Alex Danco—Where the Circle Begins, or Ends (EP.117)

Our recurring guest (who rarely recurs these days), Alex Danco, comes back for his sixth appearance on Infinite Loops!

Important Links:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Alex_Danco
  
• Website: https://alexdanco.com/
  
• Newsletter: https://danco.substack.com/
  

Show Notes:

• Our planned, but unplanned conversations
  
• Pink Floyd were philosophers
  
• From Heraclitus, to Lao Tzu, to Gita, to Deutsch
  
• Where does decision making come from?
  
• Projection 101
  
• Can you versus can’t you read people’s mind
  
• Jim throwing big fancy words like “Phylogenetic inertia”
  
• Corn: The apex predator
  
• Self-serving nature of memetic theory
  
• The Mirror Philosophy
  
• What is a “creator”?
  
• Communication theory by Gregory Bateson
  
• The Founding Murderer
  
• Consequences of eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge
  
• "The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.”
  
• Hot media vs. Cool media
  
• The Wire, and dumb Stringer
  
• The state of accreditation
  
• Balancing mystery with transparency
  
• Knowing pop culture as a status symbol
  
• And MUCH more!
  

Books Mentioned:

• The Science of Storytelling; by Will Storr
  
• The Status Game; by Will Storr
  
• Happy; by Derren Brown
  
• The Selfish Gene; by Richard Dawkins
  
• Steps to an Ecology of Mind; by Gregory Bateson
  
• War and Peace; by Leo Tolstoy