HeyJaredAnagoge Podcast
A podcast dedicated to exploring the human condition. Approaching the topic holistically by incorporating philosophy, psychology, religion, and any field that may be useful to understand ourselves and the world better.
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Apophatic Mysticism and the Limits of Metaphysics with Jussi Jylkkä (opens the original)
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Finnish philosopher and psychologist Jussi Jylkkä describes a mystical experience he had years before entering psychedelic research and explains the metaphysical agnosticism he developed from it. All metaphysical isms, he argues, are language games. Worldviews are like eyeglasses that become visible only when we learn to see them as models. Classical mystics overreach when they convert their experiences into claims about the ultimate nature of reality. After we finished recording, Jussi contacte
Zen Neoplatonism and the Nature of Reality with John Vervaeke (opens the original)
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John Vervaeke returns to the podcast 5 years later to argue that the modern war between science and religion was always a mistake. A cognitive scientist at the University of Toronto, he makes the case that his own field needs religious studies: the first generation of the cognitive science of religion tried to explain religion away, smuggling in an unexamined naturalism and treating believers as defective. Vervaeke reframes religion not as a set of beliefs about a supernatural object but as a co
Affordances, Embodiment & the Hard Problem with Julian Kiverstein (opens the original)
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Most people take it for granted that consciousness is the one thing science cannot explain. Julian Kiverstein thinks the problem has been set up backwards from the start. Rather than beginning with dead, inert matter and asking how it could ever give rise to experience, he inverts the question: start from lived experience, which is where phenomenology begins, and then ask how the physical world fits inside it. From that single move he rebuilds the story of how mind emerges from life, and argues
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