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January 2016
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Jan 25, 2016 — Robert Wright & Jeremy England
Jeremy’s new theory and the origins of life
Wrestling with the second law of thermodynamics
Self-organizing systems and self-replicating ones
Natural selection as a special case of more general physical laws
The role of ritual in Jeremy’s Jewish faith
The laws of physics were written by people, not God
Jan 24, 2016 — Robert Wright & Maria Popova
Brainpickings.org: How an unsettled 22-year-old’s office newsletter evolved into a meaning-of-life resource
Honorable relationships in the age of transactional networking
Fruitful monotony versus compulsive consumption of media
Choosing understanding over judgment
Maria’s spiritual routine: reading, writing and meditation
Success as freedom from contentification and commercialization
Jan 19, 2016 — Robert Wright, Roger Haight & Paul Knitter
Jesus, Buddha, Roger and Paul: friends in conversation
How do you say “nirvana” in Christian?
The perennial philosophy
Religious pluralism as a political imperative
Why Paul will not live for eternity (and Roger will)
When Christian mysticism feels pretty Buddhist
Jan 11, 2016 — Daniel Kaufman & Barbara Block
What does it mean to be Jewish?
The development of different Jewish movements
Barbara: God doesn’t change; our understanding of God changes
The Torah, the Talmud, and the Jewish canon
Bringing the old ways into modern times
Why moral philosophy alone isn’t enough
Jan 10, 2016 — Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Jason Eberl
Star Wars Philosophy 101
St. Augustine on why people join the Dark Side
What makes Jedi better than terrorists, and the Empire worse than the U.S.
Midi-chlorians and the mind-body problem
The Lucas Empire v. the Fan Alliance: battle for the imaginary universe
The Force Awakens:
spoilers and speculations
Jan 6, 2016 — Robert Wright & Annabella Pitkin
Buddhism in a nutshell
The meaning of life according to Tibetan Buddhism
The key to liberation
Talking about tantra
If science is power, what happens to religion?
What does renunciation mean for Buddhists?
Jan 5, 2016 — Robert Wright, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, & David Chalmers
Rebecca’s “mind-blowing” encounter with the problem of consciousness
David’s famous zombie thought experiment
Rebecca: “We are material things”
Does an electron have a kind of mind?
Where does meaning come from?
Describing a satisfactory model of consciousness
Jan 4, 2016 — Robert Wright & David Kyuman Kim
What is Confucianism?
Living with both a Confucian and a Christian identity
Wisdom accumulates slowly
The power (and difficulty) of radical love
Melancholic freedom and existential angst
Finding and losing meaning in the scientific age
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