Decoding the Gurus

Robert Wright: A Cosmic Journey Across the Bob-o-verse

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Feb 19, 2022

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The Light of the Sea, Is It?

Are We Retiring From Rugan Discourse?

Are You Listening to Very Bad Wizards?

Is It a Grand News?

The Golden Man, Don't You Dare?

The Two Step Shuffle Is Really Attractive to the Audience

A Look Behind the Scenes of Inflwars

I'm Fond of Bob's Riding and His General Approach Tho Thing.

The Torme of Bob Number Et, a Cosmic View of Our Situation

Is He a Chess Player?

I've Been Accused by Some People, a Sam Harris Fands, of Having a Staccato Riven to the Way That I Lo Fer.

Bob's Trademark Humility and Charity to the Other Gurs

The Disclaimers the Bob Issues Are Genuine

Bob Ogler's World View

What's the Content of the Conversation?

Evolution - A Very Simple Algorithm

How to Build an Argument for Altruism?

Sacrifice, Altruism, and Selfishness

The Subjective Experience Is Not Essential

Consciousness - I Don't Need Any Sugest

The Peas Ombes, Philosophical Zombes, Isn't a Problem

01:04:31 • 2min

The Fourth Option Is That People Are Meat Puppets

01:07:00 • 2min

Creating and Assessing Alternative Perspectives and Possibilities in the Future

01:08:31 • 2min

Is It Possible to Build a Computer of Equivalent Complexity?

01:10:07 • 2min

Is Everything Just Like Quarks Bumping in the Night?

01:11:44 • 2min

You Can Have That Without Any Conscience, Right?

01:13:47 • 2min

Is It Possible to Slow Down All Operations?

01:15:20 • 2min

Adaptive, Complex Behaviour Is Still a Material Thing

01:16:59 • 2min

I Agree to the Bot. You Cant.

01:18:50 • 2min

You Cannot Function Because of the Kind of Creature We Are

01:20:39 • 3min

Is Evolution a Process for Generate Meaning?

01:24:00 • 3min

Are the Dinosaurs Invested in Meaning?

01:26:32 • 5min

I'm Glad the Physicists Discuss These Things

01:31:23 • 1min

Is There a Purpose for Evolution?

01:32:44 • 5min

Is There a Parallel With Bob's Cosmos?

01:37:30 • 3min

The Logos Is a Manifestation of the Logos

01:40:10 • 5min

The Global Bram

01:44:42 • 4min

Why He's Not Prescriptive, He Corrects.

01:48:31 • 3min

Is There a Way to Transform Non Zero Cognition?

01:51:13 • 3min

Is There a Zero Sum Solution?

01:54:02 • 3min

Tribalism and Cognitive Distortion

01:56:54 • 3min

The Tribeless Tribe - I Like Them

01:59:44 • 4min

02:04:12 • 3min

Bob's Politics Is Not Milk Toast

02:07:02 • 2min

Id W Is Defunctsi Really Should Stop Mentioning.

02:08:44 • 3min

Meditation Retreats Are Fundament About Challenge People's Ego, Excentric Self

02:12:01 • 2min

I Don't Want to Clean the Toilet

02:13:36 • 4min

Bob's Wordveder Is Like a Hum to the Universe, Logos and Human Evolution

02:17:51 • 2min

The Differences Between Bob and Jordan Peterson

02:19:34 • 2min

Abram Candy - I Don't Share Bob's Political Woldview

02:21:46 • 3min

How Dod We Manage This Mat?

02:24:21 • 2min

We Save Marriages, One Marriage at a Time

02:26:17 • 3min

I'm Sorry, We're Not That Were Not Better People

02:28:52 • 2min

The One Star Review

02:30:52 • 2min

Throe, Non We're Not Baby Cats

02:32:27 • 2min

The Conspiracy Hypothesizes for This Week

02:34:14 • 2min

S All Revolutionary Geniuses for This Week

02:35:55 • 1min

We're Not Begging for Wen, Not Mully.

02:37:21 • 3min

Matt and Chris finally leave the Rogan-verse behind, activate their Infinite Improbability Drive, and blast off for the Bob-o-verse. In an off-again / on-again, will they / won't they battle of wits, we outmanoeuvre Bob by covering an episode that he planned to record for our benefit, which we then explained we wouldn't cover because that would violate our rules, which he decided to record anyway, and we then decided it would be alright to cover because he thought we weren't going to cover it. Which one of us is playing 4-dimensional chess and who's playing Hungry Hippo? We're not sure.

Robert Wright is a journalist, author, independent commentator, and podcaster. A stalwart of the public intellectual scene, he never joined the Intellectual Dark Web. How's that for a recommendation!? He's written and thought, or thought and then written about so many topics it's impossible to mention them all, but they span evolution, Buddhism, geopolitics, philosophy, and everything in between.

But is he a guru?

(Spoiler) Of course he is. Yes, definitely. But is he a good guru? Well, we're not going to tell you. You're going to have to tune in to find out. Chris and Matt are simple folk, but they do their best to wrap their heads around Bob's cosmic philosophy, which spans the fundamental algorithms of evolution, black holes, alternative universes, and how we should probably all be nice to one another if we want to create a global brain. You might think grokking those ideas would be like watching Koyaanisqatsi while tripping on ayahuasca, but actually it all makes sense. We think.

But is it true? Is it real? Is Wright right? That my friends, is up to you to decide. But in this episode we will open the door.... (and possibly resolve the mystery of consciousness at the same time, turns out there was no problem all along).

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