Ralph Leighton
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164 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
Ralph Leighton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So he was definitely hippie-esque, hippie sympathizer very much.
So, Esalen just has the combination of being on the edge of the continent and also being on the edge of consciousness and, you know, open to infinities of other dimensions, you know, nature of reality, all these concepts.
You open your mind and you see what's out there and what's possible, but trying to be careful not to fool yourself.
There's something going on with Feynman and the edge of the continent.
I mean, he grew up on far Rockaway and he's got two beaches there.
He's got the ocean side and he's got the lagoon side.
And then you get to California, you know, you're staring into infinity.
You know, you're at the edge.
So I think Feynman liked being at the edge.
boundaries between land and water, the boundary between consciousness and unconsciousness, the boundary between understanding something and not quite understanding something.
And I think he knew that you find out the most interesting things when you're poking around the edges.
I heard people around in the bath saying, Tiny Machines?
What is he talking about, Tiny Machines?
And I said to him, you know, very small machines, and it doesn't work.
I am talking about very small machines, okay?
It was very much the beginning of nanotechnology.
He gave a talk in 1959 at Caltech about
which was called There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.
And what he meant by that is that there was an opportunity by making our technologies smaller and by making smaller devices to take advantage of the potential to put a lot more devices in a small volume of space.
And he recognized that that would be important for computing.
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