The Space of Speculation

In this episode, Dr. Ray and Oyani discuss the consequences of speculating and what it means to speculate meaningfully.  As minds, we are forced to make judgements based on partial information, but how we choose to speculate affects our perception, which affects how we feel.  It also affects how we make decisions, which affects how we interact with others and our surroundings.  Essentially, it has a significant impact on the reality we create for ourselves.  Because of this, it is important to be aware of how we speculate both actively and passively.

As an example of the importance of speculating, Oyani and Dr. Ray discuss the affects of making judgments about the spirits of celebrities.  More specifically, they discuss the spirits of Gordan Ramsey and Gary Vaynerchuk (Garyvee).  Both of these people, who the hosts admire, project images of positivity, but it's always possible to speculate that they are secretly bad people.  Therefore, as the hosts discuss, everyone has the freedom to choose what they believe about their spirits given partial information.  They further discuss the consequences of sincere versus cynical speculations. 

The hosts end the episode with a discussion on meaningful speculation.  They discuss how one must understand what logically follows given some constraints to have logically valid speculations.  To do this, one must understand the constraints which means they must understand the language/algebraic structure that produces them.  Without this knowledge, it is not possible to generate what logically follows, which means it's not possible to speculate meaningfully. 

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