ray monk – An Autonomous Agent / exploring the noosphere Thu, 28 Dec 2017 22:15:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.3 Hidden Forces – Interview Series /2017/12/hidden-forces-interview-series/ /2017/12/hidden-forces-interview-series/#disqus_thread Thu, 28 Dec 2017 22:13:13 +0000 /?p=2528 Hidden Forces, hosted by Demetri Kofinas is an nice set of interviews with various people on topics including: finance, complexity, mathematics, and cryptocurrencies. I struggled listening to some of the interviewees because I did not agree with their ideas or conclusions; but I guess it is good to have conflicting opinions in order to encourage debate in the comments and to help review one’s own opinions and understandings. Regardless, Kofinas provides a highly accessible medium through which advanced ideas can be grasped.

I first ran across Hidden Forces while listening to the interview with Ray Monk about philosophical mathematics. Monk’s narration on the work of Frege, Russell, Whitehead, Wittgenstein, and Gödel is excellent – by far one of the clearest and easiest to grasp. It was learning about these paradigms and paradoxes of mathematics via Hofstadter’s famous book which led me to start this website.

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