Bob continues his miniseries, focusing on John 1: 1-5. Bob makes the case that we should be marveling at the unreasonable effectiveness of semantics in the social sciences. There is meaning packed into every field of human inquiry, and this sheds light on the prologue to the gospel of John.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• The previous episode in this series, i.e. BMS ep 304, installment 1, introduction.
• Dawkins talking to Steve Pinker on language acquisition.
• Bob's conversation with GPT-4.
• "Why Math Works."
• A video on imaginary interest rates (relevant to Euler's identity). A video from the same series on Euler's formula.
• BMS ep 138, "Why the Left Hates Christianity." BMS ep 303, "Jonathan Bartlett on Random Mutations Not Being So Random." BMS ep 257 on Hans Hoppe and synthetic a priori.
• An excellent introduction to how Large Language Models work. How neural networks work (example of reading handwritten numerals).
• A good example of a cool YouTube video on the Mandelbrot set.
• Study notes for Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained.
• Help support the Bob Murphy Show.