Richard Grego, Materialist Soothing |595|

Dr. Rich Grego… atheism / scientism rehash… Sam Harris… survival, the ultimate test for scientism.

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[00:00:00] Alex Tsakiris: , On this episode of Skeptiko, A show about

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[00:00:00] Alex Tsakiris: Um, this episode of Skeptiko, , A show about self-soothing.

[00:00:06] Clip: she needs to learn how to self sooth. . She’s to what? Self sooth Sooth herself. , let’s just sing a song. We’ll sing a song. Um, uh, the wheels on the bus go round, round. And round down . , maybe she’s hungry. . I’m gonna feed her.

Hi. Come on. Let’s go eat. Come on. I thought you were picking her.

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[00:00:28] Alex Tsakiris: And how, if it was never really a good idea in child rearing. It probably isn’t a . Good truth seeking slash personal development strategy either.

[00:00:39] Dr. Rich Grego: Sean Carroll is writing books about the meaning of life. He’s a complete materialist. , , Sam Harris is, is, is a guru now, right? I mean, he’s a pop culture sort of guru, but people come to him with answers about the meaning of life and what, what is it? . , , if you’re a physicalist, , you can’t really acknowledge morality.

You can’t really acknowledge aesthetic quality. You can’t really acknowledge literature, art. You can’t acknowledge the meaning of life I mean, it’s ruled out in advance.

[00:01:08] Alex Tsakiris: I don’t want to change my beliefs.

To whatever extent my life is livable. . It rests on the fact that I’m constantly seeking to be soothed, to be comforted by that voice inside my head, manipulated in a way that makes me feel okay. And the last thing I wanna do is take that leap and say there’s something more,

That first clip was from the movie life, as we know it. . And the second was from our guest,

dr. Richard Grego, who was nice enough to join me on this kind of trip through. Memory lane rebooted by some new stuff. That’s come out.

. Rich is a terrific guy and a great guest to the show. Really, really smart. Appreciate what he brings to this conversation. I hope you enjoy it.

Okay. Dr. Rich Grego is back. Rich is professor of Philosophy and cultural history, Florida State College, Jacksonville, and a really, really cool friend of the show. So, rich emailed me about a month ago and what, what ensued after that was, I think, a really cool conversation that we had that kind of morphed into this show maybe Rich, you want to tell folks about, uh, this guy who you interviewed and then I subsequently interviewed on Skeptiko, and then we’ll tell him about this new book that he has

[00:02:32] Dr. Rich Grego: out. Okay, sure. , , I interviewed, , , Alexander Maria Alameda, or who’s a, who’s a really, uh, impressive.

I, at least I find him very impressive. Guys, what you really, you can tell me what you think Alex, but for me is what you really are looking for in a great research scientist, um, especially when it comes to a controversial issue, um, that other, other scientists tend to judge unfairly. Um, so, and, and, and again, he, he’s been a near death researcher for a long time, as you said.

I interviewed him for the, for Skeptiko actually at, at, at a long time, a while ago now at the American Psychological Association Conference, I believe in Orlando. ,