I was a Hard Materialist... Until This INSANE Dream | Jeff Falzone

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00:00:00 Introduction

00:05:34 Jeff arrives

00:11:09 Footballers are the most complete human beings

0013:57 Do Aliens have human aesthetics? Evolution.

00:17:56 Poetic Epigraph - Goethean Darwinism

00:22:04 What is a Mind?

00:27:27 Hypnotism - Milton Erickson

00:33:34 Dreams and Time, Lucid Dreaming

00:44:50 Dreams and Technology

00:49:19 Why suffering will never end, and why that's okay

00:53:00 Stanford Prison Experiment - other experiments

01:00:45 Post Modernism and its Discontents

01:02:15 The Insane Dream that Melted Jeff's Brain

01:10:07 Eugene Gendlin - pausing

01:22:14 Plato's epistemology - inaccessible knowledge - ambiguity

01:27:48 Are eloquent people doomed to insanity? David Foster Wallace - Hamlet

01:37:45 Shakespeare's Sonnets

01:45:45 Shakespeare's Self-Sabotaging Empathy

01:50:55 Gateway Sonnets - Some of our favourites

02:01:43 Sonnet 31 - Wow!

02:04:29 Crazy Numerological Patterns in the Sonnet Sequence

02:14:06 Shakespeare is Impulsive

02:20:33 Final Sonnet - Crazy final gambit