Podcasts about Enlightenment Now

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3141: Craig Stephens reflects on the transformative power of parenthood, showing how it can awaken a deeper sense of purpose and drive to improve upon the life paths laid by previous generations. By redefining what a "better life" truly means, beyond wealth or early retirement, he encourages us to live with intention, model lasting values for our children, and pursue personal growth over generational comparison. Quotes to ponder: "To honor their sacrifices, we're compelled to pursue the life our parents dreamed for us." "Living a meaningful life is about personal progress, happiness, and having a positive impact on your community and the people you meet." "Strive to be the person you want your child to become, teach by example and never stop improving upon the person you were yesterday." Episode references: Enlightenment Now: https://www.amazon.com/Enlightenment-Now-Science-Humanism-Progress/dp/0525427570 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3141: Craig Stephens reflects on the transformative power of parenthood, showing how it can awaken a deeper sense of purpose and drive to improve upon the life paths laid by previous generations. By redefining what a "better life" truly means, beyond wealth or early retirement, he encourages us to live with intention, model lasting values for our children, and pursue personal growth over generational comparison. Quotes to ponder: "To honor their sacrifices, we're compelled to pursue the life our parents dreamed for us." "Living a meaningful life is about personal progress, happiness, and having a positive impact on your community and the people you meet." "Strive to be the person you want your child to become, teach by example and never stop improving upon the person you were yesterday." Episode references: Enlightenment Now: https://www.amazon.com/Enlightenment-Now-Science-Humanism-Progress/dp/0525427570 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harry sits down with Steven Pinker, who wears many intellectual hats, all well: linguist, psychologist, political philosopher, historian, and social critic, for starters. After some brief discussion of his childhood and background, they dive into Pinker's best-selling “The Better Angels of Our Nature,” (Bill Gates's favorite book at the time), “Enlightenment Now,” and Rationality” (Bill Gates's new favorite book). In those works, Pinker lay out an argument that by and large, in fits and starts, society is advancing incrementally in health, safety, knowledge, and other key benchmarks of Enlightenment values. The two also touch on Pinker's strong if idiosyncratic views about writing (he rejects much of modern pedantry about correct usage); his original Promethean work in linguistics; and his views about certain human cognitive biases. A wide-ranging and provocative discussion with one of the great public intellectuals of our time.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this installment of “A Bit of Blue Sky,” host Bill Burke describes five books he recommends that will help listeners be more optimistic (and hopefully, fulfill their New Year's resolution to do so)!    Blue Sky Bookshelf: Link    Chapters:   00:00 Welcome to A Bit of Blue Sky Host Bill Burke introduces the podcast and its mission to inspire optimism through engaging discussions. He sets the stage for a conversation about books that can help listeners maintain their New Year's resolutions.  01:29 Factfulness: A New Perspective Bill discusses ‘Factfulness' by Hans Rosling, a book that challenges common misconceptions about the world and highlights the progress we've made. He emphasizes the importance of understanding facts to foster a more optimistic outlook.  03:56 The Enlightenment and Its Impact Next, Bill explores ‘Enlightenment Now' by Steven Pinker, which reflects on the values established during the European Enlightenment. He highlights how these values have contributed to a more peaceful and prosperous world.  05:31 Humankind: A Case for Optimism Bill introduces ‘Humankind' by Rutger Bregman, a book that argues for the inherent goodness of humanity. Through compelling examples, Bregman refutes the notion that humans are naturally violent and emphasizes cooperation.  06:49 The Rational Optimist: A Thoughtful Approach In this chapter, Bill revisits ‘The Rational Optimist' by Matt Ridley, discussing how free trade and cooperation have historically led to human progress. He advocates for a rational approach to optimism based on facts.  07:12 The Power of Kind Words Bill shares insights from ‘The Power of A Few Kind Words' by Tracy Gates, a book inspired by the author's father that encourages expressing appreciation through handwritten letters. This practice aims to uplift both the sender and the recipient. 

Happy New Year 2025! To celebrate, here is an encore of what proved to be the most popular episode of 2024. This rerun combines episodes 30 and 31 into one epic journey towards the frontiers of human understanding. My guest is Donald Hoffman. Our topics are consciousness, cosmos, and the meaning of life. Enjoy! Original show notes Laws of physics govern the world. They explain the movements of planets, oceans, and cells in our bodies. But can they ever explain the feelings and meanings of our mental lives? This problem, called the hard problem of consciousness, runs very deep. No satisfactory explanation exists. But many think that there must, in principle, be an explanation. A minority of thinkers disagree. According to these thinkers, we will never be able to explain mind in terms of matter. We will, instead, explain matter in terms of mind. I explored this position in some detail in episode 17. But hold on, you might say. Is this not contradicted by the success of natural sciences? How could a mind-first philosophy ever explain the success of particle physics? Or more generally, wouldn't any scientist laugh at the idea that mind is more fundamental than matter? No — not all of them laugh. Some take it very seriously. Donald Hoffman is one such scientist. Originally working with computer vision at MIT's famous Artificial Intelligence Lab, Hoffman started asking a simple question: What does it mean to "see" the world? His answer begins from a simple idea: perception simplifies the world – a lot. But what is the real world like? What is “there” before our perception simplifies the world? Nothing familiar, Hoffman claims. No matter. No objects. Not even a three-dimensional space. And no time. There is just consciousness. This is a wild idea. But it is a surprisingly precise idea. It is so precise, in fact, that Hoffman's team can derive basic findings in particle physics from their theory.  A fascinating conversation was guaranteed. I hope you enjoy it. If you do, consider becoming a supporter of On Humans on ⁠⁠Patreon.com/OnHumans⁠⁠.  MENTIONS Names: David Gross, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Edward Whitten, Nathan Seiberg, Andrew Strominger, Edwin Abbott, Nick Bostrom, Giulio Tononi, Keith Frankish, Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Roger Penrose, Sean Carroll,  Swapan Chattopadhyay Terms (Physics and Maths): quantum fields, string theory, gluon, scattering amplitude, amplituhedron, decorated permutations, bosons, leptons, quarks, Planck scale, twistor theory, M-theory, multiverse, recurrent communicating classes, Cantor's hierarchy (relating to different sizes of infinity... If this sounds weird, stay tuned for full episode on infinity. It will come out in a month or two.) Terms (Philosophy and Psychology): Kant's phenomena and noumena, integrated information theory, global workspace theory, orchestrated objective reduction theory, attention schema theory Books: Case Against Reality by Hoffman, Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker Articles etc.: For links to articles, courses, and more, see ⁠https://onhumans.substack.com/p/links-for-episode-30⁠

