Episode 232: Mind Over Matter
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
It’s the topic voted on by our beloved Patreon patrons, panpsychism! David and Tamler delve into the resurgent debate over whether consciousness is the fundamental stuff that makes up the universe. We hoped we might be entering Miyazaki land - river spirits, benevolent radishes, a universal mind. But is this just the same old philosophy of mind debate with different words? Are there any stakes to this debate or is it purely terminological? Plus – we answer some last-minute questions from listeners on dissertations, Ukraine, pseudoscience, and the music from "The Shield."
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.4 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.0 | Racism doesn't bother you. |
| 0:18.8 | Bad words don't bother you. |
| 0:20.6 | What bothers you? |
| 0:23.3 | I hate uh... |
| 0:24.8 | I hate frauds. |
| 0:54.8 | They think they're false and we're no more brains than you have. |
| 0:58.9 | They do our attention. |
| 1:00.7 | Come on man. |
| 1:05.0 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:09.0 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:11.4 | That was a very good man. |
| 1:13.0 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:15.9 | Welcome to Very Bad Wizards. |
| 1:17.2 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:20.1 | Dave, today we're doing the topic voted on by our beloved Patreon supporters, |
| 1:25.9 | Pan-Sychism. |
| 1:28.0 | Is this the least prepared we've ever been? |
| 1:31.2 | I was hoping you were going to come prepared. |
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