Dr. Bruce Damer's Levity Zone

I appreciate how well evolution by natural selection, neuroscience, and cognitive studies and findings jive with Dr Damer’s PIM model. Dr Damer hits directly upon the natural high point of human self-reflection (pun intended)- our capable understanding of what is and where leads what we call “consciousness.” Now, we are living in the extra-dimensional peaks and troughs of selected human cognition- further ratcheted up, down, and all around the hills and valleys of realms heretofore unknown (if a tree falls...?). On top of it all we encounter a vast topography of natural selection’s probability space, where impulse reverberates, along with echoes of inductive bets of days gone by - decisions made way off over many hilltops, and the astonishing array of outcomes from far removed contexts for reasons that are no longer relevant... (Icarus comes to mind)... the inductive whirring of evolution’s engine produces exhaustive feedback (and suggest a dizzying sequence of trajectories). But it is our own technological vision quest; and Its artifacts are the primogenetic children of mankind, like AI is a vision of self-realization. But, apocalyptic self fulfillment hurts! And we seek a cure for what ails us!

Great podcast and an excellent slice of Dr' Bruce's early academic life; a bit of an origin story for this intrepid voyager along with some really powerful sentiments and insights from Dr. Bruce himself. Below are a couple of quotes that I found to be particularly interesting: (about really getting the most out of your University Experience) “…it’s the special projects where the real learning and the real magic happens, those special projects…Curriculum is just the framework, it’s not the whole thing; it’s not the human being, really. And I think as long as we allow students to grow outside of that curriculum and take stuff from it and squeeze it back in, we’re going to make really powerful learning environments.” (about our (human) potential) "…and I think that it's this: Dream plus intention plus action is the greatest tool humans will ever have and it's how we will build a very beautiful, positive future." —Dr. Bruce Damer

Dr. Bruce is one of a kind, high-level thinker

This is way out there, but makes so much sense! Love this guy. Thanks for the good words Dr Bruce!