Within Reason
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For the curious. A philosophy podcast that sometimes flirts with other disciplines, Within Reason has featured guests including Richard Dawkins, Douglas Murray, William Lane Craig, Peter Singer, Konstantin Kisin, and Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Episodios 163
#167 There is No Ultimate Reality - Carlo Rovelli
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Carlo Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist, is known mainly for his contributions to research in the field of quantum gravity. He is a found of loop quantum gravity, and writes extensively on the physics and philosophy of time, quantum mechanics, and ultimate reality.Get On the Equality of All Things: Lessons on Physics and Philosophy.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Tour
0:28 - The Ongoing Revolution in Science
3:59 - Interpreting the Quantum World
17:22 - Can a Person Be in Superposition?
27:23 - Everything is Relative
32:01 - The Relational Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
42:27 - Are Quantum Objects Actually There?
51:53 - Is There a Smallness Bias?
01:07:15 - Is Reality Grounded?
01:13:44 - Does Relativism Kill Morality?
01:22:42 - Buddhism and Quantum Mechanics
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#166 Are Plants Conscious? - Michael Pollan
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Michael Pollan is an American journalist and the first Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer at Harvard University.
Get A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness.
TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) North America Tour
(0:20) The Solar Eclipse
(2:56) What Is It Like To Be A Plant?
(14:52) Are Neurons Overrated?
(19:15) Is This All Complete Nonsense?
(20:59) The Strange Behaviour of Plants
(26:37) Consciousness by Negation
(37:31) Does Matter Or Consciousness Come First?
(44:09) What Do Humans Have That Plants Don’t?
(54:25) Do Plants Feel Pain?
(56:52) Is Feeling the Basis of Consciousness?
(01:06:45) Is Consciousness Falsifiable?
(01:17:41) Where Does Awareness Come From?
(01:22:15) Are Psychedelic Experiences Real?
(01:24:59) What is Everybody Getting Wrong About Consciousness?
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#165 Buddhist Emptiness Explained - Jan Westerhoff
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Get all sides of every story and be better informed at https://ground.news/AlexOC - subscribe for 40% off unlimited access.Come to my North American tour this November: https://www.alexoconnor.com/p/tour.Jan Westerhoff is a German philosopher and orientalist with specific interests in metaphysics and the philosophy of language. He is currently Professor of Buddhist Philosophy in the Faculty of Theology and Religion of the University of Oxford.Get Jan Westerhoff's books here.TIMESTAMPS:0:00 Nāgārjuna, The “Second Buddha”6:03 The Middle Way9:16 Ontological Nihilism20:00 Are Madhyamaka Buddhists Nihilists?38:56 How Emptiness Escapes Causal Arguments for God45:40 Preempting Immanuel Kant?50:37 Emptiness1:10:07 How to Escape Suffering1:16:54 Visualising Emptiness1:20:30 Is Consciousness Empty?1:34:28 Reality Without SubstanceCONNECT:My Website: https://www.alexoconnor.com
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#164 The Chosen Creator: Putting Words in Jesus' Mouth?
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Dallas Jenkins is an American film and television director, writer and producer. He is best known as the creator, director, co-writer and executive producer of The Chosen, the first multi-season series about the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Season six premieres November 15th on Prime Video, with three episodes at launch and new episodes weekly through December 6th. And the story doesn't end on streaming — the season finale arrives as a feature film, exclusively in theaters, on March 12th, 2027.
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(00:21) What is The Chosen’s Purpose?
(04:01) Is It Appropriate to Embellish the Story of Jesus?
(14:05) Harmonising the Gospel Accounts
(36:40) Do Actors Sometimes Theologically Disagree?
(48:02) Controversial Additions to the Show
(56:14) Why Didn’t Jesus Heal Little James?
