Ep 726 – Birthing a Boddhisatva: Intentional Self-Reflection on (and through) a Mormon-formed Mind

Infants on Thrones

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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A follow-up to last week’s Free Will discussion, Glenn responds to some listener feedback regarding determinism, consciousness, and the mind-body problem.

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0:00.0	Dear Brother Glenn Ostland Recently, it has come to our awareness
0:09.5	that you have been talking about free will and agency on your podcast.
0:17.4	We realize that talking on your own podcast is totally something that you can choose to
0:23.2	do, whether the universe is deterministic or not, because choice still exists, even if
0:30.8	you fell away and lost your literal belief in determinism.
0:37.6	We want to pretend there is room for nuanced determinists in our midst, but come on.
0:44.4	Not the ones who talk about it and spread doubts with other lacks determinist disciples.
0:51.2	We've got some borders here to maintain after all.
0:55.0	As we both know, you said some stuff on your podcast.
1:00.1	And even if we totally agree with each other at the end of this, the tone of your voice
1:05.0	might also be an important determining factor in the computation of your consequences.
1:12.6	Please allow us to explain why you are receiving this letter.
1:17.4	There were some young listeners of your podcast who told their parents that certain things
1:22.5	you said about free will had damaged their belief in determinism.
1:28.9	Reason had made slaves of them all, but then here you come and free them from that reason.
1:35.0	Thanks a lot.
1:36.4	Now we have to find some other way to enslave our youth all over again.
1:40.2	This is infants on thrones, baby steps, who want some to preach to you.
1:55.9	The philosophies of men, mingled with humor, mingled with men, mingled with humor, we are evolving.
2:08.3	Baby steps, you can buy in this world of money.
2:39.3	All right, welcome back to infants on thrones.
2:44.0	I'm Glenn Ostland and this is episode 726, birthing the Bodhisattva, intentional self-reflection
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