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Episode 50: Keeping it Unreal

Episode 50: Keeping it Unreal

FromVery Bad Wizards


Episode 50: Keeping it Unreal

FromVery Bad Wizards

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Length:
87 minutes
Released:
Jul 14, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Dude, do you ever think about how, like, we could be all be in the Matrix? Seriously, no no, dude, I'm being serious. It's like, none of this might be real, you know? Actually we don't know. We honestly can't believe we made it to 50 episodes, so we must be brains in a vat. But we play along and celebrate with...a movie episode! We list our five favorite films about the subjective or questionable nature of reality. Our only rule: we couldn't choose The Matrix.  Listen to this episode--your Mom says it's psychologically taut.LinksKramer, A. D., Guillory, J. E., & Hancock, J. T. (2014). Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Rashomon (David) [imdb.com]Exit Through the Gift Shop (Tamler and David) [imdb.com]Banksy on "Life Remote Control" (clip, youtube.com)Paul Bloom on art and forgery [ted.com]Spirited Away (Tamler) [imdb.com]My Neighbor Totoro (David) [imdb.com]Mr. Snuffleupagus [wikipedia.org]Adaptation (Tamler) [imdb.com]Donnie Darko (David) [imdb.com]Stories we Tell (Tamler) [imdb.com]Waking Life (David) [imdb.com]Robert Solomon [wikipedia.org]Mulholland Drive (Tamler) [imdb.com]Tamler's Honorable MentionsPrimerDark CityEternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindMementoThe Truman ShowRosemary's BabyThe ShiningPurple Rose of CairoThe ConversationShutter IslandSome SPOILER ALERT LinksTim Minchin summarizes Donnie Darko in song [youtube.com]Everything you were afraid to ask about Mulholland Drive by Bill Wyman,  Max Garrone, and Andy Klein [salon.com]
Released:
Jul 14, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.