Episode 319: The Shadow of the Object (Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia")

Is life meaningless? Are humans just glorified dung beetles, pushing around our piles of poop with no greater purpose? What would it take for life to actually be meaningful? In this episode, Tamler an...

24 Okt 20171h 32min

What do we mean when we say someone is angry? Can we identify anger (or any other emotion) via facial expressions, physiological changes, or neural markers? Is anger simply a feeling, something that h...

10 Okt 20171h 32min

Do you think of your life as a story? Does your life have a narrative structure or form? Do you identify with your past selves and your future selves? If not, can you live a good life, a moral life, a...

26 Sep 20171h 21min

It's Part 2 of the Patreon listener selected episode! David and Tamler continue their discussion on intelligence from our last episode by tackling the radioactive topic of group differences and IQ. Ar...

12 Sep 20171h 27min

David and Tamler do their best to talk frankly about intelligence and IQ research. (It's our Patreon listener-selected topic! We probably would never have chosen this one on our own...). Is intelligen...

29 Aug 20171h 40min

Guest Yoel Inbar joins David and Tamler to break down David Lynch's dreamy masterpiece Mulholland Drive. (FULL SPOILERS – watch before you listen!) What's real and what's illusion? What happens when o...

15 Aug 20171h 29min

Special guest Robert Wright joins the podcast to discuss his latest book "Why Buddhism is True." What is the Buddhist conception of not-self? When we become aware that the boundaries between us and th...

25 Juli 20171h 47min

What happens when we discover why we believe the things we believe? What if we discover that our values are the product of our cultural tradition, or personal experience, or natural selection? Should ...

12 Juli 20171h 26min