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Oct 20, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Daniel Ingram
TAGS Buddhism | consciousness | enlightenment | meditation | memory | mind-body problem | mindfulness | psychology | religion
Oct 19, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Sam Harris
- Sam Harris, mystic and atheist
- The mystery of consciousness
- Is mysticism more like science than like religion?
- How religion makes progress
- Sam’s case for intolerance
- The root causes of extremism
- Religious and secular reasons to do good
- Ways religion may be closer to the truth than atheism
- A secular approach to death
TAGS agnosticism | atheism | Buddhism | Christianity | cognitive science | consciousness | death | empathy | ethics | evolution | history | Islam | meditation | mind-body problem | mindfulness | mysticism | nationalism | New Atheists | perception | poverty | psychology | religion | science | self | spirituality | tribalism
Oct 18, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Margaret Wertheim
TAGS Christianity | consciousness | Daniel Dennett | philosophy | physics | religion | science | spirituality
Oct 9, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Wesley Wildman
- Wesley explains “transreligious theology”
- What’s religious about religious naturalism?
- Can science help us understand ultimate reality?
- Bringing religious thought and philosophy together
- Be skeptical of spiritual experiences
- Don’t just love your enemies, understand them
- Wesley: “Purpose” isn’t a useful category
TAGS atheism | Buddhism | Christianity | consciousness | meditation | Paul Tillich | philosophy | physics | psychology | religion | science | spirituality | tribalism
Sep 21, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Erik Braun
- Erik’s book The Birth of Insight and its hero, Ledi Sayadaw
- Three marks of existence: impermanence, suffering, and not-self
- Origins and characteristics of American Buddhism
- How Burmese politics shaped Western Buddhism
- Ledi’s take on how meditation leads to enlightenment
- The ethical side of Buddhist practice
- Erik’s meditation practice
TAGS Buddhism | consciousness | enlightenment | history | human nature | meditation | mind | mindfulness | philosophy | politics | psychology | religion | science | self
Sep 17, 2016 —
Nikita Petrov & George Young
- What is Russian cosmism?
- The religious side of cosmism
- Cosmism as a response to the challenges of the 20th century
- Nature as a temporary enemy and eternal friend
- Pavel Florensky, the Russian da Vinci
- Plant life as a spiritual ideal
- The father of the Soviet space program, and his weird spirituality
- Cosmism and transhumanism: Compare and contrast
- Cosmism as a Russian propaganda project
TAGS Christianity | consciousness | death | evolution | history | human nature | mysticism | occult | philosophy | politics | religion | science | spirituality | technology | the future | transhumanism
Sep 10, 2016 —
Josh Summers & Chip Hartranft
TAGS Buddhism | consciousness | enlightenment | Hinduism | human nature | meditation | mindfulness | philosophy | religion | spirituality | yoga
Aug 19, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Douglas Osto
- Doug’s book Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America
- Psychedelics as gateway drugs to Buddhism
- Common ground between Buddhism and psychedelic spirituality
- What is Psychedelic Buddhism?
- When are psychedelics unhealthy?
- Compare and contrast between Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism
TAGS Buddhism | consciousness | drugs | enlightenment | happiness | meditation | mental health | mindfulness | religion | spirituality | Zen
Aug 8, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Susan Schneider
TAGS cognitive science | compassion | consciousness | death | free will | human nature | identity | mind-body problem | philosophy | physics | psychology | science | technology | the future | transhumanism
Jul 10, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Kenneth Folk
TAGS altruism | Buddhism | consciousness | drugs | enlightenment | ethics | happiness | meditation | mindfulness | perception | psychology | religion | sadness | self | spirituality
Jun 25, 2016 —
Robert Wright & David Bryce Yaden
TAGS Buddhism | consciousness | meditation | mind-body problem | psychology | science | self | spirituality
Jun 20, 2016 —
Robert Wright
TAGS Buddhism | Christianity | consciousness | game theory | Islam | meditation | religion | spirituality
Mar 6, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Daniel Ingram
- What is it like to be an arhat?
- Perspectives on the self: It’s nothing, it’s everything
- What enlightenment is, and what’s so great about it
- Dwelling in enlightenment is easy, but getting there can be hard
- Does enlightenment entail moral improvement?
- Can meditation save—or impede salvation of—the world?
TAGS Buddhism | Christianity | consciousness | enlightenment | happiness | Hinduism | meditation | mysticism | psychology | religion | self | spirituality
Dec 13, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Donald Hoffman
- Natural selection doesn’t build brains to see the truth
- How perception is like a graphical computer interface
- Don’s theory: It’s consciousness all the way down
- Is there a chicken-and-egg problem with this theory?
- Don describes his consciousness formula, sans math (phew)
- With this theory, life is more interesting—and painful
Oct 19, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Jorge Ferrer
- Do all religions have the same “esoteric core?”
- The psychedelic origins of transpersonal psychology
- Aligning your instincts, consciousness, and heart through “participatory spirituality”
- Constructing reality through “embodied cognition”
- Why Jorge would object to making participatory spirituality a religion
- The complicated morality of “enlightened” spiritual teachers
Aug 4, 2015 —
Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
- The “strong AI thesis”: Can a machine think?
- Debating the usefulness of the Turing test
- Could your brain be swapped with a silicon replica?
- Massimo: You’ll never be able to upload your consciousness
- Digging into the famous “Chinese room” thought experiment
- Dan: Neuroscience won’t solve philosophy of mind puzzles
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