"When he arrives he's already older inside his space yeah so it makes you think that he's been in that that Stargate for a while" "It is weird that he is in this very right to find the area and i don't mean that we have to take literally I mean like why even even if we take it symbolically what is this?" 'The only thing that happens apart from him seeing the monolith' "'There's really no way out,' clearly he's he spends an entire life there whether it's experienced as simultaneous uh or not um i don't know but they do it every single time', she says."'You're meant to feel that that older self has
We welcome Sam Harris back to the show for a deep dive into Stanley Kubrick’s confounding 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey." How long is the Dawn of Man? What does the second monolith do exactly? Why are the humans so banal and expressionless? What are HAL’S motivations? Has he planned his mutiny from the start, or does the Council’s deception make him manlfunction? Or something else? Who is the Council anyway? Was HAL meant to go through the stargate? What is the final leap forward in consciousness? The hotel room, the starchild, all the rectangles, rectangles everywhere, the music – what does it all mean????
Plus Sam has some thoughts about our Rorty episode and David tries to rile Tamler up about Kanye’s antisemitism.
note: there's a bit of an abrupt transition between our brief opening and Sam telling a story about Rorty in around the 9 minute mark... couldn't be helped.
Special Guest: Sam Harris.
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