Hanging with History

29. Is RNA part of a Turing Complete Computer; Elizabethan Era Part 1

October 08, 2020 Harald Hansen Season 1 Episode 29
Hanging with History
29. Is RNA part of a Turing Complete Computer; Elizabethan Era Part 1
Show Notes

Don't let the title fool you, this is history with science context.  

The Elizabethan era.  The Saltsrømmen episode.  Current ideas around Bostorm’s Simulation hypothesis and using RNA for computation are compared to the Elizabethan religious settlement.  The religious settlement is assisted by the Papal mercenaries invading Ireland in inducing Catholics to switch.  We talk about Elizabethan concerns for the poor and terror of the poor.  Is the podcast too hard on the French, at first we hear denials, but then Harald remembers post modernism.  Elizabethan economics are discussed, inflation, unemployment, underemployment and the challenges of getting industries started without free markets.  Monopolies are discussed in context.  As well as certain problems with economic analysis of the past.  With Camie we hit RNA, the changing social scene, the irony that increasing literacy makes poverty more immediate to us even as poverty is being reduced, Pascal’s Wager in the context of the English justice system, why were judges so reluctant to impose the death penalty for death penalty offenses?  Finally, we finish with some wine which we use to discuss the harsh public health reality of city and town water supply.