Episode five of the Permanent Evolution Podcast – the death episode. Dr Coludar and Dr Jackson consider the phenomenon of death from many angles, both evolutionary and experiential. Is death inevitable or was it selected for early in the evolution of life? Since our own death is inevitable, how should we come to terms with it? Why are we so fascinated with apocalyptic mythology?
Episode four of the Permanent Evolution Podcast, in which Sympathetic People, Dr Joha Coludar and Dr Timothy Jackson, indulge in a wide-ranging discussion covering topics including war as a selection pressure, human exceptionalism, free will, science as a reactionary philosophy, and the problem of certainty.
Episode two of the Permanent Evolution Podcast.
Part 1 – Morals and the Louis C.K. case study; are we becoming more moral? is there progress in history?
Part 2 – Cultural evolution continued; can a complex world view be coherent?
Part 3 – Is reality coherent? Is “evolution” just another catch-all metaphor?
NB.
When Joha says “immoral”, it sometimes sounds like he’s saying “moral”……
Teleology is “goal-directed by knowledge”, as opposed to teleonomy – “goal-directed by law”.
All music and field-recordings/soundscapes by Tim.
Painting by Genevieve Jackson.
The first episode of Sympathetic People’s new podcast is now streaming on SoundCloud.
*Explicit language warning*
Major topics of discussion:
The “social justice movement” – Part 1
Music, exercise, self-improvement – Part 2
Alchemy, the deepest schisms in philosophy are semantics, consciousness – Part 3
All music by Tim, except for the intro and outro to part 3 – guitar by Tim, keyboard by Nick Jackson.
Errata:
Tim was tired and confused. Károly* Kerényi is the historian who wrote with Jung and Ram Dass is NOT Ralph MetzNer (duh.)
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