Index - Process Theologian John Cobb

Index to Process Theologian John Cobb

In honor of John B. Cobb, Jr. on his 95th birthday

Claremont Institute for Process Studies

February 11, 2020

The John Cobb Institute

Lectures, Forums, Panels, and Podcasts

by John Cobb

Part 1 - Process Theology v Classical Theology

Part 2 - Process Theology v Classical Theology

Part 3 - Process Theology v Classical Theology

Part 4 - Process Theology v Classical Theology

The Last of the Evangelical Classicists - Norman Geisler

Essays by John Cobb

 

Meet Process Theologian John Cobb, Jr.

Celebrating the Life & Legacy of Process Theologian John B. Cobb, Jr.

John B. Cobb, Jr. - Christian Process Theology: Its Early Phase

• PUBLICATIONS BY DR. JOHN B. COBB, Jr.  <-- authorial list

• A List of Process Writings From the Past   <-- essay list

• Complete Essays by Dr. John B. Cobb, Jr. from 1998 - 2015   <-- essay list

• Unedited Essays by John Cobb   <-- essay list

• R.E. Slater - Essays with John Cobb: Alfred North Whitehead's Doctrine of God

• R.E. Slater - Essays with John B. Cobb: The Practical Need for Metaphysics

• R.E. Slater - Essays with John Cobb: Processual Immortality

• R.E. Slater - Essays with John Cobb: A Processual Personal God 

Hegel and Whitehead - Divine Process Panentheism & Immanency

Wikipedia - Philosopher / Theologian John B. Cobb, Jr.

John B. Cobb Jr. – Environmental “Evangelist"

An Interview with John Cobb - "The God of Process Theology"

Essays by John B. Cobb, Jr - The Practical Need for Metaphysics  <-- essay list

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Thoughts & Writings of John Cobb, Jr.

(listed by most recent date)

Meet Process Theologian John Cobb, Jr.

Celebrating the Life & Legacy of Process Theologian John B. Cobb, Jr.

John Cobb - Is Process Theology Postmodern?

John Cobb - Wesley, the Process Theologian

John B. Cobb, Jr. - Christian Process Theology: Its Early Phase  <-- Recommended

A List of Process Writings From the Past

The Postmodern John Cobb - What's to Deconstruct about Modernity?

Kwok Pui Lan - Chinese PostColonolism and the Need for Theological Innovation

Celebrating John Cobb's Global Spirit

Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead's Process & Reality

Alfred North Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism

Whitehead's "Philosophy of Organism" Explained

Examining Process Philosophy & Process Theology, Part 2

Examining Process Philosophy & Process Theology, Part 1

Is There Any Difference Between Process Philosophy & Process Theology?

R.E. Slater - Envisioning a Process Relational Theology <-- Recommended

Robert Mesle's Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead

Course Outline: Whitehead's Process and Reality, by Jay McDaniel

Celebrating the Life & Legacy of Process Theologian John B. Cobb, Jr.

Process Studies - Introduction To Process Philosophy

What is Process Theology (or Process Theism)?

Twenty Key Ideas in Process Thought

What is Panentheism?

Network Thinking: Process Theology and the Intuitive Mind

John Cobb - "Whitehead's Constructive Postmodernism"

John Cobb Teaches Process & Reality

by Alfred North Whitehead

John B. Cobb - Understanding Whitehead <-- Recommended

John Cobb - Introduction to Whitehead's Process & Reality <-- Recommended

Alfred North Whitehead's "Process & Reality" - Content Chapters

Alfred North Whitehead "Process and Reality," Corrected Edition, Complete Book Outline

John Cobb - Whitehead's Process & Reality, Part I

Whitehead - What Does He mean by "Feelings" (sic, Positive & Negative Prehensions)

Notes on Whitehead's Vacuous Actuality

Notes - Whitehead's Process Philosophy

A.N. Whitehead - A Conspectus of Whitehead's Metaphysics

John Cobb - Whitehead's Process & Reality, Part II

John Cobb - Whitehead's Process & Reality, Part II - Class Discussions

John Cobb - Whitehead's Process & Reality, Part III

John Cobb - Whitehead's Process & Reality, Part III - Class Discussions

John Cobb - Whitehead's Process & Reality, IV Lecture  <-- unfinished

John Cobb - Whitehead's Process & Reality, IV - Class Discussions   <-- unfinished

