Episodes
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
7 | Sanity
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
What would it take to make you question your reality?
This episode we explore things like cutting gashes into our hands and how what is normal is only what we can agree on. Everything we can't reconcile is madness or irrational. But what does any of that mean anyway.
Some fun links:
Sunday Feb 17, 2019
6 | Thought: DNA's Virus
Sunday Feb 17, 2019
Sunday Feb 17, 2019
A thought experiment: are the sections of our genetic sequence that bring about thought a virus in DNA's code? Maybe we are just the hosts for a cosmic competition between the two.
A couple of things things for fun:
Expansion of Cerebral Cortex in Hominid Evolution [Cell]
Pleasure Systems in the Brain [NCBI]
Episodes Referenced: 5 | Free Will & Awareness
Sunday Feb 03, 2019
5 | Free Will & Awareness
Sunday Feb 03, 2019
Sunday Feb 03, 2019
You only know you've gone far enough in a discussion if you hit opinions on free will. So we might as well just start there.
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Further reading in case you want to start diving into some of the big names that focus or touched on free will and determinism, sorted in order of their birth:
Western Tradition
(Early) Zeno, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Plutarch
(Middle) Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Laplace
(Recent) Godel, Camus, Foucault, Chomsky, Umberto Eco
Arabic Tradition
al-Kindi, al-Maarri, al-Ghazali, Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd
Indian Tradition
Sidhartha Gautama, Shankara, Rabindranath Tagore, Guru Nanak, Jiddu Krishnamurti
Chinese & Japanese Tradition
Lau Tzu, Confucius, Wang Fuzhi, Motoori Norinaga, Nishida Kitaro
Some resources:
1. Standford's Philosophy Portal
2. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (I know, the name makes it sound like it's not legitimate. But it's a peer reviewed online resource by professors from various universities. It was started in 1995 when nobody was sure what the internet would be.)
Sunday Jan 20, 2019
3 | Terminal Paradox
Sunday Jan 20, 2019
Sunday Jan 20, 2019
There are exceptions to every rule. Let's slide into some nuance.
Sunday Jan 06, 2019
1 | Outsourcing Our Realities
Sunday Jan 06, 2019
Sunday Jan 06, 2019
What do we really know, and what do we believe as though you know? Basically, how much of our realities are outsourced?