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Negotiating Reality PodcastEpisode 4. Beings AdaptIntroductionHello, and welcome back to the Negotiating Reality Podcast. I'm your host, Eric Hekler.We've been on a three-part journey exploring the fundamental assumptions we make about the nature of reality—what philosophers call metaphysics. Today, we reach one that may initially feel disorienting, but as you grow into it, I hope you'll find it truly liberating and inspiring for navigating our current moment (and the need for it was perfectly set up in my discussion with colleagues, Mai Nguyen and Keith Pezzoli, check it out here). In Episode 1, we explored the ch...
2025-09-051h 14
Negotiating Reality PodcastEpisode 2c. Thinking in Deep Time - A Conversation with Dr. Marcia BjornerudSummaryIn this mind-bending conversation, geoscientist Dr. Marcia Bjornerud (author of Timefulness and Turning to Stone) and I explore the radical implications of thinking in geological time—and why our culture's "adolescent pugilistic relationship with nature" is literally threatening our survival.We dive deep into the ramifications of taking an overly "Newtonian" worldview to science, examine the sobering parallels between today's climate crisis and the "slow-mo catastrophes" that caused Earth's prior great mass extinctions, and explore why mainstream geology just may be quietly aligning towards ideas that may have been dismissed as "new agey.” Dr...
2025-08-081h 27