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Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps

Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps

FromVery Bad Wizards


Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps

FromVery Bad Wizards

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Length:
102 minutes
Released:
Oct 2, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Is living forever a good thing? Could we maintain our values and personal attachments throughout eternity? Would we be motivated to accomplish anything? Can we make sense of a human life that doesn't have a fixed endpoint? We try to alleviate David's paralyzing fear of death by examining two articles - one on how immortality is worse than we think, and the other providing evidence that dying might be better than we think. Plus,we examine some famous thought experiments - if they were porn. And a special bonus: after the outro music, Eliza Sommers joins her Dad at to give her theory about Twin Peaks: The Return (contains spoilers). Special Guest: Eliza Sommers.
Released:
Oct 2, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.