Hello everyone, Jim here. We're taking a brief two-week break from new episodes to spotlight a couple of golden oldies from the Infinite Loops archive. Years later, these remain some of my favorite conversations. We’ll be back soon with fresh episodes, but in the meantime, enjoy this trip back to February 2024, when we welcomed the one and only Rupert Sheldrake.

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Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of 9 books and over 100 scientific papers. A critic of what he sees as the scientific establishment’s dogmatic dedication to materialism, he is perhaps best known for his theory of “morphic resonance,” via which information and activity can be transferred across space and time. Rupert joins the show to discuss being branded a heretic, how to test for telepathy, his advice for young scientists, and MUCH more!

Important Links:

Rupert’s Website
Rupert’s Banned TED Talk
The Science Delusion; by Rupert Sheldrake
A New Science of Life; by Rupert Sheldrake
Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals; by Rupert Sheldrake
Is The Sun Conscious?; by Rupert Sheldrake (Journal of Consciousness Studies)

Show Notes:

The Apostate of Scientism
The Origins of Scientism
How to Achieve a Phase Change in the Sciences
Testing for Telepathy & Incentivizing Intuition
Structural Resistance to Panpsychism
When Science Gets Personal
Loosening the Grip of Determinism
Advice for Young Scientists
Rupert as Emperor of the World
MORE!

Books & Articles Mentioned:

The Science Delusion; by Rupert Sheldrake
New Science of Life; by Rupert Sheldrake
Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals; by Rupert Sheldrake
Is The Sun Conscious?; by Rupert Sheldrake
The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science; by Robert Anton Wilson
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters; by Steven Pinker
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature; by Steven Pinker
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures; by Merlin Sheldrake
The End of Faith; by Sam Harris
The Fifth Science; by Exurb1a
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles; by Lewis Carroll
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; by Robert M. Pirsig
The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward; by Benoit B. Mandelbrot & Richard L. Hudson
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions; by Thomas Kuhn

Rupert Sheldrake — On Scientism, Morphic Resonance and the Extended Mind (Infinite Loops CLASSICS)

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