John Cobb - Whitehead's Process & Reality, V Lecture   <-- unfinished

John Cobb - Whitehead's Process & Reality, V - Class Discussions   <-- unfinished

John Cobb - Whitehead's Process & Reality, VI Lecture   <-- unfinished

John Cobb - Whitehead's Process & Reality, VI - Class Discussions   <-- unfinished

The Alexandrian Solution

Untying the Gordian Knot of Science

Tim Eastman, John Cobb, Matt Segall

Index - Particle Physics, Quantum Science, and the Universe

Index - Quantum Cosmology & Evolution

Index - Process Science & Cosmology

Process Christianity, the History of Computer Languages, and Quantum Computing

Tim Eastman - Untying The Gordian Knot

Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 1

Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 2

Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 3

Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 4

Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 5

Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 6

Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 7

Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 8

Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 9

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Process Philosopher & Theologian John Cobb, Jr.

Celebrating the Life & Legacy of John B. Cobb, Jr.

Claremont Institute for Process Studies. Held at Decker Hall on the

campus of Pilgrim Place in Claremont, CA, on February 11, 2020.

0:00 - Singing

14:00 - Process Philosopher & Theologian David Ray Griffin (JC's Assistant)

23:00 - DRG: Cobb

34:00 - Margaret Suchochi (JC's Student)

47:00 - Catherine Keller (JC's "Star" Pupil)

55:00 - Tribute by worship band

60:00 - Cobb Honorees for International Extensions of Cobb Institute

65:00 - John Cobb Legacy Film

70:00 - John Gingrich, Claremont Board Chair

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Meet Process Theologian John Cobb, Jr.

Theologian, Philosopher, Humanitarian
John Cobb, Jr.

Meet Process Theologian John Cobb, Jr.

Resources - https://processandfaith.org/resources/

Below you will find a small sample of resources that we think you'll find valuable as you consider the many possible ways that process thought might be relevant to your understanding of and journey in faith. If you have suggestions that you would like us to consider, please let us know.

Articles & Books

Process Thought

God Beyond Orthodoxy: Process Theology for the 21st Century, by Philip Clayton (PDF)
A Perspective from Process Theology, by William Stegall
Process Philosophy, by J. R. Hustwit (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Process Philosophy, by Johanna Seibt (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Process Theism, by Don Viney (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Process Theology, by John Cobb
Process Worldviews: Four Summary Statements (Open Horizons website)
What is Process Theology? A Basic Introduction, by Marjorie Suchocki (PDF)
What is Process Thought? by Jay McDaniel

Faith

Christian Faith and Process Philosophy, by Bernard M. Loomer (Religion Online website)
Dynamics of Faith, by Paul Tillich (PDF)
Faith, by John Bishop (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Faith in Buddhism (The Spiritual Life website)
The Faith That Kills and the Faith That Quickens, by John Cobb (Religion Online website)

Media

Process Theology: An Introductory Introduction, by John B. Cobb (Sep. 14, 2004, MP3 Audio)

Biography of John B. Cobb, Jr.

John B. Cobb, Jr., Ph.D, is a founding co-director of the Center for Process Studies and Process & Faith. He has held many positions, such as Ingraham Professor of Theology at the School of Theology at Claremont, Avery Professor at the Claremont Graduate School, Fullbright Professor at the University of Mainz, Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt, Harvard Divinity, Chicago Divinity Schools. His writings include: Christ in a Pluralistic Age; God and the World; For the Common Good. Co-winner of Grawemeyer Award of Ideas Improving World Order.

Position

• Emeritus Professor, Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate School
• Co-director, Center for Process Studies; Process & Faith

Personal

• Born in Japan, 1925.
• Parents were Methodist missionaries.
• Married to Jean L. Cobb.
• Four sons: Theodore, Clifford, Andrew, Richard.

