Deepak Chopra: "I Don't Think There's a Universe" | Mind-Body Problems with John Horgan

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0:44 Introducing John's new podcast, Mind-Body Problems
2:36 John's history with Deepak Chopra
7:06 The controversy around Chopra's views on healthcare
13:01 Does Deepak have an ulterior motive?
16:27 Why John loved to talk to Jesus Freaks
23:59 ENTER DEEPAK
24:34 Monistic materialism: there’s only matter
25:50 Deepak: “Do you agree that matter is not non-material in its source?”
29:32 Dualism: mind and matter are separate things
30:28 John: “I can live without God, but not without free will”
31:55 Panpsychism: all matter is conscious
32:58 John to Deepak: “I assume you’re conscious, but I can’t be sure”
35:42 Religion, science and philosophy offer us stories about ourselves. Are they true, and do they work?
37:40 Perception as a learned response
39:57 What is the experience of an octopus?…
41:17 Painted ladies smell with their antennas and taste with their feet
42:03 Reality as a species-specific experience
42:51 Deepak: “I don’t think there’s a universe”
43:55 John: “Knowledge illuminates and obscures the world at the same time”
44:56 John struggles to reconcile reason with mysticism
46:50 Deepak: “There’s only consciousness. Everything else is a human construct”
50:06 John: “I get it, but I don’t buy it”
51:17 John’s psychedelic revelation: reality is a product of God’s identity crisis

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