Intellectual Black Holes | Stephen Law | The Socratic Sessions | Ep #6
🔍 Overview: This episode with Professor Stephen Law dives deep into belief and how various tactics can be deployed by both us and others, to either enter or remain within belief systems that aren't logically coherent.
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🗣️ Highlights
[Highlight 1]: What are Intellectual Black Holes, and how can we avoid them?
[Highlight 2]: What is the 'Evil God Challenge'?
[Highlight 3]: How can Armchair Philosophy aid us in reason?
🕒 Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
2:19 - Stephen Law and Philosophy
4:58 - Stephen's Popular Books
6:08 - Intellectual Black Holes
13:05 - The TapeScrew Letters
17:23 - Cognitive Dissonance
25:03 - The Problem of Evil & The Evil God Challenge
37:09 - Flipping Belief Systems
40:10 - Non-Spatiotemporal Agents
49:31 - The Veil of Mysteries
51:22 - Hume, Scientism and Rationality
58:21 - Armchair Philosophy
1:05:20 - Strongly Confirmed Theories
1:11:23 - Appeal to 'Mystery'
1:18:59 - Appeal to 'Awe and Wonder'
1:22:37 - Social and Psychological Influences on Belief (Conformity)
1:27:25 - Brainwashing: Isolation, Control, Uncertainty, Repetition & Emotion
1:34:45 - Closing Remarks
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