(EF21) Is It Our Fault?
The news is sensational because people crave drama.
(EF21) Playing to Lose?
It’s you against Google and you’re not going to win. In fact, you aren’t even qualified to play the game.
EF21 Show Notes
Truman, an ordinary man with a regular job, is caught lying in a country where lying is illegal. Thanks to his actions, he ends up facing a mandatory Truth Course to get him back on the track. Terrified, Truman slowly realizes the truth is not what we all grew accustomed to believe. Is it possible that truth is nothing more than a piece of clay molded by someone’s interests? Time is running out for Truman, and the sculptor of truth might just hold the power to mold his future.
To try and understand the truth about truth itself, we’ll look at correspondence theory, coherence theory, pragmatism and truth-seeking components of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Each argument will give us a unique approach to just what the truth might be. But if there can only be one truth, which one is correct? The one molded by your hands, or someone else’s hands? And if forced to face an absolute truth, would you be able to accept all its consequences?
EF21 (BTP-EF5): Should Lying be Made Illegal and the Importance of Figuring Out Why You Believe What you Believe — Behind the Podcast of Episode EF5
This is a Behind The Podcast (BTP) of Episode EF5 (Season 1, Episode 3 of the Evolve Faster Podcast) titled The Truth is Clay in the Hands of a Sculptor. The driving question of this episode (and this BTP) for you to think through is … what is the truth? Without knowing the truth, what can we do? Somewhere deep in our DNA, there’s a code that says we always need to seek honesty, we need to fight for trustworthiness. So we do our best to seek justice we all believe to be the same. When we attack someone for telling a supposed “lie”, we don’t do it because we want to hurt the person. Instead, we’re doing it because we want him or her to be “right” as well. Because, if there’s a single correct path and you are already on that path, then it’s logical you must help anyone who isn’t.
(EF20) A Well-Oiled Machine
Imagine how the world might look if the global mindset throughout history had been better calibrated.
(EF20) Process the Soul Food
It’s hard to evolve knowledge acquisition if everyone is just consuming and not processing.
(EF20) Regrets of the Past & Expectations of the Future
Regrets and expectations are the enemies of mindfulness.
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(EF20) What Can You Do Better?
What would Captain Hindsight say about your life? I’ll bet you already know the answer.
(EF20) Facing New or Recycled Challenges?
Which achievements remain out of humanity’s reach because of ethical reasons? And which are coming online now that probably shouldn’t be?
EF20 Show Notes
At the height of his success, a controversial philosopher named Ian Ament reveals a dangerous plan to do a head transplant swap with his brother. Nobody knows why and both the scientific and medical communities at large are very concerned. In a tense live interview being viewed around the world with a potential surgeon, Ross Hunter, Ament methodically explains his reasoning. Yet his reasons only bring more questions. Is there something more behind Ament’s plan?
EF20 (AMA-EF4): The Declining Value of Information and Taking Risks to Determine What is the Truth — Ask Me Anything of Episode EF4
Episode EF20 is an Ask Me Anything (AMA) looking back at Episode EF4, which was Season 1, Episode 2 of the Evolve Faster Podcast titled ‘The Decapitation of Reason: A Skeptic’s Guide.’ That episode of the first season of the Evolve Faster Podcast Episode was driven by the big question ‘How can we know anything?’
