David has overcome drug addiction, spinal problems that were heading for paralysis, 2 hip replacements, intestinal resection with colostomy and cancer. He is also a working musician and painter.

We talked about the coexistence of the better and worse angels of our nature, the key for a successful marriage, our natural curiosity toward hidden plots or conspiracies, the interconnectedness of the world, spirituality, science, the massive magnitude of our ignorance, causality, that the conditions of something to exists have to be given in order for it to exist, if they do not, that thing does not exist, the nature of the mind, consciousness, panpsychism, rational tradeoffs, the need for compassion, the unjustified nature of being unkind to anyone, and much more!