(01:14:47) Depicting Judas Iscariot
(01:33:25) The Women of The Chosen
(01:40:37) Stories Left Out of the Show
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#163 Religion is an Obligation - Ross Douthat
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Ross Douthat is an American journalist who is a correspondent for the CBS News program 60 Minutes. Prior to joining CBS, he was a conservative columnist at The New York Times, a senior editor at The Atlantic, and film critic for National Review. He has written on religion, politics, and society.Get "Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious": https://amzn.to/4fw2bIJ
TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) Is Religious Belief An Obligation?
(17:44) Pantheism vs Theism
(23:35) The Connection Between Mind and Universe
(43:32) The Fine-Tuning Argument
(49:18) The Problem of Evil
(1:06:26) Is Belief in God Enough?
(1:20:53) Animal Suffering
(1:34:37) Is Heaven Hierarchical?CONNECT:
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#162 Two Million Subscriber QnA
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(0:00) – Intro
(0:18) – My YouTube Watch History
(01:33) – What Do I Want to Be Remember For?
(10:13) – Will I Do a PhD?
(13:06) – Warzone
(13:28) – How Many Philosophers Does It Take to Screw in a Light Bulb?
(14:14) – My Music Channel
(14:30) – My Career if I Wasn't a YouTuber
(15:49) – Things I Struggle With
(17:58) – Favourite Beatles Song?
(19:20) – Daily Life and Episode Prep
(23:09) – Favourite Debate?
(27:17) – Which Country Do I Want to Visit?
(27:30) – Which Country Do I Never Want to Visit?
(28:09) – Which Person from History Would I Want to Talk To?
(31:47) – Who Am I a Fan Of?
(32:18) – Favourite Sport and Club?
(39:25) – Favourite Dish and Beverage?
(40:23) – What Is One Thing You Regret?
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#161 What’s the Point of Going Back to the Moon? Chris Hadfield -
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Chris Hadfield is a retired Royal Canadian Air Force colonel, test pilot, and CSA astronaut. As the first Canadian to perform extravehicular activity in outer space, he has flown two Space Shuttle missions and also served as commander of the International Space Station. Get Chris's book Final Orbit.
TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) Have We Lost Interest in Space Travel?
(3:56) What Is There To Learn In Space?
(12:01) Is Space Exploration National Or Global?
(18:00) Will Civilians Need Training To Go To Space?
(22:35) The Psychological Challenges of Space Exploration
(26:28) Are Astronauts Thrill Seekers?
(34:33) Writing Fiction As An Astronaut
(42:58) How Chris Became a Novelist
(50:32) The Biggest Risk Chris Has Ever Taken
(53:09) How Chris Tackles Fear
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#160 Every Theory of Consciousness - Robert Lawrence Kuhn
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Robert Lawrence Kuhn is an American public intellectual and investment banker. He is also an author, television producer, columnist and commentator, especially on topics related to China. Kuhn is the creator of the PBS series @CloserToTruthTV .View the Landscape of Consciousness Map here.
TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) The Landscape of Consciousness Map
(16:32) Materialism
(26:58) What Counts As Materialism?
(45:12) The Difference Between Panpsychism and Materialism
(49:36) What’s the Difference Between Panpsychism and Idealism?
(58:12) Idealism and Monism
(1:03:51) Do All These “Theories” Really Differ?
(1:08:40) Dualism and Property Dualism
(1:20:30) Are Psychedelic Experiences Significant?
(1:32:02) The “Challenge” Category
(1:42:36) Quantum Theories of Consciousness
(1:47:57) Integrated Information Theory
(2:01:53) Theological Approaches to Consciousness
(2:15:33) How Theory of Mind Brings Us Together
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#159 Aristotle: The World's Greatest Philosopher?
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John Sellars is a Reader in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, a visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Member of Wolfson College, Oxford. His books include Lessons in Stoicism, The Fourfold Remedy, Aristotle and his work has been translated into over a dozen languages.
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TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) What’s So Great About Aristotle?
(03:06) Actuality and Potentiality
(12:59) Forms: Aristotle vs Plato
(20:02) The Four Causes
(25:16) Evolution and Final Causation
(29:40) Did Aristotle Believe In God?
