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Wesley explains “transreligious theology” ... What’s religious about religious naturalism? ... Can science help us understand ultimate reality? ... Bringing religious thought and philosophy together ... Be skeptical of spiritual experiences ... Don’t just love your enemies, understand them ... Wesley: “Purpose" isn’t a useful category ...
Hugo’s theory about why people reason and argue ... When can arguments change minds? ... How trust and argumentation work together ... The virtues of speaking directly to an adversary ... Debating whether the mind is designed to delude ... How publicly expressing beliefs affects them ...
Losing your job to a robot ... Can we prepare for a future with "brain emulations" and AI? ... Robot “zombies" vs. conscious AI ... Will AI lead to greater inequality? ... The future of social organization ... Will the robots rebel? ...
The "strong AI thesis": Can a machine think? ... Debating the usefulness of the Turing test ... Could your brain be swapped with a silicon replica? ... Massimo: You'll never be able to upload your consciousness ... Digging into the famous "Chinese room" thought experiment ... Dan: Neuroscience won't solve philosophy of mind puzzles ...
Why Adam is crucial to Christian theology ... What happens when the Biblical Adam encounters modern genetics ... The “slippery slope” of critical inquiry ... What do you need to believe to be a Christian? ... Trying to reconcile God as Creator with natural selection ... Evolutionary psychology and the doctrine of original sin ...
Paul is pro-“compassion” but anti-“empathy" ... Different types of empathy: emotional vs. cognitive ... Two examples of the damage done by empathy ... The myth of pure evil ... Are humans naturally moral? ... The unconscious biases that inform our sense of justice ...
Michelle's new book, The Goddess Pose ... Is yoga more than just exercise? ... Indra Devi, the woman who helped bring yoga to the West ... The amazing story of the spiritual teacher Krishnamurti ... How yoga was cannily pitched to mid-century America ... Yoga's weird sort of non-attachment ...
A brief history of liberal theology ... Does "theologically liberal" mean "politically liberal?" ... When theologians appeared on the cover of Time ... The long lineage of identifying God with "being" ... Hegel's idealism and the Christian logos ... Challenges from neo-orthodoxy and liberation theology ...