The Importance of Consciousness

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I think that there's an interesting difference Between epistemology and just say action in other domains. I don't feel like my freedom is being impinged upon By the constraints that rationality gives me Um now if it were like, you know boiling down to things like What do I want to do today with my free time? Of course, right like I want like,You know, fuckFuckYourConstraints but But It doesn't upset me that I have zero freedom That is it is constrained in a way that I I would want it to be constrained. And so these desires are our way of lashing out against that sometimes yeah.

What better way to celebrate our 150th episode than to bring back our favorite guest – Paul Bloom! We riff on a series of topics: the new “grievance studies” hoax, sex robot brothels, perverse desires, and perverse beliefs. Then we get a little navel gazey (OK maybe more than a little) and talk about podcasting as a form of media and discussion, good teaching, and what we’ve learned about our listeners and ourselves. (Note: the audio may sound a little echoey towards the end because of how far we’ve crawled up our own asses.) This was a fun one, enjoy!

Special Guest: Paul Bloom.

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