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Robert Wright and Josh Summers remember Michael Brooks and talk about cognitive empathy
Robert Wright and Josh Summers remember Michael Brooks and talk about cognitive empathy
![Call It Grace | Robert Wright & Serene Jones [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/71GW3SewdCM/hqdefault.jpg "Call It Grace | Robert Wright & Serene Jones [The Wright Show]
02:59 Serene’s new book, Call It Grace: Finding Meaning in a Fractured World
13:12 Serene’s theological upbringing and early encounters with Calvin’s writings
18:31 What a romantic tragedy early in life taught Serene about God’s grace
28:59 A revelatory brush with death in rural India
39:05 Timothy McVeigh and the challenge of forgiveness
44:16 How Serene’s father met an epic challenge to his faith and his charity
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Serene Jones (Union Theological Seminary, Call It Grace: Finding Meaning in a Fractured World)
Serenes new book, Call It Grace: Finding Meaning in a Fractured World: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735223645
Recorded June 18, 2019
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![The New Science of Self-Actualization | Robert Wright & Scott Barry Kaufman [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7A98zPnaYDg/hqdefault.jpg "The New Science of Self-Actualization | Robert Wright & Scott Barry Kaufman [The Wright Show]
Scott’s new book, Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization 1:57
Debunking myths about Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs 7:02
The origins of humanistic psychology 14:33
Optimism for the thinking person 24:55
Psychological security in an era of new threats and superficial social connections 33:58
Psychological growth: exploration, love, and purpose 41:29
Defining “peak experiences” 54:41
Scott says Bob is a “transcender.” Bob is skeptical. 1:00:16
Is this a kind of secular spirituality? 1:04:55
Evaluating peak experiences achieved through psychedelics 1:16:38
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Scott Barry Kaufman (Imagination Institute, Wired to Create, scottbarrykaufman.com)
Recorded March 16, 2020
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![Explaining Quantum Mechanics | John Horgan & Tim Maudlin [Mind-Body Problems]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7hJWOld5EsM/hqdefault.jpg "Explaining Quantum Mechanics | John Horgan & Tim Maudlin [Mind-Body Problems]
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0:00 Why Tim became a philosopher
23:49 John gets entangled in superposition
40:37 Tim explains Bell’s Theorem with diagrams
1:02:29 Tim rejects shutting up and calculating
1:09:41 Will quantum computers lead to a better quantum theory?
John Horgan (Stevens Institute of Technology, The End of Science) and Tim Maudlin (NYU, The Philosophy of Physics). Recorded March 5, 2021.
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![Evolution and Purpose | Robert Wright & Massimo Pigliucci [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7iKWoobyYQ0/hqdefault.jpg "Evolution and Purpose | Robert Wright & Massimo Pigliucci [The Wright Show]
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0:00 Could evolution have a higher purpose?
11:49 The value of (some) untestable hypotheses
19:14 What zombies can (and can’t) teach us about consciousness
35:56 Evolutionary teleology vs. evolutionary teleonomy
55:05 Why does evolution produce increasingly complex forms of life?
1:07:28 Distinguishing between physical laws and natural processes
1:17:59 Could the hypothesis that evolution is serving a larger purpose be tested?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Massimo Pigliucci (CUNY Graduate Center, Platos Footnote, How to Be a Stoic)
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![Buddhist Ethics | Robert Wright & Bhikkhu Bodhi [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8604BKQXpWw/hqdefault.jpg "Buddhist Ethics | Robert Wright & Bhikkhu Bodhi [The Wright Show]
3:14 What is the foundation of Buddhist ethics?
15:46 Experiencing not-self
24:39 Buddhism is a synthesis of consequentialism and virtue ethics
30:16 The origins of Buddhism’s concern for animal welfare
36:40 Does the Buddha want you to be vegetarian?
41:55 Why isn’t there more anti-militarist activism among Buddhists?
49:45 Trying to comply with the Buddhist ideal of “right speech”
58:15 Mental defilements and their eradication
67:22 Does Buddhism’s emphasis on equanimity discourage activism?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Bhikkhu Bodhi (Chuang Yen Monastery)
Recorded October 2, 2019
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![ASMR & JAPs | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Jamie Lauren Keiles [Culturally Determined]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8m1TpPXBbe8/hqdefault.jpg "ASMR & JAPs | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Jamie Lauren Keiles [Culturally Determined]
0:38 Jamie’s NYT Magazine piece, “How ASMR Became a Sensation”
4:47 Searching for the science behind ASMR
14:58 Why are ASMR creators disproprotionately female?
20:08 The strange life of Gibi, one of the top “ASMRtists”
25:01 A temporary salve for Internet-era loneliness
30:17 Will ASMR go corporate?
35:03 Jamie researches the history of the Jewish American Princess
44:00 Daddy’s money, girl power, and Juicy Couture
51:02 Are there Jewish American Princes?
Aryeh Cohen-Wade (Joking on the Square, @AryehCW) and Jamie Lauren Keiles (jamielaurenkeiles.com)
Recorded June 10, 2019
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![The Dharma of Bob: The Logos | Robert Wright & Josh Summers [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9W9qS6HCxyY/hqdefault.jpg "The Dharma of Bob: The Logos | Robert Wright & Josh Summers [The Wright Show]
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0:00 Philo of Alexandria, seminal Logos theorist
12:11 Bob: Teleology is perfectly compatible with a scientific worldview
21:29 A logic shaping the unfolding of life
31:49 How Jordan Peterson understands the Logos
37:47 Does order flow from consciousness?
44:20 Moral progress and human interdependence
53:08 Teleology without theology
61:57 The Logos and the “simulation hypothesis”
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Josh Summers (The Power of Mindfulness, joshsummers.net). Recorded October 22, 2020.
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![The Case Against Thomas Kuhn | John Horgan & Errol Morris [Mind-Body Problems]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9ZEkZHljc3w/hqdefault.jpg "The Case Against Thomas Kuhn | John Horgan & Errol Morris [Mind-Body Problems]
Can we ever really know the world? 7:58
Debating the ideas of Thomas Kuhn, famous philosopher of science 11:04
Will we ever see the end of war? 22:30
Errol’s book about Kuhn, The Ashtray: (Or the Man Who Denied Reality) 25:41
Errol: Science without truth cannot live 32:13
John sticks up for Kuhn 40:20
Errol’s vexed personal relationship with Kuhn 46:10
Stephen Hawking’s sense of humor 1:02:57
Errol: “We’re a dumbass species” 1:07:54
The glass is half empty and filled with poison 1:11:30
John Horgan (Stevens Center for Science Writings, Mind-Body Problems) and Errol Morris (errolmorris.com)
Recorded April 1, 2020
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