Are things really as bad as they seem? Has Gen Z given up hope for the world? And why was the father of positive psychology a lifelong pessimist? SOURCES:Albert Bandura, professor of psychology at Stanford University.David Brooks, author and opinion columnist. Andrew Grove, former C.E.O. and chairman of Intel Corporation.Kalev Leetaru, founder of the GDELT Project.Steven Maier, professor of behavioral neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder.Michelle Obama, attorney, author, and former first lady of the United States.Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at Harvard University.Amanda Ripley, journalist and author.Martin Seligman, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University.Edward Zigler, professor emeritus of psychology at Yale University. RESOURCES:"Chicken Littles Are Ruining America," by David Brooks (The Atlantic, 2024).Generations, by Jean Twenge (2023).Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker (2018)."The Short History of Global Living Conditions and Why It Matters That We Know It," by Max Roser (Our World in Data, 2016)."Learned Helplessness at Fifty: Insights from Neuroscience," by Steven F. Maier and Martin E. P. Seligman (Psychological Review, 2016)."Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Stressor Controllability in Adolescent Rats," by Kenneth H. Kubala, John P. Christianson, Steven F. Maier, et al. (Behavioural Brain Research, 2012).The Better Angels of Our Nature, by Steven Pinker (2011)."Forecasting Large-Scale Human Behavior Using Global News Media Tone in Time and Space," by Kalev Leetaru (First Monday, 2011)."Motivational Aspects of Changes in IQ Test Performance of Culturally Deprived Nursery School Children," by Edward Zigler and Earl C. Butterfield (Child Development, 1968)."Failure to Escape Traumatic Shock," by Martin E. P. Seligman and Steven F. Maier (Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1967).Upworthy. EXTRAS:"Why Is U.S. Media So Negative?" by Freakonomics Radio (2021).

-Listen to the audio album of Kellen's new 30-minute comedy special "Negative Comments"! Available by joining The Book Pile's Patreon at:https://www.patreon.com/TheBookPileSUMMARY: The world is probably a better place than it ever has been to live in. Don't believe that? Are you calling Steven Pinker's 700 page book a liar?-If you want to read Enlightenment Now and support the podcast in a fun way, click here to buy the book! Free on Audible to first-time subscribers!https://amzn.to/3YGrYFU-Dave's book / game The Starlings is here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMBBLGXN?ref=myi_title_dp-Kellen Erskine has appeared on Conan, Comedy Central, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC's America's Got Talent, and the Amazon Original Series Inside Jokes. He has garnered over 200 million views with his clips on Dry Bar Comedy. In 2018 he was selected to perform on the “New Faces” showcase at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. He currently tours the country www.KellenErskine.com-David Vance's videos have garnered over 1 billion views. He has written viral ads for companies like Squatty Potty, Chatbooks, and Lumē, and sketches for the comedy show Studio C. His work has received two Webby Awards, and appeared on Conan. He currently works as a writer on the sitcom Freelancers.

Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author and Harvard College Professor. One of the world's leading authorities on language and the mind, he is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker has written many books for general audiences including The Blank Slate (2002), Enlightenment Now (2018) and his most recent, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters - is available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08WK3JNLT/ Check out more of Steven's work: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B000AQ3GGO/ SPONSOR: Qualia Senolytic. Go to Qualialife.com/TRIG for up to 50% off and use code TRIG at checkout for an additional 15% off.  Join our Premium Membership for early access, extended and ad-free content: https://triggernometry.supercast.com OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc  Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/#mailinglist Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media:  https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry:  Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author and filmmaker Alex Sheremet sits down with Erik Hill of Erik Hill Reviews  @erikhillreviews  to discuss all things art: the relationship between filmmaking and poetry, how the Harlem Renaissance and rap music changed Alex's life, the perils of Steven Pinker, and fresh insights into Alex Sheremet's and Joel Parrish's new film, "From There to There: Bruce Ario, the Minneapolis Poet". This discussion can also be watched on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1QPNsQlZRk This interview first appeared on Erik Hill's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBE0DeormUQ Donate to "From There to There: Bruce Ario, the Minneapolis Poet": https://www.gofundme.com/f/new-film-the-minneapolis-poet-bruce-ario Subscribe to the ArtiFact podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3xw2M4D Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3wLpqEV Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3dSQXxJ Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/2SVJIxB Podbean: https://bit.ly/3yzLuUo iHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/3AK942L Read more from the automachination universe: https://automachination.com Read Alex Sheremet's (archived) essays: https://alexsheremet.com Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/automachination Timestamps: 1:35 -- Alex Sheremet's background; from the USSR to Brooklyn, NY; Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice; the Harlem Renaissance & artistic hierarchies; how Alex's book of film criticism, "Woody Allen: Reel to Real", helped shape his own filmmaking 5:53 -- what makes a poem great; Countee Cullen's "Heritage"; Alex's atheism doesn't interfere with appreciating theological poetry; art should omit ideology in questions of craft; the artist's manipulation tactics 10:46 -- art's trajectory over time; one needs to do sufficient reading to recognize quality or flaws; why Alex abandoned Vladimir Nabokov 14:45 -- the role of politics in Alex Sheremet's artistic life; how rap music shaped Alex's artistic views; hip-hop & the stakes of masculinity; the destruction of attention span; being a 20th century man in the 21st century; many elements of human culture can disappear, but books totally shape human civilization 21:45 -- discussing Steven Pinker's "Better Angels of our Nature" & "Enlightenment Now"; human violence over time; bad neighborhoods vs. hunter-gatherer societies; those who believe in progress are incentivized to ignore stagnation 26:30 -- our film on Bruce Ario; Erik Hill reviews the film's first 8 minutes; Erik's experience with classical music set against visuals; how Alex Sheremet and Joel Parrish use visuals to "explain" Bruce Ario's poetry; why most poetry documentaries fail; using footage in arresting ways; choosing a film title 35:05 -- Bruce Ario's novel, "Cityboy"; Alex: it is a great, short novel but a difficult read; why Bruce Ario allowed his book to get destroyed; "Cityboy" captures mental illness very well; an example of great, unconventional writing in "Cityboy" 40:45 -- defining Bruce Ario's disabilities and mental ills; memoir vs. veiled autobiography vs. a "mere" novel; the "morality" of Bruce Ario's novel; art requires order, discipline, and consistency from the artist; Bruce Ario's interactions with homeless people; Robert Grudin: Time and the Art of Living  47:56 -- Bruce Ario's "innocence"; all cityboys must learn that all cities are the same 51:00 -- poetry recommendations for beginners; poetry is like learning a new language; how Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky changed Alex's life; Alex learned to read books by summarizing every paragraph on index cards Tags: #filmmaking #politics #books #poetry #cinema

