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Ricky Gervais: Hitler Interprets Nietzsche from standupfan: Jun 28, 10:03am 8 reviews philosophy, video
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=1vauaxsop4

YouTube - Thinking: Jun 28, 10:00am 4 reviews philosophy, video
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=3dfi2qvz5o

YouTube - To Speak the Truth: Jun 28, 9:53am 5 reviews philosophy, video
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=65b65888an

CBC Radio | Ideas | Features | How To Think About Science: Jun 18, 10:19pm 4 reviews history, philosophy, science, podcasts
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/science/index.html; This is a collection of episodes of Ideas all along a similar vein of though. Unfortunately the episodes are only available in the UNPOPULAR Real(TM) Media format. Really CBC... Public radio should not be intellectual property.

Psychedelic Salon: Jun 18, 2:49pm 2 reviews drugs, philosophy, society, psychedelic, podcasts
http://feeds.feedburner.com/PsychedelicSalon; Some of my favorite psychedelic talks have been given out on this show. McKenna, Shulgin and more! Over 144 episodes. Better than average quality.

Virtue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: May 24, 6:19am 4 reviews philosophy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue

GREGORY BATESON: The Centennial: Mar 23, 9:08pm 2 reviews philosophy, genius, intelligence, cybernetics, information-age
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bateson04/bateson04_index.html; Gregory Bateson, which whom I haven't read much of yet, seems to really Jive with my understanding and experiences. He's a mostly under-appreciated intellectual with plenty of essays and ideas yet to be discovered and utilized by the general populace. "Bateson presents a new approach based on a cybernetic epistemology: "The individual mind is immanent but not only in the body. It is immanent also in the pathways and messages outside the body; and there is a larger mind of which the individual mind is only a subsystem. This larger mind is comparable to God and is perhaps what some people mean by 'God,' but it is still immanent in the total interconnected social system and planetary ecology."" "Bateson defies simple labeling, easy explanation. People have problems with his work. He talks of being an explorer who cannot know what he is exploring until it has been explored." From what I can tell he is describing what may be Memes right here:
"Any descriptive proposition," he says, "which remains true longer will out-survive other propositions which do not survive so long. This switch from the survival of the creatures to the survival of ideas which are immanent in the creatures (in their anatomical forms and in their interrelationships) gives a totally new slant to evolutionary ethics and philosophy. Adaptation, purpose, homology, somatic change, and mutation all take on new meaning with this shift in theory."

Form Sutstance and Difference: Mar 23, 9:03pm 1 review linguistics, philosophy, science, meaning
http://www.rawpaint.com/library/bateson/formsubstancedifference.html; A famous lecture, given by Gregory Bateson derived from and referencing to, Alfred Korzybski. I haven't read this one yet so this is just an educated guess.

American University of Masters Conference: Mar 23, 8:58pm 1 review philosophy, science
http://www.lawsofform.org/aum/; A gathering of intellectuals, for a few brief days in 1973 on a diverse and somewhat unusual set of topics. Most noteably in my mind are John C. Lilly and Alan Watts. They have gathered together intellectuals, philosophers, psychologists, and scientists. Each has been asked to lecture on his own work in terms of its relationship to Brown's new ideas in mathematics. C. Spencer Brown lectures for two days on his Laws of Form. Alan Watts talks of Eastern religious thought. John Lilly discusses maps of reality. Karl Pribram explores new possibilities for thinking about neuroscience. Ram Dass presents a spiritual path. Stewart Brand lectures on whole systems. Psychologists Will Schutz, Claudio Naranjo, and Charles Tart are in attendance. Heinz von Foerster holds forth on cybernetic modeling. My [John Brockman's] own topic is "Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein, and Frankenstein."