NonzeroClips | Contesting Determinism | Robert Wright & Oliver Burkeman | The Wright Show @MeaningoflifeTV | Uploaded September 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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0:00 Oliver's new book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
1:40 Oliver outlines “compatibilism,” the idea that free will and determinism can coexist
7:59 Bob: Everyone should be a free will agnostic
14:28 The occasionally dramatic consequences of arguments against free will
21:47 Would determinism require us to reform our approach to criminal justice?
34:40 A (possible) quantum hack for free will vs. determinism
37:41 Bob thinks compatibilism is bullshit ...
45:53 ... but Oliver tries to persuade him there's something to it
57:59 Oliver: No position on free will and determinism is free of contradiction
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Oliver Burkeman (The Antidote, Four Thousand Weeks). Recorded July 6, 2021.
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0:00 Oliver's new book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
1:40 Oliver outlines “compatibilism,” the idea that free will and determinism can coexist
7:59 Bob: Everyone should be a free will agnostic
14:28 The occasionally dramatic consequences of arguments against free will
21:47 Would determinism require us to reform our approach to criminal justice?
34:40 A (possible) quantum hack for free will vs. determinism
37:41 Bob thinks compatibilism is bullshit ...
45:53 ... but Oliver tries to persuade him there's something to it
57:59 Oliver: No position on free will and determinism is free of contradiction
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Oliver Burkeman (The Antidote, Four Thousand Weeks). Recorded July 6, 2021.
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02:52 Meghan’s new book, The Problem with Everything
17:30 The premature obsolescence of Generation X
32:33 Meghan’s positive reaction to negative reviews of her book
39:56 Joan Didion’s critique of the Women’s Movement
48:20 The effect of online porn on Millennials
55:43 Why do institutions capitulate to Twitter mobs?
1:07:11 How Gen Xers are dealing with aging
Recorded November 4, 2019
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0:49 Remembering the Satanic ritual abuse panic of the 1980s
11:58 How the McMartin case launched the panic
22:09 Sarah: Recovered memory therapy created the idea of Satanic ritual abuse
41:25 Why hasn’t there ever been a large-scale reckoning with the panic?
48:54 Contemporary resonances: witch hunts and moral panics
61:35 Sarah visits Disney World and thinks about desire
75:18 Why are there so many absent mothers in the Disney canon?
Aryeh Cohen-Wade (Joking on the Square, @AryehCW) and Sarah Marshall (The New Republic, sarahmarshallwriter.com, Youre Wrong About...)
Recorded May 15, 2019
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4:17 Nina’s research on how we understand the self
10:19 The traits that make your self yourself
16:34 Buddhism and the continuity of self through time
22:08 The link between egocentrism and an equanimous attitude toward death
30:30 Bob: Not-self is hard to experience and very hard to understand
46:43 Asian Buddhists vs. “white boy Buddhists”
52:33 Does a happy life require virtuous behavior?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nina Strohminger (Wharton School of Business, ninastrohminger.com)
Recorded August 26, 2019
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Jesse’s new article, “The Rise of PTSD” 3:39
How society viewed traumatized veterans of WWII vs. Vietnam 9:27
Effective treatments for PTSD 16:24
The danger of trauma becoming an identity 18:45
From 9/11 to coronavirus, we live in traumatic times 25:38
Speech policing and social climbing in the name of trauma 32:43
Jesse’s forthcoming book, The Quick Fix 39:42
Aryeh Cohen-Wade (Joking on the Square, @AryehCW) and Jesse Singal (New York Magazine)
Recorded March 19, 2020
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1:19 How Leah realized that she should not “be herself”
9:05 The mental health benefits of getting a dog
11:12 Leah: We must bring back Kierkegaardian irony
17:58 Leah on the scourge of “urgent earnestness”
23:49 Is it ethical to not read the news?
26:27 Leah’s reflections on being “a year Twitter sober”
34:16 Lessons from the great “horseface” controversy of 2018
Aryeh Cohen-Wade (Joking on the Square, @AryehCW) and Leah Finnegan (The Outline, leahfinnegan.com)
Recorded April 25, 2019
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A new study says empathy can increase political polarization 1:35
How empathy operates in today’s political environment 13:49
Is cognitive empathy a form of intelligence? 23:57
The Machiavellian uses of cognitive empathy 39:17
A counterproductive #Resistance view of Trump supporters 44:49
Paul doesn’t understand how anyone can still support Trump 50:24
Why “dehumanization” isn’t the real problem 56:04
Paul’s core message: “Don’t listen to your heart” 64:37
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom (Yale University, Against Empathy, Just Babies)
Recorded November 18, 2019
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