I have heard you talk about these books a few times. They sound very cool and Ross.seems like a cool guy. I will definitely add this to my Amazon cart. Thanks Logan
Well, sleep didn't work out as planned. Enjoyed the talk about free will from the knowledge and social psychology angle. I guess I mostly struggle with the materialism thing. There's intracellular architecture, intercellular architecture, cations, anions, action potentials, synapses, neurotransmitters ... where is "free will?" Watching frontotemporal lobar degeneration turn my father into a complete stranger has added to this impression. It's not a comfortable thing to consider, but I can't seem to shake it. If we take free will for granted, I guess I like the idea that an understanding of tragic historical patterns and an adherence to personal faith principles can serve as bulwarks against the temptations of improper conformity. I haven't studied the matter in any serious way, but intuitively speaking, I guess they make as much sense as anything. It's interesting to hear different responses to editing. Some writers like Mr. Ellington are fairly defensive about it. Now I've admittedly never written anything of book length, but with shorter items I've written, I often invite another set of eyes to go over it and BE RUTHLESS, because I just can't be objective about something I've spent that much time on. Then I'm sure there are folks who fall somewhere in between. Oh, by the way, I would argue that mathematics is the only system in which it is possible to PROVE anything. 😉 And I climbed Maslow's Pyramid once. Got bored after a few minutes and went fishing instead. But that's more than enough from me. Nice interview! Mr. Ellington's planned projects sound promising. I'll be keeping an eye out for news. Edit: Oh, and I went ahead and got a copy of Kids Fed Bills Paid. It's not my typical kind of reading, but curiosity got the better of me. 😁
@@BryanM.R.-prionic1 Re: free will; I think you bring up an important question, which is if we can essentially lose free will to degenerative brains disorders, brain disease, and mental illness, does that mean humans don’t have free will? Or does that just me humans do have free will but there are conditions that rob us of it? Re: editing; I imagine I will welcome any and all feedback and just choose what I think makes sense and what I think will improve a book. Academic writing has me pretty well conditioned to incorporate reviewer/editor feedback. Re: proof; I make no claim on proof. If mathematics wants it, that is fine. But it will have to contend with the culinary arts. After all, the proof IS in the pudding! 😜
@DrL_Reads Ha! regarding pudding. About academic writing, I remember my mother talking about something similar when she was she was doing her dissertation. She was always sending me sections to look over -- really just on a copy editing level. I didn't really understand what the heck she was on about. But she sometimes would attach messages about how she felt like the whole thing was an exercise in learning to work with her committee, incorporate their suggestions, and placate their sometimes quirky demands. 😁 And as for free will, disease, and such, I can't really add anything. Wish I had the answers.
@ Yeah I’m not sure any of us really have the answers. It is most likely one of those things that captures hours of thought and attention, but at the end of the day, you are inexplicably drawn to watch tv, scroll, and, only when you have to, go get some food for the pantry so you can eat. Some give in and some push back. It might be that simple. Who knows. Your mom perfectly summed it up - placate the quirky demands of the committee/editors/reviewers. That is academic publishing in a nutshell.
Hey, I'm only part way through the interview and need to call it a night, but my inner lab rat has to comment about something. Yes, in eukaryotic organisms such as humans and sheep, DNA often exists in a "packaging" association with proteins, many of them called histones, and the DNA and associated proteins together make up the structures called chromosomes. To give you an idea just how amazing this actually is, if you could stretch the entire DNA content of one diploid human cell out in a single continuous length, it would be approximately six feet long. Yet every cell, with exceptions such as gametes and mature erythrocytes, has that full complement of DNA, residing in 46 chromosomes, all stored within a microscopic volume. So you can see that the histones condense the DNA CONSIDERABLY. They also play an important role in the regulation of gene expression. On a final note, the "classic" chromosomes pictured on the book cover are in a sort of ultra-condensed form that exists just before and during cell division; they can be distributed to "daughter" cells much more efficiently while in that state. Much of the time, chromosomes exist in a more diffuse, thread like state that's less easily visible but leaves the DNA more accessible to catalytic "machinery." Eh, sorry about all that. This stuff is like catnip to me. 🤪
@@BryanM.R.-prionic1 Good grief this comment is dense, Bryan. BUT informative nonetheless. I appreciate it!! Maybe I need to throw a DNA book into my TBR.
@DrL_Reads Yeah, now that I'm looking at it by the light of day, it's pretty over the top for a TH-cam comment. 🤣 I can get a little crazy when it comes to the world of cell biology, biochemistry, biophysics, and such. It's all utterly amazing to me. Glad you might have gotten something out of it though. If you're ever seeking some approachable reads in this realm, I can offer recommendations. But there's PLENTY of stuff out there. Nowadays, the Oxford VSI list might be as good a place to start as any.
@ The other day I priced out how much it would be to buy the entire VSI library. Unfortunately, it was WAY too much. There are a lot more of them than I thought. Something you might find interesting though, I just made the VSI social psychology the primary textbook for my Masters level class. We use a lot of articles as our primary readings but the VSI was the perfect companion text.
