AD 169 | Ryan York x Justin Daashuur Hopkins
“The Intersection Between Art, Science, and Spirituality”
“The Intersection Between Art, Science, and Spirituality”

His research is focused on the evolutionary genomic basis of brain and behavior with a specific interest in the courtship behaviors of Lake Malawi cichlid fish.
Having a passion for music and working in constant collaboration with individuals such as Justin Daashuur Hopkins, Ryan borders the line between highly intellectual compositions and spontaneous, free-flowing, and seemingly primal soundscapes
Show Notes:
- Ryan’s work as an evolutionary biologist, and his specific project working within computational methods in understanding behaviors
- Applying concepts used within artificial intelligence and using them for work in other areas of science
- The overlap of art and science
- The idea of repeatability
- Collective consciousness and collaboration
- Provisional answers and the unknown
- Continually shifting based upon your ever-changing context
- Scientific having ties to elements of spirituality
- Free will
- Humility
- The power of the mind
- Philosophy of science
- Different levels of understanding
- Dogmatism
- Placebo’s having a similarity to art
- The subconscious vs analytical instinct
- Slow vs fast understanding and experience
- Creativity being an exploration of what the world is
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Posted 07.17.2020