10. Second-Guessing vs. Second-yessing yourself
Like all organisms, we humans have our behaviors, our motivations, appetites, feelings, and habits. With language, we humans also guess at who we are ...
Negotiate With Yourself and Win!
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Self-debating about who we are, how we got this way, how to make better decisions and feel better about the decisions we make. A long-view perspective from an origins-of-life/state-of-the-world social-science researcher. Cradle to grave: From life's cradle to our grave situation. "Mind candy for people who aren't afraid to think" Kaja Perina (editor in chief, Psychology Today).
9. WTF: The wildcard trumpcard formula
Through the human capacity for language, we can imagine anything. The world of possibilities expands overwhelmingly so we try to dig into on heels on ...
8. What are you anyway? Part 4.
The last of a four-episode series on the emergence of selves and effort from nothing but physiochemistry. Here we present the novel yet intuitive appr...
7. What are you anyway? Part 3
In this episode, we rule out the possibility that selves are DNA or genes, their patterns or their "information." We'll also rule out that natural sel...
6. What are you anyway? Part 2
The conversation continues, clearing up and out the confusions and distractions so we can get to the difference between things that don't try and selv...
5. What are you anyway? Part 1
We're self-obsessed, preoccupied with what effort we should be making. We rarely get around to the questions behind our obsessions: What is a self? W...
4. Means, Ends and Endless Me's
You can't tell who's a total jerk by their devilish means or devilish ends so what else is there? In this episode, we discover a way we've been talkin...
3. Total Jerks: What distinguishes them and how can we stop them?
In an open society, you can't tell people how to live but you still have to stop total jerks or it won't remain an open society. What, then distinguis...
2. Religion
Exploring the paradoxes surrounding reason and faith, realism, and escapist fantasies. It is unrealistic to pretend that people can be entirely realis...
1. Intro and Double Standards on Double Standards.
Hosts Jeremy Sherman and Jeremy Sherman introduce themselves and explain their new podcast. Then they deliver their first debate, this one on the diff...