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Examining 'The Witness': Audio Log Marathon!

This week, inspired by an Arthur Eddington audio log that quotes one of the island's OTHER audio logs, we are going deep into the primary sources and getting some context on a pair of complex audio logs that we skipped over in earlier episodes. 3:25 -- introducing and then discussing the William Wordsworth audio log, which in The Witness connects the island's forboding mountain peak with the concept of death, and all those times when we confront the stark, brute, and unadorned "realness" of reality directly percieved. 13:31 -- Peter Thiel's story of his initial childhood realization about death. And then my own personal story of the same. And Rupert Spira's comment that we can't actually picture death -- instead, what we are picturing is closer to "a blank, dark cube of empty space", as a failed metaphor for the absence of consciousness. 18:20 -- Talking about Arthur Eddington, who perhaps has more audio logs than anyone else. His life, and what he represents to the game. 21:55 -- Breaking down, part by part, the 2nd-longest audio log in the game! (The #1 longest is the one about the astronaut, up at the top of the mountain.) Starting with a discussion about the experience of gaining insight into things through mathematics and other hard sciences. Plus an aside about medieval mathematics before mathematical notation was developed. 27:24 -- Eddington: The Witness's participation in the inter-generational "society of letters"-style project of following the ideas of great thinkers from throughout history. It is also funny that Eddington himself seems to be missing the point of the poem he's quoting, treating a somber poem about death as if it's just a cheerful description of the ocean. 32:49 -- Eddington takes the humanities-vs-STEM debate in a pleasingly unexpected direction! And tries to trace the exact path, from photons to neurons to a meaningful experience in awareness, that gives rise to poetic associations. 40:01 -- Hating on astronomers (and on the bethesda videogame "Starfield"), for sometimes choosing the wrong "direction" in which to aim their search for truth. 43:38 -- Eddington, having tried to chase reality to its fundamentals, realizes that he has only gotten farther from the subjective world of raw experience. 48:27 -- Hating on the Joseph Campell / Golden Bough stuff that was popular in Eddington's time, as opposed to The Witness's more mindfulness/nonduality-informed perspective. 51:20 -- Here is that awesome "waves & beaches" book I mention:   / 56827632   52:35 -- More context on the life of Rupert Brooke, WW1 poet. His poem in The Witness about the tragedy of death is actually quite unusual, since his other poems are very bombastic and patriotic. 57:35 -- Contrasting two views of death: the "social-world" perspective, aka the death of OTHER people, which is a tragedy but is one type of loss similar to other life setbacks like breakups or company bankruptcies or your house burning down. But your OWN death (or any death as seen from a genuine, philosophical perspective) is a very different matter; the obliteration of everything, and the extinguishing of the whole world. If you'd like, fill out this quick survey to let me know which video ideas you're most interested in: https://forms.gle/s8NQzjZeLL8VfSos6 And for more of my work, you can also visit https://jacksonw.xyz/ or peruse my writings on effective altruism at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/u...