Robert Wright's Nonzero

Fred's new book on cyberwarfare, Dark Territory ... North Korea vs. Sony, Iran vs. Sheldon Adelson ... When does a cyber attack become an act of war? ... Your phone may be spying on you, and your car may kill you ... In cyberspace the line between surveillance and attack is blurry at best ... Why deterrence in cyberspace is hard ...

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 ...

A theory of evil that isn’t supernatural ... Could "moral imagination" have prevented the Iraq War? ... Was saying "We are Charlie Hebdo" a bad idea? ... Knowledge as a moral good ... How "moral imagination" fits into a larger spiritual worldview ... Paul Bloom interrogates Bob ... Questions from the audience ...

Bernard's new book Connecting With Coincidence ... Debating whether coincidences are significant ... Jungian synchronicity and archetypes ... The weird coincidence involving the sun and the moon ... Mental states that make coincidences seem meaningful ... Should you take guidance from coincidences? ...

Dacher's new book The Power Paradox ... How being nice can make you powerful ... Gossip and other ways to keep leaders in check ... How getting power can make you mean ... The bully politics of Donald Trump ... Stories the rich tell themselves ...

Why science calls for a new agnosticism ... Consciousness seems more mysterious than ever ... The intellectual hubris of the “New Atheists” ... The holy war against religion ... Cognitive biases that fuel tribalism ... Questions from the audience ...

The roots of Unitarian Universalism ... Who are the Unitarian Universalists today? ... How a Christian church became "post-Christian" ... Belief in God is analog not digital ... The search for a universal religion ... Does embracing all beliefs mean holding no beliefs? ... Providing pastoral care to people who have no god ...

The Hindu philosophy of Advaita Vedanta ... The nature of reality according to the Upanishads ... Anant explains "not-two is not one," the subtitle of his book ... Is “unity” in Hinduism the same as “emptiness” in Buddhism? ... Comparing Hindu and Buddhist views of suffering ... The meaning of "liberation" ... Caste in India as an example of religion gone wrong ...

New Atheists focus on belief, religious humanists on behavior ... Origins of the Ethical Culture movement ... Why do atheists and agnostics join congregations? ... What does a non-theistic Sunday service look like? ... What is the demographic of humanist churches? ... Filling the void of lost religion ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's path from conventional to radical theology ... Bonhoeffer's key beliefs and their manifestation ... Back when theologists were celebrities ... Gregg's new play about Bonhoeffer ... Reasons to think twice about assassinating Hitler ... Wishing for a left-wing Christianity ...