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This is the second episode from our recent meetup with Chris Lehto where we explore his work on the Fractal Universe, where macrobiological entities become a real possibility in the cosmos by way of adherence to NASA's own checklist definition for life. We explore the fractal organization of biological structures, what it means to be a subunit in a living system, and Lehto argues the case that many large scale structures, from nations to galaxies qualify incredibly well. Ultimately, we may prove to be living elements in a much greater order that is only just now coming into focus.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/9fTSsLk5p34

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00:00 Go! Lehto Recap and the Ladder of Scales
00:03:44 Cities, Nations, and the Life Test
00:12:27 Corporations, Money, and Metabolism
00:20:01 Why Scale Forces New Structure
00:30:04 Large Systems as Living Bodies
00:43:42 Life Cycles, Collapse, and Reproduction
00:53:37 Earth's Kin and the Search for Peers
01:05:40 Is the Sun Alive?
01:11:21 Why the Solar System Looks Like an Atom
01:19:25 Cosmic Lifespans and One Unifying Process
01:26:15 What Changes If This Is True
01:40:20 Cross-Scale Science and How Early We Are

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This week we are going to the core of what it means to be alive. If we don't understand where matter turns into the living then how can we be sure we're not missing biological processes all over the universe? Chris Lehto joins us for this first part of a two part series on his work surrounding the Fractal Universe, where we establish the historic basis for our present understanding of what it means to be living. We look at the NASA criteria, Michod's individuality gate, and the overlooked importance of will. This sets us up for part two where we'll put larger scale cosmic structures to the test, working from the city up to galaxies and beyond.

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00:00 Go! Introductions and the Question of Life at Different Scales
00:08:00 Anomalies and the Limits of What We Notice
00:14:01 Microbes: Seen for Centuries, Never Called Alive
00:24:38 Why Every Era Thinks It Sees Clearly
00:33:08 Does Life Stop at Our Scale?
00:42:49 Cosmic Analogies and the Trouble With Defining Life
00:52:30 NASA's Four Tests for Life
00:59:12 Drawing the Line: Fire, Rivers, Ecosystems
01:05:00 Michod's Individuality Gate
01:11:31 Intent, Agency, and the "Want" Problem

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Electric charge has always been handed to us as a fact fixed to the electron, a quantity carved into the particle like a name. But charge may be less a thing the atom has than a thing the atom does, a surface motion that our instruments register with ever increasing precision. In this solo livestream drawn from our upcoming book, Paradox Lost, we explain the exact motions we propose at the atomic surface, drawn from the empirical record and mathematics of quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, and spin 1/2. Come sit close to the curtain, where a fixed fact comes apart into the living motion beneath it.#physics #particlephysics #philosophyofphysics #quantumphysics #electron #quantummechanics #electromagnetism #naturalphilosophy #paradoxlost #demystifysciPre-order our upcoming book, Paradox Lost: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-showMERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Archaeologist Jens Notroff of the German Archaeological Institute takes us into Göbekli Tepe and the Taş Tepeler world, where hunter-gatherers raised T-shaped pillars and carved the aurochs into stone long before the first Bronze Age king wore a crown. No palaces and no royal graves, only a fingerprint pressed into wet plaster and a child's footprint set in a mudbrick, the small human traces that outlast every monument. Follow the bull forward and you feel a line running from Anatolia toward the Bronze Age, and though the road to Mesopotamia is broken and lost, the people who built these sanctuaries did not vanish, they became us. What Notroff leaves us is heavier than any ruin: hierarchy was something human beings made and could have made otherwise, and that old freedom is still ours to remember.

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00:00 Go! Intro, the Puzzle, and Jens's Path In
00:06:03 What Rubbish Tells You That Writing Hides
00:14:34 Metal, Power, and the First Hierarchies
00:22:27 Other Roads Society Could Have Taken, and Violence Before States
00:30:14 Warriors Appear, and Anatolia Seeds European Farming
00:37:58 How Farming Actually Started, and What Göbekli Was For
00:45:35 Who Carved the Pillars, and What the Art Meant
00:54:39 Neolithic Beer, and Why They Built in the Mountains
01:05:49 Humans Take Center Stage in the Art
01:13:55 Bull Imagery That Bridges the Ages, and the Missing Line
01:22:55 A Wider Tradition, Human Awe, and Shaping Nature
01:29:56 Prehistory We Lost to Wood and Water
01:37:01 Backfilling, Fire, and Ritual Staging
01:47:26 Initiation, Death, and the Birds
01:57:07 What Carried Over, and What It Means Now

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The electron arrives in every textbook the same way, a point with no size, no interior, no address, a charge that lives nowhere and hazily explains everything, and nobody stops to tell you what got traded away to buy that convenience. We start at the outer surface of the atom and walk backward through J.J. Thomson and the cathode ray tubes, through the long slow formalization that turned a glow in a glass tube into a fundamental particle with no parts. Then we hand the body back, reading the electron not as something the atom contains but as something the atom does, the motion of an extended surface that has a real edge and a real place in the world. Free electrons, beams in vacuum, the whole cathode ray inheritance still has to come out right, and this is where our upcoming book, Paradox Lost, starts building the material atom from the outside in.#physics #electron #philosophyofphysics #quantumphysics #quantumfoundations #ontology #historyofphysics #matter #paradoxlost Pre-order our upcoming book, Paradox Lost: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-showMERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671