NonzeroClips | "Stranger Things" and Generation X | Daniel Kaufman & Milton Lawson [Sophia] @MeaningoflifeTV | Uploaded July 2019 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
2:32 Why Dan and Milton love Stranger Things
16:46 How does the new season measure up?
24:56 Is “the Upside Down” a coherent idea?
31:13 Is Generation X about to have its moment in pop culture?
40:30 Dan fears wokeness is ruining pop culture
59:04 The risks of a fourth Stranger Things season
67:37 Pop culture in an era of massive corporate control
80:02 Speculating on HBO’s mysterious Watchmen adaptation
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Milton Lawson (miltonlawson.com)
Recorded July 9, 2019
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2:32 Why Dan and Milton love Stranger Things
16:46 How does the new season measure up?
24:56 Is “the Upside Down” a coherent idea?
31:13 Is Generation X about to have its moment in pop culture?
40:30 Dan fears wokeness is ruining pop culture
59:04 The risks of a fourth Stranger Things season
67:37 Pop culture in an era of massive corporate control
80:02 Speculating on HBO’s mysterious Watchmen adaptation
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Milton Lawson (miltonlawson.com)
Recorded July 9, 2019
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![Stranger Things and Generation X | Daniel Kaufman & Milton Lawson [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J4IpAie0hlU/hqdefault.jpg "Stranger Things and Generation X | Daniel Kaufman & Milton Lawson [Sophia]
2:32 Why Dan and Milton love Stranger Things
16:46 How does the new season measure up?
24:56 Is “the Upside Down” a coherent idea?
31:13 Is Generation X about to have its moment in pop culture?
40:30 Dan fears wokeness is ruining pop culture
59:04 The risks of a fourth Stranger Things season
67:37 Pop culture in an era of massive corporate control
80:02 Speculating on HBO’s mysterious Watchmen adaptation
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Milton Lawson (miltonlawson.com)
Recorded July 9, 2019
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![Buddhism and War | Robert Wright & Bhikkhu Bodhi [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J8lUxfigvV4/hqdefault.jpg "Buddhism and War | Robert Wright & Bhikkhu Bodhi [The Wright Show]
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0:00 Intro
6:36 Buddhism and the military atrocities in Myanmar and Sri Lanka
14:39 The early political history of Buddhism
24:38 Varieties of Buddhist rationales for nonviolence
32:06 The history of war between Southeast Asian nations
42:09 Is warfare antithetical to attaining enlightenment?
44:54 Justifications for non-pacifism
52:13 Meditation and the antiwar mindset
58:36 Foreign policy, anti-China sentiment, and BLM protests
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Bhikkhu Bodhi (Chuang Yen Monastery)
Recorded June 11, 2020
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![Spiritual Science | John Horgan & Steve Taylor [Mind-Body Problems]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JU5MJRqLPPM/hqdefault.jpg "Spiritual Science | John Horgan & Steve Taylor [Mind-Body Problems]
Steve’s childhood experiences of euphoria in nature 1:17
Why Steve prefers “wakefulness” to “enlightenment” 10:58
Does being “awakened” make you a better person? 16:00
Steve: “Being a parent is a spiritual path” 22:01
Steve’s new book, Spiritual Science 27:54
“Panspiritism” as an alternative to panpsychism 34:07
How is “the spirit” different than God? 44:01
Was there a point in prehistory when man behaved morally? 49:10
Brexit, Trump, and encounters with death that lead to transformation 61:03
John Horgan (Stevens Center for Science Writings, Mind-Body Problems) and Steve Taylor (stevenmtaylor.com)
Recorded January 11, 2020
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0:00 Intro
2:32 Is spacetime obsolete?
06:26 Quantum spookiness explained!
25:08 Black holes and the big bang are spooky too
29:41 What preceded space and time?
49:05 Is physics just poetry with math?
55:40 George’s next book: how mind relates to matter
John Horgan (Stevens Institute of Technology, The End of Science) and George Musser (Spooky Action at a Distance). Recorded December 27, 2020.
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![Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy | Robert Wright & David Ottlinger [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LJ_j2v5JuLU/hqdefault.jpg "Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy | Robert Wright & David Ottlinger [The Wright Show]
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0:00 Intro
02:44 Distinguishing between the numinous and the noumenal
13:38 Kant’s religious vision
22:26 The Copernican revolution in philosophy
34:16 What, if anything, does the Buddhist idea of emptiness have to do with Kant?
48:37 The transcendental status of space and time
1:04:01 Can the Matrix help us understand Kant?
1:08:58 Distinguishing between the noumenal and the phenomenal
1:19:31 Can we transcend our phenomenal experience of the world?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and David Ottlinger (The Electric Agora). Recorded on February 2, 2021.
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