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TheOneAndTheMany
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 21 ธ.ค. 2024
A personal channel where I discuss science and philosophy. I am a chemistry major.
Profile picture (stylized eye, iris filled by type) from cover of The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshal McLuhan (University of Toronto Press, 1962).
Banner image (symbolic representation of the alchemical process) from Alchymia (1606) by Andreas Libavius. Photographed from Seeing With The Mind's Eye (1975) by Mike and Nancy Samuels.
Profile picture (stylized eye, iris filled by type) from cover of The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshal McLuhan (University of Toronto Press, 1962).
Banner image (symbolic representation of the alchemical process) from Alchymia (1606) by Andreas Libavius. Photographed from Seeing With The Mind's Eye (1975) by Mike and Nancy Samuels.
The Gutenberg Galaxy: Literate Visual/non-Literate Oral Worlds
In this chapter literate, visual-oriented and non-literate, oral-oriented societies are compared. The magical powers of words in oral traditions is discussed along with the effects of words being printed, wherein they lose their dynamic character.
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The Gutenberg Galaxy: King Lear on Society, Senses, Jobs, and the Third Dimension
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I read the first three sections of the Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) by Marshall McLuhan. The author uses excerpts from Shakespeare's tragedy play King Lear to make various conjectures about new aspects of society, the use of our senses, the transition of roles to jobs, and makes an example of its prose as a three dimensional structure. 0:00 The Gutenberg Galaxy 9:06 King Lear is a working model... o...
Nature and Man's Fate: Genes and Personal Decisions
มุมมอง 2714 วันที่ผ่านมา
None of the content of this book reflects my own beliefs or opinions! See the prologue: th-cam.com/video/OP6SRaLLTiw/w-d-xo.html Playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLguYbel5QMq6Y4i-_RWCRNRxDh-R9BoZI.html&si=JsqEPW57cj7aW1fP Hardin, Garrett. 1959. Nature and Man's Fate. Mentor Book, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. In chapter 7 the main subject is artificial insemination. The author makes several object...
Bookshelf Tour: Chemistry, Biology, Physics
มุมมอง 10714 วันที่ผ่านมา
Another off the cuff video. These are easier to edit than book readings so I thought I'd just pop this one out. Wardrobe chosen to take me out of my comfort zone.
Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth
มุมมอง 814 วันที่ผ่านมา
A highlight from The Eighteenth Century Background (1940) by Basil Willey: Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth (1681-9). The creation of the world is described as a process, wherein liquids are at the center: a layer of oil on top of water. Earthy dust is then precipitated into this oil, and the first crust of the Earth is crated, smooth and in an oval shape. Water evaporates through the...
Nature and Man's Fate: Heredity: Fate's Lottery
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None of the content of this book reflects my own beliefs or opinions! See the prologue: th-cam.com/video/OP6SRaLLTiw/w-d-xo.html Playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLguYbel5QMq6Y4i-_RWCRNRxDh-R9BoZI.html&si=JsqEPW57cj7aW1fP Hardin, Garrett. 1959. Nature and Man's Fate. Mentor Book, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Egg no longer "passive:" phys.org/news/2019-11-fertilization-discovery-reveals-role-egg.h...
"An Electric Oracle" The Gutenberg Galaxy (Prologue)
มุมมอง 3021 วันที่ผ่านมา
The Gutenberg Galaxy (University of Toronto Press, 1962) by Marshall McLuhan is a very interesting media study that has many important things to say about today's electronic interconnectedness and our method of consuming media. The book is formatted as a "mosaic," consisting of sections that are on an average 2-3 pages long. Its language is sometimes strange to my plebeian psyche. For more see ...
Nature and Man's Fate: Attacks from All Sides
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None of the content of this book reflects my own beliefs or opinions! See the prologue: th-cam.com/video/OP6SRaLLTiwP/w-d-xo.htmllaylist: th-cam.com/play/PLguYbel5QMq6Y4i-_RWCRNRxDh-R9BoZI.html&si=JsqEPW57cj7aW1fP Hardin, Garrett. 1959. Nature and Man's Fate. Mentor Book, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. In this entertaining and overtly polemical chapter (5), the debate over the truth or falsi...
Nature and Man's Fate: Is Evolution Progress?
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None of the content of this book reflects my own beliefs or opinions! See the prologue: th-cam.com/video/OP6SRaLLTiw/w-d-xo.html Playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLguYbel5QMq6Y4i-_RWCRNRxDh-R9BoZI.html&si=JsqEPW57cj7aW1fP Hardin, Garrett. 1959. Nature and Man's Fate. Mentor Book, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. In chapter 4, the idea of progress is compared to the process of evolution. The species c...
Nature and Man's Fate: Darwinism, Deity and Process
มุมมอง 10021 วันที่ผ่านมา
None of the content of this book reflects my own beliefs or opinions! See the prologue: th-cam.com/video/OP6SRaLLTiw/w-d-xo.html Playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLguYbel5QMq6Y4i-_RWCRNRxDh-R9BoZI.html&si=JsqEPW57cj7aW1fP Hardin, Garrett. 1959. Nature and Man's Fate. Mentor Book, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. In chapter 3 the basic concept of "homeostatic" or "cybernetic" systems is described (coi...
Nature and Man's Fate: Belling The Cat
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None of the content of this book reflects my own beliefs or opinions! See the prologue: th-cam.com/video/OP6SRaLLTiw/w-d-xo.html Playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLguYbel5QMq6Y4i-_RWCRNRxDh-R9BoZI.html&si=JsqEPW57cj7aW1fP Hardin, Garrett. 1959. Nature and Man's Fate. Mentor Book, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. This chapter (2) is mainly biographical information on Charles Darwin, and the developmen...
Nature and Man's Fate: Who Will Bell The Cat?
มุมมอง 6621 วันที่ผ่านมา
None of the content of this book reflects my own beliefs or opinions! See the prologue: th-cam.com/video/OP6SRaLLTiw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=zSA6kFP_WvhlpNBR Playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLguYbel5QMq6Y4i-_RWCRNRxDh-R9BoZI.html&si=JsqEPW57cj7aW1fP Hardin, Garrett. 1959. Nature and Man's Fate. Mentor Book, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Chapter 1 discusses the idea of evolution before Charles Darwin (The V...
Nature and Man's Fate: An Immoral Book (Prologue)
มุมมอง 2728 วันที่ผ่านมา
Here is the prologue of Nature and Man's Fate (copyright 1959, first printing as a Mentor Book June, 1961). I comment on what I think is wrong about its polemics. None of this book reflects my own beliefs or options! Tomorrow I will upload the first chapter, which is straightforward educational content. Playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLguYbel5QMq6Y4i-_RWCRNRxDh-R9BoZI.html&si=JsqEPW57cj7aW1fP Hardin...
Practice Video: Reading Gorgias' On Not-Being or On Nature
มุมมอง 1728 วันที่ผ่านมา
Robinson, John Mansley. 1968. An Introduction To Early Greek Philosophy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Gorgias' On Nature is a complicated piece of rhetoric that I thought would make a challenging recital.
Practice Video: Early Greek Skepticism of Knowledge
มุมมอง 2928 วันที่ผ่านมา
I might as well upload this despite its flaws because if I don't I might never upload anything. Notably I mispronounced Xenophanes. This is my first time editing as well, which explains the choppiness. Robinson, John Mansley. 1968. An Introduction To Early Greek Philosophy. Houghton Mifflin Company. McKirahan, Richard D. 1994. Philosophy Before Socrates An Introduction with Texts and Commentary...