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Aug 24, 2017 — Robert Wright & Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa’s new book
How Emotions are Made
Can we truly feel an emotion before we can name it?
Is it true that the !Kung people feel no fear?
Fear in the body, the brain, and in concept
Do animals have emotions as we know them?
Lisa’s advice for young scientists: Keep it empirical
Aug 23, 2017 — Philip Menchaca & Iddo Landau
The search for significance in our lives
How to embrace non-perfectionism
How much meaning in life is enough?
Should social norms inform our sense of meaning?
Iddo’s take-home message: Don’t be cruel to yourself
Aug 22, 2017 — John Horgan & Robert Wright
Bob: Life was suffering before modernity, too
John: Mindfulness meditation is morally neutral
How attribution biases make war possible
Is the path to enlightenment for everyone?
Why Bob doubts that pure enlightenment has been achieved
Morality matters, even inside the Matrix
Aug 17, 2017 — Robert Wright & Brian Greene
Superstring theory: Just crazy enough to be true?
Why Einstein disliked quantum physics
Welcome to the multiverse!
Could an interventionist god in theory exist?
Einstein’s determinism and “block time”
The “stuff” that makes reality real
Aug 10, 2017 — Robert Wright & Ted Chiang
How Ted’s
Story of Your Life
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Arrival
Experiential and theoretical grounds for determinism
If the future is set… Why bother?
The Predictor—an imagined device that will freak you out
Wormholes and time travel
Are free will and determinism compatible?
Aug 9, 2017 — Robert Wright & Massimo Pigliucci
Bob’s and Massimo’s complementary new books
Bob and Massimo give Buddhist and Stoic advice on dealing with regret
Buddhist and Stoic recipes for reducing anxiety
Using meditative practices to fight ADD
Building resilience, maintaining compassion
The upside of distraction
Aug 3, 2017 — Josh Summers & Gil Fronsdal
Gil’s new book,
The Buddha before Buddhism
Reaching peace by letting go completely
Why the Buddha didn’t care about religious purity
Practical advice for letting go
Buddhism and civic discourse
Aug 1, 2017 — Daniel Kaufman & Robert Wright
Dan and Bob debate the Buddhist idea that the “self” doesn’t exist
Bob’s brush with a “not-self” experience
Is it bad to transcend human nature?
What is “the self”, anyway?
Do our moral intuitions mislead?
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