Podcast appearances and mentions of bobby azarian

Jim talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about the ideas in his new book, The Evolution of Meaning: A Universal Learning Process. They discuss Jim's love for the book, the thinking behind the title, future books in the series, why Brendan avoided the word "religion," the nature of meaning, dissipative systems, Shannon information vs semantic information, relations vs static objects, meaning as adaptive information, the meaning of value, Gregg Henriques's Unified Theory of Knowledge, the meaning of learning, why the world is full of bogus learning, whether complexity increases over time, information overload, John Vervaeke's relevance realization, wisdom, evolution as learning, the meaning & evolution of sacredness, and much more. Episode Transcript The Evolution of Meaning: A Universal Learning Process, by Brendan Graham Dempsey JRS EP 172 - Brendan Graham Dempsey on Emergentism JRS EP 176 - Gregg Henriques Part 1: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap UTOK: The Unified Theory of Knowledge, by Gregg Henriques JRS EP 159 - Bobby Azarian on the Romance of Reality JRS EP 143 - John Vervaeke Part 1: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis Brendan Graham Dempsey is a writer, researcher, organic farmer, and the director of Sky Meadow Institute, an organization dedicated to "promoting systems-based thinking about the things that matter most." He graduated summa cum laude with a BA in religious studies and classical civilizations from the University of Vermont and earned his master's from Yale University, where he studied religion and culture. He is the author of Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics and host of the Metamodern Spirituality Podcast. His primary interests include theorizing developments in culture after postmodernism, productively bridging the divide between science and spirituality, and developing sustainable systems for life to flourish. All of these lead through the paradigms of emergence and complexity, which inform all of his work.

In this episode, the cognitive neuroscientist and author of The Romance of Reality (see here for Gregg's review), Bobby Azarian joins the program to discuss his “unifying theory of reality” and vision for bridging science and religion. Bobby explains how he interprets the universe through a universal learning algorithm and shares what this means for how we make sense of ourselves and derive meaning from the world. The two review Bobby's book, draw connections between his views and UTOK and examine what is next in sharing his vision with the world.   ℹ️ - - - Find out more about Bobby Azarian - - - ℹ️ Book: The Romance of Reality: https://www.theromanceofreality.com/ X: https://x.com/bobbyazarian   ℹ️ - - - Find out more about Gregg Henriques - - - ℹ️ Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/gregg-henriques-phd Medium: https://gregghenriques.medium.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/henriqgx  

On this episode of Thinking Ahead, we're discussing one of my favorite subjects, evolution. Bobby Azarian is a cognitive neuroscientist, a science journalist, and a true evolutionary. His book The Romance of Reality explores the evolution of the universe and life, purpose, complexity, and consciousness with rich vision that far transcends the all-to-common reductionistic view. I'm always interested in visions of evolution that open up new pathways for people to appreciate the magnificent journey of the cosmos, and Azarian's work is a wonderful example of exactly that type of an approach to science. In this lively conversation, Azarian and I explore how life and consciousness evolved on this beautiful blue planet, and what the future might have in store for us all.  

March's book is the Romance of Reality by Bobby Azarian and it's essential reading as far as I'm concerned. It's essentially an attempt at a scientific theory of everything - the big kahuna in cosmology… and also LIFE. It's a theory called adaptive complexity science and it integrates physics, biology, neuroscience, computer science, evolutionary theory and statistics. Azarian, a cognitive neuroscientist, argues through rigorous scientific and mechanistic explanation that our biosphere and the entire universe are undergoing an adaptive transformation towards increased intelligence and complexity. This is Part One - it's free for all subscribers & listeners. For paid subscribers on Substack, there's a deep dive Part Two episode where I cover how to apply this mind-blowing information to your life and business, I talk niches and your uniqueness, future freedom and money, AI and collective unconscious, and how to actively cosmically awaken.  Go to kellyingraham.substack.com to become a member / paid subscriber.

