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The Institute of World Culture aims to promote universal brotherhood and foster human fellowship among all races, nations and cultures. The Institute offers a congenial environment for the contemplation and enjoyment of the rich heritage of human culture.
Discovery of this heritage includes a search for the promise and possibilities of the civilization of the future. To promote its aims, the Institute presents a variety of seminars and cultural events highlighting classical and contemporary themes.
It also sponsors discussion groups on the sciences and philosophies, ethical and psychological perspectives and the arts and crafts of past and present humanity.
Discovery of this heritage includes a search for the promise and possibilities of the civilization of the future. To promote its aims, the Institute presents a variety of seminars and cultural events highlighting classical and contemporary themes.
It also sponsors discussion groups on the sciences and philosophies, ethical and psychological perspectives and the arts and crafts of past and present humanity.
Cosmic Revelations: Exploring Astronomy's Frontiers
Presenter: Daniel Godinez
Daniel Godinez, Ph.D. candidate in the field of Astronomy, shares his path to becoming a modern astronomer, the goals of modern astronomy, and the many exciting questions puzzling us today. He includes cutting-edge research, the mystery of the expanding universe, and the James Webb Space Telescope's latest discoveries. He offers some of the implications of gravity waves, and the question regarding dark matter and its role in cosmic evolution. Daniel describes the quest for missing worlds in the solar system and how AI can help in this search, as well as the AI models he has engineered.
Daniel Godinez, Ph.D. candidate in the field of Astronomy, shares his path to becoming a modern astronomer, the goals of modern astronomy, and the many exciting questions puzzling us today. He includes cutting-edge research, the mystery of the expanding universe, and the James Webb Space Telescope's latest discoveries. He offers some of the implications of gravity waves, and the question regarding dark matter and its role in cosmic evolution. Daniel describes the quest for missing worlds in the solar system and how AI can help in this search, as well as the AI models he has engineered.
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Transformative Education: The Art of Living and Learning
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Presenter: Sonal Murali, Ph.D. What are the significant elements of children's transformative education? Children have their active subconscious mind, which, like a tree, has the power to gather its food from the surrounding atmosphere. Every day the child is searching to understand something, to grasp a piece of life. An educator's role is an interface for the child to explore the inner and th...
The Scientific Foundations of Creative Musical Expression
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Presenter: Barry Bittman M.D. In ancient times, the physician and the musician were one and the same. Music as a healing elixir transcended science and art and extended into the ethereal realm. It also survived the test of time as society evolved around campfires where creative musical expression served as the catalyst for cultural advancement. From rudimentary percussion to dance and song, the...
From Fear Into Love: A Young Man's Odyssey
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Presenter: Ryan Quirk A wise man once said, “the quality of your questions determines the quality of your life.” We are entering a time in human history in which the big questions are the ones we need to be asking. It is no secret that we live in a problem focused society - a society where playing the blame game, and self-victimization have become the norm, where every time we turn on the news ...
Henry David Thoreau: The Rediscovery of Ancient Wisdom
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Henry David Thoreau was a brilliant literary craftsman and American sage of penetrating wit. He was a leading Transcendentalist, poet-naturalist, proto-environmentalist and philosophical anarchist. He was also a deeply intuitive spiritual seeker and natural mystic who drank deeply from the well-spring of Eastern philosophy.
Care for the Earth and Equal Rights
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When we talk about sustainability, we're essentially talking abou the future of life on Earth. We're talking about healthy ecosystems. Now that humanity has made the whole planet its ecosystem, we need to develop conscious awareness that when we act, we are inevitably interacting with the complex systems of which we are an integral part, and on which we are totally dependent. Hugh Kelly will wi...
A.I.: Icarus and Daedalus
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Presenters: Russ Lewin and Aidan Colbert The powerful potentials of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) might be compared to the ancient Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus. In order to escape the labyrinth of Crete, Daedalus constructed wings made of threads and feathers molded into beeswax. Daedalus warns Icarus of the dangers of flying too low, or too high, and risking the wings being clogged by th...
Castles in the Sand: The Common Sense of Constructive Change
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Presenter: David Boals Trust is one of the most basic of human emotions and is fundamental to cooperating with others to achieve common goals. The prospect of change for any kind of group often causespeople to feel uncertain, fearful, and distrusting in anticipating possible outcomes, particularly if the outcomes seem to be out of their control. The purpose of this session is to provide some ba...
Islamic Architecture: Throne of the Compassionate
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An exploration of the sacred geometry, meaning and esoteric symbolism of the Islamic mosque.
Creating a Culture of Conscience: Directives on Global Ethics (PART 2)
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Presenters: Carolyn Dorrance, Marcia Warrecker, Danson Kiplagat, and Jim Tepfer "Commitment to a Culture of Non-Violence and Respect for Life” has to do with the need to treat fellow beings with respect and dignity. This means working to solve conflicts with nonviolent methods and solutions. We need to create a culture of nonviolence and live in harmony with other humans and nature. “Commitment...
