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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 30, 2018 — What's the biggest difficulty you have in communicating with other people?
Dec 29, 2018 — What do prayer and meditation mean to you?
Dec 25, 2018 — Is adulthood different from your expectations as a child?
Dec 24, 2018 — Have you ever experienced the divine?
Dec 24, 2018 — John Horgan & Christof Koch
Footprints of consciousness in the brain
Information and consciousness
The “Jennifer Aniston neuron”
Integrated Information Theory and panpsychism
John and Christof disagree about the limits of science
A paradigm explosion in the science of consciousness
Implanting brain chips to compete with AI
Dec 22, 2018 — Do you like your job?
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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