Education

• Canadian Academy, Kobe, Japan, 1938-39
• Newnan High School, Georgia, 1939-41
• Emory-at-Oxford, Georgia, 1941-43
• University of Michigan, 1944
• University of Chicago, 1947-50
• MA 1949 and Ph.D. 1952 from the Divinity School, University of Chicago

Past Positions

• Young Harris College, Georgia 1950-53
• Candler School of Theology, Emory U., 1953-58
• Ingraham Prof., STC, l958-90
• Avery Prof., CGS, 1960-1990
• Fulbright Professor, U. of Mainz, 1965-66
• Visiting Professor, Rikkyo U., Tokyo, 1978
• Visiting Prof., Chicago Divinity School, 1980
• Visiting Prof., Harvard Divinity School, 1987
• Visiting Prof. Iliff School of Theology, 1991
• Visiting Prof. Vanderbilt Divinity School, 1993

Honors

• D.Theol., University of Mainz, 1968
• Litt.D., Emory University, 1971
• Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1976
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, U. of Chicago, 1976
• D.D., Linfield College, 1983
• Alumnus of the Year, Chicago Divinity School, 1985
• Litt.D., DePauw University, 1989

Books Written

• Varieties of Protestantism, 1960
• Living Options in Protestant Theology, 1962
• A Christian Natural Theology, 1965
• The Structure of Christian Existence, 1967
• God and the World, 1969
• Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology, 1971 (revised edition, 1995)
• Liberal Theology at the Crossroads, 1973
• Christ in a Pluralistic Age, 1975
• with David Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition, 1976 Theology and Pastoral Care, 1977
• with Charles Birch, The Liberation of Life: from the Cell to the Community, 1981
• Process Theology as Political Theology, 1982
• Beyond Dialogue: Toward a Mutual Transformation of Christianity and Buddhism, 1982
• with David Tracy, Talking About God, 1983
• Praying for Jennifer, 1985
• with Joseph Hough, Christian Identity and Theological Education, 1985
• with Beardslee, Lull, Pregeant, Weeden, and Woodbridge, Biblical Preaching on the Death of Jesus, 1989
• with Herman Daly, For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, Environment, and a Sustainable Future, 1989 (revised edition, 1994)
• Doubting Thomas, 1990
• with Leonard Swidler, Paul Knitter, and Monika Helwig , Death or Dialogue, 1990
• Matters of Life and Death, 1991
• Can Christ Become Good News Again?, 1991
• Sustainability, 1992
• Becoming a Thinking Christian, 1993
• Lay Theology, 1994
• Sustaining the Common Good, 1994
• Grace and Responsibility, 1995
• Reclaiming the Church, 1997
• Postmodernism and Public Policy, 2002
• The Process Perspective (edited by Jeanyne B. Slettom), 2003
• Romans (with David J. Lull), 2005
• The Call of the Spirit: Process Spirituality in a Relational World (with Bruce Epperly and Paul Nancarrow), 2005
• A Christian Natural Theology, Second Edition, 2007
• Whitehead Word Book, 2008
• Spiritual Bankruptcy: A Prophetic Call to Action, 2010
• The Process Perspective II (edited by Jeanyne B. Slettom), 2011

Books Edited

• with James Robinson, The Later Heidegger and Theology, 1963
• with James Robinson, The New Hermeneutic, 1964
• with James Robinson, Theology as History, 1967
• The Theology of Altizer: Critique and Response, 1971
• with David Griffin, Mind in Nature, 1977
• with Widick Schroeder, Process Philosophy and Social Thought, 1981
• with Franklin Gamwell, Existence and Actuality: Conversations with Charles Hartshorne, 1984
• Back to Darwin, 2008
• Resistance: The New Role of Progressive Christians, 2008
• Dialogue Comes of Age, 2010

Process Theologian John Cobb, Jr.

More Info - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Cobb

Bill Gates - Three big shifts in the climate conversation

Bill Gates Meets World

As a career, I have served as a tech consultant, products vendor, software entrepreneur, innovator to small businesses, technology educator, a one-man service shop for all kinds of user needs, and have moved through 9 iterations of technology from the mid-1980s to 2015. Let's just say I've seen a lot of change in those 30 years.

