#5 - The Source of Meaning (part 1)

In this double episode, Geoff Allen tackles an ambitious ‘five birds, one stone’. He discusses the self, free will, intentionality, the flow of time and the meaning of life – all under one umbrella.

What unites these topics is an apparent mismatch between: the first-person experience of human life, and the third-person descriptions of empirical science. In each case, there is a clash between the first-person and the third-person perspectives.

Why do we have a subjective sense of self? How can we have any freedom to choose our actions? And how do these first-person experiences match up with the third-person descriptions of physics, biology and evolution?

To answer all of these questions, we must practise ‘naturalised’ or ‘naturalistic’ philosophy! We must refer only to natural entities and processes – which means no supernatural or non-physical claims. No souls, no gods, no spooky (non-physical) forces. Buckle up, folks.

A bibliography for each episode is available here: https://geoffallenwriting.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/extrapolator-bibliography/

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