Creating a Culture of Conscience: Directives on Global Ethics (Part 1)
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Presenters: Carolyn Dorrance, Maruice Bisheff and Allan Cooley The Institute of World Culture is renewing its commitment to promoting the welfare of humanity and of all that lives while preserving the rich but depleted resources in Nature. Throughout the world, mankind and all life forms are suffering from horrific events, natural and man-made. Thoughtful, transformative and ethical responses a...
Interview on Mysticism, Imagination and Social Responsibility: George William Russell
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Presenter: Kirk Gradin This is a follow-up interview regarding a previous presentation entitled: Mysticism, Imagination and Social Responsibility:The Life and Writings of George William Russell
Drew Tretick: A Classical Violinist's Odyssey
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Presenter: Drew Tretick Drew Tretick brings everything orchestras want from an artist, namely a great player with charisma, connection with the audience, and the greatest charts you could ever find. Orchestras will love playing with him because he makes it so easy, and audiences will keep wanting him back. You will make everybody in your organization happy with Drew Tretick. - Kirk Trevor - Mus...
The Ancient Maya and their Forest: A Co-Creative Landscape
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Presenter: Anabel Ford, Department of Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara Popular views of the Classic Maya present a tableau of an environment destroyed for the avarice of the culture itself. Too many demands on the populace, unchecked population growth, and overuse of the landscape. This is a convenient view; it reflects our own disastrous relationship with our environment in general and our treat...
A brilliant presentation on the most recent astronomical findings, and a window into what is ahead in astronomical research using A.I. and the new Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. Daniel covered a wide range of topics and is a wonderful primer for anyone seeking knowledge in modern astronomy. The explanations are crystal clear and the slides are excellent. The last section of the talk included a live demo of A.I. programming. A very enjoyable experience.🌠
With such horrible sound quality, it is totally pointless.
Brilliant!
A Brilliant and Optimistic Presentation! The insights shared by Dr. Bittman were truly eye opening. Thank you!
Thanks to the IWC for an amazing time! The work you guys do is amazing!
What is the carpet behind you with the vases?
A very insightful presentation. Everyone can benefit from the principles expressed in this talk. Thanks!
This guy is a genius
Great lecture. I learned a lot. Shame about the fly in the ointment at the end with the woman perpetuating the lie about the "dark-skinned, blue-eyed settlers". This has been debunked. Modern genetics is still unable to assert the skin colour of neolithic hunter-gatherers.
FYI: This is the Allemande from Partita No.2 in D Minor
Seems the people in the audience have trouble stringing words together
Also, the audience didn't wait for the microphones and they spoke in quite tones.
Wonderful thanking you
Doesn't start until 12:02
Thank you for your presentation.
Шикарно!
Saved my life twice ! 🙏🌹
Wonderful presentation - thank you!🌳
THANK YOU KIRK, APPRECIATE IT.
Great lecture on an underappreciated writer! Thanks much.
Thanks a lot for the inspiring lecture. Interesting parallels with Blake (first spiritual insight at the age of four, mythical imagination) amd I'm wondering if AE wrote poems, too. Greetings from Poland!
Hello Poland! Over a 40 year period, Russell published 14 books of poetry. Many of his poems were short, one or two pagers, only a few of which are read out in the presentation. In regards to a comparison with Blake, his biographer Henry Summerfield wrote: "AE, a visionary artist akin to Blake, also had affinities with those saints whose boundless love of their fellows is nurtured by an austere self-discipline. Unlike Blake…he resembled Mahatma Gandhi in that his personality was not transformed by a sudden conversion but moulded by the patient exercise of willpower over many years.”
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Very nice presentation 🙇🏻♂️🙏🏻
I hope people will appreciate these records of the people that told their stories on a carpet.
Audio let's this down .
Agree
If you wish to go straight to the music, scroll ahead to 42:00. "Four Songs of Concord" is about 15 minutes.
Dr. Yangdron ཁྱེད་ནས་བོད་ཀྱི་སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་གསོ་རིགས་ཀྱི་རིགས་པའི་གཞུང་ལུགས་དང་སྨན་བཅོས་ལག་ལེན་སྐོར་མི་དཀྱུས་མ་ཚོར་གོ་བདེ་བའི་ངོ་སྤྲོད་གནང་པར་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ། 🙏
She's very Wonderful!
Kindly recommend medicine for increasing blood circulation
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except he didn't design the disney concert hall, back in those days, starting with Guggenheim Bilbao he used a ghostwriter
Great stuff, if possible use compression or soft limiting to raise audio volume
Any idea when war will stop
Since the founding of the United Nations not one year has passed without one or another of its founding members overtly or covertly invading another nation state.
The cost of housing in many places is distorted by "foreign" ownership. A significant part of housing in London is owned by non-resident Arabs, a significant part of housing in San Francisco is owned by non-resident Chinese. As much as 20% of this housing remains unoccupied. Locals cannot compete with the "foreign" money. How much of the housing is owned by non-locals in Santa Barbara? How much of the housing in Isla Vista is owned by non-locals? What we have is a reverse colonialisation where the profits from local housing are drained from the local economy. How can this be reversed? Limits to the growth of non-local ownership of real estate? Small and local is beautiful? Boycotts of the large and ugly?