While doing this I also paid attention to many of the tech heads of state of whose products I've used and sold. Bill Gates was one of those science-tech guys I paid attention to. Along with other Fortune 500 companies I continue to follow Bill in his many ventures to heal the world through startup businesses, investor foresight, societal justice, and innovation. Thus, my occasional nod in Bill's direction here at Relevancy22 on climate change, vaccinations, etc.

All ecological civilizations and societies have to start from somewhere. Bill, it seems, is starting in the middle and moving in all directions at once to see what sticks. God bless him. I admire his courage and fortitude amid tasks that will take all of our efforts to help restore the earth back to a healthy state of green and blue.

R.E. Slater

November 9, 2021

Partners in Climte Change

In Glasgow, I saw three big shifts in the climate conversation

A lot has changed in the past six years.

by Bill Gates | November 08, 2021

Last week I spent three fantastic days at the global climate summit (known as COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland. My main impression is how much things have changed since the last summit, back in 2015—and I don’t mean because of COVID. The climate conversation has shifted dramatically, and for the better.

One big shift is that clean-energy innovation is higher on the agenda than ever. The world needs to get to zero carbon emissions by 2050. As I argue in the book I published this year, accomplishing that will require a green Industrial Revolution in which we decarbonize virtually the entire physical economy: how we make things, generate electricity, move around, grow food, and cool and heat buildings. The world already has some of the tools we’ll need to do that, but we need a huge number of new inventions too.

So at an event like this, one way I measure progress is by the way people are thinking about what it’ll take to reach zero emissions. Do they think we already have all the tools we need to get there? Or is there a nuanced view of the complexity of this problem, and the need for new, affordable clean technology that helps people in low- and middle-income countries raise their standard of living without making climate change worse?

Six years ago, there were more people on the we-have-what-we-need side than on the innovation side. This year, though, innovation was literally on center stage. One session of the World Leaders Summit, where I got to speak, was exclusively about developing and deploying clean technologies faster.

I also helped launch the Net Zero World Initiative, a commitment from the U.S. government to help other countries get to zero by providing funding and—even more important—access to experts throughout the government, including the top minds at America’s world-class national laboratories. These countries will get support with planning the transition to a green economy, piloting new technologies, working with investors, and more.

The second major shift is that the private sector is now playing a central role alongside governments and nonprofits. In Glasgow, I met with leaders in various industries that need to be part of the transition—including shipping, mining, and financial services—who had practical plans to decarbonize and to support innovation. I saw CEOs of international banks really engaging with these issues, whereas many of them wouldn’t even have shown up a few years ago. (It made me wish we could get the same kind of turnout and excitement for conferences on global health!)

I announced that three new partners—Citi, the IKEA Foundation, and State Farm—will be working with Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, a program designed to get the most promising climate technologies to scale much faster than would happen naturally. They’re joining the first round of seven partners we announced in September. It’s amazing to see how much momentum Catalyst has generated in just a few months.

I was also honored to join President Biden and his climate envoy, John Kerry, to announce that Breakthrough Energy will be the primary implementation partner for the First Movers Coalition. It’s a new initiative from the U.S. State Department and the World Economic Forum that will boost demand for emerging climate solutions in some of the sectors where it’ll be especially hard to eliminate emissions: aviation, concrete and steel production, shipping, and more.

The third shift I’m seeing is that there’s even more visibility for climate adaptation. The worst tragedy of rising temperatures is that they will do the most harm to the people who have done the least to cause them. And if we don’t help people in low- and middle-income countries thrive despite the warming that is already under way, the world will lose the fight against extreme poverty.

So it was great to hear President Biden and other leaders repeatedly raising the importance of adaptation. I got to join the president, along with officials from the United Arab Emirates, to launch a program called Agricultural Innovation Mission for Climate. It’s designed to focus some of the world’s innovative IQ on ways to help the poorest people adapt, such as new varieties of crops that can withstand more droughts and floods. More than 30 other countries, as well as dozens of companies and nonprofits (including the Gates Foundation), are already supporting it.

