The Athletic Philosopher Podcast

Episode 47: Bending Time and Space Through Physical Effort (The Deep Philosophy Episode)


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This is the one where I go deep into the nature of sport and it's ability to define and reshape reality. 

After a good prompt from my own coach and a fellow philosopher, both of whom I'll be racing with later this summer, I needed to hit record and let my stream of consciousness flow forth freely. 

I have deep ideas on the purpose of sport and one of the 'wilder' theories I have is it as the best interface with reality and consciousness because of its simultaneous ability to generate objective and subjective truths .

In this episode I explore how intentional acts of physical courage, whether through sport or other types of exertion (or abstention), shape and reshape the nature of reality from an ontological (what is the nature of reality?) perspective. 

This goes well with episode 46 where I ended off suggesting I wanted to start sharing more of my ideas like this, perfect time to get started! 

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