CAN YOU SUGGEST A MODEL OF SANTA BARBARA BASED ON LIMITS TO GROWTH AND SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL? HOW MIGHT SUCH A MODEL BE IMPLEMENTED?
Wonderful question. Professor Raghavan N. Iyer stated that we can have "A City of Man" globally and even in a city like Santa Barbara (or elsewhere)...if we create the conditions for it. And, we as human beings have the potential and power to approximate that if we can act with some virtue and an altruistic view informed by a living awareness of our moral and functional interdependence. "We" not "I". The Golden Rule in all universal religions. These are the preconditions to any model since all models are based on assumptions as Schumacher points out. These assumptions assume a shift in paradigm first of thought, where metaphysics and ethics become living powers in us, not abstract speculations. We can live by universal principles as did Benjamin Franklin or Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King for example without having to be "perfect". Perfect is honestly doing the best we can with good motive. This means every day attention , practice, reflection and error correction for each of us as well as appreciation of those uplifting and universal teachings we select as guideposts. See pages 94-95 and other excerpts in Small is Beautiful paperback, Perennial Library for the need for a non-materialistic metaphysics and ethics Thus if enough persons will act on behalf of the Human Family, not just their selfish prejudices, truth and human experience will converge with each other over time. We will begin to widen and deepen the circumference and vision of their thoughts and actions, to act more universally which means more creatively and inclusively in the particular situation. This can become a solvent to materialism (and underlying classism and racism) and to the religion of real estate ("not in my back yard"). As to concrete policies, I think a sustainable planning model and process would have a mix of the following features, almost like concentric cricles from the bottom-up. 1) Self-reliance in communities of place (30,000 population) which includes flexible zoning. Limits to growth does not mean absolutely no growth. 2) At the municipal level, a mix of government housing and community land trust strategies for both urban buyers and renters which strategically can hold enough parcels in a neighborhood together while shielding them from the speculative real estate market, including foreign buyers, allowing all income types access. 3) A mix of co-housing and intentional communes which provide a basis for sharing and exchange on intimate level. This encourages open community and connection. At the level of neighborhood or district or community of place, universities could develop indicators of quality of life and environmental footprint descriptors like a "dashboard" so it becomes part of our consciousness to make "less is more" yet celebrate diversity in life styles. At a state or national level, a basic income policy is affordable via taxes to reduce the precarity of life and recognize our fundamental interdependence with each other at a state or national level. We can make human values (Love) , not economic values, come true in the concrete in our daily rounds and in public policy, wherever we can with a life well-lived.
A very facinating Lec Dem session
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It’s too bad that the audio level is so low. I must be in a completely quiet environment with my volume control at maximum to hear this with headphones. But I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation.
It's becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding. By this I mean, can any particular theory be used to create a human adult level conscious machine. My bet is on the late Gerald Edelman's Extended Theory of Neuronal Group Selection. The lead group in robotics based on this theory is the Neurorobotics Lab at UC at Irvine. Dr. Edelman distinguished between primary consciousness, which came first in evolution, and that humans share with other conscious animals, and higher order consciousness, which came to only humans with the acquisition of language. A machine with primary consciousness will probably have to come first. What I find special about the TNGS is the Darwin series of automata created at the Neurosciences Institute by Dr. Edelman and his colleagues in the 1990's and 2000's. These machines perform in the real world, not in a restricted simulated world, and display convincing physical behavior indicative of higher psychological functions necessary for consciousness, such as perceptual categorization, memory, and learning. They are based on realistic models of the parts of the biological brain that the theory claims subserve these functions. The extended TNGS allows for the emergence of consciousness based only on further evolutionary development of the brain areas responsible for these functions, in a parsimonious way. No other research I've encountered is anywhere near as convincing. I post because on almost every video and article about the brain and consciousness that I encounter, the attitude seems to be that we still know next to nothing about how the brain and consciousness work; that there's lots of data but no unifying theory. I believe the extended TNGS is that theory. My motivation is to keep that theory in front of the public. And obviously, I consider it the route to a truly conscious machine, primary and higher-order. My advice to people who want to create a conscious machine is to seriously ground themselves in the extended TNGS and the Darwin automata first, and proceed from there, by applying to Jeff Krichmar's lab at UC Irvine, possibly. Dr. Edelman's roadmap to a conscious machine is at arxiv.org/abs/2105.10461
What a great talk! I learned so much. The speaker was informative, lively, and engaging.
CONGRATULATIONS DANSON !
Wu Wei of The Way "I can of mine own self do nothing” John 5:30
Considering the responsibility of the teacher for their influence on their students presented here will be good for the heart of anyone who wishes to use “speech in the service of an open ended search for truth.” Many thanks.
Also this lecture here did help me to deepen spiritual awareness: ua-cam.com/video/czVwjf0GDdw/v-deo.html&ab_channel=TheosophicalSocietyPointLoma
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whata a fuking no brainer this is duh!!!!