When we're in the now the space age and the stewardesses, are we still in the dawn of man? Because there's been no title card switch like there will be with the Jupiter beyond the infinite. There will be later on one other title card, almost like it says 18 months later,. It's more informational than it is like a different chapter. Once you found weapons, it was inevitable that you would have all of this stuff, no leaps required really until you get to the Stargate. That's just all kind of a necessary result of the last leap.
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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