Robert Wright's Nonzero

Do all religions have the same “esoteric core?” ... The psychedelic origins of transpersonal psychology ... Aligning your instincts, consciousness, and heart through "participatory spirituality" ... Constructing reality through “embodied cognition” ... Why Jorge would object to making participatory spirituality a religion ... The complicated morality of "enlightened" spiritual teachers ...

What Lee means when he says "time is fundamental" ... Understanding the universe as a network ... A (very) tentative theory of consciousness ... Did the laws of physics evolve? ... Is the universe fine-tuned for the emergence of life? ... Applying Lee's theories of time to everyday life ...

David's "noodle art" metaphor for religious truth ... Would aliens have the same morality as humans? ... Why we need rituals ... What Judaism offers to non-believers ... David: Heaven doesn't sound very interesting ... Leaving the right kind of legacy ...

What gives John's life meaning? ... Unorthodox views on evolution and natural selection ... Can art provide a spiritual experience? ... The difference between consuming art and making it ... Fear of infirmity ... but not death ... John on doing what he was meant to do ...

Why Daniel wrote a biography of David Foster Wallace ... "This Is Water" and Wallace's search for meaning ... How Wallace's depression shaped his worldview ... The double-edged sword of self-consciousness ... Wallace's effort to see reality through the eyes of others ... Wallace's suicide and literary legacy ...

Glenn's born-again Christian experience ... A double life: Harvard professor and crack addict ... How the death of a close friend shattered Glenn's faith ... Is a secular life a less meaningful life? ... Glenn's communitarian understanding of moral truth ... Why hedonism isn't enough ...

David’s new book, Does Altruism Exist? ... Human society as an organism that evolves ... Why Bob disagrees with David's worldview ... People are nicer than economists think they should be ... How cultural evolution is like genetic evolution ... The butterfly effect and group-selection theory ...

Andrew's unorthodox Christianity ... The darkest fifteen minutes of Andrew's life ... Andrew: "God is forgiveness" ... Silent monks and psychedelic experiences ... Jesus vs. Nietzsche ... Andrew: Good religion, not atheism, will beat bad religion ...

Why the Quran doesn’t give rise to young-earth arguments ... Islam’s relationship with science ... The politicization of evolution in Muslim societies ... Creationism as an expression of minority identity ... The debate among Muslims about evolution ... How Richard Dawkins has fueled the rejection of evolution ...

Is loving your kids just your genes helping themselves? ... Matt's strange new respect for Tony Soprano ... How the web made writing more meaningful ... Why Matt is more religious than spiritual ... The origins of Matt's phenomenal productivity ... Would living forever be kind of a drag? ...