The State of Psychology (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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4.7 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
1:46 Paul’s new book, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind 12:13 Does psychology need more evolutionary thinking? 20:33 Freud and Skinner and parts in between 30:47 Mind-body dualism’s enduring intuitive appeal 33:16 ChatGPT and the human mind: compare and contrast 38:22 Are cognitive biases overblown? 47:59 A brief note about the podcast 51:24 Implicit biases, memory, and other topics covered in the book
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom (University of Toronto, The Sweet Spot, Against Empathy). Recorded March 07, 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcasts. |
| 0:34.8 | Hi, Paul. |
| 0:36.5 | Hi, Bob. |
| 0:37.5 | How you doing? I'm doing great. Good to talk to you Bob. How you doing? |
| 0:38.5 | I'm doing great. Good to talk to you. How are you doing? |
| 0:41.1 | I can't complain. Let me introduce us. I'm Robert Wright. |
| 0:45.9 | Editor and publisher of the Non-Zero newsletter, host of the Non-Zero podcast on which you are at this moment. |
| 0:52.9 | You're Paul Bloom, famous psychologist who hasn't changed his |
| 0:56.9 | fake backdrop since the last time I recorded a podcast with him. But it's as impressive as ever. |
| 1:02.4 | It's almost as if you've read all those fake books, Paul. The last time I remember you fell for it. |
| 1:07.4 | He just made comments on how beautiful my study was. And then I clicked it off. What's a nice touch in that fake backdrop is the way some of the books are stacked, like as if you haven't quite gotten around to shelving them. Because that's the way real life is. You got a few stacked books. So if we're talking about books, I have to observe your bookshelf that's been cleaned. And you have many, you have many, seemingly many duplicates of the same book over and over again. |
| 1:31.3 | Well, you know, it's funny you should ask about that all. |
| 1:35.0 | You know, yeah, you know what those are. |
| 1:37.2 | Those are some of my own books, including a small sampling of the foreign editions of my book. |
| 1:44.0 | But look, enough about me. Let's talk about you. foreign editions of my book. |
| 1:46.3 | But look, enough about me. |
| 1:49.0 | Let's talk about you and your books. |
| 1:53.0 | We've talked about some of your books in the past. |
| 1:54.3 | You're the author of many books. |
| 1:55.5 | You're this famous psychologist. |
| 2:00.4 | And now you're supposed to demure when I say famous psychologist. |
| 2:19.8 | I don't know what does. I don't know what to say. Oh, shucks. No, I yield center stage to. Many others. Many, many others. Yeah. About whom we'll talk because he's mentioned in your new book, Psych. And this book, this is like a genre buster man. First of all, I don't think it would be very effective marketing if i held up the pdf i have do you want to hold up the actual book do you have an actual book jacket or |
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