We look at this topical and timely book by Hannah Ritchie. See more about Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet here. Not the End of the World How to Build a Sustainable Planet, reviewed This book is a positive and empowering read. The author, Hannah Ritchie does a lot of good myth busting and deconstructing some of the wilder and less fact based assertions around the future of the planet. Ritchie addresses both overly negative statements, particularly around the 'population bomb' assertions, and also climate change deniers too. She does a series of deep dives into veganism, organic food, and shopping local or further afield. While some books we have reviewed recently have failed to both inspire and offer a road map forwards in terms of if the planet can even be saved. We felt this book made a much better stab at engaging with these issues, while not leaving the reader so depressed as to descend into nihilism and despondency. This is a book that we will pass on to our teenagers, as it is informed, intelligent and a useful stepping stone to doing more in the areas where it can have the best effect. More about the book Feeling anxious, powerless, or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and how we can solve them. A STYLIST BEST NON-FICTION 2024 * A GUARDIAN BIGGEST FICTION AND NON-FICTION FOR 2024 * A WATERSTONES 'BOOK YOU NEED TO READ IN 2024' * A GUARDIAN 'FIVE GREAT READS' We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children. But in this bold, radically hopeful book, data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that if we zoom out, a very different picture emerges. The data shows we've made so much progress on these problems, and so fast, that we could be on track to achieve true sustainability for the first time in history. Packed with the latest research, practical guidance and enlightening graphics, this book will make you rethink almost everything you've been told about the environment, from the virtues of eating locally and living in the countryside, to the evils of overpopulation, plastic straws and palm oil. It will give you the tools to understand what works, what doesn't and what we urgently need to focus on so we can leave a sustainable planet for future generations. These problems are big. But they are solvable. We are not doomed. We can build a better future for everyone. Let's turn that opportunity into reality. 'Practical and truly essential' MARGARET ATWOOD * 'Does for the environment what Hans Rosling did for health' BILL GATES * 'Invigorating, inspiring, often surprising' DAVID WALLACE-WELLS * 'I find it hard to express how much I love this book' RUTGER BREGMAN * 'An unmissable myth-busting book to save our planet - read it' TIM SPECTOR More about the author Dr Hannah Ritchie is Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global Development at the University of Oxford. She is also Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher at the highly influential online publication Our World in Data, which brings together the latest data and research on the world's largest problems and makes it accessible for a general audience. Her research appears regularly in the New York Times, Economist, Financial Times, BBC, WIRED, New Scientist and Vox and in bestselling books including Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now, Hans Rosling's Factfulness and Bill Gates's How to Prevent a Climate Disaster. In 2022, Ritchie was named Scotland's Youth Climate Champion and New Scientist called her 'The woman who gave COVID-19 data to the world'. See more book reviews here. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page ...

Many people offer predictions about the future of work, but only a handful are trained futurists who know how to influence that future effectively. Reanna Browne stands out by making the future of work her specialty. With a thorough academic background and a decade of experience in strategic foresight, Reanna guides public, private, and start-up companies in navigating change, cultivating resilience, and using the present to shape a more promising future of work. Reanna Browne is an academically trained futurist, former elite athlete, and the founder of Work Futures, a global consultancy firm specializing in strategic foresight. She is a leader in her field and has earned recognition as one of the “World's Top Female Futurists” among fellow practitioners.In this episode, Dart and Reanna discuss:- The field of futures and foresight and the job of a trained futurist- The largest misunderstandings we have about the future- How to use the present to change what lies ahead- What led Reanna to study the future of work- The largest changes we see emerging around work- Steps we can take today to change the future of work- And other topics…Reanna Browne is an academically trained futurist, former elite athlete, and the founder of Work Futures, a global consultancy firm specializing in strategic foresight. With over a decade of experience in strategic workforce planning, Reanna guides public, private, and start-up organizations in navigating change, cultivating resilience, and using the present to shape a more promising future of work. She has been recognized as one of the “World's Top Female Futurists” by fellow practitioners. Presently, Reanna serves on the Future of Work Advisory Panel for the Australian HR Institute, drawing on her extensive academic background. She holds an MA in Strategic Foresight from Swinburne University and a post-graduate qualification from the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. She is also a distinguished graduate of the Finland Futures Academy and the Shillington School of Graphic Design.Resources mentioned:Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, by Kenneth O. Stanley: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Greatness-Cannot-Planned-Objective/dp/3319155237 “The Bitter Lesson,” by Rich Sutton: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html Enlightenment Now, by Stephen Pinker: https://www.amazon.com/Enlightenment-Now-Science-Humanism-Progress/dp/0525427570 Connect with Reanna:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reannabrowne Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurist_reanna/ Work Futures: https://workfutures.com.au/ 

Aká je rozšírená populárna predstava osvietenstva? V akej pozícii je v podobných zobrazeniach kresťanstvo? A vravia dnes historici o kresťanskom osvietenstve? ----more----  Súvisiace dávky: PD#234: Čo má David Hume proti zázrakom?, http://bit.ly/davka234 PD#171: Akým svetlom svietili francúzski osvietenci?, http://bit.ly/davka171  PD#128: Náboženstvo podľa Kanta, http://bit.ly/davka128  PD#112: Tajná tvár teológa Newtona, http://bit.ly/davka112  Použitá a odporúčaná literatúra: Burson, Lehner (eds.), Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe, 2014. Harrison, "The Enlightenment of Steven Pinker", 2018. Jacob, The Secular Enlightenment, 2019. Lehner, The Catholic Enlightenment, 2016. Lehner, Printy (eds.), A Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe, (2010. Matytsin, Edelstein (eds.), Let There Be Enlightenment, 2018. Pinker, Enlightenment Now (2018). *** Baví ťa s nami rozmýšľať? Podpor našu tvorbu priamo na SK1283605207004206791985 alebo cez Patreon, kde Ťa odmeníme aj my.

Steven Pinker is the guest on the latest episode of We The 66. He defended his thesis in "Enlightenment Now" and shared how progress isn't linear, which might explain the backsliding in various areas over the last decade. He also discussed wokeness, free speech, and how Harvard his changed. He continues to defend the Enlightenment and argues that our elite institutions have ushered in a culture of self-censorship. He also shared more about his friendship with Bill Gates and his visit to the World Economic Forum, among other things. 

In deze vijfde podcast van Stichting Skepsis spreekt host Richard Engelfriet met Pepijn van Erp over werkgeluk. Het lijkt logisch dat gelukkigere werknemers ook zorgen voor een beter bedrijfsresultaat, maar wat stelt het onderzoek hiernaar eigenlijk voor? Met gast Ralf Bodelier hebben we het over zijn positieve kijk op de ontwikkelingen in de wereld. Als je verder kijkt dan veelal negatieve nieuwsberichten zie je vooruitgang op bijna alle terreinen. En tenslotte: wat mag er niet ontbreken in een skeptisch museum?Reacties, suggesties en tips zijn welkom op podcast@skepsis.nlVerder lees- en kijkvoer bij deze aflevering:Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organisation (EHERO)Thriving at work: A meta‐analysis, Anne-Kathrin Kleine, Hannes Zacher, Cort W. Rudolph (2019)Does Employee Happiness have an Impact on Productivity?, Clément S. Bellet, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, George Ward (2023)The Guardian: The cult of compulsory happiness is ruining our workplacesWebsite van Ralf BodelierOur World in DataBoektips:Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist (2010)Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now (2018)Hannah Ritchie, Not the End of the World (2024) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this podcast, we will explain Taoism's critical view of opinions and the illusion of good and evil. This is the forty-ninth episode of the 81 Meditations of the Tao Te Ching, a series where we explore each chapter of the Tao Te Ching. We will dissect chapter forty-nine of the Tao Te Ching to give you ultimate clarity on the meaning of this chapter. SUBSCRIBE ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/OneWorldWithin⁠⁠⁠⁠ for new videos every week SUPPORT MY WORK      Patreon ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/jasongregory⁠⁠⁠⁠      Paypal ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/JasonGregoryAuthor⁠⁠⁠⁠ MY BOOKS Spiritual Freedom in the Digital Age ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3iDNaHL⁠⁠⁠⁠   Emotional Intuition for Peak Performance ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/2oZZdFm⁠⁠⁠⁠     Effortless Living ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amzn.to/2z0EG3Q⁠⁠⁠⁠     Fasting the Mind ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amzn.to/2zhsAY1⁠⁠⁠⁠     Enlightenment Now ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amzn.to/2B2oNuV⁠⁠⁠⁠     The Science and Practice of Humility ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amzn.to/2z01WPb⁠⁠⁠⁠ RECOMMENDED READING LIST ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://jasongregory.org/recommended-books⁠⁠⁠⁠/ PRIVATE CONSULTATION   ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://jasongregory.org/contact/⁠⁠⁠⁠ MERCHANDISE   ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://teespring.com/stores/jason-gregory⁠⁠⁠⁠ FOLLOW ME    Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/jasongregoryauthor/⁠⁠⁠⁠     Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/JasonGregory33⁠⁠⁠⁠     Facebook ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/JasonGregoryAuthor/⁠⁠⁠⁠     LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasongregoryauthor/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Amazon Author Page ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/Jason-Gregory/e/B0053O1HKK/⁠⁠⁠⁠     Goodreads Author Page ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3021190.Jason_Gregory ⁠⁠⁠⁠ WEBSITE ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://jasongregory.org/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Disclaimer: Jason Gregory is an Amazon Associate member. The Amazon links in this description are affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, Jason will earn a very small commission on qualifying purchases you make, at no additional cost to you. This goes a tiny way towards defraying the costs of making these videos.

