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🗓️ 6 December 2018
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Jonathan Schooler Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California Santa Barbara and Principal Investigator at UCSB's Meta Lab.
There, Schooler and his colleagues stand at the crossroads of science and philosophy, researching massive questions about the nature of consciousness, creativity, free will, mindfulness, ineffable experiences and more.
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0:00.0 | Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults. |
0:03.7 | Now administering third eye drops. Greetings my fellow sacks of sentient stardust. It is truly fine to be non-loquially here with you. |
0:30.0 | Upon concluding this fabulous conversation, I was absolutely buzzing, but I was also pondering |
0:41.0 | the fact that I don't think I've ever encountered anyone worth listening to |
0:46.0 | that has it all figured out like in my own subjective highly anecdotal case I don't think I've ever come to an absolute |
0:58.4 | conclusion I don't think I've ever come to an answer that didn't imply at least two more questions. |
1:06.4 | Another fork in the road, if you will, seems to always appear. |
1:12.4 | So the sum then of that curiosity equation is of course one of |
1:19.7 | unending ever-expanding mystery. |
1:25.0 | And I guess in a way for some people, that's unsatisfying because we like clean absolute answers. I'm sure you've seen those videos floating around the |
1:37.1 | technosphere that are just montages of objects fitting perfectly in their |
1:42.4 | allocated spaces or sometimes it's just |
1:46.4 | two oddly paired items that happen to fit together just right. There's something |
1:52.1 | soothing about seeing that kind of |
1:55.1 | order, but nature doesn't really seem to be like that. It seems like more of a dance |
2:01.2 | between order and chaos, between |
2:03.9 | meaninglessness and ancient incredible cosmic miracles that we can't even |
2:10.2 | begin to comprehend. |
2:13.0 | And this is why people who claim to have it all figured out |
2:19.0 | aren't worth listening to. |
2:20.0 | They can't have it figured out. We don't have the capacity to have it all figured out. And they also aren't worth listening to because there are few things more irritating |
2:34.4 | than a goddamn know-it-all |
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