Alex Danco—Where the Circle Begins, or Ends (EP.117)

Our recurring guest (who rarely recurs these days), Alex Danco, comes back for his sixth appearance on Infinite Loops! Important Links:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Alex_Danco
• Website: https://alexdanco.com/
• Newsletter: https://danco.substack.com/

Show Notes:

• Our planned, but unplanned conversations
• Pink Floyd were philosophers
• From Heraclitus, to Lao Tzu, to Gita, to Deutsch
• Where does decision making come from?
• Projection 101
• Can you versus can’t you read people’s mind
• Jim throwing big fancy words like “Phylogenetic inertia”
• Corn: The apex predator
• Self-serving nature of memetic theory
• The Mirror Philosophy
• What is a “creator”?
• Communication theory by Gregory Bateson
• The Founding Murderer
• Consequences of eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge
• "The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.”
• Hot media vs. Cool media
• The Wire, and dumb Stringer
• The state of accreditation
• Balancing mystery with transparency
• Knowing pop culture as a status symbol
• And MUCH more!

Books Mentioned:

• The Science of Storytelling; by Will Storr
• The Status Game; by Will Storr
• Happy; by Derren Brown
• The Selfish Gene; by Richard Dawkins
• Steps to an Ecology of Mind; by Gregory Bateson
• War and Peace; by Leo Tolstoy