In this episode, Joe and Erich have a conversation starting with Yuval Noah Harari. From there the conversation branched into recent philosophy topics Joe has been working with. Finally, we transitioned into a more general conversation on the direction of the future and other ideas related to that.
(00:00) Catching up with Erich, Joe, & Nick
(01:12) Yuval Noah Harari on Under the Skin Podcast
(02:26) Intellectual Dark Web
(02:39) Harari's definition of Humanism
(04:12) Humanism, Empiricism, and Determinism
(05:32) Newtonianism
(08:03) Russel Brand's religious vibe
(09:19) Russell Brand & Jordan Peterson
(10:08) Materialism and Darwinian Philosophy
(11:50) Today's news is not interesting
(13:52) The Default Position
(14:57) Emotional Arguing
(16:10) Lessons about stating your opinion on Facebook
(17:37) Examples of philosophical discourse
(19:00) Fundamentalist
(21:02) God Dilemma
(22:42) Single Infinite Mind & Collective Unconscious
(24:48) Berkeley Spark Notes
(25:39) Berkeley's cup explanation
(27:07) Coastline Paradox
(29:23) So does this matter?
(31:16) Reflections on subconscious growth
(33:08) The value of a five-year plan
(34:18) Resisting change / Comfort Zone
(35:26) Becoming obsolete and evolving
(37:45) Predicting the future of self-driving cars
(39:40) Daniele Bolelli reflecting on virtual communities
(38:20) University system constraints
(40:32) Education evolution
(41:58) VR Universities
(43:12) Overspecialize
(44:22) Real-life Idiocracy
(47:12) What if idea #2 Egypt as a modern society
(47:48) First computers
(48:38) What if humanity was lost forever?
(50:09) Humanity's resilience
(54:14) Is what survives major catastrophes ideas?
(56:05) Predicting the next Google
(56:56) Brain-machine interfaces
(58:47) People seem to be more pessimistic now
(59:56) Is social media the root cause?
(01:02:34) Creating AI to replace God
(01:03:57) Modeling philosophical ideas for holes
(01:05:24) Closing thoughts
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