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🗓️ 4 October 2024
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Translation should be impossible--but it works. Does that prove there's such a thing as universal, objective reality? For that matter, what would "objective" reality even mean? This week, thanks to a listener question, I'm lead to the heart of these ancient mysteries via Aristotle, Kant and...Kanye West? Plus: the Light of the Mind book tour begins! Guess where I am this week...
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0:00.0 | I would be willing to bet that before today you would have thought that the only thing |
0:05.2 | Emmanuel Kant has in common with K. But that was before you listened to today's episode of Words, Words, |
0:16.1 | A Young Heritage Production. Okay, it's Young Herritics, on the road edition. If you're watching on YouTube, |
0:30.2 | you will see that I am not in my usual setup my studio with my very sophisticated |
0:36.2 | book backdrop but rather in a mysterious undisclosed location that looks |
0:42.0 | remarkably like a hotel room. |
0:44.0 | I thought we could play a little game if you've ever seen don't F with cats on Netflix. |
0:49.0 | It's this whole documentary about how internet sleuths figured out where this one guy was who was doing all these awful things |
0:57.0 | just by looking at the sketchy weird backdrops of his videos. |
1:02.0 | So I thought we could do a game called A Book Bro goes on the road where you can try to see if you can figure out where I'm at and I will reveal episode by episode where I'm traveling too. |
1:12.0 | I'm going to be traveling a lot these days |
1:15.1 | because I'm out here promoting my book Light of the Mind, Light of the World, |
1:19.3 | Illuminating Science Through Faith. It comes out October 15th. We are almost there. I've |
1:25.1 | been waiting and waiting to share this book with you guys. I am so excited. I |
1:28.8 | think if you like this show, this is a no-brainer, this book for you. I'm maybe most excited to share it with the |
1:36.2 | audience of young heretics because you guys have been with me since the beginning |
1:39.9 | of this whole journey, this whole career journey, and this book is about a lot of the themes that we talk |
1:46.7 | about on the show. Consciousness, subjectivity versus objectivity, the relationship between science and faith. |
1:54.4 | What it really is is a new history of science from the perspective of faith, telling the story |
2:00.4 | of how this grand enterprise for human knowledge emerged out of a religious impulse |
2:06.9 | and is now I think pointing us back to a picture of the world that looks a lot like the |
2:12.2 | one described in the book of Genesis. |
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