On scientists and their demons | Jimena Canales [Full Interview]

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Science historian Jimena Canales talks about discovery vs invention, the importance of creativity and the role of the imaginary in science.
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Jimena Canales is a pioneering historian of science and an expert in 19th and 20th century history of the physical sciences. She is currently Vice-President of the Board of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
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@exerjiexerji289 Ай бұрын

Beautiful articulation and her voice is endearingly persuasive too. Great interview.

@annakarl9989 Ай бұрын

Thank you 💖💐 🕊️

@Thomas-gk42 Ай бұрын

interesting, thank you

@FabianGautero4D 27 күн бұрын

Lo que nos motiva a inventar ciertos artilugios tecnológicos, según me parece, va en línea de potenciar nuestros sentidos en términos de ciencia básica; a la vez, de ponernos en posición de dominio. El poder, desde un punto de vista político, está en cada hipótesis, siendo la posible interpretación semántica más adecuada al prefijo a la palabra hipótesis en general.

@stevenverrall4527 Ай бұрын

Scientific historians should study how the establishment crushes both rational true innovators and irrational dissenters. The most profound discoveries have always faced tremendous pushback from the establishment.

@Thomas-gk42 Ай бұрын

just think of Sabine H.

@stevenverrall4527 Ай бұрын

Those who think eureka moments don't exist cannot ever have made a discovery.

@pubguc6771 Ай бұрын

0:11 0:13

@reginaerekson9139 Ай бұрын

10:57 guess you better figure out who marked the daemons/demons/diamonds? Some of this isn’t my imagination it was just stories I heard and I’m just trying to figure out what’s true - because some of you are bored psychopaths literally… I’m guessing it was a church, I don’t enjoy going so your guess is as good as mine!

@vanikaghajanyan7760 Ай бұрын

"God does not change the rules He has chosen once." (Socrates).

@SeedsofEcofrog Ай бұрын

Remember No jab No job. We must never forget WHO coerced and emotionally blackmailed the children to risk as shields, to temporarily and marginally "protect" adults. Thou shall not use pregnant women as Granny shields. Risking the young to "save" the old is rotten to the core.

@jewulo Ай бұрын

It was a valid and rational position to hold to stop the spread of an unknown virus and health pandemic. Scientist are not without flaws. They are human and subject to the same foibles that we all are.

@SeedsofEcofrog Ай бұрын

@@jewulo what about the schools still requiring it to attend?

@stevenverrall4527 Ай бұрын

@@jewuloHowever, those who were ultimately correct were demonized and had their careers destroyed. To be both correct and unpopular is a very dangerous mix...

@stevenverrall4527 Ай бұрын

@@jewuloSince when has over-reacting in the extreme been considered rational?

@VictorKibalchich Ай бұрын

how's the tin foil hat? Comfy?

@petervandenengel1208 Ай бұрын

That is the reason why the populus calls scientists and philosophers Geeks. Irrational people talking about everything being trivial. Obviously derived from Greek. There must have been early contacts in England. Perhaps because they had fled Greek democracy killing Socrates for his absurd ideas.

@SebastianKrabs Ай бұрын

All modern scientists are superstitious children in adult bodies who see monsters under the bed. Makes sense. 😅

@homewall744 Ай бұрын

Or you don't understand basic language. Do you know what computer bugs and viruses are? Are they actually bugs and viruses per the vernacular?

@SebastianKrabs Ай бұрын

@@homewall744 I actually graduated community college at 18 with an associate's degree in computers. It's called malicious code not a virus... Adults and scientists use precise language children use words like demon. 🤯

@jewulo Ай бұрын

Anytime somebody uses ontology too often in a sentence I get worried. They are trying to place themselves in a higher knowledge category wherein science and scientist are folks in one of the many categories that make up the world. According to these type of folks there are many categories. Religious, Philosophical, Scientific, etc. All these are just various categories that have equal validity. I always worry that it might be nothing more than a special kind of salad they are making here. A word salad to be precise.

@CONNELL19511216 Ай бұрын

Well it beats having to invent other words

@dnescodino 28 күн бұрын

I am also worried that we are just watching some reworking of labels here. However, I find myself dreading the mechanicsist, pragmatic attitude, and discourse of scientists. People like her are not as harmful as those whom she is placing in those categories...

@courtcomposer Ай бұрын

7:53. Daemon in Greek means spirit not an evil entity. Thse are not "imaginary concepts". They DO work!! Science has been the only thing that explains the national world. Not religion. The intellectual level of this discussion is pathethic.

@Robinson8491 Ай бұрын

Is Maxwell's demon real?

@courtcomposer Ай бұрын

@@Robinson8491 yes. I had tea and biscuits with it yesterday.

@stevenverrall4527 Ай бұрын

Religion is necessary to explain what science cannot. It is irrational to think that science can explain all phenomena. Religion actually explains far more of human nature than science ever has.

@courtcomposer Ай бұрын

@@stevenverrall4527 the myths of religion explain nothing.

@courtcomposer Ай бұрын

@@stevenverrall4527 like revived corpses, talking snakes and virgin births?