Meaningoflife.tv Podcast
1) Saving Anti-Wokeness from Itself (David Ottlinger & Cathy Young)
A plea to the weary to return to the Woke Wars ... Who is James Lindsay? ... Lindsay's book, Cynical Theories ... Lindsay's other critiques of wokeness ... The religion of wokeness, the religion o...Show More
2) Thinking in Tongues (Nikita Petrov & David Poleski)
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3) DMT and Plato's Cave (Nikita Petrov & John Horgan)
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4) Steven Pinker, the Unabomber, Quantum Physics, and DMT (Nikita Petrov & John Horgan)
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Steven Pinker, the Unabomber, Quantum Physics, and DMT (Nikita Petrov & John Horgan)
1:00:00 | Mar 22nd, 2021
5) Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy (Robert Wright & David Ottlinger)
Distinguishing between the numinous and the noumenal ... Kant’s religious vision ... The Copernican revolution in philosophy ... What, if anything, does the Buddhist idea of emptiness have to do w...Show More
6) Ten Keys to Reality (Robert Wright & Frank Wilczek)
What got Frank his Nobel Prize ... Frank's new book, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality ... Solving the mystery of dark matter ... Can quantum physics make sense? ... Frank: Mind emerges from matte...Show More
7) (What If) Ideas Are Alive (Nikita Petrov & John Horgan)
Nikita Petrov and John Horgan contemplate the nature of ideas and their relationship to individual people and cultures.
8) Questioning the Practice of Grading in Schools (Robert Gressis & Kevin Currie-Knight)
Rob and Kevin make small talk ... Kevin describes and laments the grade economy ... What's the relationship between grades and learning? ... Bryan Caplan's "The Case Against Education" and how it h...Show More
Questioning the Practice of Grading in Schools (Robert Gressis & Kevin Currie-Knight)
1:00:00 | Feb 18th, 2021
9) Free Speech and Academic Freedom in 2020 (Daniel Kaufman & David Ottlinger)
A new home for Sophia ... The (latest) defenestration of Kathleen Stock ... How sincere are pro-trans rights public intellectuals? ... Justin Weinberg's essay on the Kathleen Stock incident ... D...Show More
Free Speech and Academic Freedom in 2020 (Daniel Kaufman & David Ottlinger)
1:00:00 | Feb 10th, 2021
10) Quantum Mechanics and “Reality” (John Horgan & Adam Becker)
Do you need math to grok quantum mechanics? ... Adam's quibble with Nils Bohr ... Explaining David Bohm’s pilot-wave model ... Defending the many-worlds hypothesis ... Are quantum mechanics and co...Show More