As part of that effort, I joined a coalition of donors that pledged more than half a billion dollars to support the CGIAR’s work to advance climate-smart innovations for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Some people look at the problems that still need to be solved and see the glass as half-empty. I don’t share that view, but this is what I would tell anyone who does: The glass is being filled up faster than ever. If we keep this up—if the world puts even more effort into innovations that reduce the cost of getting to zero and help the poorest people adapt to climate change—then we’ll be able to look back on this summit as an important milestone in avoiding a climate disaster.

Three major shifts in the climate conversation

Nov 8, 2021

Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 5

The Alexandrian Solution

Untying the Gordian Knot:

Process, Reality, and Context

What an honor it is to hear from the second generation of process theologians and philosophers now in their late 80s and 90s still able to share their journey with us of the third and fourth generations. The Cobb Institute, as well as many other process organizations and websites like Relevancy22, have been dissecting and weaving together their dialogues, discussions, books, journals, and podcasts over the years so that they are not lost to history, and quite open for exploration and discovery by future generations of process Whiteheadians.

Do take advantage of these living souls in their late years. It is with great honor that these several process theologians continue to share their personal journeys into the realms of the biological, quantum and psychological/sociological sciences.

Lastly, thank you to all those in the process community who have been willing to make time and effort to share their separate process insights from their respective disciplines! Each thought, each soul, helps create depth to a very complex philosophy of cosmology.

As introduction to these series, earlier this past summer the Cobb Institute began an 8-part series discussing and distinguishing substantive philosophies and sciences from those of the process variety. Hosted by Matt Segall, John Cobb, and Tim Eastman each explore Eastman's book written in December 2020 on untying the Gordian Knot of physics. Enjoy.

R.E. Slater

October 31, 2021

Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context

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Amazon Link

Untying the Gordian Knot

Process, Reality, and Context

by Timothy Eastman

In Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context, Timothy E. Eastman proposes a new creative synthesis, the Logoi framework - which is radically inclusive and incorporates both actuality and potentiality - (1) to show how the fundamental notions of process, logic, and relations, woven with triads of input-output-context and quantum logical distinctions, can resolve a baker’s dozen of age-old philosophic problems.

Further, (2) Eastman leverages a century of advances in quantum physics and the Relational Realism interpretation pioneered by Michael Epperson and Elias Zafiris and augmented by the independent research of Ruth Kastner and Hans Primas to resolve long-standing issues in understanding quantum physics. 

Adding to this, (3) Eastman makes use of advances in information and complex systems, semiotics, and process philosophy to show how multiple levels of context, combined with relations—including potential relations—both local and local-global, can provide a grounding for causation, emergence, and physical law. 

Finally, (4) the Logoi framework goes beyond standard ways of knowing—that of context independence (science) and context focus (arts, humanities)—to demonstrate the inevitable role of ultimate context (meaning, spiritual dimension) as part of a transformative ecological vision, which is urgently needed in these times of human and environmental crises.

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The Gordian Knot is an intractable problem (untying an impossibly tangled knot) solved easily by finding an approach to the problem that renders the perceived constraints of the problem moot ("cutting the Gordian knot"). - Wikipedia

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List of Related References

Index - Particle Physics, Quantum Science, and the Universe

Index - Process Sciences: Biology, Physics, Computing

Process Christianity, the History of Computer Languages, and Quantum Computing

• Tim Eastman - Untying The Gordian Knot

• Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 1

• Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 2

• Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 3

• Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 4

• Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 5

• Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 6

• Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 7

• Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 8

• Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context - Session 9

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Tim Eastman Unties the Gordian Knot - Session 5

Jun 18, 2021

THE COBB INSTITUTE

In this session Tim Eastman provides an summary of the fifth chapter, after which George Strawn and Mikhail Epstein offer a response.

00:00:07 - 00:01:20 - Welcome from Matt Segall

00:01:22 - 00:17:40 - Presentation by Tim Eastman

00:18:03 - 00:32:15 - Response by Mikhail Epstein

00:32:42 - 00:51:15 - Response by George Strawn

00:51:20 - 01:00:00 - Conversation between Tim and respondents

01:00:02 - Open Conversation Meeting Chat Text: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14-KX...

