In this episode, Danny Clark takes us on an important discussion of how human nature can better inform teaching, learning, education, parenting, working, and living. We discuss some fundamental ideas that can improve our daily lives, our long-term happiness, and our life on earth. We discuss some deep, important questions we can ask of ourselves and ways we can think.


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External links:
I. Danny and MovNat
II. Books, ideas, and resources we mention in the podcast
III. Other resources


I. Danny and MovNat
1. Danny's Bio: https://www.movnat.com/danny-clark/
a. One of Danny's workout videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSmahDBj6qg
b. Another of Danny's workout videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE4rPLP-5kk

2. The Website of MovNat: https://www.movnat.com

3. MovNat's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MovNat
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4. The Workout the Wold Forgot video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKGF-ErsJiI

4.a. MovNat training at Wildfitness in Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4nmu6mZd4s

4.b. Some intermediate-level MovNat workouts outdoors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91s9A4XgvuU

5. Erwin LeCorre's article The History of Physics Fitness: https://www.movnat.com/history-of-fitness/

6. Erwan LeCorre's bio: https://www.movnat.com/erwan-le-corre/

7. The Practice of Natural Movement book by Erwan LeCorre: https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Natural-Movement-Reclaim-Freedom/dp/162860283X/

8. Find a MovNat Trainer near you: https://www.movnat.com/find-a-trainer/

9. MovNat Movement Library: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf0XEBKYNfU&list=PLC5sbdn5ESCRN_VeYcEimsilu7IXiLmP_

10. MovNat videos showing 100+ movements done with good technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVdaMhrNhzQ&list=PLC5sbdn5ESCSKU66Fbp6stQFPLaNQ8rib



II. Books, ideas, and resources we mention in the podcast
1. Permaculture
a. https://permacultureprinciples.com/
b. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
c. https://permaculturenews.org/what-is-permaculture/

2. Purple Pear Biodynamic Permaculture Farm
a. Tour video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8i_2VRNwrg
b. Website: https://www.purplepearfarm.com.au/

3. Twenty-three Year Old Permaculture Food Forest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GJFL0MD9fc

4. Joel Salatin
a. http://www.polyfacefarms.com/joels-bio/
b. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Salatin
c. https://www.amazon.com/Joel-Salatin/e/B000APFOT2
d. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNXzf4qLwpDXV2R2Kn_z5DQ

5. Socrates
a. https://www.iep.utm.edu/socrates/
b. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrates/

6. Plato
a. https://www.iep.utm.edu/plato/
b. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/

7. Aristotle
a. https://www.iep.utm.edu/aristotl/
b. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/

8. Prof. Armand Marie Leroi, Imperial College London, "The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science"
a. BBC show
i. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN8ortM4M3o
ii. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e12pbSHrzAs
b. lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYro4kkPxiA

9. Dr. Michael Fowler on Aristotle: http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/aristot2.html

An excerpt: "To summarize: Aristotle’s philosophy laid out an approach to the investigation of all natural phenomena, to determine form by detailed, systematic work, and thus arrive at final causes. His logical method of argument gave a framework for putting knowledge together, and deducing new results. He created what amounted to a fully-fledged professional scientific enterprise, on a scale comparable to a modern university science department. It must be admitted that some of his work - unfortunately, some of the physics - was not up to his usual high standards. He evidently found falling stones a lot less interesting than living creatures. Yet the sheer scale of his enterprise, unmatched in antiquity and for centuries to come, gave an authority to all his writings.

"It is perhaps worth reiterating the difference between Plato and Aristotle, who agreed with each other that the world is the product of rational design, that the philosopher investigates the form and the universal, and that the only true knowledge is that which is irrefutable. The essential difference between them was that Plato felt mathematical reasoning could arrive at the truth with little outside help, but Aristotle believed detailed empirical investigations of nature were essential if progress was to be made in understanding the natural world."

10. Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology, editors Allan Gotthelf and James Lennox: https://www.amazon.com/Philosophical-Issues-Aristotles-Biology-Gotthelf/dp/0521310911

11. The concept of objectivity
a. Ayn Rand defines objectivity as "volitional adherence to reality by the method of logic." See: https://campus.aynrand.org/campus/globals/transcripts/objectivity-volitional-adherence-to-reality-by-the-method-of-logic
b. In his book Objectivism: The The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, Dr. Leonard Peikoff, intellectual heir of Ayn Rand, defines objectivity as: "To be 'objective' in one's conceptual activities is volitionally to adhere to reality by following certain rules of method, a method based on facts and appropriate to man's form of cognition." (chp 4, sec 2)
c. Ayn Rand on objectivity: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/objectivity.html

12. The concept of conceptual knowledge (as distinct, e.g. from perception). In his book Objectivism: The The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, Dr. Leonard Peikoff, intellectual heir of Ayn Rand, defines conceptual knowledge as: "the [mental] grasp of an object through an active, reality-based process chosen by the subject." (chp 4, sec 2)

19. "The true is the whole.” — Hegel (see: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel)

14. Quotes from Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by E.O. Wilson: https://www.amazon.com/Consilience-Knowledge-Edward-Osborne-Wilson/dp/067976867X/
a. “Few [scientists] are philosophers. Most are intellectual journeyman, exploring locally, hoping for a strike, living for the present."
b. “The ideal scientist thinks like a poet, and works like a bookkeeper."

15. Quotes from Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein: https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized-World/dp/0735214484/
a. "Science students learned the facts of their specific field without understanding how science should work in order to draw true conclusions."
b. "[H]ighly credentialed experts can become so narrow-minded that they actually get worse with experience, even while becoming more confident."

16. Quote from the Big Biology Podcast: https://www.bigbiology.org/
a. “Genes by themselves don’t do crap.” —Massimo Pigliucci, Episode 7: Genes Don’t Do Crap of the Big Biology Podcast
b. In a debate involving two scientists and two philosophers, “Richard Dawkins said ‘You know, I’m not a philosopher, I’m a scientist. I’m only interested in truth.’
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A Frenchman in the audience said ‘What is truth?’ “—Dennis Noble, in Episode 2: Harnessing Randomness of the Big Biology podcast

17. How to Talk so Kids Will Listen...And Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish: https://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Kids-Will-Listen/dp/0743525086

18. When Violence Is the Answer: Learning How to Do What It Takes When Your Life Is at Stake by Tim Larkin: https://www.amazon.com/When-Violence-Answer-Learning-Takes/dp/0316354651/

19. Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglass: https://www.amazon.com/Mindhunter-Inside-Elite-Serial-Crime/dp/1501191969/

20. Daniel Vitalis
a. Bio: http://www.danielvitalis.com/about-daniel
b. Website: http://www.danielvitalis.com/
c. Podcast: http://www.danielvitalis.com/rewild-yourself-podcast

21. Montessori education: https://www.montessori.edu/

22. Good, interesting bio of Maria Montessori: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXqeTYHn0p4

23. Books by Dr. Maria Montessori:
a. The Montessori Method https://www.amazon.com/Montessori-Method-Maria/dp/0805209220/
b. Dr. Montessori’s Own Handbook https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Montessoris-Own-Handbook-Materials/dp/0805209212/

24. John Dewey
a. https://www.iep.utm.edu/dewey/
b. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dewey/

25. Epigenetics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics

26. Fision-fusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission%E2%80%93fusion_society



III. Other resources
1. The Nature Fix by Florence Williams: https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Fix-Happier-Healthier-Creative/dp/0393355578/

2. Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Child-Woods-Children-Nature-Deficit/dp/156512605X/

3. The Art of Reasoning by David Kelley (we recommend you focus on classification, definition, argument analysis, and induction) https://www.amazon.com/Art-Reasoning-Introduction-Critical-Thinking/dp/0393930785/

4. Anders Hansen TED talk "Why the Brain is Built for Movement:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9p3Z7L0f0U

5. What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins: https://www.amazon.com/What-Every-Body-Saying-Speed-Reading/dp/0061438294/

6. The book 1491 by Charles Mann: https://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059

7. J.J. Gibson's ecological theory of perception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_psychology



Image courtesy Danny Clark.