In this special, quasi-Author Series video, Layman meets with Patrick Gac to discuss an innovative, natural-cycle based divinatory system that Patrick argues is compatible with and informed by some of the leading theory in our liminal worldspace, from John Vervaeke's 4-E cogsci to Bobby Azarian's cosmology. Agromancy, meaning "divination of the fields", is a card deck based system that generates mandalas. The Degtras Project https://www.facebook.com/Degtras86/ Fathom app https://hello.fathom.fm/ Support The Integral Stage on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/theintegralstage

In this episode of the Smarter Not Harder Podcast, our guest Dr. Bobby Azarian joins our host Dr. Ted Achacoso to give one-cent solutions to life's $64,000 questions that include: How does the neuroscience of belief and cognitive biases, such as confirmation bias and the Dunning-Kruger effect, impact our resistance to changing beliefs and our approach to epistemic foraging? In what ways can understanding the concept of hierarchical emergence in the universe, and viewing everything from ant colonies to nations as a single organism, contribute to our understanding of consciousness, self-modeling, and mental resilience? How can the exploration of theories such as the Bayesian brain hypothesis, neuroDarwinism, terror management theory, and Cleodynamics enhance our understanding of the human mind, the universe, and the potential for predicting chaotic events? Dr. Robert Azarian (Bobby Azarian) is a science journalist and a cognitive neuroscientist who received his PhD from George Mason University. He has written for publications such as The Atlantic, The New York Times, BBC, Scientific American, Slate, HuffPost, Quartz, and Aeon, and he writes the blog “Mind in the Machine” for Psychology Today.  His recent book is called The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity.   What We Discuss: (0:05:15) - Neuroscience of Belief and Epistemic Foraging (0:14:57) - Hierarchical Emergence in the Universe (0:22:36) - Neuro Darwinism and Terror Management Theory (0:29:57) - Predicting Behavior Through Network Analysis (0:38:41) - Bayesian Brain Hypothesis and Psychoplastogens (0:42:53) - Defining Life (0:56:24) - Exploring Consciousness and the Self (1:12:30) - Health Optimization Medicine and Omega Point (1:26:53) - Synthesis of Thermodynamics, Information, Evolution (1:35:10) - Energy and Information in Thermodynamics and Evolution (1:42:48) - Evolutionary Theory and Unifying BVSR (1:51:09) - Evolutionary Cooperation and the Energy Problem (1:59:18) - Living Life Smarter, Not Harder (2:10:30) - Encouraging Reading and Personalized Knowledge Find more from Smarter Not Harder: Website: https://troscriptions.com/blogs/podcast | https://homehope.org Instagram: @troscriptions | @homehopeorg   Find out more from Dr. Bobby Azarian: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bobbyazarian   Get 10% Off Your Purchase of the Metabolomics Module by using PODCAST10 at https://www.homehope.org   Get 10% Off your Troscriptions purchase by using POD10 at https://www.troscriptions.com   Get daily content from the hosts of Smarter Not Harder by following @troscriptions on Instagram.  

