YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BPLcuHnS_A
This is a banger. Prof. Anand Vaidya of philosophy specializes in Vedic philosophy, epistemology, and we talk about God, free will, mathematics, Kripke, and even the ego as both an illusion and real.

NOTE: The perspectives expressed by guests don't necessarily mirror my own. There's a versicolored arrangement of people on TOE, each harboring distinct viewpoints, as part of my endeavor to understand the perspectives that exist.

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LINKS MENTIONED:
- On Certification (Anand Vaidya): https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/article/89...
- Podcast w/ Susan Schneider on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmQXp...
- Podcast w/ Anand Vaidya on TOE: https://youtu.be/RNmusKn6t_U
- Reality Plus (David Chalmers): https://amzn.to/473AKPw
- Podcast w/ Susan Blackmore Λ Bernardo Kastrup on TOE: https://youtu.be/jrVnAWP2XEs
- Podcast w/ Dave Chalmers on TOE: COMING
- Raymond Smullyan's Dialogue on Free Will: https://youtu.be/P-jh6tRh3Jw
- Kripke's Naming and Necessity: https://amzn.to/3SbCNMZ

TIMESTAMPS:
- 00:00:00 Introduction
- 00:02:36 Indian theories of knowledge and sentience
- 00:08:00 Hedonic Tone and the mathematics of pleasure
- 00:18:15 Exploration of non-dualism vs. unity with God & absence of subject-object distinction
- 00:35:00 Misconceptions about non-dualism and the importance of rationality and logic
- 00:46:41 Materialism in Indian philosophy
- 01:56:00 Time, impermanence, and suffering
- 01:15:01 Truth, falsity, and the ineffable
- 01:35:19 Shankara philosophy and Dan Dennett's rebut against Mary
- 01:47:00 Chomsky's vs. Kripke regarding reference and naming
- 02:03:00 Metaphysically possible worlds
- 02:31:10 Inflationary and deflationary approaches
- 02:47:07 The Integration Challenge and the paradox of mathematical knowledge
- 02:57:06 Donald Hoffman's perception theory
- 03:07:04 Free will and determinism
- 03:21:43 Grounding and grading of moral standing
- 03:33:35 Modal logic
- 03:43:02 Belief in belief
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