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🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 114 minutes
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0:00.0 | Methodopheles credo is that being is so permeated by suffering and catastrophe and tragedy |
0:06.8 | and betrayal that it would be better if it was just brought to a halt. |
0:10.4 | And in some sense, we're pulled in the world between those two poles, right? |
0:15.0 | Because part of us would like to build something better and to bring what's greater and more magnificent |
0:20.5 | into being. |
0:21.5 | And another part of us is better and resentful about the tragedy and catastrophe of existence. |
0:26.2 | And so... |
0:27.2 | So, what the Sopheles doesn't understand is that you cannot have a thing without its |
0:32.7 | opposite. |
0:33.7 | And so, this left hemisphere fantasy that we can create a world in which all is simply |
0:39.0 | peace and joy. |
0:40.0 | I don't believe that this is a possibility. |
0:42.6 | Blake Hatch also said that in heaven there must be some degree of suffering, otherwise |
0:47.1 | it couldn't be joy. |
1:01.6 | Hello everyone. |
1:02.6 | I'm extremely pleased today to be speaking once again with Dr. Ian McGillcrest. |
1:08.4 | I've spoken with Dr. McGillcrest a number of times. |
1:11.9 | The first time, very intense half an hour conversation, which was about one-fiftyth as long |
1:16.2 | as I wanted it to be, which was very well received. |
1:20.4 | Ian and I have a lot of interests that overlap. |
1:24.5 | I would say particularly in what you might describe the neuropsychology of philosophy, because |
1:30.2 | we both operate to some degree at the nexus between biological psychiatry and neurology |
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