In Episode 7 of TN, John and Gregg welcome Brendan Graham Dempsey. Brendan is a writer, theologian, and theorist whose work focuses on the meaning crisis and the nature of spirituality in metamodernity. He is also the host of the Metamodern Spirituality podcast, and he runs the Skymeadow Retreat, which has hosted several metamodern spirituality events. In this episode, Brendan shares about his recent work, which he wrote about in Emergentism, and from his in-progress work on the meaning of meaning. He shows how his work, UTOK, and Bobby Azarian's unified theory of reality can provide a framework to delineate the history and development of cultural meaning-making systems (i.e., large-scale systems of justification). This episode is full of powerful convergences between Brendan's vision and the worldview for bridging science and spirituality that is emerging in TN.    Resources: Brendan Graham Dempsey  Oika  Claude E. Shannon: Founder of Information Theory - Graham P. Collins The Levin Lab UTOK   Publications: A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology - Robert B. Brandom The information theory of individuality - David Krakauer Semantic information, autonomous agency and non-equilibrium statistical physics - Artemy Kolchinsky and David H. Wolpert   Videos: The Reality of Meaning: Knowledge, Value, and Complexity | Consilience Conference '23   Books: The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity - Bobby Azarian  Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence - Alicia Juarrero Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature - Eric J. Chaisson   Quotes: "Transcendent naturalism is trying to articulate a new worldview that holds science and spirituality, [and] orients us towards a frame of understanding for the 21st century that can enable a collective orientation toward wisdom.” - Gregg Henriques "Meaning equals information relevant to enhancing viability of an entity in context, and meaning is inherently transjective. It's not in the subject, it's not in the object, it's in the relationship between the two." - Brendan Graham Dempsey "Earth burns like a quasar of complexification in the night sky. So if our measure is mass, then yes, but if our measure is complexification, especially an ontic epistemic conformity that affords awareness, experience, potentiality, growth, oriented towards a potential future, et cetera, that is an area in which we find ourselves quite uniquely situated in the universe in terms of the everyday knowledge that we have of things in the world. " - Gregg Henriques   Timecodes: [00:00:00] Dr. John Vervaeke introduces the episode and the guests, Gregg Henriques and Brendan Graham Dempsey. The episode focuses on Transcendent Naturalism within the Cognitive Science Show. [00:02:34] Gregg Henriques introduces transjective epistemology, detailing its relation to pragmatism. [00:03:13] Collective awakening towards wisdom is discussed, focusing on its societal implications. [00:07:55] Brendan Graham Dempsey explains the principle of a naturalistic universe and the energy-information relationship. [00:10:40] Dempsey reveals the concept of figure-ground distinction in information theory. [00:16:28] The discussion revolves around the learning process in cosmic evolution and complexification. [00:20:10] The concept of symbolic learning and its relevance to the spiritual and sacred is discussed with emphasis on the need for a focus on this area in the conversation.  [00:27:52] Dr. Vervaeke explores the idea that humans are symbols, connecting to collective intelligence. [00:30:14] Dempsey discusses the role of symbolic information in forming justification systems and the enculturation of individuals. [00:35:00] The conversation shifts to penetrating the unknown and restructuring it for higher complexity. [00:39:16] Henriques connects to justification systems theory, revealing the alignment with Habermas's structure. [00:45:23] Dempsey delves into the progression from modernity to post-modernity and new integrations. [00:53:41] Dr. Vervaeke criticizes postmodernism and its impact on the understanding of reason and wisdom. [00:56:26] Dempsey responds to Dr. Vervaeke, discussing faith in the emergence of new understanding. [01:00:39] Henriques shares his agnostic stance, addressing the expansion of knowledge within ambiguity. [01:04:09] Discussion of trust and cosmic history in response to Dr. Vervaeke's post-Hegelian, Neoplatonic faith. [01:07:12] The importance of pattern recognition in navigating a chaotic world. [01:07:39] Henriques describes his role in carrying a "baton of energy information" within the greater story, and discusses the importance of being a good ancestor and considering the ripple effects of our actions across time, emphasizing the need for a better understanding of our human natures and our relationships.  

A new scientific paradigm suggests that the Universe is not just a physical system but more like an evolving computational or biological system Guest: Dr. Bobby Azarian, Cognitive Neuroscientist and Author of The Romance of Reality Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the universe getting smarter? A new scientific paradigm suggests that the Universe is not just a physical system but more like an evolving computational or biological system Guest: Dr. Bobby Azarian, Cognitive Neuroscientist and Author of The Romance of Reality Can AI play God? An experimental Lutheran church service took place in Fuerth, Germany, where an AI chatbot named ChatGPT, represented by an avatar of a bearded Black man, delivered the sermon to over 300 attendees Guests: Scott Shantz, Contributor for Mornings with Simi, with Jonas Simmerlein, Theologian and philosopher from the University of Vienna Why are people so mad about grocery stores checking receipts? Costco has been doing it for years, and we've all been ok with it, but another grocery store has started mirroring the practice, and people are up in arms Guest: Scott Shantz, Contributor for Mornings with Simi The Weekly Cecchini Check-in Despite facing a second set of felony charges, Donald Trump's campaign appears unaffected as he remains the favorite in Republican primaries and is tied with Joe Biden in general-election polling. Multiple polls conducted after the news of Trump's indictment show mixed results, with some indicating a slight decline in support and others showing gains. While concerns about his legal issues and extreme rhetoric potentially impacting swing voters have been raised, there is currently little evidence of Trump losing ground among the general electorate or losing support within his party. Guest: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News Why are VPD members resigning over School Liaison Programs? Rachel Roy, a member of the Vancouver Police Department's board, resigns after the cancellation of a vote on the proposed return of the SLO program Guest: Rachel Roy, Former Vancouver Police Department Board Member How does the VSB determine its enrollment projections? Guest: Preeti Faridkot, Vice Chair of the Vancouver School Board for ABC Should Canada have universal healthcare? The New Democrats (NDP) are pressuring the federal government to introduce pharmacare legislation promptly. Guest: Jagmeet Singh, Leader of the New Democratic Party Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bobby Azarian is a science journalist and a cognitive neuroscientist who received his PhD from George Mason University. He has written for publications such as The Atlantic, The New York Times, BBC, Scientific American, Slate, HuffPost, Quartz, and Aeon, and he writes the blog “Mind in the Machine” for Psychology Today.  His recent book is called The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity, all topics we talk about today.

