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Talking about his theory of The Glass Age, which I find interesting but unconvincing. It's that modernity is definied by the use of glass, in buildings (they mention the Crystal Palace but oddly not the very dominating role of glass in modernist skyscrapers), in lenses, mirrors, test tubes.
Garfield has his own podcast, Future Fossils, which seems interesting but I haven't had time to get into it. He's affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute and seems to be a bridge between the weirdosphere and the more scientific and technical worlds. The Visionary Art of Michael Garfield – michaelgarfield
Mentioned "the agency of materials" and hypermodernity...sigh, I'm behind in all these trendy areas. Also speculative realism. We know the world is unknowable. OK.
Mentions Little, Big which is also one of my faves.
Some stuff about UFOs and the dimensions of the moon that were way too in left-field for me, to put it as politely as I can.
McLuhan, move from ear to eye. The eye suggest separation, private property, exclusion, whereas hearing is immersive (they've talked about this before).
Talk about the ancient image as the stars and planets on glass spheres (where did that come from, surely glass spheres weren't that common in the ancient world? )
Some stuff about extension of the nervous system (after Gregory Bateson ) but I'm not sure what the issue, isn't it obvious that technologies extend our nervous system? Mentioning Jaron Lanier and haptic feedback...JFM seems confused, insisting on the reality of the self, the others seem closer to my (correct) view. "The absolute singularity of your personal experience". Irreducible and real.
Hm, seeing hints of his Catholicism, manifested here as virulent opposition to anything that seems to point towards nihilism. I don't think I necessarily agree, but I appreciate his forthrightness and his ability to articulate these strong feelings.
"The self is distributed" but I am not quite sure what they mean by that.
Funny Garfield and JFM are making very different.
Story about an egoless person at Burning Man (no default mode network).
"Through meditation you can become the kind of person Sam Harris approves of"
"The scientific method changes when you are tripping balls"
Some stuff on augmented science and the nature of knowledge...I think that's another conversation.
JFM: insisting (from Bergson) that philosophy is about the singularity that you are.