What does it mean to be spiritually strong in a world that wants you to be weak and dependent? Spiritual strength is often scorned by many people in the modern world who misunderstand what it means to be strong. Modern society and culture propagate the false view that strength is weakness and weakness is strength. Based on such an illogical view, a war is being waged on your soul, and sadly, most people are succumbing to an ideology of control and division without even being aware of the war being waged. In the great spiritual traditions of the world, the perspective of strength and weakness is completely different from that of a materialist world, giving one the strength to deal with anything that comes their way. A spiritually strong individual is a threat to an overarching system yearning for control. Learn what it means to be spiritually strong from the sane minds of the great spiritual traditions. SUBSCRIBE ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/OneWorldWithin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for new videos every week SUPPORT MY WORK      Patreon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/jasongregory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠      Paypal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/JasonGregoryAuthor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ MY BOOKS Spiritual Freedom in the Digital Age ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3iDNaHL⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   Emotional Intuition for Peak Performance ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/2oZZdFm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     Effortless Living ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amzn.to/2z0EG3Q⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     Fasting the Mind ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amzn.to/2zhsAY1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     Enlightenment Now ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amzn.to/2B2oNuV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     The Science and Practice of Humility ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amzn.to/2z01WPb⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ RECOMMENDED READING LIST ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://jasongregory.org/recommended-books⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠/ PRIVATE CONSULTATION   ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://jasongregory.org/contact/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ MERCHANDISE   ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://teespring.com/stores/jason-gregory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ FOLLOW ME    Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/jasongregoryauthor/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/JasonGregory33⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     Facebook ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/JasonGregoryAuthor/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasongregoryauthor/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Amazon Author Page ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/Jason-Gregory/e/B0053O1HKK/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     Goodreads Author Page ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3021190.Jason_Gregory ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ WEBSITE ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://jasongregory.org/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Disclaimer: Jason Gregory is an Amazon Associate member. The Amazon links in this description are affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, Jason will earn a very small commission on qualifying purchases you make, at no additional cost to you. This goes a tiny way towards defraying the costs of making these videos.

The greatest obstacle for many people on the spiritual path is dealing with unconscious people. But it shouldn't be a problem because even people on the spiritual path have the wrong mindset for dealing with other people. I will explain a state of being one must abide in when dealing with the world. SUBSCRIBE ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/OneWorldWithin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for new videos every week SUPPORT MY WORK      Patreon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/jasongregory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠      Paypal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/JasonGregoryAuthor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ MY BOOKS Spiritual Freedom in the Digital Age ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3iDNaHL⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   Emotional Intuition for Peak Performance ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/2oZZdFm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     Effortless Living ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amzn.to/2z0EG3Q⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     Fasting the Mind ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amzn.to/2zhsAY1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     Enlightenment Now ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amzn.to/2B2oNuV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     The Science and Practice of Humility ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amzn.to/2z01WPb⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ RECOMMENDED READING LIST ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://jasongregory.org/recommended-books⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠/ PRIVATE CONSULTATION   ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://jasongregory.org/contact/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ MERCHANDISE   ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://teespring.com/stores/jason-gregory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ FOLLOW ME    Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/jasongregoryauthor/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/JasonGregory33⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     Facebook ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/JasonGregoryAuthor/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasongregoryauthor/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Amazon Author Page ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/Jason-Gregory/e/B0053O1HKK/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     Goodreads Author Page ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3021190.Jason_Gregory ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ WEBSITE ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://jasongregory.org/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Disclaimer: Jason Gregory is an Amazon Associate member. The Amazon links in this description are affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, Jason will earn a very small commission on qualifying purchases you make, at no additional cost to you. This goes a tiny way towards defraying the costs of making these videos.

The rise of envy from social media and the rise of individualism are having downstream effects on how we view the people around us and what goals we set for ourselves. Always looking out for number one is good for us in some respects but can make us feel lonely and rudderless. Books referenced - Generations by Jean Twenge, Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman Email me at podofideas@gmail.com

Are our higher education institutions still nurturing true intellectual diversity? Our guest today is Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard, and today, we'll be exploring the growing concerns within higher ed that institutions are turning into echo chambers, stifling dissent and censoring certain perspectives. In this thought-provoking episode, we'll be discovering the challenges to academic freedom in the era of cancel culture. We'll explore how questioning a consensus can now come at a cost, impacting the pursuit of truth within academic institutions. We'll also uncover the story of the Council for Academic Freedom at Harvard, which was formed to combat these challenges. Join us as we delve into policies protecting free speech, and the vital role of civil discourse in the academic community. Together, we'll navigate the complex landscape of universities, grappling with the delicate balance between common knowledge and the suppression of dissenting opinions. Follow Steven on:X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sapinker Follow Heterodox Academy on:Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Fax5DyFacebook: https://bit.ly/3PMYxfwLinkedIn: https://bit.ly/48IYeuJInstagram: https://bit.ly/46HKfUgSubstack: https://bit.ly/48IhjNF 

