Episodes

  • Conclusion MY WORLDVIEW IN A NUTSHELL
    Dec 30 2020

    This lecture briefly reviews the most salient ideas expounded in this podcast.

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    15 mins
  • Lecture 31 THE MEANING OF LIFE
    Dec 30 2020

    Based on a conversation between Susan Blackmore and Jordan Peterson, this lecture opposes the secular to the religious path, as contrasted answers to the search for meaning.

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    13 mins
  • Lecture 30 ULTIMATE FOUNDATIONS
    Dec 30 2020

    This lecture briefly explores pantheism and panpsychism as theoretical options for understanding the ultimate foundations of reality,

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    14 mins
  • Lecture 29 FREEDOM OF SPEECH
    Dec 30 2020

    This lecture highlights our threefold human nature in terms of life, knowledge, and power. It also explores the practical conditions for a good life and a good society.

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    10 mins
  • Lecture 28 BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH
    Dec 30 2020

    This lecture looks at arguments against euthanasia but also makes a case for it, in light of various insights taken from human psychology and biology.

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    16 mins
  • Lecture 27 THE BRIGHT SIDE
    Dec 30 2020

    This lecture pits against each other two opposite philosophical stances toward life: acceptance and rejection. In the final analysis, acceptance stands as the healthier and wiser of the two. 

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    14 mins
  • Lecture 26 THE COSMIC STRIPTEASE
    Dec 30 2020

    This lecture argues against all forms of reductionism in favor of emergentism, where the creative potential of the universe manifests itself incrementally, in stages, with each stage creating the opportunity for the emergence of the next stage, which displays new properties that are contingent on those of the previous stage but are not reducible to them.

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    7 mins
  • Lecture 25 THE PUZZLE OF LIFE
    Dec 30 2020

    This lecture proceeds to deconstruct the reality of life with the purpose of reconstructing it mindfully and meaningfully.

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    5 mins