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MeaningofLife.tv videos — November 2019
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Nov 25, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Paul Bloom
- A new study says empathy can increase political polarization
- How empathy operates in today’s political environment
- Is cognitive empathy a form of intelligence?
- The Machiavellian uses of cognitive empathy
- A counterproductive #Resistance view of Trump supporters
- Paul doesn’t understand how anyone can still support Trump
- Why “dehumanization” isn’t the real problem
- Paul’s core message: “Don’t listen to your heart”
Nov 22, 2019 —
David Ottlinger & J.P. Messina
- How should we define censorship?
- The sort of censorship that has no inherent moral valence
- Various ways non-state actors can censor
- When private censorship has moral stakes
- Examining moral grandstanding
- A changed heart vs. a false front
- Could we ever resolve all our disagreements?
- Reason, passion, and the founding of the Republic
Nov 11, 2019 —
Daniel Kaufman & Meghan Daum
- Meghan’s new book, The Problem with Everything
- The premature obsolescence of Generation X
- Meghan’s positive reaction to negative reviews of her book
- Joan Didion’s critique of the Women’s Movement
- The effect of online porn on Millennials
- Why do institutions capitulate to Twitter mobs?
- How Gen Xers are dealing with aging
Nov 8, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Roger Haight
- Why Pope John Paul II did not like Roger’s book Jesus Symbol of God
- Roger’s new book, Faith and Evolution: Grace-Filled Naturalism
- The intractability of the problem of evil
- Ways to understand God not as a big person in the sky
- Is natural selection an instrument of divine creation?
- Roger’s heterodox view of Jesus of Nazareth
- Roger’s problem with original sin
- What is a “grace-filled naturalism”?
Nov 1, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Preston Greene
- Why many intelligent people think we’re living in a simulation
- The philosophical argument that you’re probably not real
- How cosmic rays might (and might not) reveal that reality is fake
- Preston’s dire warning against trying to determine if we’re in a simulation
- Is the simulation hypothesis non-falsifiable?
- Is “the simulation” just religion for atheists?
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