Matt Segall, philosophy professor and writer, joins me to talk about abiogenesis, the phenomenon of religion, and what happens when you die.

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GUEST LINKS
Matt's Twitter: @ThouArtThat
Matt's website: footnotes2plato.com
Matt's book: Physics of the World-Soul (Amazon)

THINGS WE MENTIONED
Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality
Emergentism
Panpsychism
Heraclitus' Fragments
The Hot Spring Hypothesis for the Origin of Life, Bruce Damer, David Deamer
Lawrence Krauss (physicist)
Erwin Schrodinger, "I don't like it , and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it."
The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt
The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber
Henri Bergson, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
True Detective (season 1)

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Michael Tremblay, BJJ black belt and modern stoic, joins me to talk about basketball, ancient schools of thought, and debate good-heartedly about the notion of white privilege.

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GUEST LINKS
Stoa Meditation App
Mike's Psyche essay
Mike's website
Mike's Twitter: @_MikeTremblay

THINGS WE MENTIONED
Stoicism
Epictetus
Seneca the Younger
Marcus Aurelius
Epicureanism
Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
Gestalt (psychology)
White privilege, Peggy McIntosh
David Hume
Immanuel Kant

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Don Guerra, visionary baker and entrepreneur, joins me to talk about baking bread, heritage grains, and having the right attitude.

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GUEST LINKS

Visit Don's bakeries and restaurants in Tucson, AZ!
Barrio Bread
Barrio Charro

Don's Instagram: @barriobaker
Don's New York Times feature

THINGS WE MENTIONED
Thom Leonard, Wheatfields Bakery
Einkorn wheat

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Tamás Danyikó, aquascaper and car buff, joins me to talk about aquascaping, döner kebab, and Top Gear.

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GUEST LINKS
Green Aqua's Youtube channel
Green Aqua's website

Green Aqua videos
Tommy's 60P Iwagumi
Tommy builds a shallow tank
Tommy and Viktor's 450L Nature Aquarium style tank
Green Aqua tours the Aqua Design Amano Gallery

Other aquascaping videos
Cinescaper's 'The Log'
Cinescaper builds an indoor pond
James Findley builds a shallow tank
James Findley's 'Arizona'

THINGS WE MENTIONED
Aquascaping
Takashi Amano
IAPLC (aquascaping competition)
Fiat Cinquecento
Top Gear, The Grand Tour, Jeremy Clarkson

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Mark Vernon, psychotherapist and writer, joins me to talk about The Divine Comedy, the Beguines, and bobbit worms.

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GUEST LINKS
Mark's book (Amazon): 'Dante's Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey'
Mark's Aeon articles
Mark's website
Mark's Twitter: @platospodcasts

THINGS WE MENTIONED
Iain McGilchrist
The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
Virgil
Cato
Giovanni Boccaccio
Julian of Norwich
Confessions (Augustine)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Beguines
The Mirror of Simple Souls, Marguerite Porete
Catherine of Genoa
Maya (ignorance)
Samsara
Upanishads
Carl Rogers
Bobbit worm
Meister Eckhart
Thomas Aquinas
Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good
Paul's analogy, "For the body is not one member, but many."
Privatio boni / Absence of good (argument)

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Antonio Zadra, sleep scientist and dream explorer, joins me to talk about the importance of backcountry hiking, the value of dreams, and the multilayered nature of reality.

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GUEST LINKS
Antonio's Psyche article
Antonio's Twitter: @drzdreams
Antonio's website: antoniozadra.com
Antonio's books: When Brains Dream, The Dreamkeepers

THINGS WE MENTIONED
Collective unconscious, Carl Jung
Hard problem of consciousness
Threat simulation theory, Antti Revonsuo

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Michael Levin, frontier biologist and friend of the pod, joins me to talk about why aliens might want to visit Earth, if we agree that a fire hydrant is a fire hydrant, and why the Star Wars cantina makes sense.

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GUEST LINKS
Mike's Twitter: @drmichaellevin
Mike's website: drmichaellevin.org
Mike's Ted interview: The Electrical Blueprints That Orchestrate Life

THINGS WE MENTIONED
Essays and Aphorisms, Arthur Schopenhauer
Heraclitus' Fragments
Theory of Forms, Plato
Galton board
Brain in a vat
Pythagoras

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Mathias Clasen, nervous person and horror researcher, joins me to talk about scary movies, the virtues of horror literature, and why we're drawn to the dark side.

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GUEST LINKS
Mathias book: 'A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies'
Mathias' Aeon article
Mathias' Twitter: @mathiasclasen

THINGS WE MENTIONED
History of Halloween
Hereditary
Rope, Alfred Hitchcock
James Cutting
I Am Legend (novel)
The Call of Cthulu, Supernatural Horror in Literature, H.P. Lovecraft
'Morbid curiosity', Colton Scrivner
William James
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
Robin Wood
Jonathan Gottschall, 'storytelling animals'

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