In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Harvard Divinity School visiting scholar Rabbi David Wolpe, MIT PhD student Talia Khan, and Harvard professor Steven Pinker about the new reality for Jews in higher education.Since Simchas Torah, the hostile discourse regarding Israel has become something that no Jewish student can ignore. Jewish families have been asking: Is it even worth it to send our sons and daughters to these colleges? In this episode we discuss:Is it better for Jews to change the system from within, or without?What has changed about the Jewish experience at American colleges since Oct. 7?What is the way forward regarding free speech and Jewish rights on campus?Tune in to hear a conversation about how we might work toward a reimagined and refocused higher education.Interview with David Wolpe begins at 4:27.Interview with Talia Khan begins at 29:30.Interview with Steven Pinker begins at 1:05:12.Named The Most Influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek and one of the 50 Most Influential Jews in the World by The Jerusalem Post, David Wolpe is a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School and the Max Webb Rabbi Emeritus of Sinai Temple, a Conservative shul in Los Angeles. Rabbi Wolpe previously taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, Hunter College, and UCLA. He is the author of eight books, including the national bestseller Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times. His new book is titled David, the Divided Heart.Talia Khan is an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering, the president of the MIT Israel Alliance, and a Fulbright Brazil alumna.Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language, cognition, and social relations, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time and The Atlantic, and is the author of twelve books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Stuff of Thought, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Sense of Style, Enlightenment Now, and Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters.References:“On the Hatred of Jews” by David J. WolpeIsrael: An Echo of Eternity by Abraham Joshua Heschel O Jerusalem! by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre “When Calls for Jewish Genocide Can Cost a University Its Government Funding” by Michael A. Helfand“A five-point plan to save Harvard from itself” by Steven PinkerThe Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan HaidtThe Canceling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott The Constitution of Knowledge by Jonathan Rauch

In this podcast, we will explore whether karma is a moral principle or a natural principle geared towards moksha, enlightenment. SUBSCRIBE ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/OneWorldWithin⁠⁠⁠⁠ for new videos every week SUPPORT MY WORK      Patreon ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/jasongregory⁠⁠⁠⁠      Paypal ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/JasonGregoryAuthor⁠⁠⁠⁠ MY BOOKS Spiritual Freedom in the Digital Age ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3iDNaHL⁠⁠⁠⁠   Emotional Intuition for Peak Performance ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/2oZZdFm⁠⁠⁠⁠     Effortless Living ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amzn.to/2z0EG3Q⁠⁠⁠⁠     Fasting the Mind ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amzn.to/2zhsAY1⁠⁠⁠⁠     Enlightenment Now ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amzn.to/2B2oNuV⁠⁠⁠⁠     The Science and Practice of Humility ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amzn.to/2z01WPb⁠⁠⁠⁠ RECOMMENDED READING LIST ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://jasongregory.org/recommended-books⁠⁠⁠⁠/ PRIVATE CONSULTATION   ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://jasongregory.org/contact/⁠⁠⁠⁠ MERCHANDISE   ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://teespring.com/stores/jason-gregory⁠⁠⁠⁠ FOLLOW ME    Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/jasongregoryauthor/⁠⁠⁠⁠     Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/JasonGregory33⁠⁠⁠⁠     Facebook ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/JasonGregoryAuthor/⁠⁠⁠⁠     LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasongregoryauthor/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Amazon Author Page ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/Jason-Gregory/e/B0053O1HKK/⁠⁠⁠⁠     Goodreads Author Page ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3021190.Jason_Gregory ⁠⁠⁠⁠ WEBSITE ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://jasongregory.org/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Disclaimer: Jason Gregory is an Amazon Associate member. The Amazon links in this description are affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, Jason will earn a very small commission on qualifying purchases you make, at no additional cost to you. This goes a tiny way towards defraying the costs of making these videos.

At a time when the Enlightenment is under attack from without and within, I bring together two of the most thoughtful defenders of progress and reason, for their first ever public dialogue. Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. I think of him as providing the strongest empirical defence of the Enlightenment (as seen in his book Enlightenment Now). David Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford, and the father of quantum computing. I think of him as having produced the most compelling first principles defence of the Enlightenment (as seen in his book The Beginning of Infinity). Full transcript available at: https://josephnoelwalker.com/153-deutsch-pinker-dialogue.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The world is governed by objective laws of physics. They explain the movements of planets, oceans, and cells in our bodies. But can they ever explain the feelings and meanings of our mental lives? This problem, called the hard problem of consciousness, runs very deep. No satisfactory explanation exists. But many think that there must, in principle, be an explanation. A minority of thinkers disagree. According to these thinkers, we will never be able to explain mind in terms of matter. We will, instead, explain matter in terms of mind. I explored this position in some detail in episode 17. But hold on, you might say. Is this not contradicted by the success of natural sciences? How could a mind-first philosophy ever explain the success of particle physics? Or more generally, wouldn't any scientist laugh at the idea that mind is more fundamental than matter? No — not all of them laugh. Some take it very seriously. Donald Hoffman is one such scientist. Originally working with computer vision at MIT's famous Artificial Intelligence Lab, Hoffman started asking a simple question: What does it mean to "see" the world? His answer starts from a simple idea: perception simplifies the world – a lot. But what is the real world like? What is “there” before our perception simplifies the world? Nothing familiar, Hoffman claims. No matter. No objects. Not even a three-dimensional space. And no time. There is just consciousness. This is a wild idea. But it is a surprisingly precise idea. It is so precise, in fact, that Hoffman's team can derive basic findings in particle physics from their theory.  A fascinating conversation was guaranteed. I hope you enjoy it. If you do, consider becoming a supporter of On Humans on ⁠Patreon.com/OnHumans⁠.  ESSAYS AND NEWSLETTER You can now find breakdowns and analyses of new conversations from ⁠OnHumans.Substack.com⁠. Subscribe to the newsletter to get every new piece to fresh from the shelf. MENTIONS Names: David Gross, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Edward Whitten, Nathan Seiberg, Andrew Strominger, Edwin Abbott, Nick Bostrom, Giulio Tononi, Keith Frankish, Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Roger Penrose, Sean Carroll,  Swapan Chattopadhyay Terms (Physics and Maths): quantum fields, string theory, gluon, scattering amplitude, amplituhedron, decorated permutations, bosons, leptons, quarks, Planck scale, twistor theory, M-theory, multiverse, recurrent communicating classes, Cantor's hierarchy (relating to different sizes of infinity... If this sounds weird, stay tuned for full episode on infinity. It will come out in a month or two.) Terms (Philosophy and Psychology): Kant's phenomena and noumena, integrated information theory, global workspace theory, orchestrated objective reduction theory, attention schema theory Books: Case Against Reality by Hoffman, Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker Articles etc.: For links to articles, courses, and more, see https://onhumans.substack.com/p/links-for-episode-30

印度國防部據稱正研究台海戰爭爆發應對之策，包括為擔任盟軍後勤基地，甚或在中印邊界開戰。對此，中國外交部回應，台灣問題是中國內政，如何解決台灣問題，是中國人自己的事，不容外部干涉，美國在各種場合致力於推動「台灣問題國際化」，是非常危險的。「台灣問題國際化」與「台灣問題內政化」的對抗、對台灣安全的長遠影響何在？美國眾議院通過「台灣國際團結法案」，法案指出，聯合國大會第2758號決議承認中華人民共和國政府是聯合國內中國唯一合法代表，但並未處理台灣與台灣人民在聯合國或任何相關組織的代表權問題，亦沒有在中華人民共和國與台灣關係上採取立場，或包含任何關於台灣主權的聲明。美國必須在各國際組織中代表，透過各種方式抵抗中國試圖扭曲關乎台灣決議的作為。該法案如果被參議院和總統批準生效，對美中台關係的長遠影響是什麼？它會使「台灣地位未定論」再起嗎？台獨教父林濁水曾自稱是「穩健台獨」、「溫和台獨」，同賴清德的「務實台獨」有什麼差別？賴清德提出「四個支柱」，特別是「穩定且有原則的兩岸領導力，務實且一致性的兩岸政策，捍衛兩岸現狀，以符合中華民國台灣與國際社會的最佳利益，也不排除在對等、尊嚴且沒有先決條件下，與對岸展開對話」。賴清德的這些主張讓美國放心，但能讓中國容忍嗎？精彩訪談內容，請鎖定@華視三國演議！ 本集來賓：#林濁水 #矢板明夫 主持人：#汪浩 以上言論不代表本台立場 #台獨 #黨綱 #台灣前途決議文 #台灣地位未定論 電視播出時間

