Think out 1,000 or 10,000 years; it’s obvious to everyone that human civilization (if it lasts) will make unimaginable leaps in science and technology in that time. On the other hand, there’s a general sense (judging from the way we imagine the

Free Will Is Not an Illusion

Jan 30th, 2020 36m 18s

Do we have free will? What does current science have to say about this question? Are people like Sam Harris right to conclude that free will is an illusion? How could free will work, if it is real, anyway? These are the questions I cover in t

Episode 5: The Single Most Important Idea that We're Missing

Jan 22nd, 2018 11m 11s

Sensationalist title? You be the judge.

Episode 4: Consciousness: the Most Incredible and Fortunate Thing in the Universe

May 23rd, 2017 34m 56s

Consciousness! Without it, the Universe might as well not exist, because there wouldn’t be anyone there to experience reality, wouldn’t be anyone there to perceive that there’s such a thing as existence at all. In this episode, I talk about t

Episode 3: If You Change Your Perspective, You Change Your Life

Apr 4th, 2017 9m 59s

Episode 3 on the miraculous beauty of reality, and how we should fight our tendency to get used to everything.

Episode 2: What is Existence?

Jan 26th, 2017 42m 42s

What is reality, really?It strikes me sometimes just how fortunate it is that this infinitely beautiful Universe gets to exist, that all these complex and diverse phenomena get to happen. We take it for granted (because, after all, it is gran

Episode 1: How Can We Break the Cycle?

Jan 10th, 2017 27m 16s

In this first episode of the Idea List Podcast, I explore the reasons we as a species tend to repeat our worst mistakes- wars, genocide, slavery, things of that nature. I also put forward the key idea I believe we need to adopt if we are ever g

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