Philosophy vs. Improv #78: We Essence Merge with Tamler Sommers (Very Bad Wizards)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Tamler teaches philosophy at The University of Houston and hosts the Very Bad Wizards podcast. He joins Mark and Bill to talk about personal identity and whether the "self" is necessarily co-extensive with a particular body. Plus: meditation, Daniel Day Improv's method acting, All of Me vs. Regarding Henry, what does "metaphysics" mean to YOU, dreams as improv, unstuck-in-time Grandma the last slaveholder, and more.
Mark philosophizes at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Bill improvises (and teaches) at chicagoimprovstudio.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Philosophy versus Improv, where two sages try to teach each other a thing or two, |
| 0:09.7 | and maybe you, the audience, gets something out of it as well. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Mark Clinton Meyer, your philosophy tutor today. |
| 0:16.6 | And I am Bill Arnett, your improv tutor. |
| 0:20.9 | Not from the Tudor dynasty? |
| 0:23.9 | No. |
| 0:24.7 | Okay. |
| 0:25.3 | All right. |
| 0:25.5 | Not a plantagenet or a Hanover or a Windsor. |
| 0:29.8 | Well, uh... |
| 0:30.6 | Plantagen. |
| 0:31.8 | I have brought a ringer today, someone to fill in the cerebral gaps here. |
| 0:37.4 | Tamler, please introduce yourself to the folks. |
| 0:39.6 | My name is Tamler Summers, and I am a philosophy professor at the University of Houston and |
| 0:46.7 | host of the Very Bad Wizards podcast. I'm sure it's great. I'm sure it's good. You said it's |
| 0:53.7 | very bad. Oh. You've never heard that joke. I've sure it's great. I'm sure it's good. You said it's very bad. |
| 0:55.8 | You've never heard that joke. |
| 0:58.9 | I thought you were like, I'm sure all of that sounds very nice. |
| 1:04.5 | You do you, I guess. |
| 1:07.4 | I'm sure to your audience, that sounds impressive, but to our audience who has much higher standards, |
| 1:13.3 | wizards, we don't believe in wizards here. |
| 1:16.9 | Well, I've recently come out as a, not a believer in ghosts, but an open to belief in ghosts. |
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