Edward Frenkel
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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Not all of them.
We mentioned Niels Bohr and Newton and Albert Einstein.
But that's where the conundrum is.
How do you find the balance between the two?
So the point I'm trying to make, and this is what I feel, if you ask me what I find most important today, what makes me excited and enthusiastic and passionate, is this idea that
balance.
Nietzsche wrote this book in the 19th century called The Birth of Tragedy, and he presented this theory, which I think is kind of very useful, of these two sides of a human.
One that comes from God Apollo, and that's our left brain, so to speak, proverbial left brain.
So everything has to do with
that has to do with logic and reason and analyzing, dissecting, conceptualizing.
And the other side, which comes from God Dionysus, Dionysus, and that's responsible for intuition, imagination, love.
Dionysus was also God of wine, so it's also that side of human that makes us
sing and engage in revelry and drink wine and spend time with friends and laugh and enjoy it.
So Nietzsche advocated this point of view that those were two complementary sides of every human as well as society.
And the purpose of human life is to find balance between them.
But more importantly, for me, Apollo is like math and Dionysus is like love.
So Dionysus and Apollo in modern version is love and math.
I'm with you.
I would also say that you could, for instance, say that the origin of that,
is the romantic novels that were fed to it, for instance.
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