Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps
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Show Notes
Is living forever a good thing? Could we maintain our values and personal attachments throughout eternity? Would we be motivated to accomplish anything? Can we make sense of a human life that doesn't have a fixed endpoint? We try to alleviate David's paralyzing fear of death by examining two articles - one on how immortality is worse than we think, and the other providing evidence that dying might be better than we think. Plus,we examine some famous thought experiments - if they were porn. And a special bonus: after the outro music, Eliza Sommers joins her Dad at to give her theory about Twin Peaks: The Return (contains spoilers).
Special Guest: Eliza Sommers.
Links:
- Intuition pump - Wikipedia
- Very Bad Wizards Episode 52: Thought Experiments (Huh!) What Are They Good For? (Part 2)
- Frankfurt cases - Wikipedia
- Gettier problem - Wikipedia
- Russell's paradox - Wikipedia
- Veil of ignorance - Wikipedia
- Buridan's ass - Wikipedia
- There's a big problem with immortality: it goes on and on | Aeon Essays
- Goranson, A., Ritter, R. S., Waytz, A., Norton, M. I., & Gray, K. (2017). Dying Is Unexpectedly Positive. Psychological Science, 28(7), 988-999.
- Williams, B. (1973). The Makropulos case: reflections on the tedium of immortality (pp. pp-82).