The Great Askers (episode 2): C Thi Nguyen and Julio Ottino

The Great Askers is an occasional Origins Podcast extra, where we nourish a sensibility of asking and cultivate great askers by exploring it with people who have singularly practiced it. Find the inaugural episode here. So we occasionally on this show add to a series called ‘the great askers’ to center the philosophy and practice of asking questions. We do this by talking with the people asking the most meaningful, searching, even troubling questions and on their process for constructing those questions.Here, the conversation continues with scientist Julio Ottino and philosopher C. Thi Nguyen. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn (06:00)Where do our concepts come from? (06:20)Leonardo magazine (09:00)Reiner Knizia (19:20)mu (32:20)Socrates' irony (33:00)value capture (38:00)art and technology and science (40:30)theory about the difference between art and science (45:20)Bernard Suits (47:30)Victor Vasarely (56:00)1905-1925 a pivotal period (57:20)Autotelic experience (59:30)technical activity v. game activity (01:00:00)break-with v. breakthrough (01:04:00)the flourishing of science (01:06:30)The Spirit of Hope by Byung-Chul Han (01:10:45)What are your hopeful questions? (01:11:20)Maria Lugones (01:12:00)Find Thi online: WebsiteFind Julio online: WebsiteLogo artwork by Cristina Gonzalez Music by swelo on all streaming platforms or @swelomusic on social media