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Infants on Thrones

Ep 436 – The Religion of Science? – Part 2

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Randy, Glenn, John, Lindsay, and Matt conclude their discussion of Rupert Sheldrake’s 2012 “Banned Ted Talk” about the 10 dogmas of a Scientific Materialist Worldview.

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There's all kinds of problems in science, but it still remains our best tool, and I'm not saying he thinks that science isn't a good tool but he's just as he's just some

0:14.7

asshole with an axe to grind because he's not been taken seriously he's just

0:17.9

some asshole with an axe to grind. I don't know this cat man I have no idea

0:22.1

who he was you know and I have almost zero knowledge when it comes to physics

0:26.7

I mean I'm really dumb really really really dumb.

0:35.0

But what I walked away from is the realization that for the last 42 years in my life I've been pretty damn

0:44.1

cock sure about what conclusions I've drawn based on where I was in the moment and I

0:51.5

and I found that to really be the case, even, you know, very recently, outside of Mormonism

0:58.6

where I have adopted this concept of science, this worldview of science as to say that's what I believe

1:06.2

in because I am atheist and I'm a heart greatness and I still am. I am atheism. But I recognize

1:12.0

those same thought patterns and that same arrogance now applied to the science that I just don't understand.

1:19.0

And even if I understood physics, I wouldn't understand a lot of things about consciousness and perception.

1:25.8

I've been listening to this week, Sam Harris came out with an episode on consciousness that I found really interesting.

1:32.0

And Russell Brand did one on consciousness with with Brian Cox and

1:37.1

real interesting stuff that starts dovetailing with some of these

1:45.8

Concepts where you know there Brian Cox was talking about intuition and how that may there's now starting to be evidence of of it being

1:50.6

you know connected to those people who are able to really be in tune with their

1:55.7

with their system with their membrane here between the heart and the head and your

2:00.4

brain interpreting all these signals from your body and the more somebody can kind of become in tune with that that you know

2:07.9

Those are people that are that they're finding have would be referred to as kind of having a gut instinct in these types of things.

2:14.3

And I understand that Brian Cox is a real physicist, maybe not.

2:18.5

He's just some asshole with an ex to grind.

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