#52 - Reading, Learning, Creativity, and Storytelling

Books, reading, Socrates, memory, Plato’s Dialogues, Gilbert Ryle’s ‘The Concept of Mind’, different ways of thinking, hyper-intelligent debates, Twitter and technology, quantum biology, knowledge as power, self-development, wisdom and humility, Dostoyevsky, airport thrillers and heroin, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, controlled adversity, triple-deckers, Werner Herzog, J. A. Baker’s ‘The Peregrine’, imagination and creativity, science fiction, Stanisław Lem’s 'Solaris', Christopher Priest’s 'The Prestige', physics, art, storytelling, and our monkey brains.  Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Adam Nicholson is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom). Recorded on February 21, 2022. http://majamalmcrona.comhttp://instagram.com/majamalmcrona https://twitter.com/G_JuliusGeezerhttps://publickopinions.wordpress.com/