Episode 7: Paradox

We do a survey of nothingness as a philosophical, religious, and mystical concept. Discussed: Jean-Paul Sartre "Being and Nothingness" Sartre vs Kant on nothingness, 'the outside' Conservation of Energy and Mass State changes in systems Sensory gating The Void in world religions west and east Closing music: "Cometa" by Murcof

We explore transcendence in philosophy, religion, and pop-culture. Discussed: Transcendence vs immanence Gnosticism, pleroma, and the purified state compared to Eastern traditions Demons as memes Magick as psychology, religion as cognitive science Kant - Critique of Pure Reason Kant vs Sartre Terry Davis and Temple OS Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray and Time Cube Theater as transcendent experience: -Laura Albert and Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy -Antonin Artaud Closing music "The Heart is Deceitful above all Things" by Miss the Occupier

We talk paradoxes from logic, sciences, and pop culture; Christianity as transgression, politics as religion. Discussed: Zeno's paradoxes of motion Ludwig Wittgenstein Monism vs dualism Gödel's incompleteness theorems Spinal catastrophism by Thomas Moynihan Daniel C. Dennett - The Mind's Eye - Teletransportation paradox Immanuel Kant - Transcendental idealism

We discuss Byung-Chul Han's 2017 philosophical work "Psychopolitics, Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power" "Today we are no longer farmers, but hunters instead in search of prey. Information hunters wandering through the web like through a digital battlefield." What is freedom in an environment of total optimization and information transparency? What is freedom when Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic applies to each individual? When you are an auto-exploiting subject, both master and slave together at the same time. Publisher's Website: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2505-psychopolitics Waitstaff girl gets fake email job video discussed: https://www.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/w697cy/rs_girl_finds_out_about_bullshit_jobs/

We discuss Bryon K. Ehlmann's peculiar paper "The Theory of a Natural Afterlife: A Newfound, Real Possibility for What Awaits Us at Death" published in the Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research 7 (11) Theories on Consciousness and Death:931-950 (2016). Ehlmann's paper describes a 'natural' afterlife that fits into current models of physics and cognition. Bryon K. Ehlmann is a retired computer science professor from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. His research includes data modeling and definition, object databases, software engineering, and user interfaces. https://philpapers.org/rec/EHLTTO-2 https://jcer.com https://www.siue.edu/~behlman/

We discuss immortality and what that would even mean. Is it desirable? What would it look like? What kind of meaning or peace could an immortal being achieve on a never ending time scale.  Discussed:  Parcelesus - Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect" 2004 - Roger Williams "Crypt(o)spasm" 2016 - Gary J. Shipley  "Spring" 2014 - Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead The Epic of Gilgamesh  "The invisibles" 1994 - Grant Morrison

We talk about the concept of the afterlife. We rehash some classic afterlife beliefs and then flesh out our own viewpoints on what the afterlife could be. Perhaps we're already in it. 

Adrian and Brett discuss psychedelic insight, what it means and ways to interpret it. They discuss the secret insights that can be divined from the universe while on a drug(s), death, Godhead, biblical creationists, aliens, and how space travel and death are two identical means to the same end.