Michael Shermer with Dr. Ralph Lewis — Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe (Science Salon #30) скачать в хорошем качестве

Michael Shermer with Dr. Ralph Lewis — Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe (Science Salon #30)

Listen to the Podcast (audio) version: https://goo.gl/BVk3LL In this wide-ranging conversation Michael Shermer talks with the author of the new book Finding Purpose in a Godless World: Why We Care Even if the Universe Doesn’t, Dr. Ralph Lewis. Dr. Lewis is a psychiatrist at the University of Toronto who works with cancer patients and others facing death. They often face existential crises, so Dr. Lewis—himself an atheist—has developed techniques to help people cope that do not depend on any one religion. His new book is about how human purpose and caring, like consciousness and absolutely everything else in existence, could plausibly have emerged and evolved unguided, bottom-up, in a spontaneous universe. He and Shermer discuss how a random world is too often misconstrued as nihilistic, demotivating, or devoid of morality and meaning. Drawing on years of wide-ranging, intensive clinical experience as a psychiatrist, and his own family experience with cancer, Dr. Lewis helps listeners understand how people cope with random adversity without relying on supernatural belief. In fact, as he explains, although coming to terms with randomness is often frightening, it can be liberating and empowering too. This interview was recorded on July 2, 2018 as part of the Science Salon series of dialogues hosted by Michael Shermer and presented by The Skeptics Society, in California. Listen to Science Salon via iTunes, Spotify, Google Play Music, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and Soundcloud https://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/scie... Watch past Science Salon videos https://www.skeptic.com/science-salon/ Learn more about Science Salon: https://www.skeptic.com/science-salon... Learn more about Skeptic https://www.skeptic.com/ BECOME A PATRON You play a vital part in our commitment to promote science and reason. Your ongoing patronage will help ensure that sound scientific viewpoints are heard around the world.   / skeptic   #sciencesalon