The Unending Process

Sympathetic People

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Tune in to the Permanent Evolution Podcast, hosted by Sympathetic People, where evolutionary biologists Dr Joha Coludar and Dr Timothy Jackson discuss current affairs and attempt to understand the whole of reality by placing phenomena in their evolutionary contexts.

07/20/2020

Unending Process 1 Johanahan Coludar (part 2 - Evolutionary Thinking)

Welcome to Unending Process - the evolutionary thinking tank....podcast. This is a continuation of the Permanent Evolution and Sympathetic People podcasts. This week Johanahan and Tim discuss education (in part 1) and evolutionary thinking (part 2). Part 2 is much longer, but contains all the juicy evolutionary pontificating, so don't hesitate to skip to it if that's your bag! In part 1, we talk about some of the problems with university education, including the importance of being challenged and mentoring. In part 2, we talk about the origins of evolutionary thinking in the ancient world, and then take a random walk across the philosophical landscape, touching on the mind, dualism, monism, Buddhism, ethics and a bunch of other stuff.... Thanks for listening - enjoy, share, comment, criticise!
07/20/2020

Unending Process 1 - Johanahan Coludar (part 1 - Education)

Welcome to Unending Process - the evolutionary thinking tank....podcast. This is a continuation of the Permanent Evolution and Sympathetic People podcasts. This week Johanahan and Tim discuss education (in part 1) and evolutionary thinking (part 2). Part 2 is much longer, but contains all the juicy evolutionary pontificating, so don't hesitate to skip to it if that's your bag! In part 1, we talk about some of the problems with university education, including the importance of being challenged and mentoring. In part 2, we talk about the origins of evolutionary thinking in the ancient world, and then take a random walk across the philosophical landscape, touching on the mind, Buddhism, ethics and a bunch of other stuff.... Thanks for listening - enjoy, share, comment, criticise!
09/22/2018

Episode 19: Narrative, metaphor and explanation in science (and elsewhere)

We're back with episode 19 after a fairly long break. In this episode we discuss narrative, metaphor and explanation in science and the world-at-large. Is narrative the only form explanations can take? Is this because of our contingent human nature, or does it reveal some deep fact about the world? Are there any deep facts about the world? What is this "world" anyway? As usual, the conversation traverses a twisted path (many branches of which were explored in alternate universes, but not this one). Having the conversation was interesting, so we hope listening to it will be too! Thanks for listening and don't forget to subscribe (and like us on iTunes, why don'tcha?).
07/18/2018

Episode 18 (Sympathetic Solo #1): Tim talks about music and impermanence and why they matter

Episode 18, the first "solo" podcast. Since co-ordinating schedules can be a challenge, from time to time either Tim or Ivan will do podcasts on their own. This week, Tim is talking about music and impermanence and why they matter. Music is the art form best suited to depicting impermanence and impermanence is kind of a big deal. A fairly obvious example of just how big a deal it is rears its head when we contemplate our own death. Our existence is impermanent. It is going to end. I take it to be fairly obvious that for most of us this is kind of a bummer. One only has to consider the proliferation of death-denying mythologising throughout history, from immortal souls living forever incorporeally in analogue heaven, to uploaded consciousnesses living forever digitally in digital heaven (is there really any difference?), to see how important this issue is for humans in general. Thanks for listening!
06/20/2018

Podcast Ep 17 Part 1

Episode 17, in which we discuss things that are very difficult to discuss! We use a discussion of one of Tolstoy's epilogues to War & Peace as a jumping off point to talk about the nature of reality, God, metaphysics, causation, free will and that sort of nonsense. This stuff is never easy to talk about, so bear with us! We'll continue to revisit these themes (perhaps more articulately) in later episodes. Thanks for listening!
06/20/2018

Podcast Episode 17 Part 2

Episode 17, in which we discuss things that are very difficult to discuss! We use a discussion of one of Tolstoy's epilogues to War & Peace as a jumping off point to talk about the nature of reality, God, metaphysics, causation, free will and that sort of nonsense. This stuff is never easy to talk about, so bear with us! We'll continue to revisit these themes (perhaps more articulately) in later episodes. Thanks for listening!
06/20/2018

Episode 17 Part 3

Episode 17, in which we discuss things that are very difficult to discuss! We use a discussion of one of Tolstoy's epilogues to War & Peace as a jumping off point to talk about the nature of reality, God, metaphysics, causation, free will and that sort of nonsense. This stuff is never easy to talk about, so bear with us! We'll continue to revisit these themes (perhaps more articulately) in later episodes. Thanks for listening!
05/23/2018

Episode 16 - Knowing Stuff - Socrates on knowledge, role model or arrogant jerk?

Episode 16! We chat about Plato's Socrates and whether or not he's a good role model or just an arrogant jerk. We talk about claims to knowledge more broadly, in the context of science, religion, and everyday life. If we don't think we have knowledge, will this make us apathetic? Is it therapeutic not to make claims about knowledge? What have different thinkers had to say about these things? We talk about lots of stuff: the Dunning-Kruger effect; epistemic humility, deferring to the experts; climate change, oh my! Buddhism; reincarnation; is fear of death a species of arrogance? Meditation; transcending the self; flow states; free will; giving up the illusion of freedom in order to be truly free..... Fallibilism, pragmatism, skepticism, etc. What are your epistemological foundations? Enjoy, visit the blog at sympatheticpeople.com and leave a comment. Subscribe, do whatever!

Tune in to the Permanent Evolution Podcast, hosted by Sympathetic People, where evolutionary biologists Dr Joha Coludar and Dr Timothy Jackson discuss current affairs and attempt to understand the whole of reality by placing phenomena in their evolutionary contexts.

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2017 - 2020
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33
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