Chapter Summary, by Tim Eastman

This series is provided by the Cobb Institute. Please consider supporting this program and others like it by giving. https://cobb.institute/donate/

CHAT TEXT

00:17:18 Weston McMillan: Good morning all - once again - im listen only from phone for first bit - good to see you / be here

00:19:31 Matt Segall: James Bradley’s collected essays: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-collected-essays-in-speculative-philosophy.html

00:19:49 Kevin Clark: I will have to leave in about 1 hr to go build 8'x8' raised garden beds 3' high...IN BETWEEN unusually rainy fall weather!

00:26:23 jonmeyer: Anyone have a reference for the second book that Tim mentioned?

00:26:45 Matt Segall: https://www.sunypress.edu/p-3682-process-and-analysis.aspx

00:26:55 jonmeyer: Thx

00:27:07 Cobb Institute: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Charles-Hartshorne-Critical-Examination/dp/1940447445

00:28:04 Matt Segall: ^ Tim’s Summary of Ch. 5

00:33:03 Douglas Tooley: Is perception of time, at the human level and lower, a 'semiotic' function?

00:47:40 Mikhail Epstein: Yury Lotman. Semiosphere.

00:49:12 Farzad Mahootian: Mikhail’s last point on God’s auto-communication  through cosmic and material sign is very neoplatonc!

00:50:03 Mikhail Epstein: Vassily Nalimov. In the Labyrinths of Language

00:51:54 Mikhail Epstein: Mikhail Epstein. A Philosophy of the Possible: Modalities in Thought and Culture.  Boston, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2019.

01:08:26 jonmeyer: The term information is frequently used as a concrete entity - yet the notion already presupposes concepts of imminence (“in”), forms, and processual activity(“ation”). What Whitehead (and also Bradley) does so beautifully is show how notions such as information are already high abstractions that can easily lead us into fallacies of misplaced concreteness.  I like that George points out that information is a technology and not a science…

01:16:25 Lynn De Jonghe: When George Strawn finishes his paper, we would like to have a reference to it!

01:16:47 Farzad Mahootian: 1. isn’t capitalism an inevitable outcome of evolution via complex system dynamics and manipulation of information flows? and given 2. capitalism’s inherent instability (of “growth” economies), the fact that it causes instabilities which it then benefits from its (growth), then, 3.  if 1 & 2 are true, is capitalism ever surmountable?

01:17:26 Gary Herstein: Theories will involve "recipes" because of the need for testability requires a robust method of constructing said test(s). However, I don't see it necessarily running the other way. One can literally prepare a food recipe w/o having a deep understanding of food preparation.

01:19:10 Gary Nelson: Can we ask Michael Heather to comment on the role of Heyting Logic, Category Theory and our discussion of non-Boolean logics

01:19:55 Gary Herstein: Alternatively, one can construct an effective computer program w/o having much (if any) underlying grasp of the theory of computability, or issues of complexity such as P<>NP? or PH.

01:20:02 Matt Segall: Right, Gary. So in the case of quantum physics, there are a baker’s dozen interpretations of what is being pulled out of the experimental oven!

01:21:00 michael Heather: The logic of potentiæ is just the free functor

01:25:22 Douglas Tooley: This may be too tangential, a question for George Strawn - Are you familiar with the work of Terrence Sejnowski and others combining 'technologist' AI and Neuroscience?

This is a quick summary of his most recent thinking:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gabrielasilva/2021/09/29/thinkers-and-innovators-what-it-will-take-to-figure-out-the-brain-from-a-neuroscience-and-ai-pioneer/

By way of introduction I've heard Mr. Sejnowski, as I have Dr. Segall.  I've just listened to your first two Gordian Knot sessions this morning.

01:25:38 Douglas Tooley: Speak in Telluride

01:27:13 Gary Herstein: Google labs has made some extravagant claims, but they've carefully avoided sharing any peer-reviewed evidence to substantiate their claims

01:28:06 Gary Herstein: QC essentially renders the P<>NP? puzzle moot, which also makes all forms of encryption formally ineffective.

