The Wright Show

The Dharma of Bob 8: A Cosmic View of Our Situation (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)

Nov 24, 2021

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The Immediate Order, the Unseen Orders

03:19

Evolution Has a Purpose Unfolding

03:40

The Unseen Order

03:26

Introduction

2min

The Gooroos and the Prophets

2min

Is It Cheating?

2min

Is There a Secular Gooroo?

3min

Are You a Difficult Candidate for That Category?

3min

What Shouldn't Astonish You About Evolution?

5min

Is There a Kind of Altruism in the Genetic Level?

4min

The Evolution of Evolvability

3min

The Subjective Experience Is Not Essential

3min

10.

I'm Kind of Going Blank Firstn Away

3min

11.

The Algorithm of Consciousness

2min

12.

Evolution Is This Amazing Machine for Generating Meaning

2min

13.

Evolution Has a Purpose Unfolding

4min

14.

Is There a Purpose to Evolution?

5min

15.

Evolution Has a Purpose

2min

16.

The Evolution of Culture in Animals

6min

17.

Do We Need to Transcend Distortions of Thought and Perception?

4min

18.

The Mismatch Between the Environment and the Environment We're Designing For

3min

19.

Is There a Door Out of Anxiety Depression?

2min

20.

Anxiety Depression

2min

21.

The Darma Is Bringing in a Ray of Optimism

3min

22.

The Logos, the Logos of the Buddha's Darma

3min

23.

Non Zero Sum Is a Part of the Environment of Human Evolution, Right?

4min

24.

Non Zero Sumness

5min

25.

What's the Great Impediment?

3min

26.

Are We Less Vulnerable to the Outsize Projection of Threats From Certain Politics?

3min

27.

The Challenge of Good Conduct on Social Media

3min

28.

Mindfulness

2min

29.

Is There a Deeper Stage of Joy Within the Samati State?

4min

30.

A Non Sexual Sensuality to Many Aspects of Life

4min

31.

Are You Quitting the Judgment?

3min

32.

What Does It Mean to Be Tribal?

2min

33.

Is Distortion in the Eye of the Beholder?

2min

34.

Are You Trying to Be Aware Without Judgment?

3min

35.

Is Tribalism a Good Thing?

3min

36.

You Need Passion to Be an Effective Kind of Crusader

2min

37.

Tribless Tribe

2min

38.

Non Meditative Ways to Transcend Tribalism

2min

39.

The Logos

3min

40.

The Logos Is Talking About It Right Now?

3min

41.

Evolution Has a Function of Purpose

3min

42.

I Think I Get I Noug, I Think I Got I No Noug

3min

43.

The Unseen Order

3min

44.

The Immediate Order, the Unseen Orders

3min

45.

Is Detachment a Paradox?

2min

46.

Is There Any Correlation Between Deep Experiences and Time?

2min

47.

The World View Mind, A, I'm Ah, but A. And I Appreciate It.

2min

What part of secular-guru space (if any) does Bob occupy? ... On the origin of Bob’s theses (by means of natural selection) ... The mind-boggling mystery of consciousness ... Could evolution have a larger purpose? ... The “global brain” as the flowering of natural selection’s seed ... Saving our species by transcending some species-typical tendencies ... The algorithm of evolution as “the Logos” ... How cognitive biases get in the way of global cooperation ... The positive feeling of negative emotions (but can mindfulness feel even better?) ... Bob explains his recent writings on tribalism ... Bob: You are an expression of "the [evolutionary] Logos" ... Bob’s latent-functionality theory of epiphenomenal consciousness ... Does evolution steer us toward greater alignment with moral truth? ... On the “panoramic specificity” of Bob’s dharma ...

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