Meaningoflife.tv: Love-driven Politics (fast)
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Sinopse
David Kyuman Kim in dialogue with thinkers, activists, artists and concerned citizens seeking to forge a public life animated by compassion, mercy, generosity and radical love.
Episódios
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Steven Pinker, the Unabomber, Quantum Physics, and DMT (Nikita Petrov & John Horgan)
22/03/2021 Duração: 01h00s...
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Explaining Quantum Mechanics (John Horgan & Tim Maudlin)
08/03/2021 Duração: 01h00sWhy Tim became a philosopher ... John gets entangled in superposition ... Tim explains Bell’s Theorem with diagrams ... Tim rejects shutting up and calculating ... Will quantum computers lead to a better quantum theory? ...
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Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy (Robert Wright & David Ottlinger)
02/03/2021 Duração: 01h00sDistinguishing between the numinous and the noumenal ... Kant’s religious vision ... The Copernican revolution in philosophy ... What, if anything, does the Buddhist idea of emptiness have to do with Kant? ... The transcendental status of space and time ... Can the Matrix help us understand Kant? ... Distinguishing between the noumenal and the phenomenal ... Can we transcend our phenomenal experience of the world? ...
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Ten Keys to Reality (Robert Wright & Frank Wilczek)
23/02/2021 Duração: 01h00sWhat got Frank his Nobel Prize ... Frank's new book, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality ... Solving the mystery of dark matter ... Can quantum physics make sense? ... Frank: Mind emerges from matter, not the other way around ... Can you love an automaton? ... Complementarity as scientific concept and everyday attitude ... How Frank's Catholic upbringing influenced his scientific thinking ... Is reality an algorithm? ... The limits of human intelligence ...
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Questioning the Practice of Grading in Schools (Robert Gressis & Kevin Currie-Knight)
18/02/2021 Duração: 01h00sRob and Kevin make small talk ... Kevin describes and laments the grade economy ... What's the relationship between grades and learning? ... Bryan Caplan's "The Case Against Education" and how it has traumatized Rob ... Unschooling ... If schools suck so much, how did Rob and Kevin learn? ...
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Free Speech and Academic Freedom in 2020 (Daniel Kaufman & David Ottlinger)
10/02/2021 Duração: 01h00sA new home for Sophia ... The (latest) defenestration of Kathleen Stock ... How sincere are pro-trans rights public intellectuals? ... Justin Weinberg's essay on the Kathleen Stock incident ... David: "It's the squishy middles that are gonna kill us" ... Dan: deplatforming people on social media is effectively censorship ... The death of public discourse and the rise of Trump ... How consensus crumbles ... David: we should get rid of the harm principle ...
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Quantum Mechanics and “Reality” (John Horgan & Adam Becker)
01/02/2021 Duração: 01h00sDo you need math to grok quantum mechanics? ... Adam's quibble with Nils Bohr ... Explaining David Bohm’s pilot-wave model ... Defending the many-worlds hypothesis ... Are quantum mechanics and consciousness entangled? ... Will science ever explain the world? ...
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The Dharma of Bob 3: Cognitive Biases (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)
26/01/2021 Duração: 01h00sContinuing “the Dharma of Bob” ... The evolutionary logic of cognitive biases ... Attribution error, or why your enemies seem so damn evil ... Zero-sum biases in a non-zero-sum world ... Bob fixes social media ... How cognitive biases have shaped perceptions of the Capitol riot ... The psychology of tribalism and the BLM protests ...
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Spooky Action at a Distance (John Horgan & George Musser)
06/01/2021 Duração: 01h00sIs spacetime obsolete? ... Quantum spookiness explained! ... Black holes and the big bang are spooky too. ... What preceded space and time? ... Is physics just poetry with math? ... George’s next book: how mind relates to matter ...