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f(q) = Is soil a definitive sign of life? (#TCAFG) SynTalk is a freewheeling interdisciplinary talk show with a philosophical approach to understanding the world from a long term perspective.
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#TEOR (The Effects Of Rights) --- SynTalk
Are you a born criminal? Is genocide ever justified? Is meritocracy a ‘garbage’ concept? What are the entitlements that you have by virtue of being a...
#TEST (The Entangled Sweet Tooth) --- SynTalk
How many meals do you have time for? Why do sweets make you happy? Does fruit sugar (fructose) need insulin? Why does sugar spike? Are oranges and gra...
#TGIP (The Goddesses In Particular) --- SynTalk
How do you look at women? Do Goddesses follow Gods? Is the ultimate Reality an ‘It’? What’s the relationship between matter and energy? Are dualities...
#TDAG (The Dead And Gone) --- SynTalk
Do you have neanderthal DNA? Is your body your identity? What makes the knowledge of death possible when no one alive has experienced it first hand? H...
#TOOP (The Oxygen Of Publicity) --- SynTalk
Are you a lobby strategist? Do you negotiate with yourself? Which taste group do you belong to? What are you allowed to see? Do you pay to publish? Do...
#TGFF (The Grounds For Flight) --- SynTalk
What do you expect to see on windy islands? Can you soar? Are there a finite number of ways of flying? Did we glide before flying? Do birds & insects...
#TOOI (The Order Of Institutions) --- SynTalk
How do the disposable get marked out? Which institutions have cognitive control over you? How do you develop railways in Argentina? Who changes instit...
#TPOP (The Production Of Places) --- SynTalk
How ‘deep’ would a 1,000 years be? Is all space place? How do use, identity, value, law, power, or (‘imaginative’) memory hold them together? Do we li...
#TSOFF (The Susurrus Of Former Futures) --- SynTalk
What happened in the 6th century BCE? Can a non-human (robot? dog?) have a soul? Does God’s time move from the past to the future? Is the present, in...
#TPHAL (The Punk Hooligan And Lumpen) --- SynTalk
Who does the kidnapping and raping? Are you a parasite? Is your politics in the service of capital? Do the lumpen form one group/class, or is it a gen...
#TTTC (The Transformations To Complex) --- SynTalk
Is pencil complex? Is computationally hard complex? Is ‘i’ a weird number? Why wasn’t Hamilton able to multiply triples? Are we just a bunch of neuron...
#TLAN (The Learnable And Not) --- SynTalk
Are you a master of your emotions? How do banks learn to loan better? Is king less queen = boy less girl in the word2vec world? Does your ‘body’ somet...
#TEHN (The Eternal Human Nature) --- SynTalk
Do you have the courage of a Spartan? Are we all partly anarchists? What are we truly? What do we value? Are Reason and Nature entangled? Is there a h...
#TAOTA (The Audition Of The Audible) --- SynTalk
‘How’ are you hearing what you are hearing? Is hearing decoding? Do you already know what’s next? Would it have helped to have an accompanying video?...
#TRIC (The Repetitions In Compositions) --- SynTalk
Does randomness lie in the eye of the beholder? ‘What’ is music? Why is ordering often a consequence of scaling? Is there such a thing as non-repetiti...
#TOOPP (The Out Of Place People) --- SynTalk
Are your attachments secure? Are you disabled? Have you ever lost your mind? Is there a link between Being, becoming, experience, & location? Are all...
#TSSM (The Sub Structure Mosaic) --- SynTalk
Are humans statistical systems with random biases? Is the world fundamentally discrete, & the continuum an emergent property? Or, is the quantum world...
#TOAH (The Organism Artefact Hybrids) --- SynTalk
Do you talk to your toaster? Do you think of ‘your’ bacteria as yourself? What self-replicates? Do organisms age during hibernation? Does the hybrid p...
#TSOH (The Sandbox Of Hills) --- SynTalk
Do you live with animals? Are your summers busy? Could a 1000 metres apart be several hours apart in the hills? How does that define culture? Could th...
