2025-3-MC-JP Marceau on Symbolic Thinking

PBC-26-1: Introduction. Bi-literacy.

- What is the Paper Books Cure? - How we need to become Bi-literate. - Attention span.

55-PBC-Things have memory; Deep reading; immaterial reality

- Deep reading, deep thinking - How AI is changing us - Molecules and cells have memory, telos, purpose - Understanding immaterial reality - Girl from the North Country (Dylan)

MC-1-Can we build a culture on stories about nothing? American Nihilism in Pulp Fiction

- T.S. Eliot on culture - Nihilism - that human beings have no Telos, no purpose, no story arc. - Pulp Fiction as case study

2025-3-MC-JP Marceau on Symbolic Thinking

My interview with JP Marceau on symbolic thinking. Recorded on June 8, 2025.