The Bottom Turtle Podcast

In this episode, we continue to define the feminine and masculine spirits in terms of the unconscious and the conscious, respectively. We begin with a discussion on the nature of the psyche in terms of the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious.  To do this, we invoke Kant's concept of the scheme and schemata, completion of the identity in quantum mechanics, general covariance and conserved quantities under sym...

Welcome back everyone.  In this episode, Dr. Ray goes on another ramble where he defines the feminine and masculine spirits in the Bottom Turtle language.  He essentially equates the feminine to subjectivity, entropy, freedom, chaos, lack of constraints, and the liberal spirit, and he equates the masculine with objectivity, information, constraints, order, and the conservative spirit.  He makes his arguments both using meta-level z...

Welcome back!! In this episode, Dr. Ray recites his poem Revelations of Miracles!  He chose this poem because in his next discussion with Ryan, they will discuss the feminine and masculine spirits. This poem is a great place to start.  So if you're interested in understanding why that is, check out this episode!

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In this episode, Dr. Ray and Ryan break down the spirit of evil. To do this, they use several examples of behavior exhibited by the computer science professor known as Ray in previous episodes.  Specifically, they point out how Ray must be functioning out of a space that subordinates his sense making or rational faculty to an emotional faculty based on his claims in the conversation.  This includes 1. accusing the hosts of assertin...

Welcome back!  In this episode, Dr. Ray recites the Poem "The Ancestral Code:  The Obvious Answer to the Question What is God?".  This is a holdover episode until the next episode with Ryan is edited and ready to post.  

 The poem was inspired by Dr. Ray's experience realizing he was losing awareness.  Think of the experience of meditating and suddenly realizing you're lost in a thought.  This is that e...

In this episode, Dr. Ray breaks down why the phrase "a man can get pregnant" has no logical meaning.  The crux of his argument is that the word man as it is used in that phrase has no informational content.  This is because it's entirely based on self-identification which means that any person regardless of their characteristics and behavior can claim to be a man. This means the word must allow for all characteristic...

In this episode, Dr. Ray argues with a computer science professor named Ray about our recent claims of objective ethics.  After posting the episode "Making a case for objective ethics" on YouTube, we had some "constructive" criticism in the comment section.  We were accused of many untoward things and Dr. Ray debated those claims with said accuser.  This episode is an AI recitation of that conversation. Dr. Ray ...

In this episode of The Bottom Turtle Podcast, Dr. Ray recites another poem entitled  "Inspiration from reading your thesis".  As the name suggests, it was a poem inspired by reading the thesis of Reasonable Fideist; A friend of the podcast from reddit dating back to the episode "What Else is There?!".  In the poem, Dr. Ray muses about the nature of the subjective and objective spirits and the relationship betwee...

If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check. -James 3:2

All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, but no man can tame the tongue. -James 3:7-8

To be conscious is to have the capacity to make choices.  It is the capacity to assert one's will.  To bring into existence that which would not ...

In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Ray presents another ramble where he discusses creating order at deeper meta levels.  In the Bottom Turtle language, meta level zero is the space of the obvious.  This is the space where we draw our axiomatic truths to build a model of reality that everyone can verify.  The resulting model is the language of the podcast. At meta level zero, obvious truths like throwing a wine bottle glass on the ...

In this episode, Dr. Ray and Ryan Scott present an argument for the objective truth of ethics. This episode builds on the previous two episodes of the season where the notion of identity is discussed and defined.  Foundational to their arguments of identity is the dependent origination principle in Buddhism which is to say that one's identity is essentially determined by their relationships with each others, and their relation...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the fourth season.  In this episode, we continue our argument on the objective truth of ethics by further discussing the concept of identity.  More specifically, we discuss the concept of a universal identity shared among individuals. For those familiar with the podcast, you'll be aware of the idea of macro- and micro-identities.  A macro-identity is a distinguished by a label that points in ...

We're back!  Welcome to the fourth season of The Bottom Turtle Podcast.

In this season of the the podcast, we're shaking things up.  First, this season will be focused on the theme of the objective truth of ethics and evil.  That is, the goal of this season will be to present an objective argument for ethics, which then implies that evil is the opposite of the objective ethic. But to make this argument, we first...

Welcome back!  In this episode, Dr. Ray discusses how the principle that we are made in the image of God and Jesus’ two commandments, which are (1) we must love God above all else and (2) to love our neighbor as ourself, formulate the foundations of all ethics. Dr. Ray calls this the made in the image of God principle or the namaste principle. Building on previous concepts expressed in the podcast, Dr. Ray uses the ideas of objecti...

The last utterance of this episode is a citation to:

https://thebottomturtlepodcast.buzzsprout.com/1454935/14079529-the-ultimate-abstraction

An ongoing project of this podcast is to reconcile the relationship between Buddhism and Christianity to say they are the same.  But, as stated in the episode The Ultimate Abstraction, Buddhism and Christianity appear to be opposites. This is because the goal of Buddhism is ...

Now we're cooking with gas!

Welcome back to the bottom turtle podcast.  In this episode, Dr. Ray goes on an epic rant where he discusses the symmetry between art and communication, quantum states as voids consisting of the symmetries of the universe, unitary transformations, creation from emptiness, the concept of time, what it means to be pure and sincere, and how it all relates to Buddhism and Christianity in terms ...

In this episode, Dr. Ray discusses the role of agreement in creating objective truth.  In previous episodes like It's Algebra All the Way Down and It's Context All the Way Down, the host makes the argument that objective truth comes from logically sound structures.  That is, to create objective concepts one needs a set of symbols and a consistent relationship between said symbols such that reliable meaning can be produced...

Welcome back to the Bottom Turtle Podcast!  In this episode, Dr. Ray recites his poem The Ultimate Abstraction.  The theme of the poem is understanding the relationships between paradoxes, abstractions, faith, and truth. 

The episode begins with an introduction to the poem to help guide the listener to a location in the space of states of mind that is best able to receive the poem.  That is, the purpose of the introductio...

In this episode, Dr. Ray uses his knowledge of quantum physics to communicate his understanding of Buddhism.  The main idea is the concept of symmetries and how it relates to the realm of form in Buddhism.  One of the goals is to communicate how one stitches together conceptual worlds at the symmetries so they can imbue meaning on each other without a loss of information.  

In the case of Buddhism and  quantum mechanics, t...