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117 - Eric Wargo on Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious
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This weekâs guest is Eric Wargo, author of Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious.
Contrary to your most likely first impression based on the title of the book alone, this is a supremely carefully constructed argument that anticipates its critics, understands statistics and their abuse, appeals to our desire for simplicity in scientific explanations, and single-handedly reorganizes the entire field of parapsychological research beneath a new and rational umbrella that allows for major weirdness without sacrificing mechanistic causation or parsimony. Telepathy and spooky action at a distance, Jungian synchronicity and many worlds quantum physics all get re-evaluated under Wargoâs tesseract-brain model, in which thereâs no such thing as entanglement, but living systems co-opt quantum post-selection to âsteerâ toward evolutionarily significant events.
If you have ever dreamt of something that then happened in your waking life, this episodeâs for you. And if you think that timeâs an arrow and this all sounds like high nonsense, this episode is also for you.
I canât possibly attempt to cover all the subjects we discuss in these two hours, but here are books and essays that we reference (some of which I havenât read):
Eric Wargo - Time Loops
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Loops-Precognition-Retrocausation-Unconscious/dp/1938398920
J. Scott Turner - Purpose & Desire
https://www.amazon.com/Purpose-Desire-Something-Darwinism-Explain/dp/0062651560
(I have to make a personal note that without having read this book, Iâve read enough reviews to caution anyone against taking it as legitimate science. Iâve argued for the importance of beauty and desire, purpose and effort in the evolutionary process â and Iâve argued evolution in general does have a kind of direction. So Iâm sympathetic to the authorâs desire to re-introduce these ideas into the discussion. But from everything I can tell this particular book misrepresents evolutionary theory in its attempts to get where it wants to go, and I canât support that.)
Paul Davies - The Goldilocks Enigma
https://www.amazon.com/The-Goldilocks-Enigma-Universe-Right/dp/0713998830%
Matthew Fox - âThe Return of the Black Madonnaâ
Seth Lloyd, et al. - âThe quantum mechanics of time travel through post-selected teleportationâ
https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.2615
Eric Wargo - âDream Paleontologyâ
http://thenightshirt.com/?p=4215
Eric Wargo - âWhat Lies Under The Skinâ
http://thenightshirt.com/?p=3198
Theme Music: âGod Detectorâ by Evan âSkytreeâ Snyder (feat. Michael Garfield)
https://skytree.bandcamp.com/track/god-detector-ft-michael-garfield
Additional Music: âIt All Turned Out All Rightâ by Michael Garfield
https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/track/it-all-turned-out-all-right
Support this show on Patreon to join the book club and for secret episodes (and the last ten minutes of this conversation):
https://patreon.com/michaelgarfield
Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/futurefossils.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This is a public episode. If youâd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe
219 episodes
Manage episode 236876392 series 2407639
This weekâs guest is Eric Wargo, author of Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious.
Contrary to your most likely first impression based on the title of the book alone, this is a supremely carefully constructed argument that anticipates its critics, understands statistics and their abuse, appeals to our desire for simplicity in scientific explanations, and single-handedly reorganizes the entire field of parapsychological research beneath a new and rational umbrella that allows for major weirdness without sacrificing mechanistic causation or parsimony. Telepathy and spooky action at a distance, Jungian synchronicity and many worlds quantum physics all get re-evaluated under Wargoâs tesseract-brain model, in which thereâs no such thing as entanglement, but living systems co-opt quantum post-selection to âsteerâ toward evolutionarily significant events.
If you have ever dreamt of something that then happened in your waking life, this episodeâs for you. And if you think that timeâs an arrow and this all sounds like high nonsense, this episode is also for you.
I canât possibly attempt to cover all the subjects we discuss in these two hours, but here are books and essays that we reference (some of which I havenât read):
Eric Wargo - Time Loops
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Loops-Precognition-Retrocausation-Unconscious/dp/1938398920
J. Scott Turner - Purpose & Desire
https://www.amazon.com/Purpose-Desire-Something-Darwinism-Explain/dp/0062651560
(I have to make a personal note that without having read this book, Iâve read enough reviews to caution anyone against taking it as legitimate science. Iâve argued for the importance of beauty and desire, purpose and effort in the evolutionary process â and Iâve argued evolution in general does have a kind of direction. So Iâm sympathetic to the authorâs desire to re-introduce these ideas into the discussion. But from everything I can tell this particular book misrepresents evolutionary theory in its attempts to get where it wants to go, and I canât support that.)
Paul Davies - The Goldilocks Enigma
https://www.amazon.com/The-Goldilocks-Enigma-Universe-Right/dp/0713998830%
Matthew Fox - âThe Return of the Black Madonnaâ
Seth Lloyd, et al. - âThe quantum mechanics of time travel through post-selected teleportationâ
https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.2615
Eric Wargo - âDream Paleontologyâ
http://thenightshirt.com/?p=4215
Eric Wargo - âWhat Lies Under The Skinâ
http://thenightshirt.com/?p=3198
Theme Music: âGod Detectorâ by Evan âSkytreeâ Snyder (feat. Michael Garfield)
https://skytree.bandcamp.com/track/god-detector-ft-michael-garfield
Additional Music: âIt All Turned Out All Rightâ by Michael Garfield
https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/track/it-all-turned-out-all-right
Support this show on Patreon to join the book club and for secret episodes (and the last ten minutes of this conversation):
https://patreon.com/michaelgarfield
Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/futurefossils.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This is a public episode. If youâd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe
219 episodes
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