Evolution and Purpose (Robert Wright & Massimo Pigliucci)

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🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Could evolution have a higher purpose? ... The value of (some) untestable hypotheses ... What zombies can (and can’t) teach us about consciousness ... Evolutionary teleology vs. evolutionary teleonomy ... Why does evolution produce increasingly complex forms of life? ... Distinguishing between physical laws and natural processes ... Could the hypothesis that evolution is serving a larger purpose be tested? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:08.0	Hi, Massimo.
0:09.7	Hi, Bob. How are you?
0:10.9	I can't complain.
0:12.7	Let me introduce this.
0:13.5	I'm Robert Wright.
0:14.1	This is The Right Show.
0:15.6	Available on both streaming video on the MeaningofLife.
0:19.3	TV platform and via audio podcast.
0:22.5	You are Massimo, I want to say, Piliuchi. Is that a...
0:27.2	Yeah, that's pretty good. Is that pretty good? Thank you. Thank you. And you are a professor
0:33.8	of philosophy at City College in New York. Is this true? That's correct. And you are the
0:39.8	author of among various books, How to Be a Stoic. I think it's fair to call you a leader of the
0:47.9	Stoic Revival, if that's the term. Are you using the term Stoic Revival? No, but that's a good
0:53.6	idea.
0:54.7	You should. It's actually, yeah.
0:55.7	The term mostly uses modern stories or movement.
1:00.0	But revival, I like that.
1:01.5	I think you should declare yourself the unrivaled leader of the stoic revival.
1:07.3	That would be rather pretentious of me, and therefore non-stoic one thing a lot of people
1:13.9	who have achieved great things in life have in common is that they are pretentious you may
1:18.6	have noticed this yeah i'm i was just reading for a book that i'm working on now about
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