Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · blog0.776

   This is a group of 5 th graders considering the sentence, “All people are animals.” One of the students offered this as another example of a true sentence that becomes false when reversed. Jeff objected that “All people are animals” is not true. Chip proceeded to develop a taxonomy that relegated people, along with elephants and tigers, under the heading of mammals, mammals under animals, and animals under living things. Jeff continued to object. Chip: “Jeff, what are people? Just tell me, what are people? You can’t answer that, can you?” Jeff: “Yes, I can.” Chip: “What are you?” Jeff: “A pers…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/philosophy-for-children.md

2. 02 · gutenberg0.750

   I will continue calmly concerning persons with strong nerves who do not understand a certain refinement of enjoyment. Though in certain circumstances these gentlemen bellow their loudest like bulls, though this, let us suppose, does them the greatest credit, yet, as I have said already, confronted with the impossible they subside at once. The impossible means the stone wall! What stone wall? Why, of course, the laws of nature, the deductions of natural science, mathematics. As soon as they prove to you, for instance, that you are descended from a monkey, then it is no use scowling, accept it f…

   gutenberg/PG-600-notes-from-the-underground/PG-600.txt

3. 03 · yt0.739

   Brian: Yeah, I can imagine. Kip: His   apology and Oppenheimer didn't... And so it was a  momentous moment in the history of science that,   of miscommunication between these two great men. Brian: And was   it an arrogance on Oppenheimer's or just a- Kip: No, no. Brian: ...feeling bad? Kip: I don't think so. Brian: Or what do you think the emotion was? Kip: I think he   was just ... I don't know. I didn't know. I  knew Wheeler better than I knew Oppenheimer.   Certainly Oppenheimer is capable of arrogance,  but I don't think so. …

   yt/PTs--eFrzGo-greatest-mysteries-of-gravity-brian-greene-kip-thorne-world-/transcript.txt

4. 04 · yt0.739

   >> Yeah, I think it's going to be great to set a bit of the framework and set the stage, not assuming people have t tuned into the previous two conversations. Uh let's start off very baseline. Can you explain to the layman how we don't see reality as it is? >> Right. So, most of us assume that what you see is what you get. I see a car. That's because there really is a car there. I see the moon. That's because the moon really is there. And so forth. And and we assume those who know evolutionary theory, for example, might say, well, and the reason we know that we see the truth is bec…

   yt/xaeafKPfs1M-the-greatest-discovery-about-reality-the-consciousness-behin/transcript.txt

5. 05 · _intake0.739

   I told a friend parts of this story in a phone call in 2011, and told him when I was done with all this that I would leave no doubt in any one’s mind with what I found and why it altered my perception. I told him about [Factor X](https://jackkruse.com/may-2012-webinar/), hoping he would see the was a bigger evolutionary story I was painting for people to see. He explained that it might upset the ‘apple cart’ and I should expect some backlash. I told him that people interested in ancestral living should be more interested in the truth of how our biology really works than what they believe. Mart…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/emf-3-the-origin-of-life.md

6. 06 · yt0.738

   Now, I um I've written three long chapters on science and three long chapters on reason in the matter with things extolling these as very important ways of arriving at an understanding of the world. But not on their own. They need supplementation by two other powers intuition and imagination. And of course they say, "Well, you know, but intuition, where's the security in that? Where's the security in imagination? It can lead us astray." But I can demonstrate that reason can easily lead you astray. In fact, as uh G. K. Chesterton, I think very wisely said about madness, that the madman is not s…

   yt/TDC9W1K4Rso-iain-mcgilchrist-how-to-escape-left-brain-thinking/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.738

   [Applause] Well, um, as some of you already know, never buy crackling from a mo. the the rabbi is in the uplift business say Metier as uh was once said and um he thinks it's a point against me that some of the conclusions I draw are not such as to make one happy. I'm unus to arguing in this style. Um, I will simply point out that that's what I'm expected to do in a debate that's organized along these lines against someone who thinks that evolution by means of natural selection, which is a hypothesis, a theory which if tested always works, which allows us to sequence the DNA of the influenza vi…

   yt/vnMYL8sF7bQ-christopher-hitchens-and-rabbi-shmuley-boteach-debate-on-god/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.733

   So, it's not that we don't know what what it is is that we don't even know what it would be like to have an idea. So, it's two levels. So, that's the argument that you know, I I have taken uh seriously. Um and and your approach adds a very sophisticated dimension uh that amplifies the conclusion. Although I'm not totally comfortable that I see each step to get there. Yes, well, I don't know which I mean, there are certain things is it not just the Gödel theorem, but the argument about understanding being a conscious thing. Also, the view that it seems to be evolutionarily uh very important. No…

   yt/vC4HNcqTQXk-roger-penrose-on-mind-consciousness-closer-to-truth-chats/transcript.txt

9. 09 · blog0.732

   The claim that children have their own non-logical way of understanding things is very similar to the doctrine about animals, in the way it limits real rational understanding to adult human beings. The awareness of young animals is particularly impressive to me, because we know the short time they have had in which to learn about the world. Any instance in which a young animal understands a completely novel situation, in a way that is fully adequate and workable, demonstrates that it is capable of intellectual generalization. Beyond that, I think animal inventiveness can teach us about our own…

   blog/raypeat-com/intuitive-knowledge-and-its-development.md

10. 10 · _intake0.732

    I also told him that Paleo was the first giant step in the right direction, and that is why I cared about the movement. But they were not correct in their assumptions. Sometimes being half right can be as bad as being all wrong. They looked back 15,000 years. This is what attracted me to them initially. But they did not realize just how differently I was , because they do not understand the story of how circadian biology wrote the evolutionary story beginning 4 billion years ago. It used quantum mechanics. There would be no evolution without this story. It was a bold statement for sure, but I …

    _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/emf-3-the-origin-of-life.md