OK, I have to start with a personal comment…I am a paid up member of the Rising Tide Foundation, and attend all of the Wednesday ‘classes’ online (it’s usually around 9am Thurs morning my time…the Sunday ones, like this one, are at a time which makes it harder…I do the Giza vidchats which have me up and somewhat awake at around 1am every second Sat morning, and at age 70 that is enough interruption to biorhythms for me lol), and catch the Sunday lectures as online podcasts, as anyone can.
This presentation by Dr Quan Li is just so impressive IMO, and thus worth sharing here. In a perfect world we might learn to appreciate ALL cultures rather than being ‘conditioned’ to see differences as ‘problematic’ and even dangerous and to be feared. Dr Li is steeped in both Chinese and Western culture, and his ‘specialty’ - the thing he promotes most - is ‘the individual’s epistemological journey’, and whatever anyone thinks of Matt Ehret (founder of RTF) I have personally found much richness in my involvement with RTF, an expression perhaps of my own epistemological journey, which certainly includes this site and all of Dr Farrell’s work as well.
In this one Dr Li talks mathematics, music and metaphysics from both a Western perspective and a Chinese one. IMO it is rich in information, and has one of the best discussions of the idea of the ‘Pythagorean Comma’ I have seen…the Chinese version, known long before the West, refers to it as ‘that which cannot be replaced’. There is also a very good discussion of Pythagoras’s theorem re right angled triangles, once again known long before the Greeks. For me it adds to my almost lifelong feeling of being a human being first - part of the larger totality of our species - and not merely being so caught up in the culture I was born into that I fail to even look at ‘the bigger picture’. For those that bother investing the time I think you will both enjoy the lecture, and hopefully gain some better understanding of the potential unity of culture rather than it’s fragmentation 