Cognitive neuroscientist and science writer, Bobby Azarian, returns to the Integral Stage for a deep and wide-ranging discussion of the emerging scientific paradigm -- the complexity science paradigm arising out of the intersections of physics, biology, neuroscience, and information theory -- that will likely shape self, culture, and society for the next century. If the universe is now known to be self-organizing through levels of developmental emergence, and if we are, as Carl Sagan once said, "a way for the cosmos to know itself," what really are the implications of such a view for all the domains of life that matter to us? This perspective, of course, is in its general outlines very similar to the one Ken Wilber outlined in Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, but the science has developed since Wilber published SES; so Bobby and Layman explore those developments, and how they further reinforce, and in some cases update, the synthesis Wilber offered several decades ago. Bobby Azarian is a cognitive neuroscientist (PhD, George Mason University), a science journalist, and author of the book The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity. He has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, BBC Future, Scientific American, Slate, The Huffington Post, Quartz, The Daily Beast, Aeon, and others. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals like Human Brain Mapping, Cognition & Emotion, Acta Psychologica, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. His Psychology Today blog (Mind in the Machine) has received over 8 million views, making it one of the most popular blogs on the website. He has been a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, the Michael Shermer Show, The David Pakman Show, The Jim Rutt Show, The Young Turks, the Singularity University podcast, and many others. He helped develop multiple episodes for Season 2 of the YouTube Premium series Mind Field, which won the show its first Emmy nomination. He is a pro at audio and music production, and is currently working on an educational podcast based on his new book.

Jim talks with Gregg Henriques about his book A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap. They discuss the book's audacious attempt to explain the universe, definitions of metaphysics & whether it's needed, 4 bins for the history of the universe, the tree of knowledge system, psychology's ontological confusion, the Enlightenment gap, one-world naturalism & the mind-body problem, scientific knowledge's relationship with subjective knowledge, the metamodernist synthesis, psychology's disagreement about its own building blocks, the absence of a meta-paradigm, John Vervaeke's recursive relevance realization, definitions of mind, empiricism, mapping the internal/external relationship, the unified theory of knowledge, the meaning of biopsychosocial, 3 meanings of mind, Global Workspace Theory, justification systems theory, question-answer dynamics, positive & negative space in communication, justification dynamics, motivated reasoning, and much more. Listeners may be interested to know that Gregg is organizing a conference. Consistent with his book, it is called Consilience: Unifying Knowledge and Orienting Toward a Wisdom Commons. It will be held online March 17 and 18th. It is a Zoom event, and free to the public. Jim will be talking about Game B, and will be joined by Jordan Hall. John Vervaeke will give the keynote. And there will be over 40 presentations by many folks who have been featured on the Jim Rutt Show. Links below: Register for the conference. UTOK Conference 2023 - Clip Conference Flyer Episode Links: Episode Transcript A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap, by Gregg Henriques JRS EP59 - Gregg Henriques on Unifying Psychology JRS Currents 009: Gregg Henriques on Theory Of Meta-Cultural Transition JRS EP116 - Doug Erwin on the Cambrian Explosion JRS EP 172 - Brendan Graham Dempsey on Emergentism The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn JRS EP143 - John Vervaeke Part 1: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis JRS EP108 - Bernard Baars on Consciousness JRS EP 159 - Bobby Azarian on the Romance of Reality The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain, by Terrence W. Deacon Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts, by Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Haidt Ego Defenses And The Legitimation Of Behavior, by Guy E. Swanson Dr. Gregg Henriques is Professor of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University in the Combined Doctoral Program in Clinical and School Psychology. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Vermont and did his post-doctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a theoretical psychologist and has developed the “Unified Theory of Knowledge,” which is a consilient scientific humanistic worldview to unify psychology. He is the author of A New Unified Theory of Psychology (Springer, 2011), and A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap (Palgrave McMillian, November 2022). His scholarly work has been published in the field's best journals, and he has developed a popular blog on Psychology Today, Theory of Knowledge, which has received over eight million views. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the 2022 President of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, and founded the Theory of Knowledge academic society.

