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June 2016
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Jun 29, 2016 — Robert Wright & Daniel Kaufman
Bob’s love for the supercosmic
“Design” and “purpose”: Bob explains…
…and Dan objects
Is there a direction to natural selection?
Nobody understands consciousness
Is humanity making moral progress?
Jun 25, 2016 — Robert Wright & David Bryce Yaden
David’s recent research on “self-transcendent experiences”
Causes and effects of self-transcendence
Is the loss of self real?
Evolutionary explanations of mystical states
The neurology of meditation
Revisiting the mind-body problem
Jun 24, 2016 — Robert Wright & Daniel Kaufman
Understanding Saddam Hussein ≠ sympathy for Saddam Hussein
The ethics of punishing bad people
Dan vs. evolutionary psychology
Is religion really behind Sunni-Shia conflict?
The good side of tribalism
What does “mindfulness” actually mean?
Jun 21, 2016 — Robert Wright & Virginia Heffernan
Virginia’s new book,
Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
The seductive realism of our online lives
The angry poetry of Twitter
Lamenting the loss of analog communication
Why Virginia was proclaimed #WorseThanISIS on Twitter
Jun 20, 2016 — Robert Wright
The Cliff Notes version of Bob’s first four talks
Must a spiritual worldview include a “higher purpose”?
How non-zero-sum games shaped religion
Is God like an electron?
Everyone is deluded (but salvation is possible)
An ancient theology compatible with a modern mindset
Questions from the audience
Jun 18, 2016 — Suzanne Koven & Jo Marchant
Why Jo wrote
Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind Over Body
The rift between alternative and traditional medicine
The real effects of “fake” medicine
Jo: Science needs to take alternative treatments seriously
The problem with focusing on pharmaceuticals
Bringing science and alternative medicine together
Jun 17, 2016 — Josh Summers & Kamala Masters
Mahasi Sayadaw, grandfather of the modern mindfulness movement
How he opened meditation to lay people
Mahasi’s approach to “insight meditation”
Focusing on the breath and the practice of “noting”
The process—not progress—of insight
Pitfalls on the path
Jun 14, 2016 — Ben Casnocha & Dina Kaplan
Dina’s startup The Path teaches meditation in a modern way
Meditation sessions as networking events
Does God need to be involved?
Dina’s path to founding The Path
Dina’s personal practice
The best meditation app may be a timer
Jun 13, 2016 — Robert Wright
Are we animals in an alien zoo?
Does evolution have a direction? A purpose?
The emergence of the “giant global brain”
How to get Dan Dennett mad
Does consciousness do anything?
Bob’s semi-crazy theory of consciousness
Questions from the audience
Jun 11, 2016 — Robert Wright & Daniel Kaufman
What makes Bob’s worldview “spiritual”
Scientific arguments for a spiritual discipline
The expanding grounds for intellectual humility
Does evolution have a purpose?
The mystery and value of subjective experience
Is consciousness a scientific problem?
Jun 9, 2016 — Robert Wright & Joseph Blankholm
Who attends a “Reason Rally”?
The non-believers who identify as religious
Sunday Assembly and evangelicals: compare and contrast
The spirituality of Sam Harris
Foreign policy and the New Atheists
The history of “secularism” and “humanism”
Atheist organizations in the U.S.
Jun 6, 2016 — Robert Wright & John Horgan
Is humanity becoming a superorganism?
Game theory as an explanation for history’s direction
Bob’s pragmatic view of moral progress
Homo progressivus and the tribeless tribe
Conversation with science writer John Horgan
Questions from the audience
Jun 3, 2016 — Robert Wright & Adam Frank
Why we’re probably not the universe’s first intelligent species
The hardest step on the road from non-life to civilization
Surviving our planet’s adolescence
Would aliens be as tribalistic as we are?
Planet Earth as a superorganism
A few thoughts about Buddhism
Jun 1, 2016 — David Kyuman Kim & Brian McLaren
What is an “evangelical progressive Christian”?
Tribal tendencies in the evangelical community
The urge to annihilate the “other”
Do right beliefs lead to right actions?
The upside of despair
Our toxic political system
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