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MeaningofLife.tv videos — December 2018
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Dec 31, 2018 —
Daniel Kaufman & E. John Winner
- John’s personal history with punk rock
- Why was punk more political in the UK than in NYC?
- The far reach of capitalism into counterculture
- How the NYC punk scene fizzled out
- The early importance of record shops and FM radio stations
- Punk and suburban oppression
- Is punk dead or perennially youthful?
- John: Gender expression is the new embodiment of the punk ethos
Dec 30, 2018 —
John Horgan & Stuart Kauffman
- Stuart’s early interest in the deepest questions in philosophy and science
- How a premonition of his daughter’s tragic death shaped Stuart’s ideas about consciousness
- Telepathy, nonlocality, and decoherence: making sense of inexplicable experiences
- “Enablement,” Stuart’s concept of a creative, unpredictable causality
- John on the connection between emotional experiences and intellectual views
- John and Stuart look to the future with cautious optimism
- A brief addendum on spoon bending
Dec 21, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Scott Barry Kaufman
- What is the “G” factor in human intelligence?
- Fortunately for Scott and Bob, intelligence is about more than mentally rotating 3D objects
- What Psych 101 classes get wrong about Abraham Maslow’s “self-actualization”
- Is there a right way to self-actualize?
- What is personality?
- How self-actualized is Bob? He took Scott’s test to find out.
- The “Dark Triad” (and why we need a little darkness)
- Gender differences in narcissism
Dec 7, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Michael Holleran
- Father Michael’s 22 years as a Carthusian Monk
- The contemplative tradition in Christianity
- How Zen captivated Father Michael
- Do Buddhist and Hindu mystics experience the same thing?
- Zen’s influence on Father Michael’s theology
- God, creation, and evolution
- What insights does Christianity add to Buddhism?
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s influence on Father Michael
Dec 5, 2018 —
Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
- What distinguishes “action” from simple motor movement?
- Can animals take deliberate action?
- Why narrative has a place in science and physics
- Biology, evolution, and the emergence of action
- Why does Massimo want a beer?
- Dan: The “free will problem” is ill-formed
- How the evolution of language brought meaning to human behavior
- Massimo and Dan’s latest projects
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