I have heard you talk about these books a few times. They sound very cool and Ross.seems like a cool guy. I will definitely add this to my Amazon cart. Thanks Logan
Well, sleep didn't work out as planned. Enjoyed the talk about free will from the knowledge and social psychology angle. I guess I mostly struggle with the materialism thing. There's intracellular architecture, intercellular architecture, cations, anions, action potentials, synapses, neurotransmitters ... where is "free will?" Watching frontotemporal lobar degeneration turn my father into a complete stranger has added to this impression. It's not a comfortable thing to consider, but I can't seem to shake it.
If we take free will for granted, I guess I like the idea that an understanding of tragic historical patterns and an adherence to personal faith principles can serve as bulwarks against the temptations of improper conformity. I haven't studied the matter in any serious way, but intuitively speaking, I guess they make as much sense as anything.
It's interesting to hear different responses to editing. Some writers like Mr. Ellington are fairly defensive about it. Now I've admittedly never written anything of book length, but with shorter items I've written, I often invite another set of eyes to go over it and BE RUTHLESS, because I just can't be objective about something I've spent that much time on. Then I'm sure there are folks who fall somewhere in between.
Oh, by the way, I would argue that mathematics is the only system in which it is possible to PROVE anything. 😉 And I climbed Maslow's Pyramid once. Got bored after a few minutes and went fishing instead.
But that's more than enough from me. Nice interview! Mr. Ellington's planned projects sound promising. I'll be keeping an eye out for news.
Edit: Oh, and I went ahead and got a copy of Kids Fed Bills Paid. It's not my typical kind of reading, but curiosity got the better of me. 😁
@@BryanM.R.-prionic1 Re: free will; I think you bring up an important question, which is if we can essentially lose free will to degenerative brains disorders, brain disease, and mental illness, does that mean humans don’t have free will? Or does that just me humans do have free will but there are conditions that rob us of it?
Re: editing; I imagine I will welcome any and all feedback and just choose what I think makes sense and what I think will improve a book. Academic writing has me pretty well conditioned to incorporate reviewer/editor feedback.
Re: proof; I make no claim on proof. If mathematics wants it, that is fine. But it will have to contend with the culinary arts. After all, the proof IS in the pudding! 😜
@DrL_Reads Ha! regarding pudding.
About academic writing, I remember my mother talking about something similar when she was she was doing her dissertation. She was always sending me sections to look over -- really just on a copy editing level. I didn't really understand what the heck she was on about. But she sometimes would attach messages about how she felt like the whole thing was an exercise in learning to work with her committee, incorporate their suggestions, and placate their sometimes quirky demands. 😁
And as for free will, disease, and such, I can't really add anything. Wish I had the answers.
@ Yeah I’m not sure any of us really have the answers. It is most likely one of those things that captures hours of thought and attention, but at the end of the day, you are inexplicably drawn to watch tv, scroll, and, only when you have to, go get some food for the pantry so you can eat. Some give in and some push back. It might be that simple. Who knows.
Your mom perfectly summed it up - placate the quirky demands of the committee/editors/reviewers. That is academic publishing in a nutshell.
Hey, I'm only part way through the interview and need to call it a night, but my inner lab rat has to comment about something. Yes, in eukaryotic organisms such as humans and sheep, DNA often exists in a "packaging" association with proteins, many of them called histones, and the DNA and associated proteins together make up the structures called chromosomes.
To give you an idea just how amazing this actually is, if you could stretch the entire DNA content of one diploid human cell out in a single continuous length, it would be approximately six feet long. Yet every cell, with exceptions such as gametes and mature erythrocytes, has that full complement of DNA, residing in 46 chromosomes, all stored within a microscopic volume. So you can see that the histones condense the DNA CONSIDERABLY. They also play an important role in the regulation of gene expression.
On a final note, the "classic" chromosomes pictured on the book cover are in a sort of ultra-condensed form that exists just before and during cell division; they can be distributed to "daughter" cells much more efficiently while in that state. Much of the time, chromosomes exist in a more diffuse, thread like state that's less easily visible but leaves the DNA more accessible to catalytic "machinery."
Eh, sorry about all that. This stuff is like catnip to me. 🤪
@@BryanM.R.-prionic1 Good grief this comment is dense, Bryan. BUT informative nonetheless. I appreciate it!! Maybe I need to throw a DNA book into my TBR.
@DrL_Reads Yeah, now that I'm looking at it by the light of day, it's pretty over the top for a TH-cam comment. 🤣 I can get a little crazy when it comes to the world of cell biology, biochemistry, biophysics, and such. It's all utterly amazing to me. Glad you might have gotten something out of it though. If you're ever seeking some approachable reads in this realm, I can offer recommendations. But there's PLENTY of stuff out there. Nowadays, the Oxford VSI list might be as good a place to start as any.
@ The other day I priced out how much it would be to buy the entire VSI library. Unfortunately, it was WAY too much. There are a lot more of them than I thought. Something you might find interesting though, I just made the VSI social psychology the primary textbook for my Masters level class. We use a lot of articles as our primary readings but the VSI was the perfect companion text.