Embrace The Void

Latest Episodes:

EV - 244 Semantics of Consciousness with Jacy Reese Anthis Jun 09, 2022

Show notes

My guest this week is Jacy Reese Anthis (@Jacyanthis), a PhD student in machine learning at the University of Chicago, and the co-founder of the Sentience Institute. We discuss his recent paper arguing for a semantic solution to the hard problem of consciousness.

Convocation: Tom Robbins

Consciousness Semantics paper: https://twitter.com/jacyanthis/status/1507400426869694476?s=20&t=7ZHx-cYZvz9QUhMJPig_sQ

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pods:

Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.html

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

Recent appearances: Had several recent appearances you should check out!

I doubt it pod (discussing luck): https://dollemore.com/2022/06/02/801-aaron-rabinowitz-from-embrace-the-void-and-philosophers-in-space-podcasts/

Cognitive Dissonance Podcast (discussing antivaxxer convention): https://www.dissonancepod.com/episode-632-aaron-rabinowitz-anti-vax-convention/

Upcoming appearances: I'm on the upcoming Skeptics with a K! Keep an ear out!

Next week: Doubting Conservatism with Jesse Dollemore

EV - 243 Back to Camp Quest with Sarah Miller Jun 02, 2022

Show notes

My guest this week is Sarah Miller, Executive Director of Camp Quest. We discuss the camp's goals of providing outdoor summer experiences free of religious indoctrination, and how that project looks in a post pandemic world.

Convocation: Aaron's personal experience

Camp Quest: https://campquest.org/

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pods:

Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.html

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

Recent appearances: I was on Nerds and Heresy talking about all sorts of nerdery and not arguing for once! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieC-3NBxgjI

Upcoming appearances: I'm going to be chatting with Cog Dis and Skeptics with a K about my experience bingeing my way through the Better Way conference.

Next week: Semantics of Consciousness with Jacy Reese Anthis

EV - 242 Sensemaking with David Fuller May 26, 2022

Show notes

My guest this week is David Fuller (@fullydavid), a journalist who’s made documentaries for Channel 4 and the BBC and co-founded the Rebel Wisdom content platform. We discuss sensemaking and rebel wisdom, both the positives in terms of personal growth and the negatives in terms of potentially higher risk of conspiracism.

Rebel Wisdom: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/

Discussion with Aaron and Jim Rutt on Rebel Wisdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nNk7fvxiGM

An Easter Miracle article: https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/p/an-easter-miracle?s=r

Jonathan Pageau's conversation with James Lindsay and Benjamin Boyce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy24StDmUrE

Jonathan Pageau vaccine mandate video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq4htYxSp14

Ken Wilber's Trump and a Post Truth World: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06ZZVPWTK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Convocation: Philip K Dick

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pods:

Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.html

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

Recent appearances: I was on Nerds and Heresy talking about all sorts of nerdery and not arguing for once! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieC-3NBxgjI

Upcoming appearances: I'm going to be chatting with Cog Dis and Skeptics with a K about my experience bingeing my way through the Better Way conference.

Next week: Back to Camp Quest with Sarah Miller

EV - 241 Persisting White supremacy in movement secularism with Mandisa Thomas May 19, 2022

Show notes

My guest this week is Mandisa Thomas (@mandy0904), founder and president of Black Nonbelievers. We discuss her recent American Atheist convention talk and the backlash it received.

Black Nonbelievers: https://blacknonbelievers.org/

Convocation: Audre Lorde

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pods:

Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.html

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

Recent appearances: I was on Nerds and Heresy talking about all sorts of nerdery and not arguing for once! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieC-3NBxgjI

Upcoming appearances: I'm having a chat with the Akasha org on Monster Island and content moderation. https://twitter.com/AKASHAworld/status/1525446532320854018?s=20&t=hSB4goY0NAaAsdLZytxuRw

Next week: Back to Camp Quest with Sarah Miller

EV - 240 Meta-analysis skepticism with Jonathan Jarry May 12, 2022

Show notes

My guest this week is Jonathan Jarry (@crackedscience), a science communicator with McGill University’s Office of Science and Society, and cohost of the independent podcast The Body of Evidence. We discuss his article about common problems with meta-analyses and how to approach trying to understand controversial science claims. We also discuss anti-COVID Jade amulets and in the VIP room we talk the ethics of unfollowing me on twitter.

