Ep 189: Epiphenomena

How do the Four Strands of the Fabric of Reality - Quantum Physics, Computation, Epistemology and Evolution by Natural Selection hold together? What does taking them each seriously and all of them together seriously? Is it possible to construct a worldview without one of them or ...  Show more

This episode is heavily focussed on Dawkin's "Selfish Gene" explanation of Darwin's evolution by natural selection. Obviously there are readings from the relevant part of this chapter from The Fabric of Reality but I augment that with sections from "The Selfish Gene" itself as we ...  Show more

Here’s the second episode in our new podcast series on The Psychoanalyst’s Knowledge (Seminar XIXa). If you prefer to watch the video recording of this lecture, head to our YouTube channel. And for all the latest, be sure to join our summer series on Lacan’s later teaching! This ...  Show more

The title of this episode, “Real Knowledge,” should be read as a question — and one we continue to ask at Lectures on Lacan, even in our lecture and discussion series on Seminar XXII. As always, you can access the video recording of this podcast episode at our YouTube channel. An ...  Show more

This has been on youtube a couple weeks. Feel like it needs to be here as well. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/2-be-better--5828421/support. 

Here is the second episode in a 12 part series that could only be found on youtube until now! In this lecture, I begin using a particular piece of dramatic art -- the Disney film Pinocchio -- to provide a specific example of the manner in which great mythological or archetypal th ...  Show more