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Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Stephen Walt (Harvard University, Foreign Policy). Recorded August 26, 2024.
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Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Stephen Walt (Harvard University, Foreign Policy). Recorded August 26, 2024.
![Panpsychism | Robert Wright & Galen Strawson [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1ydqAhPNuyY/hqdefault.jpg "Panpsychism | Robert Wright & Galen Strawson [The Wright Show]
Panpsychism | Robert Wright & Galen Strawson [The Wright Show]")
![Do We Live in a Simulation? | Robert Wright & Preston Greene [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/31cNlkDlXWo/hqdefault.jpg "Do We Live in a Simulation? | Robert Wright & Preston Greene [The Wright Show]
0:50 Why many intelligent people think we’re living in a simulation
11:00 The philosophical argument that you’re probably not real
26:40 How cosmic rays might (and might not) reveal that reality is fake
34:34 Preston’s dire warning against trying to determine if we’re in a simulation
48:22 Is the simulation hypothesis non-falsifiable?
54:56 Is “the simulation” just religion for atheists?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Preston Greene (NTU Singapore)
Recorded October 8, 2019
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![The Meaning of Dogs | Robert Wright & Andrew Sullivan [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/32FIqJBamb0/hqdefault.jpg "The Meaning of Dogs | Robert Wright & Andrew Sullivan [The Wright Show]
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Remembering Andrew’s recently deceased dog Eddy 5:08
Can we explain the bond between dogs and people? 14:31
The many disgusting things that dogs love 28:00
Andrew angers the cat lovers in the audience 35:12
Are there actually “cat people” and “dog people”? 46:00
Dogs’ use of affection as a tool 54:12
What can we learn from dogs about how to be present? 1:0:29
Andrew: “I do think that after death I will be with my dogs” 1:07:21
Andrew wants the economy to open up—a little 1:13:17
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Andrew Sullivan (New York Magazine)
Recorded May 19, 2020
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![The Problem with Everything | Daniel Kaufman & Meghan Daum [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3CG3q92hgPc/hqdefault.jpg "The Problem with Everything | Daniel Kaufman & Meghan Daum [Sophia]
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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![Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic (and Disney) | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Sarah Marshall [Culturally Determined]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3q644Wdh9Wo/hqdefault.jpg "Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic (and Disney) | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Sarah Marshall [Culturally Determined]
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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