Yeah, hi everybody. I'm very excited today. In an ideal world I would have loved to actually be delivering this lecture with the video capability. I know that Elon has stated that, you know, the video option

for X-spaces should be available soon. I think that would be really helpful

because then I can actually show some diagrams that are important to show as I try to

explain some of these concepts.

In the meantime, what I've done is if you go to the thread where I posted the alert that there'll be a an X-spaces today. I I

posted three screenshots of three nomological networks of cumulism. three paper, let me just read for you the title. The title of the paper is on the

method of evolutionary psychology and its applicability to

consume a research. It's published in a Journal of Marketing

Researchers which is one of the truly top a plus journals in the field.

It's June 2017 pages 464 to 477 and what I've done is shown you figures 2 3 and 4 and I'll get into all that.

So what are nomological networks of cumulative evidence will get into all that in a second.

And some of you who follow my work have probably heard me talk about this.

And this is something that not only that I discuss in the paper

that I just cited my 2017 paper but in chapter 7 of the parasitic mind the chapter is

on how to seek truth. I go into great detail about this

epistemological tool and again it's I can almost think of nothing that is more important epistemologically

than for me to lecture about this because it is a incredibly powerful technique for amassing evidence in support of a position that you are taking.

Before I do that, let me step back a bit.

So in science, when we're, or in just generally when we're talking about truth,

we can break up truth into different classifications of truth.

So for example, a mathematical truth or an axiomatic truth is different from an empirical truth.

So mathematical proof or truth would be, you know, 2 plus two equals four is that a true statement or not.

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