Mike Corey

That's, that's Thomas Malthus.

That's Malthus.

Okay.

Yeah, there it is.

The essay is on principle of population.

Yeah, population growth increases geometrically exponentially while food supplies only increase arithmetically.

And again, he totally, so he foresaw that by the end of the 19th century,

There would be a cataclysmic like Armageddon-like situation unless we acted preventatively then in whatever 1798.

And he ignored, this is where the better theoreticians, including the enemies of Darwin, James Dwight Dana being one major American biologist who was coming up with his own theories of cephalization as a way of explaining the mechanisms of what causes the flow of new species.

the adaptability based upon uh the the increased tendency of the nervous system to uh biologically centralize control uh that take more influence from earlier species that were more quadrupedal you know that didn't have the arrangement that the human mind is or the human brain has that there's been like this this tendency in all species to to organize in like basically

Okay, there's a lot of segues here I could take, so I won't.

But all of these guys, whether it's Karl Ernst von Bayer, who was looking at more of the harmonics of how whole systems will tend to grow with some sense of tempering, some well-tempered harmony.

So if you're a musician, you know, you're thinking about how do you create your octave in multiple octaves.

there's an idea that you can't mathematically fit all octaves because the relationship will change the harmonics and how each octave relates to each other.

So you have to go for a more well-tempering thing that uses an instinct, a musical instinct that will allow for

the piano or whatever instrument you're trying to tune.

And that was informing a lot of the best scientists.

So there was an idea that musicality, harmonics was something to inform our formation of hypotheses that explain biological, physiological or even physics.

And Karl Ernst von Baer was just a pioneering scientist who was looking at

The role of creativity, how something new that was more than the sum total of its parts could occasionally express itself that didn't have 100% precedent in previous systems.