Diana Walsh Pasulka is a professor of philosophy and religion at UNCW and author of American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
2:03 – What is real?
7:32 – Can beliefs become reality?
12:34 – Donald Hoffman
16:33 – Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
20:02 – Ayn Rand
27:00 – How do religions start?
42:13 – Religion is an evolutionary advantage
47:34 – Religion used in propaganda
52:07 – What did Nietzsche mean by “God is Dead”?
57:34 – American Cosmic
1:01:20 – What do aliens look like?
1:10:03 – History of space programs
1:13:06 – Jacques Vallee
1:22:31 – Artificial intelligence
1:28:00 – Ufology community
1:39:13 – Psychedelics
1:43:10 – Tic Tac UFO
1:51:44 – Roswell UFO incident
2:02:49 – Bob Lazar
2:06:25 – Monoliths in the desert
2:17:14 – Humans will co-evolve with AI
2:20:33 – Neuralink
2:25:23 – Singularity
2:35:14 – Books: Nietzsche
2:40:20 – Books: Hannah Arendt
2:45:18 – Fear of death
2:49:46 – Meaning of life
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