Jonathan Pageau
speaker
5 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Jonathan Pageau’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Dawkins at some point said something like, I don't care about these stories. I care about the kind of science and the kind of prediction that can help us land, you know, a spaceship on the moon. And I was like, I care more about why the hell would we want to land a spaceship on the moon? Why would humans do that?
That's more interesting to me or more important than the fact that we're capable of doing it.
It's the Mariner's journey. It's the Mariner's story. You know, you have all these stories, ancient stories, the story of Ulysses or the story of St. Brendan, who goes out into the ocean and, you know, goes in a land that nobody has been before. These are the stories that we care about. The idea of going out.
Yeah.
It's the joining of something with identity. That's why we plant flags or crosses when the explorers would encounter new lands. They would plant a vertical pole to say, this is an identity. This is the new center of the world.
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