Tent Talks

In this episode of Tent Talks, I speak with my friend and fellow grad student Chris Manoharan.  Chris is a third year PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Connecticut.  He specializes in Buddhism, Hinduism, and Cognitive Science.  We touch a lot of topics in this conversation, including Buddhism’s claim that the self is an illusion, the distinction between Buddhism and Hinduism, the burgeoning research program of Neurophenomenology, different kinds of meditation, the distinction between classical Cognitive Science and embodied Cognitive Science, Reincarnation, Transhumanism, Conscious thought, philosophical thought experiments about personal identity, and the possibility that we are all living in the matrix.

In this episode of Tent Talks, I speak with my friend and fellow grad student Darian Spearman.  Darian is a third year PhD student in philosophy at the University of Connecticut.  We discuss psychedelics, spirituality and religion, the nature of science, the so-called regressive left and the notion of safe spaces, and the issue of free speech.