Episode 52: Thought Experiments (Huh!) What Are They Good For? (Part 2)
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2014
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Experience Machines, Chinese Rooms, Original Positions, and Ice Buckets. ("I don't know what you have in mind for this evening Homer, but count me out!") Dave and Tamler continue their discussion on thought experiments--how they can be effective, the difference between their use in philosophy and psychology, and how they can spin out of control like deadly viruses and become the disease they were trying to cure. Plus, do our motives matter when it comes to raising money for charity?
Links
Chinese Room thought experiment [wikipedia.org]
Turing Test [wikipedia.org]
Ice bucket challenge [alsa.org]
Weird Al Yankovic does the Ice Bucket Challenge [youtube.com]
Flight of the Conchords "Pro-Aids" [youtube.com]
Rawls' Original Position [plato.stanford.edu]
The Veil of Ignorance [wikipedia.org]
Press Your Luck "No Whammies!" [youtube.com]
Behaviorism [wikipedia.org]
Logical positivism [wikipedia.org]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:06.1 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.5 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of, I'd say, |
| 0:13.7 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.2 | I got some kindness, I got compassion, and I got love for all mankind. |
| 0:21.7 | You better get a phone somewhere that, man. |
| 0:23.4 | Don't anybody want no shit like that! |
| 0:25.5 | The bleeding on his pocket, |
| 0:30.9 | I know our tension to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:35.5 | Who are you? |
| 0:41.5 | Who are you? |
| 0:42.5 | I'm very bad, man. |
| 0:43.5 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:44.5 | Good man. |
| 0:45.5 | Good man. |
| 0:46.5 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:48.5 | Good man. |
| 0:49.5 | Good man. |
| 0:50.5 | Good man. |
| 0:52.5 | They think they're false, and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:56.5 | They know our tension. |
| 0:58.5 | Come on, man. |
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