Why Jo wrote Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind Over Body ... The rift between alternative and traditional medicine ... The real effects of "fake" medicine ... Jo: Science needs to take alternative treatments seriously ... The problem with focusing on pharmaceuticals ... Bringing science and alternative medicine together ...

Mahasi Sayadaw, grandfather of the modern mindfulness movement ... How he opened meditation to lay people ... Mahasi’s approach to “insight meditation” ... Focusing on the breath and the practice of "noting" ... The process—not progress—of insight ... Pitfalls on the path ...

Dina's startup The Path teaches meditation in a modern way ... Meditation sessions as networking events ... Does God need to be involved? ... Dina's path to founding The Path ... Dina's personal practice ... The best meditation app may be a timer ...

Are we animals in an alien zoo? ... Does evolution have a direction? A purpose? ... The emergence of the "giant global brain" ... How to get Dan Dennett mad ... Does consciousness do anything? ... Bob’s semi-crazy theory of consciousness ... Questions from the audience ...

What makes Bob's worldview "spiritual" ... Scientific arguments for a spiritual discipline ... The expanding grounds for intellectual humility ... Does evolution have a purpose? ... The mystery and value of subjective experience ... Is consciousness a scientific problem? ...

Who attends a “Reason Rally”? ... The non-believers who identify as religious ... Sunday Assembly and evangelicals: compare and contrast ... The spirituality of Sam Harris ... Foreign policy and the New Atheists ... The history of “secularism” and “humanism” ... Atheist organizations in the U.S. ...

Is humanity becoming a superorganism? ... Game theory as an explanation for history’s direction ... Bob's pragmatic view of moral progress ... Homo progressivus and the tribeless tribe ... Conversation with science writer John Horgan ... Questions from the audience ...

Why we’re probably not the universe’s first intelligent species ... The hardest step on the road from non-life to civilization ... Surviving our planet’s adolescence ... Would aliens be as tribalistic as we are? ... Planet Earth as a superorganism ... A few thoughts about Buddhism ...

What is an “evangelical progressive Christian”? ... Tribal tendencies in the evangelical community ... The urge to annihilate the “other” ... Do right beliefs lead to right actions? ... The upside of despair ... Our toxic political system ...

Massimo's new book, The Nature of Philosophy ... Two ways that philosophy and science progress ... Logic, mathematics, and the physical world ... Does physics depend on mathematics too much? ... Comparing mathematics to games and fiction ... Why does mathematics describe the real world so well? ...