In this episode I interview Bobby Azarian, author of The Romance of Reality, neuroscientist and science journalist. He has been a guest on famous podcasts such as JRE The Joe Rogan Experience. It was a pleasure to talk with Bobby as we delve into his book and discuss a multitude of topics. We talk about evolution theory and how Darwins theory of evolution could do with an update, as well as diving into aspects of universal consciousness, spiritual/religious concepts and how science and spirituality are likely to merge in the future.   Bobbys Website: http://www.theromanceofreality.com Bobbys Twitter: @bobbyazarian   To support the channel and to receieve perks such as having your questions read to guests, channel merchandise, early video content and bonus releases go to: http://www.patreon.com/theamazingpeoplepodcast    Opening peoples eyes to their potential through inspiring life stories by individuals who advocate the truth.    Find the podcast social media pages for shorts on Twitter, Intagram, Facebook, TikTok and more!   Future guest lists can be found at http://www.ahelpfulearth.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theamazingpeoplepodcast/message

Jim talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about his book Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Metamodern World. They discuss the meaning crisis & its symptoms, reciprocal narrowing, the pre-modern & the modern, the emergence of reductionism, the meaning of complexity & emergence, sacralizing the scientific creation narrative, Prigogine's theory of dissipative systems, the universe as a process of endless complexification, marrying Bobby Azarian's Unifying Theory of Reality & Gregg Henriques's Unified Theory of Knowledge, consciousness vs sentience, Integrated Information Theory vs John Searle's biological functionalism, the odds that intelligent life evolved only once in our galaxy, tying complexification to the God concept, making the "religion that is not a religion" accessible through mythopoeia & storytelling, the Omega Point, whether approaching the Omega Point implies pushing for a techno-Singularity, Emergentist ethics & practices, and much more. Episode Transcript Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Modern World, by Brendan Graham Dempsey "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis," by John Vervaeke - YouTube series JRS EP143 - John Vervaeke Part 1: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex, by Harold Morowitz The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity, by Bobby Azarian JRS EP 159 - Bobby Azarian on the Romance of Reality JRS EP105 - Christof Koch on Consciousness JRS EP 167 - Bruce Damer on the Origins of Life JRS EP 171 - Bruce Damer Part 2: The Origins of Life – Implications JRS EP40 - Eric Smith on the Physics of Living Systems Brendan Graham Dempsey is a writer whose work focuses on the meaning crisis and the nature of spirituality in metamodernity. He is the host of the Metamodern Spirituality podcast and the writer behind the six-volume (and counting) Metamodern Spirituality Series. He earned his BA in Religious Studies from the University of Vermont and his MA in Religion and the Arts from Yale University. He lives in Greensboro Bend, Vermont, where he runs the holistic retreat center Sky Meadow.

Bobby Azarian is a cognitive neuroscientist, and author of the new book 'The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity'. In this episode, Jon and Bobby delve deep into consciousness, the universe, and society as a whole. They discuss the various ways in which intelligent life manifests into reality and evolution here on Earth, and potentially throughout the universe. Please also check out Bobby's new sub stacks on YouTube, as there will be tons of fascinating info coming soon. Thank you so much for tuning in!

