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A 3-minute bio for teaching purposes.

This talk was presented at the 2021 Fall Conference of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame on Thursday, November 11. The paper associated with this slide presentation is accessible at https://tinyurl.com/dCEC21-Loughran ; the slides shown are accessible at https://tinyurl.com/dCEC21-Loughran-slides .

This video (the second of two parts) is a recording of a mass celebrated in the Log Chapel at the University of Notre Dame on February 10, 2022. This is the anniversary of the death of Fr. Benjamin Petit, a french priest who served the Potawatomi tribe in Northern Indiana/Southern Michigan through their forced march in 1838 from Twin Lakes, IN to Saint Mary's Sugar Creek Mission near Osawatomie, Kansas. Fr. Petit accompanied the 849 members of the tribe for the 660 mile journey, on which 40 persons (mostly children) died. On his return trip to Indiana, Fr. Petit died at the Jesuit seminary in St. Louis (present day Saint Louis University) two months short of 30 years of age. Celebrant of the mass is Fr. Paul Doyle, C.S.C. Gus Zuehlke organized the event and read the reflection after the blessing of candles, both of which and the mass that followed are recorded in this part 1 (through the prayer of the faithful); the mass concludes in part 2.

This video (the second of two parts) is a recording of a mass celebrated in the Log Chapel at the University of Notre Dame on February 10, 2022. This is the anniversary of the death of Fr. Benjamin Petit, a french priest who served the Potawatomi tribe in Northern Indiana/Southern Michigan through their forced march in 1838 from Twin Lakes, IN to Saint Mary's Sugar Creek Mission near Osawatomie, Kansas. Fr. Petit accompanied the 849 members of the tribe for the 660 mile journey, on which 40 persons (mostly children) died. On his return trip to Indiana, Fr. Petit died at the Jesuit seminary in St. Louis (present day Saint Louis University) two months short of 30 years of age. Celebrant of the mass is Fr. Paul Doyle, C.S.C. Gus Zuehlke organized the event and read the reflection after the blessing of candles. Those events and the mass that followed are recorded in part 1 through the prayer of the faithful; the mass concludes in this part 2.

Sept 30, 2020: Open Topic, post-1st-presidential debate discussion, election fraud, computer modeling of elections, and bobcats.

First discussion of lens #3: integrative loving freedom, and some discussion of the role these three lenses play in the context of the whole Resurrecting Civility project.

International peace treaties, lenses, propositions ...

On the day of RBG's passing, a discussion of the possibility of perspectival conscious realism as the 2nd of a 3-lens spiral matrix, all part of the Resurrecting Civility project.

Rehashing episode 32--that, an introduction to the high-information-flow-network of rich communities lens--reflecting on the nature of lenses, models, brain development, education and transformation in the ways we see the world.

A general introduction (as an unfortunate 2-hour monologue) to the Resurrecting Civility project, to useful analogies of the whole, to the three lens matrix strategy, and a deep dive into the first lens: that of a High-Information-Flow Network of Rich Communities. Topics covered include the nature of information, an information-processing paradigm, social information processing, cognitive and noncognitive ways for information to shape choices, parallel vs complementary information processing, the ideal of an information-rich community, an algorithm for comparing perspectives of rival communities, an emerging set of ideals of truth, goodness and right as features of stable communities, a new science of computational politics, with a role for AI in that science and guidance for AI through that science, and a new model for a university on the path toward resurrecting civility.

On forest fires, solving big problems, money in politics, free speech.

A brief discussion touching on how a model functions in information processing, why we need multiple layers of increasingly rich models, and the three model (lens) stack featured in the Resurrecting Civility project.

A discussion of the nature of rights, and where the content of rights comes from.

A discussion of the rights and responsibilities associated with journalism, starting around covid reporting but moving to a general account.

In the midst of a pathways-to-alt-realism (that is, to non-physicalist accounts of reality) convergent strategy-mapping, just at a preliminary lab-meeting stage, as part of the Resurrecting Civility project...lots of uncareful phrasing, misstatements, etc.