What is Archdisciplinarity
Really? with Cory David Barker, Nick Hedlund & Brendan Graham Dempsey

In this episode of the Integration podcast, Cory David Barker joins Nick Hedlund and Brendan Graham Dempsey to go deeper into archdisciplinarity, the study of what the big unifying frameworks have in common. It began with a puzzle: a universal model of structure and a universal model of process seemed to rest on the same underlying recursion, a pattern Barker traces back to Turing and Church. He explains why he writes his arches as theorems and axioms, so people can disagree with them one claim at a time, and why formal science is the field big-picture thinking has most neglected.

Is comparing frameworks a way of finding what they share, or of exposing where they break? And what is it like to live inside a picture of reality that, as Barker puts it, shouldn't exist at all and yet is ridiculously organized?

Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Introduction

00:02:28 – From Jung to a Survey of Human Knowledge

00:10:44 – The Genesis of an Arch: Recursion, Turing and Church

00:16:37 – What Archdisciplinarity Adds to the Field

00:25:01 – How Provisional Are the Arches?

00:33:28 – A Story of Reality, or a Grammar of Theories?

00:44:35 – Scanning for Similarities, or for Contradictions?

00:47:10 – What's Missing: Formal Science

00:48:20 – Does Any of This Change the World?

01:04:51 – Living Inside the Ruliad