“The Romance of Reality Part 2 with Bobby Azarian” Episode 254 We sat down with Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian to discuss his new book “The Romance of Reality'. In Part 2 we will be discussing the origins of consciousness, psychedelics, AI, and UAP/UFOs. *If you are watching on Youtube please check us out on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all audio/podcast platforms. We appreciate reviews and comments. If you are listening on an audio/podcast platform please check out our Youtube channel where we do our episodes live. You can find all of our links on our LinkTree LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/MindEscapePodcast *Check out our new Merch store. We have some amazing designs for T-shirts, Hoodies, Mugs, Stickers, and more https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mind-escape?ref_id=24655 *Sign up for Indra's Web which is the social media platform we created dedicated to metaphysics and the topics we discuss on this podcast. The platform is live so head on over there and set up a profile. https://indrasweb.org/ *If you enjoy our podcast and content and want to help us grow, check out our Patreon account and enjoy the exclusive episodes and interviews. We also have a support the show option on our Anchor and Spotify channels. Join our Discord channel if you want to chat. We are also on all podcast platforms. For all the links to our podcasts and social media go to: https://linktr.ee/MindEscapePodcast *Here are the links to Maurice's new music and band: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/3OjyabL62FsmUhKW6SNUdU Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClDsH7i057uGTdKEiqRXWcg *Follow our producer Shane on twitter: https://twitter.com/OldVetSymposium *Here is the link to Bobby's book: https://www.amazon.com/Romance-Reality-Organizes-Consciousness-Complexity/dp/1637740441 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mindescape/support

Neuroscientist and author of The Romance of Reality, Bobby Azarian enters the mind meld! Musings in this one include -- Is the universe destined to build the mind of god? The problem with a reductive, mechanistic explanation of reality Is it possible for AI to wake up? Adaptive complexity (why the universe continuously evolves and bends toward complexity) What is consciousness? Where does it come from? Simulation theory The problem with the multiverse Do human beings have a function/purpose? *Grab your EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal* Go to https://nordvpn.com/thirdeye to get up a Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + 4 months for free! It's completely risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee!* *Support Third Eye Drops* For rewards and podcast extras, become a patron! Follow and review on Spotify Give us a psychic smooch by leaving us a 5 star review on apple pods!  

We start this episode talking about Nike's stronghold on running dominance, and much of which is related to their patented technology. This leads right into me sharing what patents are, the types of patents, and hopefully providing you a better understanding about them. Lastly, let's talk about Bobby Azarian's book, Romance of Reality for this week's book review.#nike #patentlaw #runningtechnique ——————Subscribe to the podcast!Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wes-henderson-podcast/id1570344602Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2WPDYKlvgoYbZWLPMMSxHa?si=O3ZEC-lORS2FLAs0e_xx6wSupport the Channel with my affiliate links!https://www.patreon.com/weshendersonThorne: Most science backed, and clinically validated supplements on the market - Get 20% off your first order with my link: https://thor.ne/qOtrs Join Whoop, Get $30 OFF and a free WHOOP STRAP: https://join.whoop.com/wes​Best CBD - Veteran Owned - VRB Labs - Get 20% off by using the code ‘Wes20' - https://www.vrblabs.com/Badass Coffee Company - NVR Rest - Use ‘WES' to get 10% off - https://nvrrest.com/Shop on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=wesjh-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=70b15611910ce468775b76425895bbae&camp=1789&creative=9325To get your own Eight Sleep mattress or pod pro cover use the following link and code 'WES' for $100 Off at checkout: https://eight-sleep.ioym.net/qnANPb

