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Darwin College Lecture Series
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In the second term of each academic year, since 1986, Darwin College has organised a series of eight public lectures, built around a single theme, with a multi-disciplinary approach. Each lecture is prepared for a general audience by a leading authority on his or her subject. The lecture series is then published as a book by Cambridge University Press.
The Cultural Revolution - Tania Branigan
The Cultural Revolution is everywhere and nowhere in modern China. It is impossible to make sense of China without understanding what happened in this decade of political fanaticism, brutal violence and chaos, which saw perhaps two million die and tens of millions hounded. But it also seems impossible to truly understand this era, with its constant changes and contradictions. Discussion has been suppressed by both political diktat and personal trauma. Even so, its memory persists.
While many remain deeply scarred by the horrors, there is now a surprising nostalgia for the era. It speaks in large part to concerns about the present day but also reflects the appeal of powerful possibilities f...
While many remain deeply scarred by the horrors, there is now a surprising nostalgia for the era. It speaks in large part to concerns about the present day but also reflects the appeal of powerful possibilities f...
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Revolution by Natural Selection - Professor Nick Lane, University College London
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Revolution by Natural Selection: A radical history of life from inside our cells Professor Nick Lane’s research is about how energy flow has shaped evolution over four billion years. He uses a mixture of theoretical and experimental work to address the origin of life, the evolution of complex cells and downright peculiar behaviour such as sex. This lecture will outline how a simple cycle at the...
Worlds turned upside down: Quiet Revolutions in Art - Professor Frances Spalding
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This lecture asks why the Western European tradition occupies a hallowed role in world culture. E.H. Gombrich provides one answer to this question in his The Story of Art (1950), with reference to the restlessness within Western culture in comparison with some Eastern cultures that have lasted almost unchanged for a thousand years. His own book has done much to promote the Western view of art, ...
The Exoplanet Revolution - Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge
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Until recently, the solar system provided the only basis for our knowledge of planets and life in the Universe. In 1995 Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor dramatically changed this view with their discovery of the first giant planet outside our solar system. This spawned a revolution in astronomy, both in terms of new instrumentation and in our understanding of planet formation and evolution. Plane...
A Revolution in Thought? - Dr Iain McGilchrist
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A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis It is often remarked that though it may seem that we face numerous global crises of different kinds - environmental, social, political, cultural, economic, psychological, and so on - these crises are interrelated. The term ‘metacrisis’ has been invented to describe this predicament. However these crises are not me...
Are Revolutions justified? - Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics
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Authors who think about the justifiability of revolution are often divided between those who criticise it on grounds of institutional legalism and those who endorse it on grounds of idealist moralism. Moralists think that since the ends of revolution are right, revolution can never be wrong. Legalists think that since the means of revolution are wrong, revolution can never be right. In this lec...
The Genetic Revolutions - Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester
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There have been many genetic revolutions: The realisation that characteristics could be inherited in the 18th century; Mendel’s experiments on hybrid pea plants in the 1850s; the rediscovery of Mendel’s work in 1903; the identification of the genetic role of DNA in 1944; the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953; the advent of genetic engineering in 1972. And yet none of these moments was i...
On the Disappointment of Revolutions - Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University
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Do revolutions matter? Do they sharply change the course of history or are they programmed for disappointment, or much worse outcomes? Are they mostly a state of mind pumped up with utopian rhetoric or do they profoundly alter the structures they claim to demolish and replace? Are they the necessary engines of progress or a deadweight on its advance? And does the revolutionary temper have anyth...
Darwin College Lecture Series 2024 - Introduction
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The organisers of the Darwin College Lecture Series explain how they came over all revolutionary.
Isolation of Atomic Mechanisms: the Choreographer at Play - Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia
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Isolation of Atomic Mechanisms - the Choreographer at Play. Emeritus Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge, as well as Professor of Metallurgy at Queen Mary University of London, Harry is a Fellow at Darwin and co-organiser of this year’s lecture series. He was knighted in 2015 in recognition of his development of new forms of steel, including the carbide-free steel ...
The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea - Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge
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North Korea is one of the most secluded societies in today’s world. Its system of rule is often referred to as an enigma of modern politics. This essay asks what has caused this condition of extreme isolation, highlighting the relentless pursuit of a historically durable charismatic political power. The discussion will include Max Weber’s thoughts on the place of charismatic power in modern pol...
Are we alone in the Universe? - Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge
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Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? If not, does that mean that we humans are utterly alone in creation? Recent technological developments make the discovery of life on other planets almost expected within the coming decades. But most of the inhabited planets we hope to discover may well be populated by no more than alien bacteria. Will that make us feel any less alone? What we...
Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers - Professor Philip Jones, University College London
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In 2018 Arthur Ashkin was awarded a half share of that year’s Nobel Prize in Physics “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”. The work for which he was recognised had its origins more than thirty years before, and in the years since their invention, the uses of optical tweezers have grown far beyond biological systems, with numerous diverse applications across the...
Antarctica: Isolated Continent - Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey
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Continents as we know them today emerged as a consequence of the mechanism of plate tectonics, which led to the fragmentation of a super-continent. One such fragment, the Antarctica, now is in the ocean at the South Pole, covered in thick ice-sheets that contrast with its long-past history where it was adorned by forests and inhabited by animals including dinosaurs. It was the natural processes...
The Closeting of Secrets - Physics and Cryptography - Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge
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The definition and properties of information may seem to be fundamental features of the world that are independent of how particles, fields and space-time behave. In fact, though, information is fundamentally physical and twentieth century physics has radically changed our understanding of its nature and properties. Einstein’s relativity theories tell us that information cannot travel faster th...
The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia. Dr Amy Nethery
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The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia. Dr Amy Nethery
Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls - Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge
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Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls - Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge
X-Rays and Food Safety - Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge
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X-Rays and Food Safety - Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge
Food as Expression - Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef
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Food as Expression - Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef
Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past - Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge
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Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past - Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge
Food and Cultural History - Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge
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Food and Cultural History - Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge
Food, Power & Society - Ms Sarah Mukherjee, CEO Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment
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Food, Power & Society - Ms Sarah Mukherjee, CEO Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment
Food and Climate Change - Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York
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Food and Climate Change - Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York
The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security - Prof Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge
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The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security - Prof Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge
Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan? - Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester
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Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan? - Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester
Blood villains and heroes by Rose George
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Blood villains and heroes by Rose George
When this man speaks negative about the left hemisphere way of thinking he's speaking about one individual but good luck with that bc he's speaking negative about God's chosen King and it will cost you.
"The current King of France is wise" is a simple relationship between two things, regardless of whether they exist in reality. The current King of France can be wise in a novel without being wise in reality. That's ambiguity, not truth value.
There are three truth values, sufficiently well known - true or false, and insufficiently well known - ignorance. All truths can be expressed on an ABX triangle.
Meaningless is not a truth value. It means impossible to know, equivalent to ignorance.
All things are real as a pattern in a mind. Some things have an external referent. They're are two kinds of things; a set of attributes and boundary conditions, or a relationship between them. Languages are exactly as useful as their ability to describe reality.
Excellent explanation thank you
Obviously if a question assumes a king of France exists and there is no king of France then the question is invalid. Why waste all this time. This is GCSE level time wasting. Opportunity cost of 26 minutes of babble is vast: Many of the most valuable, powerful, and poignant points. Reading Witt on Russell, and or Russell on Witt properly, or Just reading Witt, is a more valuable use of time if you're interested. This should be titled: An absolute beginners guide to Wittgenstein for those who can't bare reading him.
Get to the point. Babble in a posh accent is still babble. Editing to the vital material is gods work. Does he really assume people want a specialist Witt lecture but don't understand the basics? He's wasting too much time reading the intro to the most basic Wittgenstein book. Any basic teacher will teach this very early on.
One couldn't agree more with the statement made in the title...but where would we be without them?
A good founding lecture to reiterate from. (Taking my own advice)
Wilson Karen Rodriguez Edward Harris Amy
Thomas Anthony White Betty Hall Edward
How many human species have their been? The classification of Neanderthals as either a subspecies of Homo sapiens or as a distinct species has been a subject of debate among scientists. Some researchers consider Neanderthals to be a subspecies of Homo sapiens, often referred to as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. On the other hand, many scientists classify Neanderthals as a separate species, Homo neanderthalensis. Scientists can no more give a definitive count of how many human species there have been, than they can give a definitive count of how many races there are.
It is disgusting that all of you are praising an animal abuser
A most extraordinary talk for the right-brainers, and a bunch of mindless quibble for the left-brainers.
Best presentation yet Dr. Lane! -also. intuitively, consciousness and ai will never meet. what we will see in all the turing test acers will be an embraceable illusion. the hive intelligence of our individual cells (individual mitochondria! wow!) is the catalyst for consciousness. at least that's what it feels like? you know, intuitively. similar to there being no god. it's us anyway. reincarnation works on a universal level. Bang! also- custom gpt trained on the worlds' scientific literature: what pattern emerges? what have we missed? what can be learned?
The irony of the Dunning-Kruger effect -- which suggests that people with poor knowledge of a topic overestimate how much they know about that topic -- is that people with poor knowledge of the Dunning-Kruger effect overestimate how much they know about the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Emergence The magi of The physistes
45:00 note
categorical error
also 54:00
natural selection made a mistake and selected humans, the most abusive organism. humans forced domestication on other animals and plants without knowing their physiology. its unknown how much and how bad they suffer from this. intolerable suffering is a real thing and lack of natural selection makes it much worse.
