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Ep. 13: Dr. Michael Egnor, M.D: Are We our Brains? Philosophy and the Foundations of Neuroscience

The Moral Imagination

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The Mamet Principle

Mamet principle: In order to advance certain agendas, people have to pretend not to know things. "No intelligent person could endorse positivism if he was honest" If you're a genius and you make the claim that your philosophical viewpoint is true, then you've obviously contradicted yourself,. You want to be able to figure that out.

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