“The Romance of Reality with Bobby Azarian” Episode 250 We sat down with Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian to discuss his new book “The Romance of Reality'. We will discuss the origins of life, metaphysics and philosophy. *If you are watching on Youtube please check us out on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all audio/podcast platforms. We appreciate reviews and comments. If you are listening on an audio/podcast platform please check out our Youtube channel where we do our episodes live. You can find all of our links on our LinkTree LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/MindEscapePodcast *Check out our new Merch store. We have some amazing designs for T-shirts, Hoodies, Mugs, Stickers, and more https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mind-escape?ref_id=24655 *Sign up for Indra's Web which is the social media platform we created dedicated to metaphysics and the topics we discuss on this podcast. The platform is live so head on over there and set up a profile. https://indrasweb.org/ *If you enjoy our podcast and content and want to help us grow, check out our Patreon account and enjoy the exclusive episodes and interviews. We also have a support the show option on our Anchor and Spotify channels. Join our Discord channel if you want to chat. We are also on all podcast platforms. For all the links to our podcasts and social media go to: https://linktr.ee/MindEscapePodcast *Here are the links to Maurice's new music and band: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/3OjyabL62FsmUhKW6SNUdU Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClDsH7i057uGTdKEiqRXWcg *Follow our producer Shane on twitter: https://twitter.com/OldVetSymposium *Here is the link to Bobby's book: https://www.amazon.com/Romance-Reality-Organizes-Consciousness-Complexity/dp/1637740441 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mindescape/support

This week our guest is cognitive neuroscientist and author, Bobby Azarian, who recently released his book “The Romance of Reality– How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity.” In this episode, we do our best to get the full picture of this process, from how physics shapes life, how that life has an evolutionary tendency towards increased information processing, and how the resulting computational universe presents us with existential problems that require human cooperation to solve. Amongst other things, this includes a conversation about the possibility of a global brain connected by technology, the possibility of machine consciousness, and what technologies and cultural behaviors might bring us towards a future worth living, with a final emphasis on Bobby's enthusiasm for blockchain. You can follow Bobby at twitter.com/bobbyazarian, and stay up to date with his latest work on Youtube (www.youtube.com/c/ROADTOOMEGA) and Substack (roadtoomega.substack.com)

*Not a Real Stretch: Guest host Doug McBurney is joined by godisnowhere's Daniel Hedrick to discuss the starlight and time problem, and to help everyone visualize "stretch" cosmology. *Losing Everything: Dinosaur DNA threatens the very foundation of the evolution fairytale  *Don't Give 'em the Creeps: Hear why keeping your kids in Homeschool vs giving them over to the Government School is the wiser action. *A Good Beating: Joe Rogan gives a pretty good beating, (and a fair, if sometimes vulgar interview). Hear who Joes' flogging, and Daniel Hedrick too - (featuring Lex Fridman & Bobby Azarian). *Fast Metabolism: Look ahead to part 3 with the breath of life vis a vis the respiratory chain, metabolization, and how the Christians and the Jews saved REAL science from the heathens.

*Not a Real Stretch: Guest host Doug McBurney is joined by godisnowhere's Daniel Hedrick to discuss the starlight and time problem, and to help everyone visualize "stretch" cosmology. *Losing Everything: Dinosaur DNA threatens the very foundation of the evolution fairytale  *Don't Give 'em the Creeps: Hear why keeping your kids in Homeschool vs giving them over to the Government School is the wiser action. *A Good Beating: Joe Rogan gives a pretty good beating, (and a fair, if sometimes vulgar interview). Hear who Joes' flogging, and Daniel Hedrick too - (featuring Lex Fridman & Bobby Azarian). *Fast Metabolism: Look ahead to part 3 with the breath of life vis a vis the respiratory chain, metabolization, and how the Christians and the Jews saved REAL science from the heathens.

In this conversation based on his new book, The Romance of Reality, cognitive neuroscientist Bobby Azarian explains how for centuries the question Why do we exist? was the sole province of religion and philosophy. According to the prevailing scientific paradigm, the universe tends toward randomness; it functions according to laws without purpose, and the emergence of life is an accident devoid of meaning. But Azarian argues that out of complexity science and the phenomenon known as emergence, a new cosmic narrative is taking shape: Nature's simplest “parts” come together to form ever-greater “wholes” in a process that has no end in sight, and that life is moving toward increasing complexity and awareness. Carl Sagan was right when he said of humanity that “we are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” Shermer and Azarian discuss: laws of thermodynamics and directionality • how complexity formed after the Big Bang • laws of nature: discovered or created or both? • Stephen Jay Gould and contingency vs. necessitating laws of nature • convergent evolution and directionality in evolution • the left wall of simplicity • leading theories for the origin of life • complexity theory and emergence • consciousness, the self, and other minds • free will, determinism, compatibilism, panpsychism • Is there purpose in the cosmos? Bobby Azarian is a cognitive neuroscientist (PhD, George Mason University) and a science journalist. He has written 100+ articles — many reaching millions of views — about science, technology, and philosophy for publications including The Atlantic, New York Times, BBC Future, Scientific American, Slate, Huffington Post, Quartz, Daily Beast, Aeon, among others. Azarian has authored numerous academic papers, published in peer-reviewed journals such as Human Brain Mapping, Cognition & Emotion, and Acta Psychologica. His blog “Mind in the Machine,” hosted by Psychology Today, has received over 8 million views. Azarian worked with The Atlantic and Huffington Post to create viral videos, which he helped write the scripts for and narrated.

