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🗓️ 12 April 2021
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Robert Wright is an American journalist and author who writes about science, history, politics, and religion. He has written five books: Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information (1988), The Moral Animal (1994), Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (1999), The Evolution of God (2009), and Why Buddhism is True (2017). He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Bloggingheads.tv and the founder and editor-in-chief of Meaningoflife.tv.
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0:00.0 | Radio Manu, Papa Chango. |
0:30.0 | Hi Chris, this is Chris in Port Angeles, Washington, where my day job has temporarily evaporated, |
0:37.0 | and I am now a poet in place. |
0:40.4 | When I feel how the river of time carries me along in its strong current, I watch the |
0:45.5 | sandy bottom glide by and see the present firm and unbroken. |
0:50.2 | But I think of the layers from Ion's uncounted and wonder it. |
0:54.0 | How they have shaped the course of my path through a universe that counts me as a mere |
0:58.4 | particle, shifting with a current that I cannot direct. |
1:02.4 | I can only reflect that I am still a float, and have always been a swimmer between the |
1:07.5 | shores of an uncertain future, content to drift the quiet stretches between the rapids, |
1:13.6 | and find my fortune one ripple at a time. |
1:18.2 | Everybody stay safe out there. |
1:21.0 | Thank you so much Chris the poet and everybody else out there sends your intros. |
1:26.5 | You can send them to introsattengeentiallyspeaking.com. |
1:32.0 | This episode is with someone who frankly intimidates me intellectually. |
1:41.6 | He's somebody I admire, and also disagree with on some things, particularly a book he wrote |
1:50.4 | a long time ago. |
1:57.4 | He and I have a relationship that's more complicated and significant to me than it is to him. |
2:02.2 | No doubt. |
2:03.2 | I am a minor presence in his consciousness, and he's been an important figure in my life. |
2:09.5 | His name is Robert Wright. |
2:12.1 | Colin Bob now, I guess, even though I know him as Robert. |
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