What should lead the news? Three people pitch the story they think matters most to James Harding.In this episode he's joined by Steven Pinker, Harvard professor and author of Enlightenment Now, who criticises the news machine. Plus the team discusses whether Prince William reached a secret out of court settlement with Rupert Murdoch and News Group over phone hacking and Canada's diplomatic row with India. What do you think should lead the news? Email your stories to newsmeeting@tortoisemedia.com.To listen to the Slow Newscast episode: William and Murdoch: the prince and the press baron click here.The producer was Rebecca Moore and the executive producer was Jasper Corbett. For the premium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists, download the free Tortoise audio app. For early and ad-free access, subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts.If you'd like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at tortoisemedia.com/support-us. Your contributions allow us to investigate, campaign and explore, and to build a newsroom that is responsible and sustainable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Steven Pinker is a linguist, cognitive scientist, and a professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard. He's the author of twelve books, including the bestsellers How the Mind Works, Enlightenment Now, and most recently Rationality.Auren and Steven delve into the world of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and intellectual freedom. Steven brings his perspective from cognitive psychology to explain how AI does (and does not) mirror the human brain. They also explore the complexities of disasters, rationality, and academic freedom, with Steven emphasizing the necessity of open debates in universities. The episode concludes with a thought-provoking discussion on honesty, common knowledge, and communication, pondering on the idea that humans sometimes need to forget the truth to remain human.World of DaaS is brought to you by SafeGraph & Flex Capital. For more episodes, visit safegraph.com/podcasts.You can find Auren Hoffman on Twitter at @auren and Steven on Twitter at @sapinker.

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This month, we are diving into the important and currently hot topic of artificial intelligence. Do we think rising platforms like ChatGPT are going to be running the world anytime soon? Does technology not only have the ability to be intelligent, but also rational? In this episode we get the pleasure of discussing these issues with Steven Pinker, an experimental cognitive psychologist and a popular writer on language, mind, and human nature. Listen to the conversation and find out what happens when an expert on the human mind sits down to discuss intelligence in machines with two data scientists! Our Guest: Dr. Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language, cognition, and social relations; writes for publications such as the New York Times, The Guardian, Time, and The Atlantic; and is the author of twelve books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Stuff of Thought, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Sense of Style, Enlightenment Now, and Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters.

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Russell Brand about his controversial appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher”; pandemic profiteering; if he considers himself a libertarian; what sustainable communities would actually look like; how corporatism has replaced capitalism; why he doesn't buy into the “Enlightenment Now” ideas of Steven Pinker; why it's a waste of time to talk about the differences between Republicans and Democrats; how he went from stand-up comedy to Hollywood actor to activist thought-leader; why we should be worried about new forms of authoritarianism; why maximum democracy is so essential to fix our broken systems; how the liberal establishment got corrupted by the military-industrial complex; and much more.

Obesity is a true pandemic and one of the worst health disasters of our lifetime. The best treatment is unknown. Diets that are appropriate for thin people do not help the obese—advice like “eat a moderate diet” and “don't eat between meals” is useless for them. Intermittent fasting and the Adkin's-type diets work but require weeks to months of adjustment and need to be continued indefinitely.Agriculture is a great gift that is saving the world. Farm productivity has exploded in the last 50 years. Worldwide famine deaths have crashed. The chart below is from Steven Pinker's phenomenal Enlightenment Now (2018):Hybrid crops and mechanization have driven up corn yields. There were 20 bushels per acre in 1980, but by 2019 this increased to 160. Other crops show similar trends.Other advances have paralleled and were likely the result of abundant food. Global literacy was 55 percent in 1950 and rose by 5 percent a decade after that. It is now 86percent. No rational person—outside of an oddball billionaire or two—still worries about the “population bomb.” The number of people in the world is projected to be 9.7 billion by 2064, but this will decline to 8.8 billion by 2100.These trends debunk the media's disaster-mongering. But against this optimistic tide, we have obesity. The daily calories food producers supplied to US citizens rose from 2900 per person in 1961 to 3700 today. Adult caloric requirements range from 2000 for sedentary women to about 3000 for a few active men. Big Food must either export the excess or force-fed it to us using marketing. In 1980, 15 percent of us were obese, but this number is now a third. Overweight people are another third (CDC).Authorities have recommended low-fat diets for forty years. “Saturated” animal fats increase blood levels of “bad” cholesterol (LDL), which was assumed to be evidence that a high-fat diet caused heart disease. So in 1985, the Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health recommended dietary fat restriction. When the Food Pyramid came out in 1992, these guidelines went mainstream. Later versions were promoted in 2005 and 2011. It all sounded sensible—the government was trying to help. What could go wrong?Our obesity began about the same time as the Food Pyramids promoted low-fat and low animal fat diets. The for-profit food companies helped market these ideas, peddling cheap manufactured fats and processed sugar under “low fat and cholesterol” labels. The graph below shows that how this correlated with the development of our obesity.Although the consensus is not complete, powerful evidence has now developed that we eat too little fat, and that saturated animal fats are safe. (continued in Butchered by "Healthcare."Support the show

This is the first discussion on Ryuho Okawa's latest title, The Challenge of Enlightenment: Now, Here the New Dharma Wheel Turns. Chapter 1 of Part One, What Is the Spirit of Buddhism? Stay tuned as the discussion on the rest of the books to be continued in 2023.

Rob Henderson joins the podcast to talk about Season 2 of The White Lotus, Episodes 5 and 6. We originally said we would do Episodes 5-7 all together to close out the season, but decided there was enough here to have an additional conversation, and I'm glad we did. In the course of the discussion, I identify the ideology of the show as “Bisexual Classical Liberalism.” I got this from remembering having previously read that Mike White, the show's creator, had described himself as a classical liberal. I can't find this through googling, and maybe it's an attribution that came from someone else (or something that I just imagined in my head). If you know of anything out there on this, please let me know. Regardless of how White describes himself, I think this ideology I just identified is a great way to understand the worldview of the show, with its openness towards sex, skepticism towards neurotic women and identity politics, and acceptance of human nature. If I were to guess, I'd say that White's favorite writer is Andrew Sullivan. In Episode 6, we see a nod to the ideas expressed by Steven Pinker in The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now. Rob and I get into a possible cuckoldry storyline, which Rob doesn't think there's a lot of evidence for, but which I think could explain where the show is going. In contrast, we have similar views on what is going on with the hookers. We'll be back to discuss the season finale next week. Listen here, or watch the video of our conversation on YouTube.LinksMe and Rob Henderson on The White Lotus, Season 1Me and Rob on The White Lotus, Season 2, Episodes 1-4On Paul Manafort being a literal cuckAndrew Sullivan on The White Lotus, Season 1 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit richardhanania.substack.com/subscribe

In his latest and last episode of the series, Steven Pinker discusses his magisterial book, Enlightenment Now. According to Steven, humanism, reason, and science—the three pillars of enlightenment, has historically fueled enormous advancement in virtually every facet of life and are our best hope for sustaining it in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his latest and last episode of the series, Steven Pinker discusses his magisterial book, Enlightenment Now. According to Steven, humanism, reason, and science—the three pillars of enlightenment, has historically fueled enormous advancement in virtually every facet of life and are our best hope for sustaining it in the future.

