Waking from Death

We discuss Byung-Chul Han's 2017 "Agony of Eros" and dig into what's wrong today about love.

Discussed:

Dating culture

Lars Von Trier's "Melancholia"

We do a survey of nothingness as a philosophical, religious, and mystical concept.

Discussed:

Jean-Paul Sartre "Being and Nothingness"

Sartre vs Kant on nothingness, 'the outside'

Conservation of Energy and Mass

State changes in systems

Sensory gating

The Void in world religions west and east

Closing music: "Cometa" by Murcof

We explore transcendence in philosophy, religion, and pop-culture.

Discussed:

Transcendence vs immanence

Gnosticism, pleroma, and the purified state compared to Eastern traditions

Demons as memes

Magick as psychology, religion as cognitive science

Kant - Critique of Pure Reason

Kant vs Sartre

Terry Davis and Temple OS

Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray and Time Cube

Theater as transcendent experience:

-Laura Albert and Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy

-Antonin Artaud

Closing music "The Heart is Deceitful above all Things" by Miss the Occupier

We talk paradoxes from logic, sciences, and pop culture; Christianity as transgression, politics as religion.

Discussed:

Zeno's paradoxes of motion

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Monism vs dualism

Gödel's incompleteness theorems

Spinal catastrophism by Thomas Moynihan

Daniel C. Dennett - The Mind's Eye - Teletransportation paradox

Immanuel Kant - Transcendental idealism

We discuss Byung-Chul Han's 2017 philosophical work "Psychopolitics, Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power"

"Today we are no longer farmers, but hunters instead in search of prey. Information hunters wandering through the web like through a digital battlefield."

What is freedom in an environment of total optimization and information transparency? What is freedom when Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic applies to each individual? When you are an auto-exploiting subject, both master and slave together at the same time.

Publisher's Website:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2505-psychopolitics

Waitstaff girl gets fake email job video discussed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/w697cy/rs_girl_finds_out_about_bullshit_jobs/

We discuss Bryon K. Ehlmann's peculiar paper "The Theory of a Natural Afterlife: A Newfound, Real Possibility for What Awaits Us at Death" published in the Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research 7 (11) Theories on Consciousness and Death:931-950 (2016).

Ehlmann's paper describes a 'natural' afterlife that fits into current models of physics and cognition.

Bryon K. Ehlmann is a retired computer science professor from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. His research includes data modeling and definition, object databases, software engineering, and user interfaces.

https://philpapers.org/rec/EHLTTO-2

https://jcer.com

https://www.siue.edu/~behlman/

We discuss immortality and what that would even mean. Is it desirable? What would it look like? What kind of meaning or peace could an immortal being achieve on a never ending time scale. 

Discussed: 

Parcelesus - Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim

"The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect" 2004 - Roger Williams

"Crypt(o)spasm" 2016 - Gary J. Shipley 

"Spring" 2014 - Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead

The Epic of Gilgamesh 

"The invisibles" 1994 - Grant Morrison

Adrian and Brett discuss psychedelic insight, what it means and ways to interpret it. They discuss the secret insights that can be divined from the universe while on a drug(s), death, Godhead, biblical creationists, aliens, and how space travel and death are two identical means to the same end.