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A Conversation With Dr. Fatima (Patreon)

Published:
2022-10-04 22:20:24
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2022-12-28 11:16:31
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2026-06
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Dr. Fatima Abdurrahman is a scientist with a Youtube channel and several bones to pick.

Fatima recently released her first 3 videos and gained 10 thousand subscribers in a single month. She caught my attention with her wit and perspective and expertise, and I have never been more excited to see the birth and growth of a project on Youtube.

She says she was inspired by me and if this part of my Youtube legacy I am very proud.

We talk here at great depth about art and science,  subjectivity and objectivity, causality and incentives, quantum physics and philosophy and of course what makes someone a good video essayist.

I'm a very big fan of this person and the work she's produced, I highly recommend all three of her vids and the many that are to come.

(this won't be the last you see of her so maybe good to get it on it early)

Watch Dr. Fatima's channel here: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUNtD-UN-fQHHteLHK9HgvQ

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A Conversation With Dr. Fatima

​@dr.fatima is a Youtube channel where one woman bravely discusses MAN topics like quantum physics and scientific objectivity. In one month, Fatima made two excellent video essays and jumped from 0 to 10 thousand subscribers, and evidently she is not running out of things to say, which is good for all of us. We talk here at great depth about art and science, subjectivity and objectivity, social progress and incentives, and what makes someone a good video essayist. Watch Dr. Fatima's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUNtD-UN-fQHHteLHK9HgvQ

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Anonymous

Gosh i love this conversation

valentin

the jewellery game in this one is fire

valentin

Regarding the part where they talk about art being accessible to everyone: ANYONE who listens to music, or consumes any art will have some understanding of it. I don't know anyone who listens to music and doesn't have a basic understanding of rythm/harmony/music theory in general like when I teach somebody a song on the piano they know when theyve played a wrong note/chord or didn't play the rythm correctly and then they say something like "sorry I'm don't have a talent for music" and I say FUCKEr WHY DO YOU THINK YOH KNOW THAT YOUVE MADW A MISTAKE?YOU KNOW MUSIC!! HOW CAN YOU KNOW WHETHER YOU HAVE TALENT IF YOUVE NEVER TRIED? (I don't actually get angry at them but my point is we should allow people to participate in art more often and not shame them for being bad at it especially since the standards are so high. I'm convinced most people have artistic ability and are just not encouraged to try which is sad we are MISSING OUT ON ART!!!)

saba

genuinely loving your output of content here. Never seen another creator fully take advantage of patreon in this way, genuinely. Sukc on my probiscus

Ember

God this was just so good. The interaction between the two of you made something I need to think about more. Only issue now is finding time to rewatch and sit with this for a while.

Anna Marie

Dr. Fatima is so good!! As an engineering educator who loves art and social justice, I can't wait to dig into this :)

Eafiu

This conversation was such a delight to listen to today (after watching everything on Dr. Fatima's channel first, a good day overall). Being a research Masters student dropout mainly because I got incredibly sick and tired of academia's bullshit, it's always gratifying to see others who look at that bullshit and choose to call it out and face it head-on because fucking hell, I will never have the patience to do so myself. It's not the future I want for myself, but I certainly don't want the present of academia to be its future too. I have so many random thoughts swirling around so sorry for the long post for anyone who makes the mistake to expand on the comments and have to scroll past all of this. So, three unrelated things that ended up relating thanks to this conversation: One, I started an online course on Ancient Chinese philosophy and am reading up on the concept of Confucianist lǐ at the moment as like, using ritual to actively play pretend until you really start internalizing what you were merely pretending to do at first. Second, I recently started painting again after like more than a decade of rarely picking up a pencil and started actually applying myself to improve thanks to a new friend's ridiculously good pep talk and it started feeling like therapy to practice because it allowed me to empty my head for hours just focusing on lines and lights and colours and whatever. Third, I've tried different ways to meditate over the years and never, ever managed to do it no matter how much I tried and eventually just gave up because I guess my brain chemistry is just not vibing with it, whatever. And fucking hell, so I guess reaching the flow state is? Basically meditation? And I've actually been "meditating" the past 2-3 months painting? The truth was staring at me the whole time? What the hell? I've basically been buried under the false understanding of a meditative state meaning you are emptied out but it's actually a pretty active thing I guess? Like, my brain is *working* its ass off trying to figure out where to put the next line but it's also just relaxed relative to its usual daily anxious state. Anyway. Didn't make all these connections until Dr. Fatima mentioned those brain areas that shut off with some activities including meditation and CJ brought up the flow state on top of them. Thanks to you both! This is tangential to the moment in the conversation that made me have these revelations and doesn't detract from the main points but I want to interject about animal brain language stuff because it actually is a huge misconception about neurophysiology and psychology. Really recommend reading Cesario et al.'s "Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside" to understand how the really common way of describing areas of the brain as evolutionary older or newer is actually pretty bunk and masks some actually fascinating things about brains and evolution. https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/TWK8BX6W2M4FFRTYXBZD/full Even more unrelated, as a born and raised İstanbul gal, hey, was fun to get a shoutout for something nice. By the way I was painting while listening to the conversation also and it's still in sketching and colour-blocking stage but it's looking pretty good, ngl. I'm proud and I just can't seem to press Post.

Anna Marie
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Okay I JUST listened to this and I'm so happy I did. I'm constantly fighting against the industrialization of the education system, which has had tons of knock-on effects. It also reminds me of that C. Thi Nguyen lecture about the gamification of public discourse, where he talks about grades as a terrible metric for assessing student learning. Chemical engineering is super quantitative ("did you calculate the right number for flow rate?") but next semester I'm experimenting with qualitative assessment because I'm teaching a course all about sustainability in plastic processing, and it just seems more appropriate. One of my planned lectures is talking about hoy vinyl records are made (a combination of extrusion & compression molding) and connecting that to the value of art. The social/artistic belongs in STEM!!