post has no title. (soundcloud.com). Takeru Kobayashi (en.wikipedia.org).
Today we are honored and privileged to have one of the premier minds in the field of critical care epidemiology, Dr. Burton Lee. In addition to his role as program director of the Pulmonary Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Critical Care Fellowship at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Dr. Lee spends a ...
We've all heard about the image of Mary in the grilled cheese or the image of Christ underneath the highway overpass. What does the church make of these things? Fr. Larry comes loaded with some new vocab words to tell us all about these phenomena.
danah boyd is a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She recently completed her PhD in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley.Dr. boyd’s dissertation “Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics” focused on how American youth use networked publics for sociable purposes. She examined the role that social network sites like MySpace and Facebook play in everyday teen interactions and social relations. She was interested in how mediated environments alter the structural conditions in which teens operate, forcing them to manage complex dynamics like interacting before invisible audiences, managing context collisions, and negotiating the convergence of public and private life. This work was funded by the MacArthur Foundation as part of a broader grant on digital youth and informal learning.At the Berkman Center, danah co-directed the Internet Safety Technical Task Force to work with companies and non-profits to identify potential technical solutions for keeping children safe online. This Task Force was formed by the U.S. Attorneys General and MySpace and is being organized by the Berkman Center.Dr. boyd received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brown University and a master’s degree in sociable media from MIT Media Lab. She has worked as an ethnographer and social media researcher for various corporations, including Intel, Tribe.net, Google, and Yahoo! She also created and managed a large online community for V-Day, a non-profit organization working to end violence against women and girls worldwide. She has advised numerous other companies, sits on corporate, education, and non-profit advisory boards, and regularly speaks at industry conferences and events.danah maintains a blog on social media called Apophenia.
danah boyd is a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She recently completed her PhD in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley.Dr. boyd’s dissertation “Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics” focused on how American youth use networked publics for sociable purposes. She examined the role that social network sites like MySpace and Facebook play in everyday teen interactions and social relations. She was interested in how mediated environments alter the structural conditions in which teens operate, forcing them to manage complex dynamics like interacting before invisible audiences, managing context collisions, and negotiating the convergence of public and private life. This work was funded by the MacArthur Foundation as part of a broader grant on digital youth and informal learning.At the Berkman Center, danah co-directed the Internet Safety Technical Task Force to work with companies and non-profits to identify potential technical solutions for keeping children safe online. This Task Force was formed by the U.S. Attorneys General and MySpace and is being organized by the Berkman Center.Dr. boyd received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brown University and a master’s degree in sociable media from MIT Media Lab. She has worked as an ethnographer and social media researcher for various corporations, including Intel, Tribe.net, Google, and Yahoo! She also created and managed a large online community for V-Day, a non-profit organization working to end violence against women and girls worldwide. She has advised numerous other companies, sits on corporate, education, and non-profit advisory boards, and regularly speaks at industry conferences and events.danah maintains a blog on social media called Apophenia.
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