(32:38) The Unmoved Mover
(38:58) The Soul (Is Not What You Might Think)
(48:51) How Aristotle Invented Formal Logic
(55:54) The Nicomachean Ethics
(01:15:56) Ethics as Descriptive
(01:21:04) Where To Start With Aristotle
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#158 Could Consciousness Be an Illusion?
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Keith Frankish is a British philosopher specialising in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of cognitive science.
Read Keith's essay, "Illusionism as a theory of consciousness" (2016).
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Keith Frankish and Philip Goff co-host a channel 'Mind Chat', where they debate panpsychism versus illusionism, and explore cutting-edge thought on consciousness: / @mindchat
TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) Is Consciousness An Illusion?
(4:02) Do We Have a Private World?
(10:00) The Nature of Visual Experience
(20:13) Is Awareness Behavioural?
(28:17) Isn’t Introspection Itself a Private Experience?
(33:04) Philosophical Zombies
(43:05) What Motivates Illusionism?
(50:02) Psychedelics and the Dissolution of the Self
(59:23) Why Are Philosophers Always Categorising?
(1:10:31) Does Alex’s Triangle Exist?
(1:21:40) Is Pain Just a Reaction to Stimulus?
(1:49:05) Is Pain an Emergent Phenomenon?
(1:55:52) What Illusion Is Actually Happening?
(1:59:07) Can AI Be Conscious?
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#157 How a Blind Man Sees the World - Tommy Edison
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@TommyEdisonXP is a blind YouTuber and radio presenter. He got his start online as the “Blind Film Critic”, reviewing movies despite being unable to see them, and thereby offering a unique angle on their storytelling.
TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) Being a Blind YouTuber
(2:03) How Do You Understand Blindness If You Are Blind From Birth?
(4:26) Being Blind in School
(7:20) Tommy’s Early Life
(12:11) Has Life Become More Accessible For the Blind?
(19:35) How Vision is Embedded in Our Language
(21:35) How Does A Blind Person Watch A Movie?
(25:40) What Does Tommy Know About Colour?
(27:51) Mary’s Room
(32:16) Can A Blind Person Play Video Games?
(35:39) The Questions People Are Too Afraid to Ask
(41:42) How Does A Blind Person Understand Attractiveness?
(44:27) What Can We Make More Accessible?
(48:24) Why Electric Cars Aren’t Best For Everyone
(51:33) Is Offering Help Patronising?
(54:35) What Can Tommy Do That People Think He Can’t?
(58:32) Why Tommy Chooses Joy
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#156 Mysticism: The Heretics Who Got Too Close to God - Simon Critchley
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Simon Critchley is a British philosopher, author and professor at The New School in New York. He is best known for his work on existentialism, mysticism, ethics and continental philosophy, and is the author of books including The Book of Dead Philosophers, Faith of the Faithless and Mysticism. Get Simon's book Mysticism here.
TIMESTAMPS:
(7:52) What is Mysticism?
(18:58) Unification With the Divine
(29:58) Mysticism and the Self
(40:38) Why Are So Many Mystics Women?
(48:41) The Limits of Language
(59:54) Was Pascal a Mystic?
(01:03:21) Where Does Simon Stand on Mysticism?
(01:11:22) Where Should We Start With Learning About Mysticism?
(01:15:36) Imagery in Simon’s Book
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#155 AI Music is Not Music - Adam Neely
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Adam Neely is an American bassist, YouTuber, and jazz musician based in New York City. His YouTube content includes Q&A videos, vlogs about performing music, and video essays about online music culture. As a musician, he performs with groups including the electro-jazz duo Sungazer and the instrumental band Aberdeen.Watch Adam's video on Suno here.
