Ep 180: Livestream: ”The Open Hand of Reason”

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Introduction

00:00 • 3min

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I'm a Catholic, I've Been to Catholic School and I Practice Anymore.

03:11 • 2min

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The Difference Between Eastern Spirituality and Western Spirituality

05:28 • 3min

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What Is the Meaning of Truth?

08:24 • 4min

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Is Critical Rationalism Fitting Into the Article?

12:00 • 2min

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I Don't Like Critical Rationalism

13:47 • 4min

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The Clenched Fist of Reason

17:24 • 2min

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Reason Is Not a Clenched Fist

19:08 • 2min

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The Difference Between the World and Knowledge of the World

21:30 • 3min

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We Perceive Nothing Directly Yet Our Ideas About Reality Aren't Real

24:25 • 3min

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What We Can and Can't Know

27:54 • 2min

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We Can't Know the Highest Prime Number Because There Isn't One

29:40 • 3min

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Aren't the Images of the Prehistoric Past Works of Imaginative Fiction?

32:42 • 3min

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Using Fiction for Both Distinguishes That Essential Difference

35:20 • 3min

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The Cat Doesn't Understand a Thing

38:39 • 2min

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The Snake Can Detect Infrared Radiation

41:08 • 2min

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You Don't Observe the World You Construct

43:21 • 3min

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Creating Knowledge in Different Places

46:24 • 4min

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The Way a Child Learns to Understand a New Language

50:05 • 2min

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The Capacity for Cultural Transmission

52:03 • 4min

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The Imprinting Process

55:43 • 3min

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The Imprinting Thing Is Not Universal

58:21 • 2min

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The Worlds We Each Construct Have Three Layers

01:00:12 • 3min

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The World Is Not the Jumble of Genetic Collective and Individual Patterns That Its Own Sciences Prove It to Be

01:03:10 • 2min

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The Unvarnished Truth About the Universe

01:05:36 • 3min

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The Great Advance of Science and Rationalism

01:08:45 • 4min

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I Love My Cats, but I've Still Got Too Many People to See

01:12:23 • 1min

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Is There a Reality of Magic?

01:13:53 • 3min

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Modernity Accepts the Wisdom of Other Cultures

01:16:25 • 3min

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The Exclusion of Magic in Western Culture

01:19:39 • 3min

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Burning Sage or Casting Spells, if It Works for You, Great.

01:22:43 • 2min

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Meditation Is a Real Thing, Not a Science

01:24:55 • 2min

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The Relationship Between Magic and Religion

01:27:03 • 3min

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The High Doctrine of Magic

01:29:48 • 2min

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Is Alchemy Legitimate or Does It Work?

01:31:53 • 3min

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Why Aren't the Majors Writing More About Philosophy?

01:34:48 • 3min

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What's Wrong With an Illiterate Yoke?

01:37:21 • 3min

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The Enlightenment Equalizes Reason and Reason

01:40:45 • 2min

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The Rise and Fall of Magic

01:42:51 • 4min

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What Is Rationalism?

01:46:26 • 3min

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The Photons Really Do Land There and Not There

01:49:22 • 2min

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What Is Critical Rationalism?

01:51:13 • 3min

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The Breakdown of Our Civilizations Rationalist Worldview

01:54:16 • 3min

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Are We Getting Young People to Change Their Body?

01:56:58 • 3min

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The Cure for the Extinction of Civilizations

01:59:45 • 3min

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Magic, the Reset Button for Minds That Just Get Out of Sync With the Reality

02:02:42 • 3min

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Is There a Rational Way of Understanding Spirituality?

02:05:51 • 4min