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🗓️ 21 November 2018
⏱️ 77 minutes
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This week we speak with science writer and cultural anthropologist, Dr Eric Wargo.
Eric is the man behind the nightshirt.com and the author of the recently released book, Time Loops.
We talk retrocausation, precognition, and whether our capacity to ‘feel the future’ extends beyond the human world, what that might say about the structure of the universe and our role in it.
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0:00.0 | Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored. |
0:12.0 | All the broken and shunned creatures. |
0:17.7 | Someone's got to care for them. |
0:20.0 | Who shall it be if not us? Yes. |
0:26.0 | Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you |
0:45.1 | from 43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania. |
0:49.1 | My name is Gordon and I shall be your host. |
0:51.8 | This week we welcome to the show Science Writer and Cultural |
0:54.4 | Anthropologist Dr Eric Wargu. Eric is the man behind the night shirt.com and the |
0:59.2 | author of the recently released book Time Loops. He joins us today to talk about retro-causation, precognition, and |
1:06.3 | whether or not we live in a deterministic universe. Quick note before we begin, the |
1:11.3 | Skype gremlins were out in force for this conversation. |
1:14.7 | So there are three or four dropouts I didn't actually notice at the time. |
1:18.8 | Listening back, it's still easy to follow along after they happen, but it's best to hang a lamp on it before we |
1:24.0 | begin which we will now do. Eric welcome aboard. Thanks for having me this is |
1:31.0 | great. Yeah yeah yeah very much looking forward to it. |
1:33.9 | Congratulations on the book, which we will certainly dive into momentarily, but before we get there, |
1:42.1 | we have a traditional first question which given the discussion is about |
1:45.9 | retro causality I'm interested in whether or not Eric you were a weird kid? Yeah, well you know are you talking what did I |
1:58.8 | experience my childhood is weird or in hindsight was it weird I mean in hindsight you know sure I was |
2:05.0 | not having the same thoughts or doing the same things as my peers I don't think |
2:12.0 | but you know I you know I but you know, I was, you know, |
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