Change My Mind

I am joined today by Dr. Jay Garfield, Jay is a professor in the humanities, philosophy, logic and buddhist studies at Smith College, he specialized in Tibetan Buddhism, the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, ethics and hermeneutics, he is also a visiting professor for buddhist philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, and author of his latest book ''Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live Without a Self.'' published in may 2022 on which our conversation focuses mainly.

In our conversation we cover the topics of avoiding suffering, the self, free will, two experiments that prove the inexistence of either free will or the self, how these two illusions are the originators of a big part of the suffering of the human condition, the nature of consciousness, introspection and the meaning of the cosmos.

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Victoria is an Internal Medicine Physician, she claims that medicine is how we eat, think, feel, our relationships and more, that there’s no one pill solution.

During her first 6 months of residency she quickly realized that traditional medicine was not addressing the root of the problem. She became intrigued in addressing the root of the problem to prevent patients from frequently returning to the hospital and to ultimately help people improve their quality of life.

We converse on the evolutionary maladaptation of our biology to our current environment in relation to the abundance of calories, sugar, fat and salt. The conflict of interests emerging from an asymmetry of information and a corrupt healthcare system between healthcare providers and receivers. How focusing on ''the basics'' such as improving your diet, the way you think and your relationships can make a major impact in your health that no pill could. How the problems we moderns face are a lot of times intercepted by profit seeking corporations that can do so because of a badly designed system of interests, which leads U.S. citizens to spend more than double on healthcare than the average european.

Check Victoria's Web Page healthfulrootsmd.com

You can also find Victoria on Instagram & Linkdin

On this occasion I chat with Chef Dennis over food, its omnipresence among all cultures due to the shared biology of the human condition, how the obesity epidemic could be ameliorated returning to the diet of our grandparents, the importance of taking into account personal differences when looking for the optimal diet, the unfortunate fact that the cheapest food that we can consume are junk foods, making eating healthily a difficult task in North America, the cultural and culinary differences in the west between North American and European countries among which both of our opinions converge in that the latter has the best food.

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Mark Henick is a mental health activist and advocate, author, host and public speaker who has appeared on tv, radio and online podcasts on multiple occasions, he is especially well known for his popular TedX  talk on YouTube which now has had more than 6 million views.

We talk about: Suicide, why some people choose it and how to avoid it, the meaning of life, public policy measures relating to suicide prevention, how we have a common flaw of identifying ourselves with our feelings, the important differences between the collective and the individual and the remarkable similarities between the failed war on drugs and the suicide numbers that represents a social failure.

Find more about Mark on: His Web Page, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube his podcast Living Well With Mark Henick

Buy his best-selling book So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience

Julius H. Grey is a Canadian lawyer and university professor, he was born in Poland. He is particularly known for his expertise in constitutional and human rights law. He is a senior partner at the law firm Grey Casgrain, s.e.n.c.

I talk with Julius about the importance of freedom of speech in correcting incorrect thoughts-opinions, the threats to freedom of speech that political correctness creates, the role of the government in supporting weak languages such as French in Quebec or Welsh in Wales and the conflicts of interests that arise in the law system when people who work in the law sector express themselves in a deliberately and unnecessarily complex and sophisticated way to maximize the business that they have.

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Peter Christian was an engineer, consultant and teacher of management, worked in Crayola Corporation and he is also the author of two business books Influences and Influencers: How Our Relationships Affect and Shape Us and What About the Vermin Problem: A Guide to Avoiding Damaging Business Practices.

We chat over why businesses succeed or fail, possible conflict of interests between customers and providers, the need for marketing on a business, the difference between capturing and producing value and more.

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You can check his updates at https://phchristian53.medium.com/

US citizens spend double per capita than most of the Europeans do on healthcare. Far from being due to the inherent nature of free markets and the corruptness of capitalism, this is due to unfair privileges given to pharmaceutical companies by the regulators and the externalization of costs and the internalization of benefits (like overeating when splitting the bill on a group).

Robert Yoho, author of the popular book ''Butchered by ''Healthcare'''' accompanies me today to discuss over how corrupt the healthcare system of the US is, he also shares his views on vaccines and the state of the imminent collapse of the legal system.

Buy Robert Yoho’s Butchered by "Healthcare"

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Steve Braker is an author of a series of 5 books, was born in the United Kingdom but his desire for adventure drove him 20 years ago to Mombasa, Kenya.

We discuss the differences between western and central african countries, from the economy, safety nets, police, corruption, infrastructure, to governance.

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Paul Matt Sutter is an Astrophysicist, podcast host and science communicator.

The universe is big, but how big? Well... how does 8.8×10^26 m in diameter feel? Alienating? Good! That's why I am today accompanied by Sutter to put into perspective how bizarre the universe is.

In this conversation we cover the cosmic microwave background and how the big bang theory of the universe is derived from it, the impregnable heat death of the universe, conservation of energy, the existence of fundamental forces, the imprecision of english in expressing the laws of nature in contrast with mathematical formulas, the Fermi non-paradox and much more!

Buy Paul’s books: Your Place In The Universe & How To Die In Space

Paul’s web page: www.pmsutter.com

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Avigail Gimpel is an author, mother of six and special educator.

She has examined the current research relating to ADHD and has conducted 25 years of her own research, culminating in her book ''HyperHealing: The Empowered Parent’s Complete Guide to Raising a Healthy Child with ADHD Symptoms''

We discuss parenting, how on many occasions medical prescriptions are not wisely done due to ineptitude, wrong system structures and conflict of interests and how we frequently defer to our doctors in a way that we would not in other areas of knowledge

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Check Avigail’s book HyperHealing: The Empowered Parent’s Complete Guide to Raising a Healthy Child with ADHD Symptoms

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