Episode 71: The Murky Morals and Mysterious Metaphysics of "Mr. Robot"

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

David and Tamler go deep into the best TV show of the summer, "Mr. Robot. They talk about the moral ambiguity of its central character, the distorted vision of reality it portrays, and play a round of "Real or Not Real" with all the main characters. Plus, what the swooning critics ignore about Pixar's "Inside Out"--its irresponsible failure to reference the relevant literature in cognitive science and philosophy of mind.

Links

Two philosophers explain what Inside Out gets wrong about the mind [vox.com]

The James/Lange theory of emotion [wikipedia.org]

Mr. Robot [IMDB]

Unreliable Narrator [wikipedia.org]

Shoot the Dog Trope [tvtropes.org]

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist Dave Pizarro,
0:06.1	having an informal discussion about issues and science and ethics.
0:09.5	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.8	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:18.9	Well, it's like a world full of people.
0:22.0	There's so many people along with opinions and judgements and arrogance and theories.
0:28.3	People who think that they help people, and they're pointless, none of them know anything.
0:33.4	You might as well listen to a woodpecker pecking in a tree.
0:38.6	Look, ladies, arms, hands, bow hands.
0:43.0	Way no attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:51.6	Who are you?
0:53.6	Who are you?
0:55.2	I'm very bad men.
0:56.7	I'm a very good man.
0:58.5	Good man.
1:02.7	They think he's lost, and we know what brings the new house.
1:06.7	Way no attention to that man.
1:12.8	Anybody can have a brain.
1:16.8	You're a very bad man.
1:19.2	I'm a very good man.
1:21.0	Just a very bad wizard.
1:24.0	Welcome to very bad wizards.
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