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MeaningofLife.tv videos —
December 2016
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Dec 30, 2016 — Anne Klaeysen | Elicit the best
Dec 29, 2016 — Josh Summers & David Barash
David’s book
Buddhist Biology
Where Buddhism and biology converge
The interconnected world
Karma in Buddhism and biology
David’s “existential-bio-Buddhism”
Dec 25, 2016 — Robert Wright & John Paul Lederach
John Paul’s job working toward peace on Earth
How curiosity and creativity can ease conflicts
The risks of peace-making
Is there hope for Syria?
Religion’s role in fueling—and calming—violence
John Paul’s advice for cultivating moral imagination
Dec 23, 2016 — Jay Michaelson | The reason for the season
Dec 21, 2016 — How will the next generation's lives differ most from our own?
Dec 21, 2016 — Robert Wright & Michael Shermer
Bob’s NY Times article on evolution and purpose
Was evolution likely to produce the Internet?
The counter-entropic role of life
Is moral progress built into history?
Social and political dimensions of moral progress
The psychology of terrorism
What can we do to fight tribalist impulses?
Dec 20, 2016 — Stephen Asma & Nick Sousanis
Unflattening
, a doctoral dissertation in comic book form
Why academics tend to distrust images
Visual literacy as a way to understand the world better
Imagination and mysticism in Edwin Abbott’s
Flatland
How images can help authors overcome intellectual alienation
Why everybody should learn to draw
Dec 20, 2016 — Is there a higher purpose?
Dec 20, 2016 — Robert Wright & Giulio Prisco
What is transhumanism?
Is immortality possible?
Using wormholes to resurrect the dead
Could you rewind the universe?
Transhumanism as a religion
Why Giulio calls himself a theist
Dec 20, 2016 — Carlos Garcia-Suarez | Morals in business
Dec 19, 2016 — Robin Hanson & James Hughes
Should we really worry about robots taking our jobs?
Fighting racism with algorithms
Are AI advances mostly hype?
Using AI to make technology more secure
The robot economy is coming
Do robots have moral value?
Dec 18, 2016 — Nikita Petrov & George Young
Does Russian thought have anything to contribute to the world?
Nikolay Fedorov, an eccentric thinker who influenced Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky
Fedorov’s plan: Immortality for everyone
“Kinship” as a fundamental property of all matter
A mass movement for the spiritual unity of humankind
Vladimir Solovyov’s
The Meaning of Love
: Sexuality as a path to a Christian utopia
Christ as the ultimate role model
Dec 18, 2016 — Douglas Osto | All drugs should be legalized
Dec 17, 2016 — What makes you feel guilty?
Dec 17, 2016 — Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons | Hope in a Trumpian winter
Dec 16, 2016 — Philip Menchaca & Erik Vance
Erik’s new book
Suggestible You
When snake oil actually works
How your beliefs can change your body
Why do people respond differently to the same placebo?
How the discovery of “placebo genes” could transform medicine
The fuzzy line between placebos and real medicine
Erik’s visit to a Mexican witch doctor
Dec 15, 2016 — John Horgan | Don't lose faith in progress
Dec 13, 2016 — David Bryce Yaden & Emily Esfahani Smith
Emily’s forthcoming book,
The Power of Meaning
Can an atheist be spiritual?
What makes for a meaningful life?
The dark side of finding meaning
Are we in the midst of a “meaning crisis?”
Dec 13, 2016 — What is your biggest regret?
Dec 12, 2016 — Josh Summers & Sara Lazar
Are the benefits of mindfulness exaggerated?
Meditation and our “neuroplastic” brains
How meditation alters the fear response
Why studying mindfulness is hard
Mindfulness is about more than being in the moment
Advice for the anti-Trump crowd from meditation teachers
Dec 11, 2016 — Robert Wright & Michael McCullough
The controversy over the neurochemical basis for trust
What causes “altruistic punishment?”
How haste makes good people bad
The nuts and bolts of forgiveness
The psychology of political conflict
What makes us care about strangers?
Dec 11, 2016 — What makes you feel proud?
Dec 10, 2016 — Benjamin Perry | A call to curiosity
Dec 9, 2016 — Philip Menchaca & Rory Dickson
Sufis, “the ones who are not”
How Sufism relates to establishment Islam
Why is ISIS destroying Sufi shrines?
How Sufism came to America
Does Islam lend itself to universalism?
Is Sufism always Islamic?
Dec 8, 2016 — If aliens visited Earth, what would they find most surprising?
Dec 6, 2016 — Robert Wright & Paul Bloom
Paul’s brand new book,
Against Empathy
The damage empathy can do
The difference between empathy and compassion
Why our moral intuitions aren’t so moral
Are low empathy people more likely to hurt others?
Empathy as moral jet fuel
The costs and benefits of feeling other people’s pain
Dec 5, 2016 — Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
How do ancient and modern philosophy differ?
Philosophy as a way of life
How the scientific revolution changed philosophy
Has modern ethics gone down the wrong path?
Why did ethicists turn away from virtues and toward moral rules?
Do universal ethical principles exist?
What Sam Harris gets wrong about ethics
Dec 4, 2016 — Brendan Foht & George Church
George’s project to synthesize the human genome
Fighting climate change by resurrecting the mammoth
Applying gene editing to human reproduction
Can gene tech make up for stagnation in pharmaceutical research?
The role of chance in genetic engineering breakthroughs
Dec 4, 2016 — What is your biggest fear for the future of humanity?
Dec 4, 2016 — Robert Wright
Dec 3, 2016 — Isabel Maria Mareş | How being differently-abled taught me about radical love: A call to white America
Dec 2, 2016 — Robert Wright & Jay Michaelson
Jay’s anti-Trump appeals
How the election unleashed hate
When “love your enemy” just won’t work
Is empathy a limited resource?
Jay’s spiritual toolkit for coping with a Trump presidency
Trump, the anti-Buddha
Can mindfulness help save the world?
Dec 1, 2016 — Robert Wright | Introduction to Sixty-Second Sermons
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