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An email from Robert Kuhn to an unnamed recipient (likely associated with Harvard's Evolutionary Dynamics program) dated December 29, 2017. Kuhn discusses the structure and topics for a 'Closer To Truth' season titled 'Radical Breakthroughs,' proposing episodes on Mathematics, Consciousness, Evolutionary Dynamics, and the Replicability Crisis. He requests a schedule to reserve the season and confirms a meeting for January 5.
People (4)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Robert Kuhn | Sender |
Host/Creator of 'Closer To Truth', discussing structure for 'Radical Breakthroughs' series.
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| Unknown Recipient | Recipient |
Implied to be Martin Nowak or someone running the 'Evolutionary Dynamics' program at Harvard.
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| Giulio Tononi | Subject Matter Expert |
Mentioned in relation to Integrated Information Theory.
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| Wigner | Physicist (Referenced) |
Referenced regarding the 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics'.
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| Name | Type | Context |
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| Closer To Truth |
TV Series/Media project mentioned by Kuhn.
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| University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Affiliation of Giulio Tononi.
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| Harvard |
Location of the recipient's program on Evolutionary Dynamics.
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| Nature |
Scientific journal referenced.
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| Science Magazine |
Scientific journal referenced via link.
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Location of the recipient's program.
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Affiliation location.
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Relationships (1)
Discussing production of a TV series season and scheduling meetings.
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"'Blahblahs' forbidden in 'Radical Breakthroughs'."Source
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"Evolutionary Dynamics - your program at Harvard - mathematical models."Source
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"We would like to set a mutually agreed schedule so we can confirm and reserve the Closer To Truth ‘season’ of 13 episodes for 'Radical Breakthroughs’"Source
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"See you Jan. 5 - Looking forward to brainstorming."Source
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On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 1:45 AM, Robert Kuhn <[REDACTED]> wrote:
'Blahblahs' forbidden in 'Radical Breakthroughs'. So we need two replacements (for Multiverse as Science and Rare Sentience).
'Blahblahs' forbidden in 'Radical Breakthroughs'. So we need two replacements (for Multiverse as Science and Rare Sentience).
Initial ideas:
* Expand the first episode “Mathematics and Truth” into two or likely three episodes. I’m intrigued by this because there is so much rich material - pure math, philosophy (discovered or invented), physics (Wigner’s 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences)’, astrophysics, cosmology, biology, general systems theory. I’ve felt frustrated in this first episode because there is so much material. I think three episodes could work - if you agree, I’ll get back to you with a suggested structure of the 2 or likely 3 parts. Also, Closer To Truth has had only a few videos and one episode on mathematics per se (out of 277 episodes!), so this would be original and complementary. In this may, math would become about half the series.
* Integrated Information Theory - quantifying and explaining consciousness (Giulio Tononi, Un of Wisconsin-Madison), plus supporters and critics. New controversial, science-based radical theory.
* Evolutionary Dynamics - your program at Harvard - mathematical models. This is not an area of my expertise, but it could well fit Closer To Truth in general and Radical Breakthroughs in particular. But you need to tell me if you would like to include this.
* Replicability Crisis - Problems in Statistics in Search for Truth. Deep problems of replicability in biomedical and especially psychological research - the scandal in recent years. See links and attachments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
https://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-fail-reproducibility-test-1.18248
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716
“Replicability vs. Reproducibility” - http://www.replicability.tau.ac.il/index.php/replicability-in-science/replicability-vs-reproducibility.html
Five Ways to Fix Statistics - Nature [attached].
* Other possibile areas you suggest
We would like to set a mutually agreed schedule so we can confirm and reserve the Closer To Truth ‘season’ of 13 episodes for 'Radical Breakthroughs’, which we need to plan well in advance - especially as we begin 2018.
See you Jan. 5 - Looking forward to brainstorming.
Robert
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