Seth Paskin
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1,271 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4d ago
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Differences in charges, differences in masses, differences that result in there being forces, let's put it that way.
that lead to there being changes, changes in arrangement, changes in time, changes of the sorts that we would, that are very, very sort of basic.
And that if I say, I'm going to imagine what it's like to be an electron, and I'm going to go through that experience, you know,
I'm going to imagine what it's like to be a particle of silver.
The normal way I would talk about that is I would go, I was understanding as analogical, is I am imagining and I'm using that point of view, as Mark put it, as a way to think very carefully about
what the interactions are with me.
And so when I say I'm going to be an atom of silver, then I am imagining interactions and how, you know, well, I have size, I have this kind of composition and you start adding up all the different ways in which a silver atom interacts with the world.
And by making it an eye, it's a cognitive trick to be able to allow you to visualize
think very specifically and clearly about what is happening to that entity in that time and space.
And it's not clear to me how that's different than talking about a bacteria.
So the distinction between living and non-living becomes fundamental here is level of organization.
I'm not going to quibble with it.
There's a self-moving that is going on in an organized way with a living entity that is distinct from non-living matter.
But the weather, which is a complex, physicochemical, self-perpetuating system, doesn't qualify as a living entity the way a single cellular bacteria does.
It doesn't.
Well, no, I'm taking, I am understanding that that would be a bridge too far.
The closest you would do is you would say that the earth is somehow an organism, maybe in some way, that it's a living thing in this respect, because the only thing that the earth is missing is its own replication.
And that might be the linchpin, right, of a self-moving organism, that the living thing perpetuates itself, it replicates itself.
And the weather doesn't do that.
And it's a continuous system.
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