Campus Protests, Dennett’s Legacy (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

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🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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0:29 Paul asserts his right to non-assertion 4:31 Campus protests and free speech controversies 19:53 Have pro-Palestine protestors crossed a line? Have their opposition? 31:13 Will the protests force a reckoning on campus “wokeness”? 40:09 Remembering philosopher Daniel Dennett 48:03 Bob vs Dennett on consciousness 1:00:47 Does the mind-body problem suggest a cosmic solution? 1:10:34 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom (https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net, University of Toronto, The Sweet Spot, Against Empathy). Recorded April 24, 2024.

Paul’s Substack: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net

Discussed in Overtime:The problem(s) with the 3 Body Problem.Bob and Dennett’s big breakup: a breakdown. The time Keanu Reeves glitched at Bob’s expense. Does Bob have a “Burn Book” in his future?

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:27.2	Hi, Paul.
0:31.1	Hello, Bob.
0:32.4	How you doing?
0:33.6	I'm doing great.
0:34.3	How are you?
0:35.9	And I complain.
0:36.8	Let me introduce this, Paul.
0:38.4	I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the Non-Zero Newsletter.
0:41.0	This is the Non-Zero podcast and also kind of a collaboration with the newsletter.
0:46.2	You published a falsely modest Small Potatoes newsletter.
0:50.0	You're also known as a famous psychologist and author.
0:53.9	What am I leaving out, Paul?
0:56.0	That's it. That's more than more than, in it.
0:58.4	More than you deserve?
0:59.5	More than I deserve. I'm feeling very humble this morning.
1:03.4	I may be unusually differential.
1:05.6	I had a period in our discussions where I was asserting myself, but I think I'm going to pull back.
1:10.8	When was that? That was like a month ago or so?
1:12.5	It was like a month ago. A friend of mine said, said, you know, you're treating this like you're on, you're a guest, but no, treat it as a collaborative effort.
1:21.6	You know, make, make a point, direct the conversation yourself and I did it successfully for, for a whole session session but then this is easier to be like a
1:30.2	guest in your house yeah plus you shouldn't get uppity shouldn't get uppity
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