I always found all these "mysteries" around QM to be a bit bizarre because if you actually just take QM at face value you don't have any of them. QM at face value is just a form of statistical mechanics whereby the probability amplitudes are complex-valued, so you can have not only 0% to 100% probabilities, but -100% or even 100i%. Sure, that is a bit strange, but if you just accept that the natural world is probabilistic in this sense, everything else in QM follows and you never hit any of these paradoxes at all. You never hit spooky action at a distance, or waves turning into particles, or a "reality" problem, or any of these things at all. There isn't two sets of rules and there is no special place for "measurement," it is just a probabilistic theory but one that is probabilistic in a rather peculiar way. It seems that the "problem" that Sean Carroll is trying to "solve" is one of his own invention: he is making assumptions beyond what QM actually is at face value, that the probability distributions actually have some sort of ontological being as entities, and deriving problems from this, and then finding he has to introduce a whole multiverse just to solve this problem.
what a fabulous articulator this man is! thanks much!
If you check these comments Dr. McGilchrist: Thank You! I got your book, "The Master and His Emissary," a couple of weeks ago, and though I didn't know it, it is the book I've been looking for all my life. The most important work in modern history, maybe all of history. I was also glad that I wasn't the only one listening to your talk to get choked up at the end, as did the host. Thanks also to Darwin College for having him!
3:08 start
Lol, isn't Darwinist theory already debunked? Why are you hanging on the like that had been rood to is dunces birth.
THAT DARK ENERGY IS GODS MIND … we know nothing because we think about things inside of things … but so far we all we know is .. “WE DONT KNOW “!!!!
Wonderful, thank you ! So much incredibly good, interesting, sound, information. Well worth every minute and very glad of the pause button to better absorb this dense, thoughtful collated material.
The straw story about Necker's successor tells us a lot about human nature in crowds. Scary stuff. No trial. No justice. Brutal times.
A most excellent effort. Thank you!
Of course, of course, if there is no meaning, purpose and goals etc of the modern physicists seek to know or describe this, and even the physicists have the same truth underlying their lives then, is it not the same mechanical, spontaneous and natural reality they discover which wants to know itself via the physicists? Is it not nature's self awareness of itself? Is this not a greater mystery than nature itself?
What a wonderful find - his thoughts in shorthand
I love the part about the light coming through the wall of a cathedral -
That’s a wonderful lecture. Thank you.
We didn’t come from monkeys.
And finally his hairstyle has made its final historical quantum drop down to its rest state.
Absolutely great talk!!!!!
Sadly this lecture was awful and so bland...
epigenetics has invalidated natural selection.
just because there ar trillions of star systems does not mean intelligent life is abundant
For all the reference to holism there's nothing about capitalism.
Here is what I see has happened to many who have been seduced by Darwinism. You were taught certain fundamental truths as a youth. You were instructed in the sciences, in mathematics, physics, geography, history and biology by teachers whom you respected as a youth, whom you admired and looked up to. And because as an impressionable youth you admired, respected and looked up to these people, and much of what they taught you was true, when they introduced the Darwinian theory of evolution to you, sort of slipping it in with algebra, chemistry, biology and astronomy - the classical sciences, then you accepted it also without reservation, you didn't question it, you swallowed it whole since these people were your mentors and you trusted them, almost revered them. Usually it was introduced to you in science class with some Disney like animation showing lightening striking an ancient pond, then cells emerging, then fish swimming in a sea before they crawled out onto land and lost their scales and became amphibians that became reptiles that became birds and mammals that became monkeys that became humans. It was all very skillfully done, and there was usually very little actual science involved; you were told a story, much like a Sunday school Noah's Ark story, only this story left out God of course, and because it was in science class it must have been true. It never occurred to you that your teachers who told you that evolution was a fact as real as the Laws of Gravity might have themselves been deceived in their youth when they were in science class, and then they introduced that very same deception into your life, all with the very best of intentions. So you accepted evolution as being as legitimate as all of the other sciences, your teachers certainly wouldn't lie to you, and then over the course of time it became your Weltanschauung. As time progressed and you grew older, a sort of intellectual pride clouded your worldview, and also affected, or more precisely infected your understanding of earth's history, of man's origin; and you became too sophisticated to believe in the straight, literal truth of Genesis. In your youthful hubris you substituted Darwin for Moses. Over the course of time Darwinism became more entrenched in your mind. It became a dogma; it was your world view through which you interpreted reality. Part of this springs from Hellenism, the Greek philosophy that is the cornerstone of much of modern thought.
