John Vervaeke & Wolfgang Smith: a Dialogos on Science Grounded in Platonism

00:00 Intro

03:19 The difference between physical and corporeal, the solution to the quantum enigma

07:25 The corporeal enters into the measurement problem through the measuring device

08:50 John describes relevance realization, the 4 P’s of knowing, emanation and emergence

13:45 Reality is structured with things emerging (returning to the One) and emanating (coming from the One

15:50 If the corporeal is not real, we love conformity to Reality

17:05 We are both Platonists!

18:15 Studying Plato through the lens of the ancient thinkers

25:00 Why is James Gibson’s work important? How has it affected your work?

27:30 Wolfgang seeks to understand John’s ontology

32:00 Gibson and affordances - undermines nominalism. There are real relations

34:30 Opening the door to a new onto ...