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(0:00) Music and Philosophy(5:17) Can You Cheat in Music?(9:07) What is Suno?(25:20) Can You Use AI Musically?(32:21) Is AI Just the New Sampling?(38:40) AI and Inclusivity(46:21) Is Music Becoming Narcissistic?(57:26) Does Great Art Require Ego?(01:07:04) Are AI Music Tools Inevitable?(01:22:55) How Would Adam Improve Suno?(01:35:44) Are We Removing the Humanity From Music?(01:44:18) Is Jazz the Blueprint?
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#154 Happiness: Epicurus' Ancient Guide - Jonny Thomson
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Jonny Thomson is a philosopher and the founder of PhilosophyMinis . He is on the Executive Board for the British Philosophy Association and is a staff writer at Big Think.Get Jonny's upcoming book, The Art of Enough: The Ancient Epicurean Philosophy of Finding – and Keeping – Happiness
TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Are Epicureans Selfish?
(05:30) Why Epicureanism?
(10:31) Who Was Epicurus?
(16:42) Godless But Not Atheistic
(23:21) Epicurus’ Metaphysics
(27:24) Why Focus on Pleasure?
(35:29) Epicureanism vs Utilitarianism
(48:59) What About Immoral Pleasures?
(53:02) Could AI be Epicurean?
(01:00:50) The Experience Machine
(01:10:59) Why Epicurus Didn’t Like Sex
(01:16:21) Are Influencers Watering Down Ancient Philosophy?
(01:20:06) Are You In Control of Your Happiness?
(01:26:33) Epicureanism vs Stoicism
(01:32:36) Epicurus on Death
(01:36:42) Do We Have a Happiness Crisis?
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#153 If Anyone Builds It, EVERYONE Dies - AI Expert on Superintelligence
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Nate Soares is an American artificial intelligence author and researcher known for his work on existential risk from AI. In 2014, Soares co-authored a paper that introduced the term AI alignment, the challenge of making increasingly capable AI’s behave as intended. Nate is the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California.
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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Is This an Exaggeration?
(04:31) What Is Unique About the Threat of AI?
(11:28) What is Superintelligence?
(21:25) From Chess Computers to Murderous Machines
(27:52) What Really Drives AI Systems?
(44:29) Evidence AI Is Already Turning Against Us
(56:03) How We Are Helping AI Take Over
(01:01:21) Why Would AI Seek Power or Control?
(01:07:42) Some Worst-Case AI Scenarios
(01:18:38) What Do We Do About This Now?
(01:32:53) How Has AI Changed in the Last Six Months?
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#152 Why AI Will Never Be Conscious
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Anil Seth is a British neuroscientist and professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. A proponent of materialist explanations of consciousness, he is currently amongst the most cited scholars on the topics of neuroscience and cognitive science globally. Read Anil's essay, "The Mythology of Conscious AI".
TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) The Difference Between Intelligence and Consciousness
(03:55) What’s Stopping the Replication of Consciousness in AI?
(17:01) Can You Separate What the Brain Is From What It Does?
(22:20) Is Conscious Experience Just Predictions From the Brain?
(26:48) Why Do We Project Consciousness Onto LLMs?
(37:27) Can Consciousness Exist Without a Body?
(42:25) Why We Liken the Brain to a Computer
(52:11) Is There An Evolutionary Reason For Consciousness?
(56:29) Studying Unconscious Perception?
(1:01:21) Is Consciousness Unified? Split-Brain Patients
(1:15:10) Attention and Consciousness
(1:19:04) What Would a Conscious Chatbot Even Look Like?
(1:25:13) Consciousness as a Controlled Hallucination
(1:34:19) Do Scientists Actually Study “Consciousness” At All?
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#151 John Lennox - What Nearly Dying Taught Me About God
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John Lennox is a Northern Irish mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist originally from Northern Ireland. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and God, and has had public debates with atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.
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(00:00) How Pressure Can Produce the Best Work
(02:29) Does the Incarnation Make Sense?
(06:22) John’s Richard Dawkins Debate
(14:39) What Did the New Atheists Get Wrong About God?
