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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

PEL 15th Anniversary and Book Release

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Your four hosts plus book editor Chris Sunami reflect on doing the podcast for 15 years and making the new book, which you should order on April 25.

Plus, the three rules, future ambitions, and more.

Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes and tons of bonus discussion.

Learn more about the book at partiallyexaminedlife.com/book.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome. It is our 15th anniversary celebration for the partially examined life. Can you believe? It's been 15 years. Can you even believe it?

0:10.1

No. We'll start driving next year. Then we'll really cook and we'll start driving next year.

0:16.0

Then we'll really cook. I want to make some metaphors here. Then we'll really take off.

0:20.0

We're recording video for this?

0:22.0

Sorry. We're not.

0:24.0

Okay, all right.

0:25.0

We're 15 years older, that's not appropriate.

0:27.0

Yeah.

0:28.0

That's a good point.

0:29.0

I mean, I guess we're at the point where, I don't know,

0:32.0

does having video make it less likely that these are

0:34.4

AI Simolakra of us or are we still 20th anniversary that'll be a that'll be

0:39.4

something to actually worry about I think it's already. I remember a science fiction book I really

0:44.6

used to enjoy which was The Moon is a harsh mistress by Robin Heinlein and

0:49.2

one of the main themes was the robot being able to simulate video. I think it's here now. I've seen at least short videos very convincing.

0:57.0

Hey who's that funny voice that you may not recognize? Please introduce yourself, guest. So I'm I'm Christian on me I'm a philosopher

1:04.8

from Columbus Ohio and I have been working for the last several years actually on putting

1:11.1

a book together for the partially examined life releasing on April on to drive it up the bestseller charts. Pre-orders, usually people want you to

1:24.4

pre-orders or just think about it. No, that day. And it came out great. I was

1:29.9

surprised how well and readable just taking some of these discussions and

1:34.3

taking a transcript and polishing it a bit it's very readable and it's kind of cool

1:39.4

when you think about it because it's a dialogue format but it's not just some artificial dialogue these are real

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