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MeaningofLife.tv videos — March 2018
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Mar 23, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Massimo Pigliucci
- Massimo’s new edited volume, Science Unlimited?: The Challenges of Scientism
- What is scientism?
- Science and the challenge of studying subjective experience
- And about those pesky fundamental questions of existence…
- How philosophical thought underpins all research methodology
- Massimo: Core concepts across science have competing interpretations
- The importance of distinguishing “is” from “ought”
- What neuroscience can never explain about human consciousness
Mar 13, 2018 —
Josh Summers & David Lesondak
- What is fascia and why does it matter?
- When fascia malfunctions
- What David does as a “body worker”
- How body posture could influence mental health
- Unanswered questions in fascia research
- Can mindfulness meditation reduce the perception of pain?
- The concept of “tensegrity,” or tensional integrity, in the human body
Mar 9, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Josh Summers
- Bob and Josh recount their first meeting after a silent meditation retreat
- Does yoga always have a spiritual component?
- How Josh’s yoga practice prepares the body for meditation
- How yoga’s focus on breath can lead to the body
- Solutions to modern distraction
- Bob: Mindfulness practice can erode essentialist thinking
- What’s the point of Bob’s Mindful Resistance Project?
- The present and future of the Mindful Resistance Newsletter
Mar 8, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Pater Edmund Waldstein
- Why the Mortara case is still provoking argument 150 years later
- Pater Edmund offers a defense of Pope Pius IX
- Integralism and different conceptions of liberty
- What would an integralist Catholic state look like?
- How Pater Edmund became a monk (with a blog)
- The day-to-day life of a modern meditating monk
Mar 7, 2018 —
Stephen Asma & Rami Gabriel
- Puppet show: Why are human emotions unique?
- Does self-restraint make us human?
- Considering emotions as social constructs
- Stephen: If you have emotions, you have consciousness
- Artificial intelligence doesn’t necessarily defer to it its creator
- How insects are like robots
- Does culture change how the brain reads emotion in faces?
Mar 2, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Richard Prum
- Darwin’s approach to explaining the peacock’s cumbersome plumage
- Could beauty have evolved, in part, for beauty’s sake?
- The sense in which traits favored via mate selection may not be ‘adaptive’
- Mate preference and aesthetics
- What can we learn from ducks’ miserable sex lives?
- How paternal investment in offspring became part of human life
- When sex isn’t for reproduction
- Richard’s misgivings about evolutionary psychology
Mar 1, 2018 —
Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell
- Crispin’s “Why They Suck” essay series
- Why in particular does Michelangelo suck?
- The contrasts in humanism represented in Italian and Northern Renaissance art
- The “ennobling quality” of human emotion in early Renaissance art
- Why Dan is a humanist and Crispin is not
- Identifying the internal incoherence of Michelangelo’s work
- Dan: Judaism’s approach to moral agency begins in the Garden of Eden
- Crispin questions emphasizing human endeavors over all others
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