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MeaningofLife.tv videos — January 2019
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Jan 27, 2019 —
Josh Summers & Dan Keown
- Dan’s new book, The Unchartered Body: A New Textbook of Medicine
- How Dan’s intrepid grandmother brought him to Eastern medicine
- Explaining Eastern medicine to a skeptic
- Embryology and the importance of “connectedness” within a body
- What is “chi,” exactly?
- Where Western medicine falls short
- What placebo research proves (and doesn’t prove) about acupuncture
- What does the acupuncture needle do?
- Dan’s recommended lifestyle changes for systemic health
Jan 21, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Lindsay Doran
- Lindsay, a Golden Globe–winning movie producer, discusses the Academy Awards
- Lindsay’s experience working on This Is Spinal Tap
- The psychology of a great film ending
- Why there’s no sequel to When Harry Met Sally
- Art vs. craft in screenwriting
- Should movies be moral?
- Is a male conscience different from a female conscience?
- A film that sounds like it’s great vs. one that actually is
Jan 19, 2019 —
Daniel Kaufman & Oliver Traldi
- Why Oliver quit law school
- Is it professionally risky to express heterodox views in philosophy?
- Philosophy as handmaiden to progressive politics
- Dan’s essay on philosophy’s abuse of the harm principle
- The chicken-or-egg question of students or faculty
- Is leftism corrupting scholarship?
- What politics can learn from the field of philosophy
- The irony of a leftist discipline that exploits labor
Jan 15, 2019 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Alice Robb
- Alice’s new book, Why We Dream
- All the wrong ways we used to think about dreams
- The unusual discovery of REM sleep
- When scientists thought dreams were a paranormal gateway
- Alice describes participating in a “dream group”
- What do events in dreams really mean?
- Why do we have nightmares?
- How to get started with lucid dreaming
Jan 11, 2019 —
Robert Wright & John D. Caputo
- John, a theologian and philosopher, explains postmodern Christianity
- Why postmodernism is not “linguistic idealism”
- Religion’s tendency to literalize
- What Paul Tillich and Jacques Derrida thought about “the unconditional”
- John: The Scriptures present a poetic, topsy-turvy vision of life
- Where do our aspirations come from (if anywhere)?
- Have art, literature, and social activism replaced religion?
- Is there a link between the unconditional and Buddhism’s “unconditioned”?
Jan 4, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Massimo Pigliucci
- Could evolution be conscious?
- Teleology vs. teleonomy
- A purposeful universe is possible, sure—but is it likely?
- The trouble with Stephen Jay Gould’s views on the evolution of complexity
- It’s “like something” to be an individual human. Could it be like something to be a society?
- The news from epigenetics: Heredity works in weirder ways than we knew
Jan 3, 2019 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Travis Smith
- Travis’s new book, Superhero Ethics
- The Incredible Hulk and the dangers of individualism
- Why Wolverine embodies honor and integrity
- Batman vs. Spider-Man, dueling reactions to our tragic universe
- Family tragedies in the lives of Bruce Wayne and Peter Parker
- Why adults should take comic books seriously
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