Ultimate Reality According to Pythagoras

[Barklord]

I'm not getting your videos in my sub box. This one is awesome 2b.

[2bsirius]

@Barklord

Thanks....I was just thinking that you might have given up on YouTube. That the only sane course of action btw.

[2bsirius]

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Hope the phlebotomy course is going well.

[Barklord]

@2bsirius Thanks! Next week is final testing and then thee weeks of clinicals to be started sometime (to be determined very soon).

[2bsirius]

@Barklord

I'll be seeing good thoughts your way. I'm serious, but sometimes I sound like I'm reading from a Hallmark card when I try to sound sincere, so hope you know I mean it. 

[Barklord]

@2bsirius I know you're serious. I'm looking forward to finding some positive thing to do to earn a living. This was the perfect transition opportunity. If I like it...who knows (?).

[2bsirius]

@Barklord

I know you're smart and I think you'll do very well.

[ThePeaceableKingdom]

One of my favorite quotes attributed to Pythagoras by Iamblichus:

You should do those things that you judge to be beautiful,

though in doing them you lack renown, for the rabble is

a bad judge of a good thing.

[ThePeaceableKingdom]

A great modern book in the Pythagorean tradition is "A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe." It is, as the ad men say, fun for all ages...

The discovery that the square root of 2 is irrational, or as they reckoned it, must be both odd and even, is usually attributed to one of his followers, who was thrown overboard to prevent the secret getting out... but...

Pythagoras, like Jesus and Buddha, is one of those figures who stands with one foot in history and one in myth.

[HigherPlanes]

Geometry is pretty awesome. Should have paid more attention in school but it seem real boring at the time. I also noticed that from pythagoras tetractys you get the flower of life.

[DanaGarrett]

Good video. You are a natural teacher. Well done.

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

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The two-day symposium will explore:

• The history of astrobiology from antiquity to the present, concerning its’ theories, methods, instrumentation, organization, and its’ interaction with society and popular culture.

• The philosophy of astrobiology, including ethical, societal, epistemological questions, theory of science, interstellar

message construction, and cognitive science.

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

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The main goal of the conference is to bring together researchers from all over the world to share their newest results and insights into the wide field of the history and philosophy of life in the Universe.

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

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The conference will provide an opportunity for historians, philosophers, linguists, cognitive scientists, astronomers, chemists, biologists, geologists, and scholars and scientists from other disciplines to meet and discuss research of mutual interest in the history and philosophy of human conceptualization of and actual search for extraterrestrial life in the Universe.

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

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Topics

Presentations should involve research on the history and philosophy of astrobiology. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• The emergence of astrobiology as scientific field

• The history of exploration of extraterrestrial environments in the search of life

• History of astrobiological theories: planetary system models, etc.

• History of instrumentation, methodology, and technology

• History of planet detection and its methods

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

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• The organisation of astrobiology: institutions, laboratories, journals, etc.

• History of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)

• Astrobiology and society: public communication, economy, and politics

• History of imagination

• Science fiction and popular culture

• Planet protection

• Space ethics

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

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• Definition of life

• Astrobiology and religion

• Astrobiology research policy

• Interstellar communication: cognitive, semiotic, and linguistic approaches

• Cognitive aspects of the development of intelligence

(I'm especially interested in the topic of the 'definition of life'. I know the basic properties of life (as well as Gary's 4) adaptation, balance, energy use, growth, organization, reproduction, response to stimuli and structure, but I am interested in the possibility of more.)

[2bsirius]

@ABitOfTheUniverse

This is interesting, but I'm not sure why you posted this here.

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

@2bsirius Sorry, I go from one topic to the next and the next and just get carried away sometimes...

I did want to point out that @ 2:35 you mention a 10 point triangle, do you mean something like and equilateral triangle that could be broken down into 10 triangles each 1/10 the size of the original, like this:

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@ 2:57 you mention "a pyramid made of 10 points". I think you meant a triangle?

@ 3:16 you mention "4; the solid" there I assume you mean a tetrahedron aka pyramid?

[2bsirius]

@ABitOfTheUniverse

Yes, pretty much. If you Google images:  "pythagora tetractys" . The"tetractys" was the name Pythagoras gave to this ten point triangle.

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

I am particularly interested in the musings of the likes of Democritus and Epicurus in regards to the possibility of other worlds like Earth, other origins of life. Even the modern philosophical impact of the possibility is something relatively few philosophers discuss. There is a conference on Ven, Sweden, Tycho Brahe's Island, on the 27th and 28th this month on the "History and Philosophy of Astrobiology" if you're interested. I'll post some more information about the conference.

[lapisredux]

and why does pithagoras look like osama bin laden?

[lapisredux]

so how come i can read music and play a tune but can,t do maths?

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

What I'm really interested in is their interpretations of how the world works, either mathematically or philosophically. Any highlights I may have missed or little known facts or even rumors like the one involving Hippasus of Metapontum being thrown off a boat for trying to discuss irrational numbers with Pythagoras' inner circle after he'd independently discovered them. Stuff like that is interesting as well, but it's the big picture stuff I, personally, like to hear about.

[TheTempleofNature]

Thanks for this :)

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

Could you cover Socrates, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Aristarchus, Hipparchus, Eratosthenes, Democritus, Archimedes, Thales and Eudoxus? They are some of my favorite ancient Greek and Egyptian philosophers, mathematicians and astronomers. I know most of their works but hearing which of the highlights of their lives you pick would be interesting. I know Pythagoras is attractive because of the mystery surrounding his 'school of thought', like irrational numbers being forbidden, among many other things.

[philos4r]

Pythagoras the python

[davidjohn83]

Thanks for sharing!

[NAVYGOLDEIGHTFOUR]

I really enjoyed that bit, thank you.

[BespokeGroupUK]

enlightening

[pawsoned]

Nice approach and fine photo. Thanks for the upload, keep them coming. I look forward for further parts. This has whetted my appetite.

P.S.: I hate to be nit-picking, (let's say I'll say it to show off) but the photo shows Arabic numerals and Latin Letters whilst, to be accurate, Ancient Greeks used their alphabet as numbers, so particular numbers were represented by alphabetic writing, e.g. 1=α, 2=β etc. Just saying. Peace.