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Audio from the BBC. Intelligence Symposium in Portmeirion, with Oceanographer Sylvia Earle and painter, poet Frieda Hughes. HatTip to Dave Lull.

Lebanese- American Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of ‘The Black Swan’. His latest book ‘The Bed of Procrustes’ ‘ addresses the ways in which humans “squeeze life and the world into crisp commoditized ideas”. He discusses the tension between rationalism and empiricism and argues that too much knowledge can be a burden.
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