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How Humanity Will Rise From the Age of Empire - Part Two, Dr. Luke Kemp, DemystifySci +442

This is part two from a recent conversation with Luke Kemp from Cambridge University's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. In part one we asked what made humanity suddenly pivot to the nation-state all around the world at the cusp of the bronze age. In part two Kemp argues that colonial expansion stretched a single Goliath across the globe, and we now live in a single integrated system of finance, information, and military power. The deeper problem is not hierarchy itself but permanent, illegitimate dominance. What comes next isn't mere doom and gloom. It's already being tested in fragments: sortition and citizens' assemblies that separate decisions from wealth, benefit corporations, decentralized projects that outperform funded hierarchies, and power split across politics, money, information, and force so that no single domain can capture the rest. Part one: https://youtu.be/rTwRXy_-pZQ PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysci PARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0b HOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album! Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-here Streaming: https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-here PARADIGM DRIFT https://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show 00:00 Go! How Empire Reaches the Present Day 03:39 Why Violence Fell as the Stakes Rose 08:13 How Close We Came to Nuclear War 15:03 Why Global Rules Have No Teeth 17:49 Do We Already Live Under One Empire? 21:19 How Corporations Became a New Power 32:26 How Corporate and State Power Fuse 41:27 What Power Does to People 46:21 Could Random Citizens Govern Better? 54:27 Who Actually Deserves to Lead 1:05:21 How Inequality Breaks Democracy 1:09:00 Can a Company Serve More Than Profit? 1:16:09 Why Fear Keeps Choosing Strongmen 1:18:00 What Comes After Empire 1:24:40 Should Citizens Decide the Biggest Risks? #economics #politicalphilosophy #history MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/ AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98 DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss MAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

How Empire Was Discovered Everywhere at Once - Part One, Dr. Luke Kemp, DemystifySci +441

Today we give you an episode in two parts from a recent conversation with Luke Kemp from Cambridge University's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. We discuss the sudden and simultaneous rise of the nation state all over the globe as humanity emerged from the paleolithic. Prior to the bronze age of empires, humanity used kept the concentration of societal power in check by relying on ridicule, ostracism, and expulsion to stop anyone from turning strength into lasting power. Then something changed irrevocably. Suddenly domination became possible: lootable, storable crops like wheat, monopolizable weapons, and nowhere left to run, brought conditions closer to a protection racket than to progress. We are picking up the pieces today, which is where we turn to in part two. Part Two: https://youtu.be/rJCWyUlnhB0 PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysci PARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0b HOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album! Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-here Streaming: https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-here PARADIGM DRIFT https://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show 00:00 Go! Why Humans Ever Built States 02:23 What a Goliath Actually Is 06:28 Were Early Humans Really Violent? 16:17 Did Cooperation or Violence Make Us? 22:56 Cities That Had No Kings 28:15 Why Farming Didn't Create States 33:09 How Often Hierarchy Failed 36:34 What It Takes to Build a Goliath 45:38 How Empire's Blueprint Spread 54:08 Where Patriarchy Came From 59:17 How War Remade the Gods 1:09:43 Why the Biggest Systems Win 1:15:13 Was Any of This Inevitable? #archaeology #anthropology #prehistory MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/ AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98 DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss MAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

How Magnets Reach Across Empty Space - LIVE! Drs. A.V. Bendebury & M.S. DeLay (DemystifySci +440)

This week we continue our discussion of the material atom live. Picking up where we left off last week, we go deeper into our book Paradox Lost and uncover the hidden mechanics of magnetism. The conversation follows from the past two week's livestreams where we argued for a new way of looking at the electron and charge: as patterned atomic surface motion. This week, we build out the details of that atomic surface and use the architecture to address electromagnetic action-at-a-distance.#physics #electromagnetism #quantumphysics #paradoxlostPre-order our upcoming book, Paradox Lost: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-showMERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Testing the Fractal Universe · Part Two, Chris Lehto (DemystifySci +439)

This is the second episode from our recent meetup with Chris Lehto where we explore his work on the Fractal Universe, where macrobiological entities become a real possibility in the cosmos by way of adherence to NASA's own checklist definition for life. We explore the fractal organization of biological structures, what it means to be a subunit in a living system, and Lehto argues the case that many large scale structures, from nations to galaxies qualify incredibly well. Ultimately, we may prove to be living elements in a much greater order that is only just now coming into focus. Part 1: https://youtu.be/9fTSsLk5p34 Chris' book: https://amzn.to/3S29crA PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysci PARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0b HOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album! Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-here Streaming: https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-here PARADIGM DRIFT https://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show 00:00 Go! Lehto Recap and the Ladder of Scales 00:03:44 Cities, Nations, and the Life Test 00:12:27 Corporations, Money, and Metabolism 00:20:01 Why Scale Forces New Structure 00:30:04 Large Systems as Living Bodies 00:43:42 Life Cycles, Collapse, and Reproduction 00:53:37 Earth's Kin and the Search for Peers 01:05:40 Is the Sun Alive? 01:11:21 Why the Solar System Looks Like an Atom 01:19:25 Cosmic Lifespans and One Unifying Process 01:26:15 What Changes If This Is True 01:40:20 Cross-Scale Science and How Early We Are #physics #astrophysics #cosmology #emergence #cosmos #consciousness MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/ AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98 DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss MAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Our Fractal Universe · Part One, Chris Lehto (DemystifySci +438)

This week we are going to the core of what it means to be alive. If we don't understand where matter turns into the living then how can we be sure we're not missing biological processes all over the universe? Chris Lehto joins us for this first part of a two part series on his work surrounding the Fractal Universe, where we establish the historic basis for our present understanding of what it means to be living. We look at the NASA criteria, Michod's individuality gate, and the overlooked importance of will. This sets us up for part two where we'll put larger scale cosmic structures to the test, working from the city up to galaxies and beyond. Chris' book: https://amzn.to/3S29crA PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysci PARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0b HOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album! Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-here Streaming: https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-here PARADIGM DRIFT https://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show 00:00 Go! Introductions and the Question of Life at Different Scales 00:08:00 Anomalies and the Limits of What We Notice 00:14:01 Microbes: Seen for Centuries, Never Called Alive 00:24:38 Why Every Era Thinks It Sees Clearly 00:33:08 Does Life Stop at Our Scale? 00:42:49 Cosmic Analogies and the Trouble With Defining Life 00:52:30 NASA's Four Tests for Life 00:59:12 Drawing the Line: Fire, Rivers, Ecosystems 01:05:00 Michod's Individuality Gate 01:11:31 Intent, Agency, and the "Want" Problem #philosophy #philosophyofmind #emergence #consciousness #cosmos MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/ AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98 DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss MAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671