Show overview
The Meaning Code has been publishing since 2022, and across the 4 years since has built a catalogue of 178 episodes. That works out to roughly 240 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 17m and 1h 32m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 17 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 66 episodes published. Published by Karen Wong.
From the publisher
Mapping the universe through discussions about physics, art, economics, philosophy, and more. The search for meaning through connections from one domain of knowledge to another. Finding the code that connects the substructures of the universe. For video recordings of these podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgp_r6WlBwDSJrP43Mz07GQ Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/klwong43 View my art here: https://karenwongartcom
Latest Episodes
View all 178 episodesRichard A. Watson on Guitar Strings, Molecules and Life as a Song
Gavin Ashenden on Reality and Being Fully Alive
Trusting Reality with Esther Meek and Ryan Lewis
Michael Polanyi's Contact with Reality: Esther Meek and Ryan Lewis
Subsidiary Focal Integration (Polanyi) with Esther Meek and Ryan Lewis
Riding a Bike, Indwelling and Empathy with Esther Meek and Ryan Lewis
Moving from Cartesian to Embodied: Esther Meek and Ryan Lewis
Esther Lightcap Meek, The Mother's Smile, and Ryan Lewis: How can we be in Contact with Reality?
Computational Rap: Recognizing Analogous Patterns: Computational and Linguistic Perspectives on Rap Music
Estuary: What is it? Why Join One?
Travel by Star, a Novel by Paul Scott Grill: Finding the Treasures on the Way Home
Weaving the Way by Annette Poizner: Exploring the Intersections of Chinese and Jewish Traditions
Elan Barenholtz on Language, Music and Art
Breaking the Modern Frame to Find Emotional and Relational Healing
Is the Algorithm Disintegrating your Attention? Save your Mindshare with Headwaterapp.com
The Kingdoms of this World versus the Kingdom of Heaven
Information about a Physical System is a Record of Choices Made in the Past
Choose Your Own Path in the Branching Electracy of TLC, a Converzation with Parker
'Electracy, coined by theorist Gregory Ulmer, is the cultural, cognitive, and skill-based shift from print literacy to the digital age, representing the "literacy" for electronic media like the internet, social media, and virtual worlds, emphasizing play, performance, and affective connection over purely rational thought, and involving new ways of identity, learning, and meaning-making. It's a dynamic cultural apparatus, not just a set of tech skills, blending "electricity" and "trace" to capture both technology's power and its inherent relational meanings.' We hear Parker's story and his introduction to Paul VanderKlay and TLC, along with news of and details about his search engine for the 10000 videos that have been generated by TLC affiliates. The "flotilla" is on the move!
Approach the Sacred: Offer Gratitude, Dwell in Humility, Speak Truth and Let the Mercy In.
Dr. Iain McGilchrist and Dr. Chris E W Green join The Meaning Code to speak of the way back from our current wandering in the wilderness. Introductions to the two follow the timestamps, which regrettably only cover the first hour. If anyone wants to add the second hour, go for it. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:00 Reflections on Spirituality and Hope 01:25 Iain McGilchrist reads poem by Hermes Trismegistus 06:37 The impact of Reductionism on Art and Experience 13:16 The interplay of Death, Life and Storytelling 19:01 The danger of grasping mode in human experience 31:40 The nature of understanding and intelligence 36:09 The temptation to turn resistances into tools for personal gain 40:30 The importance of making space for growth 45:00 Opposites and Dark Sides - George MacDonald 49:04 The importance of acknowledging darkness for health and society 52:50 Rituals and Henri de Lubac 56:00 Sentimentality is cruelty Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, and a former Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. His books include Against Criticism (Faber), The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale UP), The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning; Why Are We So Unhappy? (Yale UP), and Ways of Attending (Routledge). Chris E W Green Chris Green is Professor of Public Theology at Southeastern University (Lakeland, FL) and Director for St Anthony Institute of Theology, Philosophy, and Liturgics. He is the author and editor of a number of books, popular and scholarly, including most recently All Things Beautiful: An Aesthetic Christology (Baylor University Press), the first volume of a forthcoming trilogy.
Grey Hamilton on Friends, Family and Flourishing
Grey Hamilton, a 28 year old husband and father, joins Karen to discuss relationships, education and the impact of societal changes on family and community dynamics.