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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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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 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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![Universal Consciousness | John Horgan & Bernardo Kastrup [Mind-Body Problems]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9qddYjS84Dw/hqdefault.jpg "Universal Consciousness | John Horgan & Bernardo Kastrup [Mind-Body Problems]
06:32 Why Bernardo thinks the mind-body problem is not as hard as it seems
14:01 Bernardo’s spiritual, intellectual, and psychedelic history
20:41 God, metacognition, and the Universe
27:58 The consolations of Bernardo’s philosophy
36:25 Bernardo: The Universe has multiple personality disorder
49:21 The narcissism of a human-centered Universe
57:25 Why John thinks we’ll never solve the mind-body problem
John Horgan (Stevens Center for Science Writings, Mind-Body Problems) and Bernardo Kastrup (Scientific American, Why Materialism Is Baloney, www.bernardokastrup.com)
Recorded May 12, 2019
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![Circling the Elephant | Robert Wright & John Thatamanil [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ab5gVJfeRWc/hqdefault.jpg "Circling the Elephant | Robert Wright & John Thatamanil [The Wright Show]
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00:55: John’s new book, Circling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity
8:20 John’s early religious sensibility
16:01 The Advaita Vedanta tradition in Hinduism
22:28 Grappling with the human predicament
39:42 Approaches to ultimate reality
46:49 John’s brush with non-dualistic experience
53:33 Why John doesn’t consider himself a perennialist
1:02:13 Touching the infinite elephant
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and John Thatamanil (Circling the Elephant, Union Theological Seminary). Record March 24, 2021.
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![On Social Censorship | David Ottlinger & J.P. Messina [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BVr8aXfkHZ4/hqdefault.jpg "On Social Censorship | David Ottlinger & J.P. Messina [Sophia]
1:49 How should we define censorship?
10:21 The sort of censorship that has no inherent moral valence
26:36 Various ways non-state actors can censor
34:51 When private censorship has moral stakes
43:37 Examining moral grandstanding
72:12 A changed heart vs. a false front
86:11 Could we ever resolve all our disagreements?
100:06 Reason, passion, and the founding of the Republic
David Ottlinger (The Electric Agora) and J.P. Messina (University of New Orleans)
Recorded November 13, 2019
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![Automating the News | Robert Wright & Nick Diakopoulos [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CIrZoDzKmkA/hqdefault.jpg "Automating the News | Robert Wright & Nick Diakopoulos [The Wright Show]
00:26 Nick’s new book, Automating the News
05:22 Why Nick is not an alarmist about the automation of journalism
11:26 The types of journalism jobs that algorithms can’t replace
24:30 Successful collaborations between human journalists and machines
36:24 The perils of algorithmic fact-checking
42:04 Nick’s current research
48:03 Bob hopes for a bot that can assign blame for international law violations
50:49 Can the power of Twitter bots be used for good?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nicholas Diakopoulos (Northwestern University School of Communication, nickdiakopoulos.com)
Recorded September 10, 2019
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