The Idea List Podcast began as a YouTube channel of the same name (www.youtube.com/idealisteye), where I put forward some new, interesting ideas about the nature of reality, videos with titles like “What is Existence?” and “Who Experiences Your Life?” I’ve realized that putting together visual content to go along with my ideas isn’t always necessary, and it takes a lot more time than writing and recording an episode, so here I am in podcast world. Expect deep social, metaphysical, and philos ...
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Have We Reached the End of Philosophy? Self, Soul, and the Science of Consciousness
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Think out 1,000 or 10,000 years; it’s obvious to everyone that human civilization (if it lasts) will make unimaginable leaps in science and technology in that time. On the other hand, there’s a general sense (judging from the way we imagine the future) that our worldview won’t (or shouldn’t) change in any meaningful way. Is that really true? This p…
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Free Will Is Not an Illusion
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โดย Andrew Short
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Episode 5: The Single Most Important Idea that We're Missing
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Sensationalist title? You be the judge.โดย Andrew Short
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Episode 4: Consciousness: the Most Incredible and Fortunate Thing in the Universe
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Consciousness! Without it, the Universe might as well not exist, because there wouldn’t be anyone there to experience reality, wouldn’t be anyone there to perceive that there’s such a thing as existence at all. In this episode, I talk about the fundamental role I believe consciousness plays in reality and why we shouldn't look at it as an impossibl…
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Episode 3 on the miraculous beauty of reality, and how we should fight our tendency to get used to everything.โดย Andrew Short
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Episode 2: What is Existence?
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What is reality, really?It strikes me sometimes just how fortunate it is that this infinitely beautiful Universe gets to exist, that all these complex and diverse phenomena get to happen. We take it for granted (because, after all, it is granted), but how strange it is that we are born into this miraculous reality with no explanation as to who we r…
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Episode 1: How Can We Break the Cycle?
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In this first episode of the Idea List Podcast, I explore the reasons we as a species tend to repeat our worst mistakes- wars, genocide, slavery, things of that nature. I also put forward the key idea I believe we need to adopt if we are ever going to break out of this cycle.The outro music is "The Wax Philosophers" by Deku, from the 2014 album "Es…
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