"I keep, can't shake the ass backward notion of what Pragmatism does with that term," Tamler says. "It just seems delusional for us to say that truth is what passes for just what gets justified in our discourse", he adds. The transcendental perspective opens up when we become the chickens, but it's not a good idea to try and assimilate super intelligent alien race into pragmatists' world view. 'We might differ as whether pragmatism has to commit to any claim about linguistic,' Tim argues.
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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