Also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6T7KGZSJ_EE  *Special Guest: Jared*Authorities:"Enlightenment Now" | Steven Pinker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now"Civilized to Death" | Christopher Ryan: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Civilized-to-Death/Christopher-Ryan/9781451659115*Reviews & Commentaries:"Buck up, everyone! We are riding along the Enlightenment's long path of progress" | Caroline Winterer | Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/buck-up-everyone-we-are-riding-along-the-enlightenments-long-path-of-progress/2018/02/23/5535b602-f24a-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html*Charity for October: Mary's Place of Seattle, Washington with a vision of “Community where all families have Safety, Stability, and Housing” ~ and a Mission to ensure that “no child sleeps outside.”: https://www.marysplaceseattle.org/about-us-2 *Please join us and other listeners on:YouTube = https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxxknPCqn8A_kDFLwDUvGfA ;Facebook  - www.facebook.com/HouseholdMANager ;Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mr_instaman...  ;TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@mr_homemaker ;Reddit - r/Household_MANagement ;Homepage = http://Mr-Homemaker.com ;*Please support the Mr. Homemaker Podcast athttps://www.patreon.com/Mr_Homemaker *#husband, #father, #marriage, #homemaker, #household, #home, #family, #masculinity, #femininity, #domestic, #career, #worklifebalance, #relationships, #householdmanagement #homemanagement #podcast #couplepodcast, #professionalmom, #mrhomemaker #rethinkmasculinity*Membership Application: https://mr-homemaker.com/membership

Life gets busy. Has https://geni.us/enlightenment-now-b (Enlightenment Now) been on your reading list? Learn why the world is a much better place, and why this refreshing message is the key to tackling climate change. (with this book summary) We're scratching the surface here. If you don't already have this bestselling book by Steven Pinker, get the audiobookhttps://geni.us/enlightenment-now-aud ( for free) to learn the juicy details. Get the full text, PDF, audiobook, infographic and animated book summary of this book and hundreds more on the https://www.getstoryshots.com (StoryShots) app: https://www.getstoryshots.com (https://www.getstoryshots.com) Disclaimer: This is an unofficial summary and analysis. StoryShots Book Summary and Analysis of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven PinkerIntroduction“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.” - Franklin Pierce Adams Find out why Bill Gates refers to https://geni.us/enlightenment-now-b (Enlightenment Now) as his new favorite book of all time.  https://geni.us/enlightenment-now-b (Enlightenment Now) is Steven Pinker's follow-up to The Better Angels of Our Nature. The latter asserts that human life is getting healthier and longer. The world is now safer, less violent, and wealthier. Pinker identified six major trends and five historical forces for this change. The most important one is the humanitarian revolution that the Enlightenment and its associated cultivation of reason brought. Enlightenment Now elaborates this argument by using social science data. It shows reason, science and humanism have brought us a general improvement of the human condition over recent history. Humanism is the belief that people can live by reason, rather than religious faith. Pinker explores the nature and importance of reason more in his next book, Rationality. We can use the ideas of the Enlightenment to understand things better and solve climate change - the biggest problem humanity faces. There are grounds to be hopeful about the future, despite the challenges. The world may improve for many more decades if we stick to the values of the Enlightenment. It is refreshing to think the world is a better place and will continue to improve. Join us to find out if you agree with the overarching theme of hope inhttps://geni.us/enlightenment-now-b ( Enlightenment Now). About Steven Pinker Steven Pinker is one of the world's leading authorities on visual cognition and psycholinguistics. He is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Time magazine listed Pinker as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.” Pinker was born in 1954 to a middle-class Jewish family in Montreal, Canada. His grandparents immigrated to Canada from Poland and Romania, and owned a small necktie factory in Montreal. His father was a lawyer, and his mother was a high-school vice-principal.  He received his BA from McGill University and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He has been a psychology professor at MIT and Harvard University.  His popular and highly praised books include The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate, Words and Rules, How the Mind Works, and The Language Instinct. He also writes frequently for the New York Times, The New Republic, and other magazines. StoryShot #1: The Enlightenment is The Age of Questioning, Understanding, and Critiquing   The Enlightenment has given us a gift; the notion that reason and science can increase humanity's ability to thrive. Enlightenment's motto, as the German philosopher Immanuel Kant proclaimed, is “Dare to know!”. Its foundational demand is freedom of thought and speech. The Enlightenment period, also known as the Age of Enlightenment, was a philosophical movement prevalent in 18th-century Europe. It sought to question everything. The practitioners believed...

Dan Carlin, podcaster, comedian and author of the landmark political podcast, " Enlightenment Now ", returns to the Lexman fold to discuss how he discovered his love of music and how it has shaped his unique perspective on history.

Welcome to the Counterweight podcast, where we talk about how we can strive for a world in which freedom and reason are at the forefront of all human society. In this week's podcast, we speak with Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and author of 12 books, including The Language Instinct, Enlightenment Now, and Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. In the podcast, we discuss reason, rationality, enlightenment values, and their interplay with the polarisation that is affecting our communities today.

When I wrote up my experiment to live with my apartment off the grid in Manhattan for a month, I looked up what I did the morning I started. My library records show I borrowed and listened to Sebastian's book Tribe, then my browser history shows I watched a ton of videos featuring him. Soon after I read Freedom, watched Restrepo and The Last Patrol.His work makes you question your values, the values of our culture, and what you do about it. In my case, his exploration to why in a culture of material plenty, that according to, say, Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now or The Better Angels of Our Nature, which say life is the best its ever been, in head-to-head competition, people who know civilization choose to live in other places. His books and our conversation clarify and refine the conditions, but the main appeal of not-civilization is feelings of mutual dependence and feeling needed. Our culture isolates. With affluence has come anxiety, depression, and suicide.His research and writing helped me understand why I enjoy each step of polluting less. People from the outside read me as extreme, but America pollutes extremely much. I've reduced over 90 percent, but I still pollute. I'm finding myself not extreme but traditional.Sebastian shares the main points of his books on community, mutual support, feeling needed, war, love, and more versus isolation and anxiety. At the end we talk about how to restore what we've lost and the prospect of changing culture to sustainability, which looks promising.Sebastian's Home PageLots of videos featuring Sebastian See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Swami Steven initiates the Enlightenment Now vision, by creating content that wakenings consciousness, including Enlighten Man events around the world, United States, India and Arica. Then, creating Enlightenment Broadcasting and then launching first the Enlightenment Network with courses in Self Realization online which reached over a million people before being banned on all social media. Followed immediately by creating Enlightenment Television to provide a free online resource for those enlightening www.EnlightenmentTV.com  

