What truly makes a culture scale—sameness or difference? We trace a clear line from small communal cohesion to the civilizational force of commerce, showing why unity built on voluntary exchange outperforms unity imposed by force. Community off...

What if the limits of attention are not a handicap but the very structure that makes meaning, creativity, and character possible? We pull on that thread and follow it from the mechanics of concept formation to the deep role of the subconscious ...

What if the same forces that keep a cell alive also hold a self together? We follow Schrödinger’s trail from negative entropy to everyday focus, linking the physics of gradients with the psychology of attention, identity, and meaning. Along the...

What if freedom isn’t randomness but the power to replicate meaning on purpose? We explore a bold thesis: consciousness is measured integration, and volition is the causal engine that lets us reproduce not the same behaviors, but the same form ...

Forget the bland idea that “normal” means not sick. We set a higher bar and a clearer standard, arguing that mental health is the living rhythm between what you perceive, what you think, and what you do. Starting with the senses as your anchor ...

What if understanding could sing? We explore how art and philosophy meet in the body, showing why rhythm, image, and proportion are not ornaments to thought but the very vehicles that carry meaning into the nervous system. Starting from the sim...

What if the words you choose don’t just describe your life, but build it? We dive into articulation as the quiet engine that turns tangled feeling into formed meaning—through language, art, and embodied expression—and show how this practice bec...

Status feels noisier than ever, yet the connections that matter most often feel rare. We peel back the layers of modern stratification—from the clear roles of tribal life to the rigid ladders of feudalism, through industrial specialization, and...

Curiosity opens the horizon, expectation draws the trajectory, and motivation carries the work across the gap. That simple triad becomes a powerful framework for building a life that is both imaginative and grounded, alive to possibility and fa...

What if the very system that powers modern prosperity also numbs our sense of meaning? We trace a provocative line from the pin factory to your calendar: when specialization outruns integration, roles replace reasons and efficiency turns into m...

What makes an hour of focus either exhausting or exhilarating? Why does some attention drain us while other kinds create vitality? The answer lies in four fundamental elements that form the architecture of psychological existence.Consci...

Have you ever witnessed the captivating interplay between strength and beauty, courage and vulnerability? Our latest conversation with Ronald Pisaturo delves into this poignant dance, beginning with a correction on baseball coach Charlie Lau an...

This episode is a conversation with Ron Pisaturo author of Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty The Volitional, Objective Basis for Heterosexuality in Romantic Love and Marriagehttps://www.ron...

This is an interview with Glenn Daniel Marcus author of Variations on a Noble Theme.Glenn discusses his three loves, his love of literature, his love of music, and his love of The Enlightenment. The interview centers on how...

Happy New Year!Mark your calendar! At the end of January I'll interview Glenn Daniel Marcus, author of Variations on a Noble Theme.Here is the link of a free offer to the first 50 listeners who sign up for the Newslette...

Ron and I sat down to talk about acting, breathing and fighting. While some of the content on fighting and acting is implied by reference to unpublished material, the core of the content focuses on Ron's idea about free breathing and the pleasu...

In this episode Ron and I discuss his blogpost on the subject of weeping, laughing and crying. What gives rise to weeping? When and under what circumstances do we weep? What makes weeping appropriate? How is laughter different from...

In this final segment of my interview with Ron Pisaturo we discuss the last chapter of his latest book A Validation of Knowledge. The chapter title reads Making Our Inductions More Powerful and Robust. Ron shows how we achieve greater enumerati...

In this episode, Ron Pisaturo, author of A Validation of Knowledge, discusses his theory of Causality and Induction.How do we arrive at a conclusion on the basis of one observation? How do we assign initial probability? How do we know t...

In this episode Ron Pisaturo, author of A Validation of Knowledge, discusses chapter eight titled Causality and Induction.Probability theory is an aspect of epistemology. We need to find equally likely possible outcomes. St...

In this episode of my series of conversations with Ron Pisaturo we start the discussion of his chapter on Mathematics from his latest book A Validation of Knowledge.Ron starts us off with a further explanation and clarification of his a...

In this session Ron discusses his chapter on Propositions from his book A Validation of Knowledge.What are propositions? The significance of subject and predicate sets up the beginning of Ron's explanation on the purpose of propositions...

In this episode Ron discusses the terms subjective and objective as related to consciousness. What is a proposition?Proposition is to a sentence what a concept is to a word.Why do we have sentences?Propositions are more...

In this episode we discuss chapter five - Concepts - of Ron's book A Validation of Knowledge.Concept formation is based on the work of Ayn Rand as developed and presented in her book Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. 

In this session Ron covers topics related to perception of entities, similarity as less-difference and looking for the unchanging. Another subject of discussion has to do with the persisting nature of consciousness and understandin...