Episode: 18 Xenogenesis - Dawn: III: Nursery Chapters 13 & 14

Show Notes

In Episode 18, Richard and Michael discuss the problems and potential consequences of drugging the remains of humanity, as well as the Oankali species branches meeting.

Timestamps

00:00:32 - Intro
00:02:21 - Chapter 13 and 14 predictions
00:03:20 - Chapter 13 summary
00:03:50 - Why drugging people is a problem
00:08:10 - Difference between 1984 and Brave New World scenario
00:10:50 - Chapter 14 summary begins
00:11:40 - Peter is a psychopath…
00:14:53 - Moral foundations theory [1 - 3]
00:16:40 - The death of Peter [4, 5]
00:20:33 - Richard complains about the paper on the venoms
00:21:03 - We discuss the poisons developed by humans and Michael complains about the naturally occuring toxins
00:23:26 - Richard tells us about his favourite animal: platypus [6]
00:26:50 - Back to Chapter 14 (we gain an insight on the Oankali)
00:34:32 - “Siblings”
00:38:03 - The premonition of problems with Curt
00:45:40 - We discuss the potential meeting of two different branches of Oankali
00:54:23 - Properties necessary for survival in the world of Xenogenesis
00:58:02 - Chapter 14 finishes and with it Part 3: Nursery
00:58:39 - Chapter 1 (Part 4: The Training Floor) prediction
01:03:24 - Outro

References

Morals:

• [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory - Wikipedia article describing the basics of the Moral foundations theory
• [2] https://behavioralscientist.org/whats-wrong-with-moral-foundations-theory-and-how-to-get-moral-psychology-right/ - An article going against the MFW.
• [3] https://scihubtw.tw/10.1016/b978-0-12-407236-7.00002-4 - Scientific article going into a lot more details about MFW.

Venoms:

• [4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1571087/ - Review article about myotoxins
• [5] https://theconversation.com/mortal-poison-the-story-of-how-venom-works-50964 - Short article describing different types of toxins

Platypus:

• [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus - Wikipedia article on platypus

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