JEREMY: Do you have any instruments near you right now? It's part of every time we have a wedding or a funeral. We -- we learned to make fire and music and mathematics, and here we are now, these -- these walking wildernesses of mossy feelings and brambled thoughts beneath this overstory of 100 trillion synapses that are just coruscating with these restless questions. JAD: And the sense of joy and well-being, and then the subsequent crash, right? And for a bit, we really weren’t sure if this was the right episode to put out in this moment. I would -- I would send them letters which they would return until I stopped sending them when I was -- I think when I was about 10 or 11. And so he was like, "Fine, I'll do it once but, like, that's it. A half buttock, yeah. Everyone kind of knew who he was. Her work's been performed by orchestras all over the world. And so what we did ... [PHONE MESSAGE: Call from private caller.]. ; Milky Solar Galaxy System. Like, say nothing. [laughs] So that may be the greatest message a person could leave is to just ... [ARCHIVE CLIP: This is the atrium of a typical Roman house.]. Like, it was this sense of humor of my mom that I, like, didn’t even know existed. That’s fine. And maybe the ultimate goal would be to just devote oneself fully to creating the life that feels the best on this world in the time that we have. [ARCHIVE CLIP, Richard Feynman: For two years, I'm gonna lecture you on physics. But ... RACHAEL: If you today had to go back to you as a kid ... RACHAEL: Would you have a specific sentence that you would share with a younger you? And they all have these, like, very concrete memories that, like, when I think about it it’s like I arrived on the scene right after she left the scene. I think that's what I felt could fit at a piano. You will find that you will have small rooms, the cubicles, the triclinium or dining room, which we find back there.]. But think if you -- there was -- the cataclysm happened, and the creature that inherited the Earth was a super-intelligent form of seal. Yeah. They have a big future ahead of them. I liked the texture of life. JAD: It really does. Okay? Like, Chicken Little-esque. RACHAEL: It is. The electrical grid. Oh, I can't say that on the radio. Oh and by the way, there is no God. RACHAEL: And, like, memories of people because I know how easily they just go away. And he just kind of had to do everything at exactly the right time that it would happen naturally. So I bumped into this idea because of this book that is in my hand right now. That, I think, is the most useful piece of scientific helpfulness, I guess, that you could give. JARON LANIER: So you get a little bit of connection with them. But then when we asked him what would he now would write down as his cataclysm sentence ... JEREMY: You personally, Jaron, what would you do? And then I started thinking that, you know, what's -- what's sort of even bigger than racism? Like, it's just so stupid. And then said ... JAD: Does he mean, like, the paper fluttering in the breeze that lands in the hand of the next person, it would have nothing written on it? RACHAEL: To me, like, this is what makes this sentence so cool. RACHAEL: Well I mean, a lot of my, like, young friends, like, don’t want to look towards older people because they think, like, this is a mess and, like, we are the future and we need to do this. With kind of looking like the Virgin Mary or the Virgin de Guadalupe, wearing the long gown and the blue veil thing and, you know, holding her hand up and a -- and a little bleeding heart with worshipers at her feet, and -- because she would be so gigantic, three, four stories. Humans are one of the few creatures that understand death, and understand -- live -- live their whole lives with the knowledge of their deaths. What one sentence would you pass to the next generation of creatures? The atomic bomb. ], [ARCHIVE CLIP: The air, the trees. Anything could happen. We live in these shitty, decaying bodies, but we feel so special and we feel so important. Do you know what I mean? Why are we wasting time that we could be spending with our friends? JAD: Don't you want to hear -- don’t you wanna hear the -- a musician answer -- do Feynman's exercise? I think that's what I felt could fit at a piano. Something you would kind of like find inside of a fortune cookie? Everything you need to know about the natural world and how to manipulate it. He talked with his hands a lot. That's next week. ], [ARCHIVE CLIP: Gaseous pressure drives this plane forward. You have to go to graduate school, too.]. And so -- and I -- and I chose the piano because it's generally the biggest instrument that we have general access to in New York City right now. ], [ARCHIVE CLIP: Good evening. Taken away because giving some highly-evolved science fact kind of scared him because Jaron thinks, like, you never really know how those are gonna unfurl in another world. Tag: Cataclysm Sentence. Okay. There’s a lot these bright seals can do. At the time, he was like a whippersnapper of Cal Tech. When we could not grasp being mere fractals in one collective being. And we asked her to come down to our station at WNYC, where we have a piano. MATTHIAS KOWALCZYK: Matthias Marcus Kowalczyk, Germany. JAD: I also want to thank -- this is Jad again -- all of the musicians from all over the world who, after the pandemic set in, they recorded themselves in their homes, sent us the audio, and Alex used that to make the giant primordial chord you just heard. And not just because there’s musical knowledge and the knowledge of colors and fragrances and other things that are inarticulable, but because the knack of knowing how to put words together, the knack of knowing how to say in a condensed form a truth is something that involves a feel, a nimbleness, a sort of -- a set of dance moves that nobody, no matter how good you are at slinging sentences, nobody