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July 16, 2017 —
Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell
Sophia
- Crispin's new book Entanglements: A System of Philosophy
- Individuals as knots on a thread
- Crispin's materialism: The world is real, but it is "all the ways"
- A materialist's way of understanding social reality
- Perception as being penetrated by the world
- How distinct from the rest of the world are we?
- Knowledge, power, and politics
December 14, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Donald Hoffman
The Wright Show
- 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
November 22, 2016 —
Oliver Burkeman & Jonathan Shedler
- Debunking the debunking of psychoanalytic theory
- Can thoughts change emotions?
- The patient-therapist relationship as a window into the self
- Therapy's modest goal
- Psychotherapy's struggle to escape Freud's shadow
- Psychoanalyzing the urge to engage in psychoanalysis
- Looking at politics through a psychoanalytic lens
March 13, 2018 —
Josh Summers & David Lesondak
- What is fascia and why does it matter?
- When fascia malfunctions
- What David does as a "body worker"
- How body posture could influence mental health
- Unanswered questions in fascia research
- Can mindfulness meditation reduce the perception of pain?
- The concept of "tensegrity," or tensional integrity, in the human body
November 14, 2018 —
Nikita Petrov & Tanya Luhrmann
- Tanya's "local theory of mind"
- Harry Potter, prayer, and other "cultural invitations"
- Psychotherapy in the US and witchcraft in Ghana
- American individualism and Asian interdependence
- The differences between hearing God in Ghana and the US
- The Internet as externalized imagination: Pepe and Kek
- A "hyper-real God": having coffee with Jesus
- Thoughts, perceptions, the world, and the self
July 25, 2019 —
Daniel Kaufman & Oliver Burkeman
Sophia
- 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
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