Episodios

  • S1E11. The Denial of Death (Becker, Heidegger, Nishitani, Spira)

    S1E11. The Denial of Death (Becker, Heidegger, Nishitani, Spira)
    Apr 20 2025
    In the season finale of Cogito Ergo Podcast, we confront the one truth we spend our lives trying to avoid: our own mortality.

    Drawing on Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death, as well as insights from Heidegger, Nishitani, and Rupert Spira, we explore how our fear of death shapes our cultures, beliefs, and identities—and how, by facing this fear, we can begin to live more authentically.

    What happens when the illusions fall away? And how do we live once we’ve awakened to the truth?

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    29 m
  • S1E10. The Problem of Consciousness: Materialism, Panpsychism, Non-Duality

    S1E10. The Problem of Consciousness: Materialism, Panpsychism, Non-Duality
    Apr 13 2025
    Welcome to Cogito Ergo Podcast!
    In this episode we give an overview of the hard problem of consciousness. We look at some of the main theories that attempt to explain what consciousness is, or where it comes from: Materialism, the Evolutionary Theory, Panpsychism, and Non-Duality.

    Books mentioned in this episode:
    • Daniel Dennet, "Consciousness Explained"
    • Thomas Nagel, "What Does it Feel Like to Be a Bat?"
    • Rupert Spira, "The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter"
    • Peter Godfrey-Smith, "Other Minds: the Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life"
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    34 m
  • S1E9. What Is the Mind? Solipsism, Other Minds, and the Self

    S1E9. What Is the Mind? Solipsism, Other Minds, and the Self
    Apr 6 2025
    In this episode we discuss the problems that arise when we think about the mind and try to understand what we are. We talk about the problem of other minds, and the things in our experience we take for granted as real.

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    27 m
  • S1E8 - The Mind-Body Problem: why we still think in dualistic terms

    S1E8 - The Mind-Body Problem: why we still think in dualistic terms
    Mar 30 2025
    Today we discuss the Mind-Body problem: we explore the roots of dualism with Plato and Descartes, how they still influence the way we think today, and the neuroscientific view, with Damasio, that proposes that the mind and body are not separate at all.

    Books mentioned in this episode:
    • Antonio Damasio "Descartes' Error"
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    33 m
  • S1E7 - Life is Your Fault: the Consequence of Freedom

    S1E7 - Life is Your Fault: the Consequence of Freedom
    Mar 23 2025
    Thank you for listening to Cogito Ergo Podcast!
    In this episode we continue the discussion on determinism and free will. We talk about what the consequences of the deterministic view are in regards to our "Self" and moral responsibility, and on the other hand, the consequences of freedom.

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    22 m
  • S1E6 - Are We Truly Free? Exploring Determinism, Free Will, and Compatibilism

    S1E6 - Are We Truly Free? Exploring Determinism, Free Will, and Compatibilism
    Mar 16 2025
    In this episode we dive into one of the fundamental philosophical debates: are we free, or are all our choices predetermined?
    We examine the key points of the debate and the more recent studies that can offer some fresh insight.

    Books mentioned in this episode:
    • Pierre-Simone Laplace - "A Philosophical Essay on Probability"
    To read more about the study with AI mentioned in the episode, you can read about it here

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    25 m
  • S1E5 - Stoicism or Emotional Suppression?

    S1E5 - Stoicism or Emotional Suppression?
    Mar 9 2025
    In this episode we talk about the stoic philosophy and its vague resemblance to the phenomenon of "toxic positivity", with insights from neuroscience to discover the importance of our emotions.

    Books mentioned in this episode:
    • Antonio Damasio "Descartes' Error"
    • Whitney Goodman "Toxic Positivity"
    • Martha Nussbaum "The Cosmopolitan Tradition"
    • Ryan Holiday "Introduction to Stoicism" (The Daily Stoic)
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    33 m
  • S1E4 - This is the Meaning of Life...Or is it?

    S1E4 - This is the Meaning of Life...Or is it?
    Mar 2 2025
    Why do some people think life has meaning, and others don't?
    In this episode we talk about why some people gravitate towards an explanation or another, how our feelings shape our beliefs, and cognitive bias.

    Mentioned in this episode:
    • William James "The Will to Believe"

    Further reading:
    • Daniel Kahneman, "Thinking, fast and slow"
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    18 m