{"id":23718,"date":"2023-11-18T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=23718"},"modified":"2023-11-18T18:48:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T18:48:26","slug":"weekend-links-700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/11\/18\/weekend-links-700\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 700"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lux in Tenebris (1895) by Evelyn De Morgan.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “NASA celebrates the worm logo designer, Richard Danne<\/a>“. Until I read this story (and this one<\/a>) I wasn’t aware that the NASA logos were known as The Meatball<\/a> and The Worm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Red Shoes<\/em><\/a>: behind the scenes of the classic Powell and Pressburger film \u2013 in pictures. Related: Kings of the movies: Martin Scorsese<\/a> on Powell & Pressburger.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The 700th weekend post happens to arrive on Alan Moore’s 70th birthday<\/a>. Many happy returns to the Northampton Magus.<\/p>\n

Fundamentally, we face a choice. Either:<\/p>\n

\u2022 it\u2019s a coincidence that, of all the possible values that the finely tuned constants of physics may have had, they just happen to have the right values for life;<\/p>\n

or:<\/p>\n

\u2022 the constants have those values because<\/em> they are right for life.<\/p>\n

The former option is wildly improbable; on a conservative estimate<\/a>, the odds of getting finely tuned constants by chance is less than 1 in 10-136<\/sup>. The latter option amounts to a belief that something at the fundamental level of reality is directed towards the emergence of life. I call this kind of fundamental goal-directedness \u2018cosmic purpose\u2019.<\/p>\n

As a society, we\u2019re somewhat in denial about fine-tuning, because it doesn\u2019t fit with the picture of science we\u2019ve got used to. It\u2019s a bit like in the 16th century when we started getting evidence that our Earth wasn\u2019t in the centre of the universe, and people struggled to accept it because it didn\u2019t fit with the picture of the universe they\u2019d got used to. Nowadays, we scoff at our ancestors\u2019 inability to follow the evidence where it leads. But every generation absorbs a worldview it can\u2019t see beyond. I believe we\u2019re in a similar situation now with respect to the mounting evidence for cosmic purpose. We\u2019re ignoring what is lying in plain view because it doesn\u2019t fit with the version of reality we\u2019ve got used to. Future generations will mock us for our intransigence.<\/p>\n

Philip Goff<\/a>, professor in philosophy at Durham University, making an argument for cosmic purpose<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 At Spoon & Tamago: Exploring Japanese Hell through art from the 12th to 19th century<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 New music: Turning The Prism<\/em><\/a> by Ben Frost, and Sanctuary Of Desire<\/em><\/a> by Steve Roach.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week is DreamScenes \u2013 November 2023<\/a> at Ambientblog.<\/p>\n

\u2022 DJ Food looks at Tomi Ungerer\u2019s Electric Circus posters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Alain Resnais<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Strange Flowers visits the Villa Stuck<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Diet Of Worms<\/em><\/a> (1979) by This Heat | Opera Of Worms<\/a><\/em> (1981) by Van Kaye & Ignit| Wormhole<\/em><\/a> (2002) by Cliff Martinez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lux in Tenebris (1895) by Evelyn De Morgan. \u2022 “NASA celebrates the worm logo designer, Richard Danne“. Until I read this story (and this one) I wasn’t aware that the NASA logos were known as The Meatball and The Worm. \u2022 The Red Shoes: behind the scenes of the classic Powell and Pressburger film \u2013 … Continue reading “Weekend links 700”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,56,4,29,7,3,44,31,13,45],"tags":[2384,103,2421,2975,355,13175,1454,409,354,569,13177,13176,12736,7964,13178,13179],"class_list":["post-23718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-dance","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-music","category-painting","category-religion","category-science","category-symbolists","tag-alain-resnais","tag-alan-moore","tag-ben-frost","tag-cliff-martinez","tag-emeric-pressburger","tag-evelyn-de-morgan","tag-franz-stuck","tag-martin-scorsese","tag-michael-powell","tag-nasa","tag-philip-goff","tag-richard-danne","tag-steve-roach","tag-this-heat","tag-tomi-ungerer","tag-van-kaye-ignit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-6ay","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}