113. 2017 Mixtape #1 – Mind, Body, Authenticity, Artifice

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

Big Think / Panoply

Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 594 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. Since 2015, the Think Again podcast has been taking us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives. In the second year of what’s becoming a tradition here on Think Again, this is a mixtape of some of Jason's favorite moments from the past year’s shows. Things that stuck with him because they were funny, or especially wise, or because of something extraordinary about the conversation that he can't quite put his finger on. This episode — 2017 Mixtape #1 — features philosopher of mind Daniel Dennett, architecture critic Sarah Goldhagen, novelist Ian McEwan, child psychologist Alison Gopnik, neuroscientist Erik Kandel, and actor Alan Alda. Among the many ideas that come up: minds, buildings, Hamlet, A.I., the nature of evil, communication. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm Jason Gatz, and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast.
0:09.6	Started back in 2008, Big Think is a kind of online think tank of big ideas from some of the most creative thinkers on the planet.
0:17.4	On the Think Again podcast, we revisit these ideas in new and unpredictable ways.
0:21.6	Our producers surprise me and my guests with short interview clips from Big Think's archives,
0:26.6	ideas that we didn't come here expecting to discuss.
0:29.6	In the second year of what's becoming a tradition here on Think Again, this is a mixtape of
0:34.6	some of my favorite moments from the past year's shows. Things that stuck with me because I thought they were funny or especially wise
0:41.3	or simply because of the energy of the conversation.
0:44.3	Daniel Dennett is one of the foremost living philosophers of mind.
0:48.3	He's also a really funny and jolly guy with a long flowing beard,
0:52.3	which encourages me that philosophy is still very much alive,
0:55.9	loud and proud in 2017.
1:00.6	Welcome to Think Again, Dan.
1:02.3	Glad to be here.
1:04.5	Can you summarize your 413 page extremely comprehensive book in, No, I mean, how would you describe the central premise
1:13.6	of what you're trying to argue here,
1:15.6	which I know gathers decades of work on your part?
1:19.6	The central premise, I guess, could be summarized as
1:24.6	if you really want to understand what consciousness is and what it can do,
1:29.9	what a human mind is, you have to see how it got that way.
1:33.4	Right.
1:33.8	You have to understand what it came from.
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