can articulate step by step backwards into this world the under-structure of what allowed him or her to say this thing that involved words. Because what is a chocolate chip cookie? He just threw the seeds on the ground kind of when they would naturally fall on the ground in the fall. JAD: Before we go, one more thing. And so he was like, "Fine, I'll do it once but, like, that's it. Like, if we seem to keep, like, exploding ourselves, how do you have faith that we'll get there ever? There’s a lot these bright seals can do. I mean, I think about it -- I was talking to my friend and they were like, "Why do you only hang out with old people?" Let's just give them a chance to come about naturally and they will eventually. I got the bass, it just like -- everything I do sounds good down here. RACHAEL: Look, I could teach you about the history of these equations and the formulas. JARON LANIER: Well, that becomes a very interesting exercise. JAD: There's a little scrap of paper fluttering in the post-apocalyptic breeze. You, like, take notes because I'm done after this." JARON LANIER: I mean, Feynman and others in his generation who’d come of age working in the Manhattan Project were put in an absolutely impossible moral puzzle where bringing the war to an end decisively was a great good, and the other side in the war had been the darkest evil. RACHAEL: There has to be one thing that's concise and can unlock the universe. Partially because it was fun, but also because it felt important to have an answer. But I do think that it's a choice. Gasoline and air mixed together, form an explosive mixture.]. RACHAEL: I've talked to a lot of physicists this week to understand what the hell the atomic hypothesis is. Where it's like everything is falling apart, like everything ... RACHAEL: Yes. Like, let's just assume that there's not just gonna be one cataclysm and another cycle, but we'll keep on going through these things until just through the grace of randomness, we get some civilization that comes up that's got its act together enough to not have another cataclysm. But of course, you don't really know. MISSY MAZZOLI: This is -- it's ordered. Well, you sit and then -- and then maybe Rachael and I will get, like, half a cheek. Like oh, those three notes in hand number four, that's a major triad. Top of Page, Megan and Rick Prelinger’s Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization. And almost anything you can say will become distorted and somewhat useless if it’s overemphasized in that way. Because I do think that whatever we leave behind needs to contain something about it that would inspire the finder of it to believe in it. And this book comes, and each page is a different musing on science. 4 months ago. He's like the smartest person alive. Like, if we seem to keep, like, exploding ourselves, how do you have faith that we'll get there ever? RACHAEL: He means, like, there's just no piece of paper at all. More », by Ahmed Kabil - Twitter: @ahmedkabil on May 6th, 02020. And it was -- yeah, it was just sort of in a way that I remember thinking like, this is -- this is so pointless. RACHAEL: There are a few memories I know for sure are mine. RACHAEL: Or you can't, like, learn how to be a good partner with the atomic hypothesis, you know? But I'll just read a few: Planetary Motion; What is Heat? Because I was just like -- I think most people -- like, even if -- because I’m 24. And then he threw the stalks back on top when he was done. The family life revolved around this area.]. But it was just this, like, little angle of, like, a diamond gem, you know? Like, when my memory finally started to kick in it’s, like, right when she left. Also because the -- the game is not grazing in the same area, trees that previously had been chewed up in their early sapling stages start growing. 9 min read. We live in these shitty, decaying bodies, but we feel so special and we feel so important. [ARCHIVE CLIP, Richard Feynman: The continuous jiggling and bouncing, turning and twisting around one another.]. And then just showing how they work in all the various circumstances. We all need each other. 'Til then, I'm Jad Abumrad. And so sometimes I just hang back and let them talk. Perhaps we’ve only taken away. When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone Park, at first the thinking was we're just doing this because we don't fully understand yet all the ways that this species is important, but we know that it is and it's been absent and we finally have this opportunity to reintroduce them into Yellowstone. You would not know ... JAD: Is there anything else on there because I ... RACHAEL: No. He didn’t use fertilizer, he just grew kind of ground cover. Part three ... [ARCHIVE CLIP, Richard Feynman: Atoms attract each other when they are some distance apart, but repel being squeezed into one another.]. Also, chocolate chip cookies. [whispers] Because we're humble. Why did we not learn from this? JARON LANIER: Like, I was like, "Oh my God, this guy's just -- like, it's not fair. Episode. I mean, it’s astonishing that we’re not, you know, spending every day in marvel at the improbability that we even exist. Part one tells you what matter is. I feel like I got the best part. Oh, I think I've actually seen photos of this. RACHAEL: I don't know. Here we are. And then it's two tones, and then it's more. I was being walked down a hallway by my friend Cynthia, and he was in there explaining something to a small class of people with his hands, primarily. CORD JEFFERSON: "The only things you're innately afraid of are falling and loud noises. I think he had ... RACHAEL: Slicked back hair. We want them to -- look, they’re busy figuring out how to better get around the beach, get along with each other, maybe build some kind of nice slide so they can zoom down and fly off and have some fun. 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