Episode 05: Consilience, how we can better understand everything and each other featuring Tom Beakbane
In this episode, we’re joined by Tom Beakbane, author of How to Understand Everything: Consilience: A New Way to See the World. He’ll be interviewed by Alex Marinos, Founder and CEO of balena. Tom and Alex dig into consilience, the twin sibling of science. While science helps us better understand the natural and physical world, consilience is how we agree and understand the approaches of those subjects. Think of the last “a-ha” moment that you had. Yep, consilience is like that feeling. The two discuss how the practice of consilience can help us have a deeper understanding of one another and help us make better sense of this wild, wild world. Full video version available on our YouTube channel. Interesting links/notes: How to Understand Everything: Consilience: A New Way to See the World Boyce of Reason Podcast s03e103 Jonathan Haidt Joe Rogan & Sanjay Gupta CNN clip Works of Hannah Arendt Humorism Ending Medical Reversal Quanta Magazine