My Fave Thinkers (currently... as @ February 2019)
My Fave Thinkers (well; currently... as at February 2019)
Naked Philosophy Guy... strikes again
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So, randomly, here is a list of my favourite thinkers...
Currently, anyway... As at February 2019.
(This Listicle may change, as time passes - at the exact rate of one second, per second.)
Yuval Noah Harari
Rutger Bregman
Johann Hari
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (hey, he won the Thinker of the Year Award in the year 2000)
Brian Boyd
Karl Popper
Joseph Carroll
Daniel Dennett
Richard Dawkins
Lynn Margulis
Stephen Pinker (I love his book, Enlightenment Now )
Ervin Laszlo
Alfonso Montuori
Michelle Scalise Sugiyama
Charles Darwin
Stanley Kubrick
E O Wilson
Alice Roberts
Brian Cox
Patricia Piccinini
...And for a whole lot more great thinkers, see this post ...
(it's basically, the Bibliography from my PhD)
...Wait, But Why?
(Why do I like, these great creative, critical thinkers?)
Here comes, some details...
Yuval Noah Harari - mainly because, he applies Evolution to History, to get: Evolutionary History! Yay!
It's about time someone did that, and wrote a popular book. And: he did it! His 3 books are: just great!
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2015)
The agricultural, industrial, and tech revolutions haven't made us happier than cavepeople were.
But robots, AI and biotech will! Yay! Seriously.
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2016)
The future is coming, fast. Catch up to it.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018)
Get ready for the future. It's complex.
So are, most if not all of, his Youtube talks (i.e., great!).
Here are just 2 of those...
And...
Anyway, next great thinker, (though this list is in no particular order) is:
Rutger Bregman...
Check out his great book:
Utopia For Realists (2017)
Universal Basic Income! Get robots doing the jobs, and give humans UBI.
(Bregman rightly notes: most jobs are bullshit jobs anyway. Seriously.)
So - Bring on the robots. And the UBI!
And check this out, (LOL!)
And this:
And, also:
Johann Hari
Check out, his great books:
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression (2018)
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs (2015)
And his great Youtube talks... Here is just one of them...
Patricia Piccinini
Check this out... Evolutionary!
And this!
And this!
Anyway... so, there are some great thinkers...
...Read their books! Watch their videos!
...They're great.
Just sayin'.
And --- Thanks for reading!
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Dr. Joe T. Velikovsky, Ph.D. (Communication & Media Arts)
& High-Movie-RoI Consultant (see: The StoryAlity PhD)
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`The word communication will be used here in a very broad sense to include all of the procedures by which one mind may affect another. This, of course, involves not only written and oral speech, but also music, the pictorial arts, the theater, the ballet, and in fact all human behavior... The language of this memorandum will often appear to refer to the special, but still very broad and important, field of the communication of speech; but practically everything said applies equally well to music of any sort, and to still or moving pictures, as in television." - The Mathematical Theory of Communication, (Shannon & Weaver 1949, pp. 3-4).
Also:
“I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant” - (attributed, and ironically, possibly mistakenly, to: Robert McCloskey, namely the children's book author and illustrator, date of quote unknown)
& this autosig is not even near complete yet, as
JT Velikovsky is also a:
Transmedia Writer-Director-Producer: Movies, Games, TV, Theatre, Books, Comics
Transmedia Writing Blog: http://on-writering.blogspot.com.au/
& (High-RoI) Story/Screenplay/Movie Analyst - and Evolutionary Systems Theorist
See: https://storyality.wordpress.com/
& Bio-Culture (Science & the Arts) & Transmedia Researcher
Academia link: https://aftrs.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
See, also:
Joe Velikovsky on IMDb:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee
Okay - the autosig is over now. You can stop reading.
Naked Philosophy Guy... strikes again---------------------------------
So, randomly, here is a list of my favourite thinkers...
Currently, anyway... As at February 2019.
(This Listicle may change, as time passes - at the exact rate of one second, per second.)
Yuval Noah Harari
Rutger Bregman
Johann Hari
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (hey, he won the Thinker of the Year Award in the year 2000)
Brian Boyd
Karl Popper
Joseph Carroll
Daniel Dennett
Richard Dawkins
Lynn Margulis
Stephen Pinker (I love his book, Enlightenment Now )
Ervin Laszlo
Alfonso Montuori
Michelle Scalise Sugiyama
Charles Darwin
Stanley Kubrick
E O Wilson
Alice Roberts
Brian Cox
Patricia Piccinini
...And for a whole lot more great thinkers, see this post ...
(it's basically, the Bibliography from my PhD)
...Wait, But Why?
(Why do I like, these great creative, critical thinkers?)
Here comes, some details...
Yuval Noah Harari - mainly because, he applies Evolution to History, to get: Evolutionary History! Yay!
It's about time someone did that, and wrote a popular book. And: he did it! His 3 books are: just great!
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2015)
The agricultural, industrial, and tech revolutions haven't made us happier than cavepeople were.
But robots, AI and biotech will! Yay! Seriously.
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2016)
The future is coming, fast. Catch up to it.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018)
Get ready for the future. It's complex.
So are, most if not all of, his Youtube talks (i.e., great!).
Here are just 2 of those...
And...
Anyway, next great thinker, (though this list is in no particular order) is:
Rutger Bregman...
Check out his great book:
Utopia For Realists (2017)
Universal Basic Income! Get robots doing the jobs, and give humans UBI.
(Bregman rightly notes: most jobs are bullshit jobs anyway. Seriously.)
So - Bring on the robots. And the UBI!
And check this out, (LOL!)
And this:
And, also:
Johann Hari
Check out, his great books:
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression (2018)
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs (2015)
And his great Youtube talks... Here is just one of them...
Patricia Piccinini
Check this out... Evolutionary!
And this!
And this!
Anyway... so, there are some great thinkers...
...Read their books! Watch their videos!
...They're great.
Just sayin'.
And --- Thanks for reading!
-----------------------------
Dr. Joe T. Velikovsky, Ph.D. (Communication & Media Arts)
& High-Movie-RoI Consultant (see: The StoryAlity PhD)
-------------------
`The word communication will be used here in a very broad sense to include all of the procedures by which one mind may affect another. This, of course, involves not only written and oral speech, but also music, the pictorial arts, the theater, the ballet, and in fact all human behavior... The language of this memorandum will often appear to refer to the special, but still very broad and important, field of the communication of speech; but practically everything said applies equally well to music of any sort, and to still or moving pictures, as in television." - The Mathematical Theory of Communication, (Shannon & Weaver 1949, pp. 3-4).
Also:
“I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant” - (attributed, and ironically, possibly mistakenly, to: Robert McCloskey, namely the children's book author and illustrator, date of quote unknown)
& this autosig is not even near complete yet, as
JT Velikovsky is also a:
Transmedia Writer-Director-Producer: Movies, Games, TV, Theatre, Books, Comics
Transmedia Writing Blog: http://on-writering.blogspot.com.au/
& (High-RoI) Story/Screenplay/Movie Analyst - and Evolutionary Systems Theorist
See: https://storyality.wordpress.com/
& Bio-Culture (Science & the Arts) & Transmedia Researcher
Academia link: https://aftrs.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
See, also:
Joe Velikovsky on IMDb:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee
Okay - the autosig is over now. You can stop reading.
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