(26:21) Science Cannot Explain Everything
(31:22) What Did the New Atheists Get Right?
(35:18) Why Does God Hide From So Many People?
(44:36) Why Does God Allow Arbitrary Suffering?
(56:25) Is Faith “Belief Without Evidence”?
(1:00:33) How Could God Punish a Mere Lack of Faith?
(1:08:14) How Christopher Hitchens Agreed with Jesus
(1:13:03) Does Christianity Cause Evil?CONNECT
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#150 Materialist AND Panpsychism are True - Galen Strawson
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Galen Strawson is a British analytic philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche.
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(00:00) Is Radical Emergence Possible?
(08:15) Can Physics Describe Consciousness?
(12:01) Is Everything Made of Consciousness?
(18:34) Why Are People Resistant to Panpsychism?
(21:19) Can Experience Alone Tell Us What Consciousness Is?
(23:50) Does Consciousness Require Complexity?
(29:03) Panpsychism vs Idealism: What’s the Difference?
(36:08) The Combination Problem
(40:03) What is the “Self”?
(43:16) Do We Even Need to Explain Consciousness?
(48:25) Is Consciousness a Scientific or Philosophical Question?
(53:25) Is It Possible for AI to Become Conscious?
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#149 My Problem With C.S. Lewis - Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman is one of England's most cherished and celebrated writers. Author of the popular His Dark Materials series of books (later adapted into a film, The Golden Compass (2007), and a 2019 HBO/BBC drama series), his novels are dripping with philosophical and religious themes. Get Philip Pullman's Books here.
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(0:00) C.S. Lewis Tells Filthy Lies
(5:12) Childhood Innocence is Overrated
(10:09) Religion in Philip’s Novels
(21:26) How to Improve the Story of Jesus and the Gospels
(27:43) The Connection Between Music and Fiction
(36:24) Books vs Movies
(43:38) Consciousness in The Book of Dust
(50:05) Should Novelists Go Back and Update Their Books?
(56:11) The Omniscient Narrator
(1:00:12) How Movies Changed Novels
(1:05:49) Why Subtitles Are So Popular Now
(1:10:56) The Role of Philosophy in Philip’s Novels
(1:13:27) Philip’s Writing Process
(1:20:11) The Fear of AI in Creative Industries
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#148 Blaise Pascal: Philosopher, Mathematician, Genius - Graham Tomlin
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Graham Tomlin is a British theologian, author and former Church of England bishop. Get Graham's book, Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World. Graham's organisation, Seen and Unseen.
TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) Can Blaise Pascal Be Categorised?
(03:05) Who Was Blaise Pascal?
(11:12) Pascal’s First Conversion
(17:19) Pascal’s “Night of Fire”
(21:59) Did Pascal Reject Reason?
(31:45) Pascal’s War With Descartes
(42:31) Did Pascal Invent the Bus?
(45:42) The Heart Has Its Reasons, Of Which Reason Knows Nothing
(50:03) How Pascal Invented Probability Theory
(52:29) Pascal’s Wager
(1:15:35) The Pensées
(1:18:30) Pascal’s “Two Minds”
(1:22:39) The Importance of Boredom
(1:26:58) Why Should Atheists Read Pascal?
(1:31:34) What Would Graham Ask Pascal?
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#147 What is PURE Consciousness? - Thomas Metzinger
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Thomas Metzinger is a German philosopher and Professor Emeritus of theoretical philosophy at the University of Mainz. His primary research areas include philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience, and applied ethics, particularly focusing on neurotechnology, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.
TIMESTAMPS
(0:00) The Minimal Phenomenal Experience Project
(11:34) Is MPE New Age Meditation?
(17:07) Collecting Reports of Pure Consciousness
(25:48) Lucid Deep Sleep - Thomas’ Experience
(32:19) Does Consciousness Require Complexity?
(39:29) The Power of Meditation
(45:32) Is Meditation Always a Positive Experience?
(53:13) Is a MPE Actually an Experience?