#TMIE (The Mental In Environmental) --- SynTalk
Were there thoughts >80,000 years ago? Can you say what you feel? How is your Broca’s area? ‘Where’ is the mind? Is it individuated? &, insulated? Whe...
#TWATA (The Witness And The Analyst) --- SynTalk
Can you meta point? Do you celebrate objectivity? Is there a lot happening that is ‘undocumentable’? Are facts and values entangled? Are several valua...
#TBOD (The Biography Of Defiance) --- SynTalk
Can one become English? What does this have to do with the Suez Canal? Are you white? Are we free? Is it good to be obedient? Is the Other always an e...
#TSOTA (The Stories Of The Anonymous) --- SynTalk
Who are you? Would you like to have a new name? Were there many Kalidasas? Have you ever been with a mountain? Does your family have recorded history?...
#TROO (The Reification Of Objects) --- SynTalk
Why do we reify? When are you able to read others' minds? Is this a pedestrian? Are sensation and perception tied together? How are new mental templat...
#TCATC (The Creator And The Created) --- SynTalk
Are you a romantic genius? Are artists incapable of understanding their own creations? Where does inspiration come from? Is Nature divine? Can art div...
#TIBB (The In Between Binaries) --- SynTalk
Are you expected to reproduce? Where is hell? Should patriarchy be ‘smashed’? Are brains masculine or feminine? Are biological and social factors deep...
#TLWW (The Leashes We Wear) --- SynTalk
Do you respect the bones of your forefathers? Are your hands free? Were the hunter gatherers happier? Are nomads now likely to be criminals? Are you a...
#TPLB (The Past Laid Bare) --- SynTalk
Is the past ‘all over the place’? Is it the stories that keep buildings and communities alive? Are stories mental artefacts of the past? Did H.M. have...
#TNMS (The Non Main Stream) --- SynTalk
Are you a middle-roader? Is Jai Santoshi Maa a mainstream film? Are you exposed to world cinema? ‘What’ is popular? Are dialects non-standard? Does wr...
#TATS (The Absent Turn Seven) - - - SynTalk
Many sorts of things don't happen. Plans are made and deferred. Films are left undeveloped. Subjects are avoided. Dreams are un-dreamt. Planes take of...
Uhntākshurry - A Soupçon Of Seas (Vol VI)
The Antakshari Scene: The antakshari scene located mid-film is a prime example of the intertextuality found in MPK and the originality that comes in p...
Jocelyn - A Soupçon Of Seas (Vol V)
The intensity of celestial sources passing over the fixed field of radio receivers was recorded on strip charts and had to be analyzed by visual inspe...
Subjectivity - A Soupçon Of Seas (Vol IV)
One of the central theses underlying the phenomenology of body is that of bodily subjectivity. It might appear as though by speaking of “bodily subjec...
Hypochondria - A Soupçon Of Seas (Vol III)
Frankfurt, 1797: at twenty-seven, Hegel plunged into a profound crisis. He no longer knew what he thought; he no longer knew what to think. The republ...
Commencement - A Soupçon Of Seas (Vol II)
Defarge closed the door carefully, and spoke in a subdued voice: “Jacques One, Jacques Two, Jacques Three! This is the witness encountered by appointm...
Scenes - A Soupçon Of Seas (Vol I)
“What do you do at his place? What do you and he talk about?” asked Stolz. “You know, it’s so proper and cozy at his place. The rooms are small and th...
#TCCD (The Change Called Development) - - - SynTalk
Are you able to realize your potential? Is your country under-developed? Is development a kind of gradual unfurling? Could it then be an infinite, del...
#TCAFG (The Coarse And Fine Grained) --- SynTalk
How do you like your Matcha? Why do fine and coarse materials behave very differently? Is surface texture usually a sign of sub-structures? How does r...
#TFON (The Formation Of Nations) --- SynTalk
How old are passports? Are you a resident citizen? Are nations primeval or modern? Were the colonizers, such as England, the first nations? Are all co...
#TROE (The Religion Of Eating) --- SynTalk
Should Aristotle have also cooked? Would you eat dog meat? What does your food say about your conception of Reality? How is our gut first colonized? W...