10 May 2021
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Do our intentions matter?
Robert Wright and psychologist Paul Bloom discuss why we punish people for unintentional transgressions.
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In this video:
- The value of defying your tribe
- Egocentric bias and attribution error
- The thin line between between courage and acting like an asshole
- Why do we punish people for unintentional transgressions?
- To understand all is to forgive all …
- … but forgiveness won’t get you retweets
- Are people’s politics as irrational as they seem?
- William James’ preternatural insight into human psychology
- Should the Philip Roth biography have been pulled?
- Reliving the worst day of your life
Approaches to ultimate reality
Robert Wright and John Thatamanil, author of the new book Circling the Elephant, discuss how different religious traditions try to access divinity
Reframing the DMT experience
Nikita Petrov describes his conflicted relationship with “DMT entities” and how encountering them changed his thoughts on Scientology.
Is humanity making progress?
Nikita Petrov and John Horgan provide a mystical perspective on Steven Pinker’s case for informed optimism.
Rejecting “shut up and calculate”
Philosopher Tim Maudlin explains why he thinks that quantum mechanics is not as resistant to interpretation as some people think.
The Copernican revolution in philosophy
Robert Wright and David Ottlinger discuss Kant’s understanding of the relationship between the mind and the world.
Solving the mystery of dark matter
Robert Wright talks with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek, author of the new book Fundamentals, about the axion, a hypothesized particle that could explain why much of the universe’s mass seems to be missing.
Are schools necessary?
Robert Gressis and Kevin Currie-Knight discuss the success of students who learn outside of a traditional school environment.
Mind-Body Problems
The agnosticism of the novelist
John Horgan talks with novelist and neuroscientist Erik Hoel, author of the new novel The Revelations, about how to reconcile science and fiction.
The Wright Show
How meditation can make us better global citizens
Robert Wright explains how mindfulness could help humanity overcome destructive cognitive biases.
Psychopolitica
The far left, the far right, and the far out