(01:11:21) Your Brain is Not Telling You the Truth
(01:20:08) Analysing Minimal Conscious Experiences
(01:27:26) Is Meditative Enlightenment Unethical?
(01:32:37) Western Ignorance of Eastern Tradition
(01:40:13) “Coming Home”
(01:44:29) The Political Implications of MPE
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#146 The Most Complicated Thing in the Universe: What is the Brain?
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Matthew Cobb is a British zoologist and Emeritus professor of zoology at the University of Manchester.
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(0:00) The Minimal Phenomenal Experience Project
(11:34) Is MPE New Age Meditation?
(17:07) Collecting Reports of Pure Consciousness
(25:48) Lucid Deep Sleep - Thomas’ Experience
(32:19) Does Consciousness Require Complexity?
(39:29) The Power of Meditation
(45:32) Is Meditation Always a Positive Experience?
(53:13) Is a MPE Actually an Experience?
(01:11:21) Your Brain is Not Telling You the Truth
(01:20:08) Analysing Minimal Conscious Experiences
(01:27:26) Is Meditative Enlightenment Unethical?
(01:32:37) Western Ignorance of Eastern Tradition
(01:40:13) “Coming Home”
(01:44:29) The Political Implications of MPE
(01:52:40) Should Ketamine Be Legalised?
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#145 The Algorithm is God Now - The Etymology Nerd
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Adam Aleksic, known online as Etymology Nerd, is an American linguist and content creator who produces videos exploring the origins of words. He began exploring word origins in 2016 through his blog. Aleksic studied at Harvard University, where he gained attention for his educational TikTok videos on linguistics and language in 2023. In 2025, he published Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language.
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(0:00) Will Social Media End Local Languages?
(7:49) Why Does Language Change?
(15:11) What Is Algospeak?
(22:33) We Worship Our Phones
(27:36) Upcoming Slang to Invest In
(33:26) Online Slang That Never Quite Caught On
(38:48) Introducing Adam to British Slang
(47:13) The Origins of Language
(57:22) Punctuation in Text Messaging
(1:06:24) The Latin Mass and Hocus Pocus
(1:13:44) The Message of AlgospeakCONNECT
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#144 Sam Harris - Spirituality for Atheists.
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Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, philosopher, New York Times best-selling author, host of the Making Sense podcast, and creator of the Waking Up meditation app.
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(00:00) Tour
(00:32) Is ‘Spirituality’ a Dirty Word?
(04:26) Why Take Reflective Knowledge Seriously?
(29:11) What Is the Self?
(47:04) Why Are There Distinct Selves?
(1:01:22) The Two Hemispheres of the Brain
(1:06:47) The Problem of Emergence
(1:18:41) What’s the Minimal Amount of Consciousness?
(1:34:09) Is AI Lying to Us About Consciousness?
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#143 Hinduism, Consciousness and Advaita Vedanta - Swami Sarvapriyananda
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Swami Sarvapriyananda is a Hindu monk belonging to the Ramakrishna Order. He is the current resident Swami and Minister in Charge, of the Vedanta Society of New York.
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(00:00) Tour
(00:32) An Intro to Hinduism and Advaita Vedanta
(14:31) What Are the Upanishads
(22:08) Where Do the Vedas (Scripture) Come From?
(29:02) What Does “Upanishad” Mean?
(34:36) What Do the Upanishads Teach Us?
(47:07) What Is Brahman, or Ultimate Existence?
(1:02:52) What Is the True Nature of Consciousness?
(1:08:15) Non-Dualism in Advaita Vedanta
(1:18:34) Why Isn’t There Just One Big Consciousness?
(1:29:06) What Is the Self?
(1:36:30) Are Brahman and Atman the Same Thing?
(1:45:25) What Does ‘God’ Mean in Hinduism?
