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MeaningofLife.tv videos — September 2021
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Sep 21, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Josh Summers
- Remembering Michael Brooks
- The existential stakes of enlightenment
- Overcoming the affective dimension of cognitive bias
- Bringing broader awareness to the concept of cognitive bias
- Cognitive bias and the roots of war
- The folly of feedback loops
- Quelling our primitive retributive impulses
- Taking a mulligan in your meditation practice
- Focusing on the hindrances
- Can you fail at meditation?
Sep 15, 2021 —
David Ottlinger & Cathy Young
- A plea to the weary to return to the Woke Wars
- Who is James Lindsay?
- Lindsay’s book, Cynical Theories
- Lindsay’s other critiques of wokeness
- The religion of wokeness, the religion of anti-wokeness
- Lindsay jumps on the Trump train (starts shoveling coal)
- The anti-semitism thing
- David: In a way, Lindsay is on the side of BLM
Sep 14, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Oliver Burkeman
- Oliver’s new book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
- Oliver outlines “compatibilism,” the idea that free will and determinism can coexist
- Bob: Everyone should be a free will agnostic
- The occasionally dramatic consequences of arguments against free will
- Would determinism require us to reform our approach to criminal justice?
- A (possible) quantum hack for free will vs. determinism
- Bob thinks compatibilism is bullshit …
- … but Oliver tries to persuade him there’s something to it
- Oliver: No position on free will and determinism is free of contradiction
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