The Incommensurable

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A lot of the physicists, I don't know, maybe it's something that like happens when your brain contemplates the infinite. You end up landing at a place which is very speculative or they go full God and should never go full God. Are you going to become a full theist and like go back to free will? I'm trending in that direction right now. The only question on one of these gambling websites is what kind of God you're going to pick.

David and Tamler dive into the first two parts of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil which contain some of Nietzsche’s best drive-bys on philosophers like Plato, Descartes, the Stoics, Kant, and Hegel along with beliefs in free will, hard determinism, Christianity, morality, conceptual analysis, objectivity, and the value of truth. We argue about Nietzsche’s metaphilosophy and the implications of thinking that all philosophy amounts to a personal confession by the author. Plus – have David’s prayers been answered? Does quantum theory entail that our consciousness outlives the death of our physical bodies? A blog post about a somewhat recent book says yes!