(1:49:07) Does Hinduism Believe Other Religions Are Incorrect?CONNECT
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Atheist Slogans You Should Stop Using - Joe Schmid
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Joe Schmid is a PhD student in philosophy at Princeton University and creator of the Majesty of Reason YouTube channel. He graduated with a B.A. in philosophy from Purdue University in 2022. He has published articles in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of time, and the author of books including "Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs".
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(00:00) Tour
(00:32) Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
(07:50) There Is No Evidence for God
(25:27) Who Created God?
(49:44) Science Flies You to the Moon, Religion Flies You into Buildings
(01:02:33) Your Location Determines Your Religion
(01:28:33) Claims Are Not Evidence
(01:32:50) You Can’t Prove a Negative
(01:38:35) What Can Be Asserted Without Evidence Can Be Dismissed Without Evidence
(01:43:51) Faith Is Belief Without Evidence
(01:54:59) Religion Makes Good People Do Bad Things
(01:55:32) Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence
(01:56:31) Theism Is Unfalsifiable
(02:01:03) Science Books Would Come Back, Religions Would Not
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#141 Stoicism: Everything You Need to (Actually) Know - John Sellars
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John Sellars is a Reader in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, a visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Member of Wolfson College, Oxford. His books include Lessons in Stoicism, The Fourfold Remedy, Aristotle and his work has been translated into over a dozen languages.
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(00:00) Tour
(00:32) Did Socrates Found Stoicism?
(08:03) The Three Eras of Stoicism
(17:50) Stoic Logic
(26:19) Empiricism: How the Stoics Got Knowledge
(34:33) Materialism: Only Physical Things Exist
(43:00) How Reason Fundamentally Animates the Universe
(48:43) Did the Stoics Believe in God?
(59:37) Do the Stoics Contradict Themselves?
(01:08:17) Stoic Ethics
(01:24:24) How Did the Stoics Deal With Evil?
(01:36:32) Can You Choose Your Outcome If Everything Is Determined?CONNECT
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#140 Sean Carroll - The Limits of Scientific Explanation
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Sean Michael Carroll is an American theoretical physicist who specializes in quantum mechanics, cosmology, and the philosophy of science.
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0:00 – Tour
0:32 – Can Science Alone Explain the Universe?
6:08 – The Principle of Sufficient Reason
10:07 – What Are the Laws of Physics?
18:22 – The Fine-Tuning Argument
32:39 – Does the Multiverse Undermine Morality?
36:29 – Free Will and the Multiverse
42:24 – What Is Emergence?
56:21 – What “Stuff” Do Materialists Believe In?
1:02:41 – How Does Consciousness Work on Materialism?
1:17:31 – What Could Move Sean Away from Materialism?
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#139 David Bentley Hart - All Things Are Full of Gods
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(0:32) Are All Things Full of Gods?
(8:51) Subjectivity and the Scientific Third Person
(18:56) What is the Materialistic Worldview?
(28:45) Consciousness of the Gaps?
(38:21) What’s Wrong with Emergence?
(1:00:18) Why Panpsychism is False
(1:10:25) Is There a Fundamental Unit of Consciousness?
(1:23:08) Why Are There Individual Selves?
(1:27:43) What’s Special About the Brain?
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#138 Rhett McLaughlin - How to Save Christianity From Christians
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Rhett McLaughlin is a comedian best known for creating the internet’s most-watched daily talk show, Good Mythical Morning, alongside Link Neal. The pair also host a weekly podcast, Ear Biscuits.
Timestamps:
0:00 – Tour
0:32 – Did Rhett Break Christianity on Easter Sunday?
6:15 – What About Christianity Needs Rethinking?
12:16 – Christians Should Embrace Faith
23:39 – Christians Should Stop Relying on Evidence
37:01 – Christians Should Stop Relying on Philosophy
49:05 – Christians Should Embrace Truth
55:15 – Why Do Christians Resist Evolution?
1:02:55 – Are Alex and Rhett About to Convert to Christianity?
1:07:49 – Christians Should Embrace Jesus
1:34:30 – Rhett’s New Channel
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