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MeaningofLife.tv videos — July 2019
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Jul 25, 2019 —
Daniel Kaufman & Oliver Burkeman
- Journalism, from information scarcity to attention scarcity
- Is it harder to find “good” information these days?
- Oliver: Reliance on social media creates false controversies
- Has the mainstream media really drifted towards partisanship?
- How to dismantle the partisan divide
- Dan: Americans were more divided in 1968 than now
- Social injustice: Perception, reality, and urgency
Jul 23, 2019 —
Josh Summers & Jenny Odell
- Jenny’s new book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
- Learning from “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (part 1)
- Cultivating attention through art and mindfulness
- Josh’s critique of contemporary mindfulness
- How social media destroys context
- Jenny: “Aliveness is change”
- Learning from “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (part 2)
Jul 17, 2019 —
Daniel Kaufman & Milton Lawson
- Why Dan and Milton love Stranger Things
- How does the new season measure up?
- Is “the Upside Down” a coherent idea?
- Is Generation X about to have its moment in pop culture?
- Dan fears wokeness is ruining pop culture
- The risks of a fourth Stranger Things season
- Pop culture in an era of massive corporate control
- Speculating on HBO’s mysterious Watchmen adaptation
Jul 16, 2019 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Jamie Lauren Keiles
- Jamie’s NYT Magazine piece, “How ASMR Became a Sensation”
- Searching for the science behind ASMR
- Why are ASMR creators disproprotionately female?
- The strange life of Gibi, one of the top “ASMRtists”
- A temporary salve for Internet-era loneliness
- Will ASMR go corporate?
- Jamie researches the history of the Jewish American Princess
- Daddy’s money, girl power, and Juicy Couture
- Are there Jewish American Princes?
Jul 15, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Josh Summers
- Common misconceptions about meditation retreats
- Hitting the bliss button
- Scheduled vs. unscheduled retreats
- How austere does it have to be to be effective?
- Process vs. outcomes
- Bob’s mini-epiphany about his dripping sink
- Is meditation “for” something?
- Pitfalls after leaving a retreat
- Tips for first-timers
Jul 11, 2019 —
John Horgan & Bernardo Kastrup
- Why Bernardo thinks the mind-body problem is not as hard as it seems
- Bernardo’s spiritual, intellectual, and psychedelic history
- God, metacognition, and the Universe
- The consolations of Bernardo’s philosophy
- Bernardo: The Universe has multiple personality disorder
- The narcissism of a human-centered Universe
- Why John thinks we’ll never solve the mind-body problem
Jul 10, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Serene Jones
- Serene’s new book, Call It Grace: Finding Meaning in a Fractured World
- Serene’s theological upbringing and early encounters with Calvin’s writings
- What a romantic tragedy early in life taught Serene about God’s grace
- A revelatory brush with death in rural India
- Timothy McVeigh and the challenge of forgiveness
- How Serene’s father met an epic challenge to his faith and his charity
Jul 8, 2019 —
Daniel Kaufman & Jane Clare Jones
- Where have all the feminists gone?
- The feminist tradition in philosophy
- How does second-wave feminism distinguish sex from gender?
- Jane: Patriarchy hurts men, too
- On the present controversy around gender non-conformity and identity
- Was Prince genderqueer?
- Gender, feminism, and the classical liberal tradition
Jul 3, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Lee McIntyre
- Lee’s new book The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
- Why scientific theories are never “proved”
- Karl Popper’s principle of falsification explained
- Why the philosophy of science hasn’t been useful to scientists
- Why philosophers of science need a new way to talk about evidence
- Can philosophy of science help refute science deniers?
- Flat Earthers, science denial, and the scientific attitude
- Cognitive bias, ideology, and the social sciences
- Lee: There is no consensus about the epistemological status of science
- The hubris of “naive realism”
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