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FAQs about MeaningofLife.tv:How many episodes does MeaningofLife.tv have?The podcast currently has 591 episodes available.
June 08, 2021Should Darwin Be Cancelled? (Robert Wright & Agustín Fuentes)Agustín on what he was and wasn’t saying in his controversial Science piece on Darwin ... What is biological anthropology? ... What social media critiques of Agustín’s editorial missed ... Untangling Darwin’s attitudes toward race and genocide ... Darwin’s worries about his theory’s acceptance ... What do female gibbons want? ... Agustín: Commonly used racial categories are unscientific ... The changing rules for competition among males ... Okay, so should we cancel Darwin or not? ......more1h 0minPlay
June 07, 2021Quantum Mechanics and the Quest for Final Knowledge (John Horgan & Philip Ball)Will science ever absorb the arts and humanities? ... Why Phil wrote a book about quantum mechanics ... Knowing quantum math doesn’t necessarily help ... Is "information” the key to quantum mechanics? ... What quantum computing can and can’t do ... The weirdness and arbitrariness of existence ......more1h 0minPlay
May 25, 2021Saving the World One Podcast at a Time (Robert Wright & Rob Wiblin)Defining effective altruism ... Rob explains the meaning of ‘80,000 Hours’ ... Should young people dedicate their careers to fighting climate change? ... The Apocalypse Aversion Project ... How cognitive biases fuel tribalism ... Bob: We need a psychological revolution ... Are external threats the best way to bring people together? ... The balance between surveillance and public safety ... Bob: Let's retire the word 'apologist' ... Making rationality cool ... Rob challenges Bob to find flaws in "The Moral Animal" ......more1h 0minPlay
May 11, 2021The Dharma of Bob 5: Mindful Defiance (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)Josh tries to help Bob retool his meditation practice ... Identifying the purpose of your practice ... What to do when your mind wanders ... Tuning your mind ... The Four Rs ... Can mindfulness help us bolster our courage? ... Learning to tolerate blowback from your tribe ... Suffering and the psychology of tribalism ... Developing a non-zero-sum relationship with your own mind ... So you say you've been called a neofascist... ......more1h 0minPlay
May 05, 2021Despite Our Best Intentions (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)The value of defying your tribe ... Egocentric bias and attribution error ... The thin line between between courage and acting like an asshole ... Why do we punish people for unintentional transgressions? ... To understand all is to forgive all … ... … but forgiveness won’t get you retweets ... Are people’s politics as irrational as they seem? ... William James’ preternatural insight into human psychology ... Should the Philip Roth biography have been pulled? ... Reliving the worst day of your life ......more1h 0minPlay
April 27, 2021Circling the Elephant (Robert Wright & John Thatamanil)John’s new book, Circling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity ... John’s early religious sensibility ... The Advaita Vedanta tradition in Hinduism ... Grappling with the human predicament ... Approaches to ultimate reality ... John’s brush with non-dualistic experience ... Why John doesn’t consider himself a perennialist ... Touching the infinite elephant ......more1h 0minPlay
April 12, 2021Science, Fiction, and the Mind-Body Problem (John Horgan & Erik Hoel)Erik's new novel, The Revelations ... How Erik became a writer and a neuroscientist ... Erik defends integrated information theory ... The agnosticism of the novelist ... Should the mind-body problem have a single solutions? ......more1h 0minPlay
March 23, 2021The Dharma of Bob 4: Averting the Apocalypse (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)Who you callin' bodhisattva? ... Outlining the Apocalypse Aversion Project ... How meditation can make us better global citizens ... Why we need “cognitive crampons” ... Transcend and include ... The varieties of meditative experience ... Achieving micro-enlightenment ... The benefits of confronting your dark side ... Building a cognitively empathetic grassroots movement ......more1h 0minPlay
FAQs about MeaningofLife.tv:How many episodes does MeaningofLife.tv have?The podcast currently has 591 episodes available.