01:28:13 Kevin Clark: LOTS here I do not understand yet...gotta go build 3D triadic raised beds w/ drainage 'context'!

01:34:07 John Buchanan: Love the Sorcerer’s Apprentice metaphor.

01:35:31 Anderson Weekes: Could Mikhail say a little bit about "modality as basis of historical development"? Eg, what is a quick outline of the proposed periodization?

01:38:35 Spyridon Koutroufinis: Question on p. 178 of Ch. 5: anticipatory systems "counteract the second-law of thermodynamics and maintain order through the minimization of outstanding parameters" Could you please explain what the "outstanding parameters" are and how they can be minimized?

01:38:37 Gary Herstein: (Actually, I don't believe Darwin ever used the term "survival of the fittest.")

01:38:54 Gary Herstein: (That might have been Thomas Huxley.)

01:39:03 jonmeyer: “Context denialism” is a somewhat less geeky way of saying “fallacy of misplaced concreteness”

01:39:58 Douglas Tooley: A corporation is a hybrid of the public and private, the public's portion is exactly the land it utilizes???

01:40:06 Monica DeRaspe-Bolles: And isn't it "survival of the fit"?

01:40:13 Gary Herstein: Context denialism in economics (and business specifically) translates into refusal to take "externalities" into account.

01:41:39 Gary Herstein: By the bye, "market system" is independent of "Capitalism." We've seen command system forms of capitalism (Nazi Germany, S. Korea under the military junta) and market system forms of Socialism (Hungary before the fall of the wall, Sweden.)

01:43:01 Gary Nelson: Structured Analysis and Design Technique (SADT) conceives functional block with input==>output subject to context (mechanism) and constraints (controls)

01:44:15 Gary Herstein: An ecology as a community of interpretation a la Peirce?

01:45:32 Matt Segall: Farzad, are you familiar with “social threefolding” developed by Rudolf Steiner? He’s a, erm, complicated figure, but his ideas about disentangling the political, economic, and cultural spheres is quite original and bypasses all the usual ideological positions while still incorporating insights from capitalism, socialism, and anarchism.

01:47:13 Gary Nelson: The IMF has recently done a report about subsidies to Fossil Fuel industries—about $6T in2021 as I recall. Nancy Reagan wisdom— just say no!

01:48:31 Farzad Mahootian: John Cobb’s symbiosis of American and Chinese Capitalism could be GREAT!

01:54:43 Gary Herstein: The "Beaver Colony" theory of time? (One dam thing after another.)

01:55:42 Farzad Mahootian: @Matt - I hadn’t and “bypasses all the usual ideological positions while still incorporating insights from capitalism, socialism, and anarchism.” sounds very promising.  Thanks!

01:59:44 matt switzer: Contextualized by extensive mining no doubt!

02:03:13 Gary Herstein: Van Fraassen has argued that laws in physical science all come back to symmetry of some form. (Mathematically, this means that they are represented by Group Theoretic techniques.)

02:11:20 Matt Segall: which invites a conflation between “fit” as in fitting into a niche and “fit” as in “strong” etc

02:12:28 Matt Segall: oops, that above comment was meant for Gary H. not the whole group : )

02:13:30 jonmeyer: Bruno Latours Down to Earth is a super essay on the ecological crisis we face from an outlook that resonates from a process philosophy standpoint.

02:15:26 Gary Nelson: As I recall, Robert Rosen posits that Anticipation is present in all living entities.

02:15:50 jonmeyer: On Michael Heathers point. Whitehead (in Harvard Lectures as captured by Bell) writes `This comes down to problem of Inductive Logic… How can one fact be relevant to another fact which is not contained in t? Science collapses if you assume an independent atomic of facts. 2) You don't get out of the difficulty by introducing "probabilities". (3) you don't get out of the difficulty by saying "nobody doubts it." (4) no help to be got by basing your trust on past Experience.` — asserting there is only symmetry doesn’t get out of the difficulty either

02:17:12 Gary Nelson: I sent Matt a paper Amoebae Anticipate Periodic Events.

02:17:25 Douglas Tooley: Any single cell epistemology would be chemical, as would any plant epistemology?