Are We Living in a Dark Age? Bret Speaks with Steve Patterson

Bret Speaks with Steve Patterson on the subject of today’s world and what we face as time progresses. Some of us have begun to wonder, given the vast array of unscientific beliefs that recently echoed across civilization, are we entering a cryptic dark age? Might we be living in one already? Steve Patterson, a philosopher and independent researcher, has reached an even more unsettling conclusion. Despite the remarkable pace of technological progress, we have lived our entire lives in the scientific dark.

Find Steve at his website: https://steve-patterson.com/

Find Steve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/steveinpursuit

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction

(05:33) Sponsors

(10:27) Establishing critical concepts in fields of study

(17:40) Bret's mentors and Richard Dawkins

(36:32) Popularizers of science

(41:12) Martial Arts

(53:43) Trade-offs and interdisciplinary skills

(57:53) COVID

(01:02:19) Bret's Jamaica hiccup story and burning sage at funerals

(01:07:03) God and faith in science

(01:11:12) Consciousness and the hard problem

(01:26:15) Free will

(01:29:05) Is Bret an atheist? Defining religious

(01:39:40) Religion shaped hole and what religion got right about civilization collapse

(01:44:07) Debate between Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson

(01:49:00) Underestimating the complexity of the world 

(01:56:41) Diminishing returns and keeping hypotheses open

(02:06:33) The process of science creates noise

(02:08:41) How markets function

(02:10:20) COVID Vs and complex systems

(02:19:00) Are we in a dark age? Foundation of mathematics

(02:39:20) Steel man of believing in bad ideas

(02:48:30) Psychological features and ideas

(02:54:30) Wrap up

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