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Jim talks with Bobby Azarian about the ideas in his new book The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity, which Jim calls “the most Jim Rutt Show-ish book ever.” They discuss the meaning & limits of reductionism, why the universe may not be moving toward an increasingly … Continue reading EP 159 Bobby Azarian on the Romance of Reality → The post EP 159 Bobby Azarian on the Romance of Reality appeared first on The Jim Rutt Show.

Bobby Azarian joins Brendan to discuss his new book The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity. In the first half of their conversation, Bobby presents the new cosmic narrative offered by the complexity sciences. Unlike the older, reductionist account, this is a story in which life is inevitable and part of a broader cosmic design towards greater and greater knowledge creation. Beginning with the laws of thermodynamics, Bobby recounts the emergence of order out of (and by means of) chaos; the emergence of life out of ordered structures; and the emergence of consciousness out of life. In the second part of the conversation, the two speculate on the broader significance and meaning of this new cosmic narrative. Have we only seen the beginning of the Universe's waking up? Why does the Universe appear fine-tuned for its own coming to consciousness? How do these ideas relate to religion and purpose? 0:00 Introduction PART I: The Narrative 5:40 Entropy, Energy, and Order out of Chaos 11:47 Order for Entropy, or Entropy for Order? 18:15 The Inevitability of Life 23:00 Reductionism or Creationism? A Third Option 40:40 Evolution, (Self-)Knowledge, and Consciousness PART II: Implications & Speculations 1:00:11 The Emergence of a Cosmic Mind 1:08:36 Modernist Transhumanism or Metamodernist Spirituality? 1:18:18 What Set Up a Self-Organizing Universe? --- 1:21:07 A Multiverse Explanation? --- 1:24:34 Cosmological Natural Selection? --- 1:29:00 An Intelligent Programmer (AKA "God")? --- 1:44:48 Cosmic Mind Creating Cosmic Mind? --- 1:47:21 The Fall of Consciousness into Unconsciousness, and Its Return to Self-Knowledge 1:51:28 Final Thoughts More on Bobby's work: The book: https://www.theromanceofreality.com/ Application to society: https://roadtoomega.com/

Thanks to this weeks sponsors: Getacregold.com/JRER tweet or post why you should win a GOLD BAR! Podcorn for being the great podcast marketing platform that they are. Elysium Health  – Get Basis and save 10% at checkout with code JREREVIEW Head to our website for more updates and Rogan stuff!!! www.JREreview.com For all marketing questions and inquiries: JRERmarketing@gmail.com This week we discuss Joe's podcast guests as always. Review Guest list: Michio Kaku, Megan Murphy and Bobby Azarian. A portion of ALL our SPONSORSHIP proceeds goes to Justin Wren and his Fight for the Forgotten charity!! Go to Fight for the Forgotten to donate directly to this great cause. This commitment is for now and forever. They will ALWAYS get money as long as we run ads so we appreciate your support too as you listeners are the reason we can do this. Thanks! Stay safe.. Follow me on Instagram at www.instagram.com/joeroganexperiencereview Please email us here with any suggestions, comments and questions for future shows.. Joeroganexperiencereview@gmail.com

Bobby Azarian is a cognitive neuroscientist and author of "The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity." Look for it on 6/28. http://www.bobbyazarian.com/