OH NO, JB - I just wrote for about a half hour after watching a half hour and I pushed a wrong button on my computer and lost my post. No way, I can do it again. Sorry.
I appreciated your question.
I appreciated the attractiveness of this man, his apparent sincerity, the mastery of his presentation that wove history, folk knowledge, myth, images of art, quotes of impassioned perceptive people, common sense resonation with the world of rythyms, cycles, seasons, and a bit of science, like the word photons. I think he is quite masterful, and I couldn't help liking the guy.
It was persuasive and not proof. The idea that big propositions might want to be supported by big proofs sounds like a reasonable precaution.
This was artful, powerful and I think it also contained much misdirection and erroneous logical linkings and leaps. I wouldn't try to counter persuade someone as impassioned as max or anyone of any of this. It would be a massive task and probably futile. However, if someone wanted to take that long time and go through and look at it bit by bit, to my thinking/feeling, there are many probitively weak links.
And, it is a marvelous story with some worthwhile teachings in it. I can't sort the wheat from the chaff though now. And it was a painful bye, bye to my few bullet-pointed questions (among the thousands that could be asked) that I lost to the cyber sphere.
Thanks for inducing me to watch this. Later, Ambo
Ambo Suno