This is the story of the creation and filming of Enlightenment Now, the Awakening of Humanity, including interviews with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudeva, TKS Guru (Kundalini), Swami Sukabodhananda (Vedanta), Sri Rama Dass (Tantra) and Yogi Satyam (Kriya) and others. Further travels in the HImalayas, ashrams and pujas. You can watch this movie for free on www.EnlightenmentTV.com    

Our guest this week is Steven Pinker. Steven is a cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He has won numerous prizes for his research, his teaching, and his books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Sense of Style, Enlightenment Now, and most recently, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. In this episode we speak with Steven about his books, the public's responses to them, and whether those books have had a positive effect. We talk about the euphemism treadmill and whether we can ever escape it, the misunderstandings of terms like optimism and idealism, the tensions between human nature and the potential for progress, social media and the ways we can improve it, and how we can all be more rational. Announcement : We're excited to share that members of FAIR Community can now submit questions for upcoming Q&A episodes of FAIR Perspectives. To ask questions about FAIR, the pro-human movement, the podcast and more, sign up for FAIR Community at fairperspectives.org.  

Steven Pinker slowly drains our will to live as we continue to discuss his book Enlightenment Now

Our conversation about the upstanding intellectual Steven Pinker and his book Enlightenment Now continues.

Ideas start wars and movements, undergird societies and governments, and shape the daily experiences of our personal lives. We ignore or underestimate the power of ideas to our detriment. And yet they can feel slippery to reckon with; difficult to see, tougher still to understand their complex movement through the world. Join The Progress Network for a wide-ranging discussion on ideas—which ones are significant now, which may be significant in the future, and how we can participate in ideas' power ourselves—with Joan Blades, co-founder of Living Room Conversations and MoveOn.org, and public intellectual Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now and several other books. Zachary Karabell, founder of The Progress Network, moderates. This conversation was recorded on May 12, 2021. What Could Go Right? is produced by The Progress Network and The Podglomerate.

How can the principles of Taoism help us deal with fear and uncertainty in a changing world? Curt Mercadante interviews Jason Gregory, an author and philosopher specializing in Eastern and Western philosophy, comparative religion, psychology, cognitive science, metaphysics, and ancient cultures. Gregory is the author of Emotional Intuition for Peak Performance, Effortless Living, Fasting the Mind, Enlightenment Now, The Science and Practice of Humility and also the documentary filmmaker of The Art of Effortless Living, its sequel Effortless Action: The Art of Spontaneity and The Yugas: The Great Time Cycles of the Universe. Learn more: http://JasonGregory.org

We begin our discussion of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now and set off on our quest to save the Enlightenment from the evil hordes of populists and postmodernists. You can check out Pinker's book here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Enlightenment_Now/J6grDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0.

This episode was recorded on June 6th, 2021.Dr. Peterson, Steven Pinker, and Jonathan Haidt sit down to discuss truth, how societies function, utopias, the role of religion, & more.Steven Pinker is a psychology professor at Harvard. He's the author of Enlightenment Now and The Blank Slate. His 12th book, "Rationality," is out now. Dr. Pinker has received many awards and often writes for The Guardian and The NY Times.Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at NYU Stern. His research focuses on the intuitive foundations of morality across cultures. He's the author of The Righteous Mind and The Coddling of the American Mind. His next book, "Three Stories about Capitalism," is expected by 2022.Follow Steven's Twitter:https://twitter.com/sapinkerRead Steven Pinker's book:https://stevenpinker.com/publications/rationality-what-it-why-it-seems-so-scarce-and-why-it-mattersFind more Jonathan Haidt here:https://www.thecoddling.com/Read Jonathan's book:https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation/dp/0735224919Jonathan's most recent essay:https://www.persuasion.community/p/haidt-monomania-is-illiberal-and____[0:00] Intro[00:18] Jordan introduces guests Dr. Stephen Pinker and Dr. Jonathan Haidt[02:47] Catching up with the recent research and endeavors of Jonathan Haidt. Elaborating on the framework of moralism versus true and false when viewing the world[07:00] How cognitive biases lead to a more pessimistic view of the world[10:30] The problems with the idea of utopia and its beneficial uses when properly inserted into a society's belief (religious) structure[18:00] Examining the role group religions play in bringing people together[24:30] Jordan highlights the role he believes Christianity had in turning people's attention to the evil within us all[29:30] Reflections on Enlightenment Now. How do you engage people towards a higher set of goals without religion as a backbone?[38:00] Is the world we live in a new frontier based on the expanding influence of the internet and social media on individuals' decision-making?[48:00] Discussion on the dangers posed by the new world to the endurance of liberal democracies[56:00] Finding truth in the post-2012 social media revolution[1:06:00] The rate of change in modern life[1:07:00] The Righteous Mind, Haidt's interpretation of the religious instinct/impulse and why he gets a positive reaction from religious crowds[1:06:00] Saying goodbye to Dr. Pinker due to time constraints[1:17:30] The human ability for imitation through learning or exploring[1:25:30] Religion as a social function? Or an inherent impulse inside us all to find higher states?[1:29:30] Comparing views on the central uniting principle of groups, societies, or human beings for that matter[1:33:00] Is the extreme claim that power is the central driving factor of western European civilization grounded in reality?[1:37:52] Is having a common purpose or shared beliefs a more powerful way of bringing people together?[1:45:00] Recounting Haidt's research on disgust in both humans and animals[1:52:00] Exploring any correlation to disgust levels and political beliefs/alliance[02:02:30] Wrapping up Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

My guest today is Associate Professor Ted McCormick. Ted is a specialist in intellectual history and the history of science at Concordia University in Canada. He examines the intersections between science, technology, economy and empire in the early modern era.Recently, he has taken an interest in how the concept of “the Enlightenment” has been taken up as something of an ideological cause by some popular writers. In particular he has critiqued the way the Enlightenment has been portrayed by Steven Pinker in his books The Better Angels of Our Nature and, particularly, his more recent work Enlightenment Now which Pinker has subtitled “The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress”. As a historian of the Enlightenment, Ted has serious problems with the way Pinker – a non-historian – characterises the Enlightenment and the rhetorical purposes to which he puts his version of history. Ted has also provided a list of selected reading on aspects of the Enlightenment.

In this episode, Max & Daniel speak with Rudi Hoffman. Hoffman is well known in the Cryonics community as a speaker, writer, and purveyor of Cryonics life insurance and other related financial services. In today's podcast, we take a deep dive into:Life insurance: it's history, how it works, why it's so powerful, and why the smart money puts real money into life insurance.Hoffman's personal journey and how his outlook on Cyronics was and wasn't affected by his recent fight with cancer.Hoffman's new book on Cryonics estate planning and how we can be revived from cryostasis in good financial health if we play our cards right.If you'd like to get in touch with us you can find us over on the Cryonics Underground Channel in the Cryosphere Cryonics discord chat server.Show links:Rudi Hoffman - http://rudihoffman.com/Rudi Hoffman, The Affordable Immortal - www.amzn.com/B07F18M6WZMatt Ridley, The Rational Optimist -https://www.amzn.com/B003MY7RGG/Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now - https://www.amzn.com/B075F8M2MC