The only enigma is why we would allow people mathematically unqualified (first year calc and introductory stats) to be scientists in charge of studying the most complex machines in the universe. Truth is in Ivy leage institutions, a B.S in economics or basic engineering degree leaves with more mathematical training than a PhD in biology, yet we somehow tout them as authoritive. The language of science is mathematics, pure and simple. If it cannot be quantified, it's not science. The mathematical competence of a PhD biologist wouldn't even qualify him to design a passenger seat mounting bracket to code on a Lada.... and that's a fact. Don't believe it, look it up.
GRAVITY EXPLAINED, universe is made of minute cells once contained in a universal shell that was broken or deformed by an external force. this produced expansion creating a true void that must not exist, leaving the cells to expand or split,I believe the destruction or splitting of cells is where all matter originates, therefore all the contents of this universe will become matter and the universal matter will disperse or be contained by an outer external force or medium. The cells must penetrate already created matter to a degree, becoming harder the denser it is, until it is so dense it is impossible. thus the push back is multiplied infinitely causing corresponding gravity push... As far as so-called gravity it is plain to see that there is no attraction, only an external push forcing matter together . Imagine an oil filled rubber ball each molecule of oil must have the same force upon it. Then introduce a foreign particle of the same size and density then each molecule will have slightly higher pressure upon it nothing will coalesce then add a larger or denser body with larger or harder surface to be pushed upon by the other molecules all the molecules will feel a small amount more push but the nearer the large body cells will get pushed harder. [this energy really comes from the constant push from the ball membrane or what exists outside it] then introduce a smaller dense body in the vicinity of the harder pushed cells. if the number of hard pushed cells behind this body is higher than the ones between it and the large body then gravity is achieved,,,unless the pull from the expanding universe shell is greater.. Without resistance to these cells energy would not be forced to navigate a wave pattern, the cells would not become excited and light as we know it would not exist . Energy waves passing through harder pushed cell formations will deviate around the reason they are pushed. Hard pushed cells may be deformed from a sphere into an ovoid making it harder to rotate, also making energy travel differently The universe itself may be such an ovoid thus the reason for expansion. Magnets must electronically rearrange the cells shape and alignment making the rearranging object harder or easier to navigate between depending the manufactured configuration. As far as Quantum physics goes we do not have any real data so mathematical physics is applied and comes up with sometimes fanciful answers to fit a paradox. Understanding a data lacking subject has always failed people already in this field would do best just striving for accurate observation as some early astronomers did. An understanding will develop with detection instruments and supercomputing enhancements , seeing it first hand. some bright spark will discover the bleeding obvious and mathematise it. We must determine the size and density of each cell by measuring each light wave in relation to one another ,and the number of cells between each crest and finding the correlation that would fit all known energy waves if this can be achieved, the next step must be to create corresponding energy waves before a moving object creating an air in sand effect thus help said object closer to the preceding wave speed Initial measurements should be simple two dimensional with known wave patterns overlaid on the same plane and begin with spherical solid cells filling the voids between the crests of all waves. First, hoping all the energy waves respect the integrity of each cell, if not some types of energy waves may penetrate part of the cell, as do they penetrate some matter. black holes are remnant void bubbles still trying to eliminate the space where cells are absent,destroying surrounding cells and creating matter and drawing existing matter to fill the void .billions may have succeeded leaving small super dense spheres but most can't keep up with the constant universe expansion and will take all their surrounding galaxy and more. No matter how beautiful and pleasant maths is , since the mid 60's, it has blinded physicists before then a physical notion was envisaged then came out the ruler to see if it would stack up. These are some answers to how things unfolded but surely the harder question is why. Why has life evolved to a stage that we can pose these questions? Surely non existence would be the easier option ,without struggle without knowing about your inevitable destruction personally and universally this question is the real puzzle. This is why the emergence of conscience coincided with a genetic predisposition towards a god culture everywhere on earth ,a genetic valium so to speak. which must be ameliorated not railed against by atheist dissenters , its just DNA evolved a part of our bodies to believe so as to survive longer. The answer can only be chemistry ,all life is simply a chemical reaction , the same as the stars react with each other ,no matter how complicated its components become it must rely on the basic building blocks to exist ,my thoughts while writing this are governed by a chemical reaction and the lightning created by the reaction. Therefore if matter has no will and the meeting of different types of matter will react differently then the meaning of life has the same weight as mixing paint ,life and death is eventually inevitable wherever matter coalesces .,..
Amazing lecture!
Is that a JWST lapel badge? Love this guy's lectures; so interesting.
Master mind and great way of analysis performance. Next level thinking. Thank you for sharing
She really illustrated the dialects of modernity.
Interesting hypothesis. Would be nice to see more neurological evidence for it. All this reminds me of Julian Jaynes' "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind". However, I subjectively find this quite accurate.
comments are so funny!
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*Wonderful stories, thank you.*