Jonathan's website: https://t.co/e2xUQ4ClQw

Meta-analyses paper: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/pseudoscience/even-best-scientific-studies-can-lie-case-craniosacral-therapy

Jade amulet paper: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking-pseudoscience/paper-argues-amulet-may-protect-covid-should-it-have-been-published

Convocation: Nick Harkaway

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pods:

Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.html

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

Recent appearances: I was on Ben Burgis's youtube channel debating free will and moral luck: https://twitter.com/ETVPod/status/1516786030854262788?s=20&t=q3yiNlMdkxoDCu1yHCig-w

Here's the What's left of Phil link for the other chat on this subject:

https://twitter.com/leftofphil/status/1511305894587682821?s=20&t=eH18eR9d-Axezy_x5A23dg

Upcoming appearances: Stay tuned, got a few invites this past weekend so hopefully will have some info here soon!

Next week: Persisting White supremacy in movement secularism with Mandisa Thomas

EV - 239 Open discourse in movement secularism with Seth Andrews May 05, 2022

Show notes

My guest this week is Seth Andrews (@SethAndrewsTTA), host of the thinking atheist podcast and author of several books including most recently Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot. We discuss freedom of expression and concerns about woke cancel culture in secular communities.

Seth's podcast: https://www.sethandrews.com/

Impossible Conversations episode: https://www.thethinkingatheist.com/podcast-1/episode/79244081/impossible-conversations-the-best-and-worst-of-woke-culture

Convocation: Seth Andrews

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pods:

Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.html

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

Recent appearances: I was on Ben Burgis's youtube channel debating free will and moral luck: https://twitter.com/ETVPod/status/1516786030854262788?s=20&t=q3yiNlMdkxoDCu1yHCig-w

Here's the What's left of Phil link for the other chat on this subject:

https://twitter.com/leftofphil/status/1511305894587682821?s=20&t=eH18eR9d-Axezy_x5A23dg

Upcoming appearances: Stay tuned, got a few invites this past weekend so hopefully will have some info here soon!

Next week: How to read studies with Jonathan Jarry

EV - 238 Movement secularism and far-right cultural collapse narratives with Martin Rooke Apr 28, 2022

Show notes

My guest this week is Martin Rooke (@DrMRooke), a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School who’s currently studying the evolution of the far-right “cultural collapse” narrative. We compare notes on the role of movement secularism in the recent rise in those narratives.

Martin's Substack: https://eftr.substack.com/

The Center for Technology and Social Change: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/

Convocation: Kristin Kobes DuMez

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pods:

Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.html

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

Recent appearances: I was on Ben Burgis's youtube channel debating free will and moral luck: https://twitter.com/ETVPod/status/1516786030854262788?s=20&t=q3yiNlMdkxoDCu1yHCig-w

Here's the What's left of Phil link for the other chat on this subject:

https://twitter.com/leftofphil/status/1511305894587682821?s=20&t=eH18eR9d-Axezy_x5A23dg

Upcoming appearances: Stay tuned, got a few invites this past weekend so hopefully will have some info here soon!

Next week: Open discourse in movement secularism with Seth Andrews

EV - 237 Defining "religion" with Chris Kavanagh Apr 21, 2022

Show notes

My returning guest this week is Chris Kavanagh (@C_Kavanagh), a cultural anthropologist and co-host of the Decoding the Gurus pod. We discuss competing accounts of how to define "religion" and their implications for church and state conflicts.

Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/

Chris's article about defining religion: https://aeon.co/essays/can-religion-be-based-on-ritual-practice-without-belief

Convocation: Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pods:

Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.html

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

Recent appearances: I was on Ben Burgis's youtube channel debating free will and moral luck: https://twitter.com/ETVPod/status/1516786030854262788?s=20&t=q3yiNlMdkxoDCu1yHCig-w

Here's the What's left of Phil link for the other chat on this subject:

https://twitter.com/leftofphil/status/1511305894587682821?s=20&t=eH18eR9d-Axezy_x5A23dg

Upcoming appearances: Stay tuned, got a few invites this past weekend so hopefully will have some info here soon!

Next week: Tracking right wing cultural collapse narratives with Martin Rooke

EV - 236 Reengaging LGBTQ nonbelievers with Callie Wright Apr 07, 2022

Show notes

My guest this week is Callie Wright (@calliegetsit). We discuss the recent history of movement secularism and why it's struggling with a reputation issue amongst LGBTQ communities.

Callie's podcast: http://www.queersplaining.com/

Convocation: Julian Ayala

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pods:

Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.html

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

Recent appearances: I was on What's Left of Philosophy discussing my new paper on luck. It was the best chat I've had on the subject so far: https://twitter.com/leftofphil/status/1511305894587682821?s=20&t=eH18eR9d-Axezy_x5A23dg

Upcoming appearances: I'm going to be speaking at AAcon easter weekend, come hang out!

Next week: Taking the week off for American Atheist Convention, come hang out!

EV - 235 Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit with Tom and Cecil Mar 31, 2022

Show notes

My guest this week are Tom and Cecil of the Cognitive Dissonance podcast (@dissonance_pod). We discuss their new book, The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit, and how to apply their GUT check approach to reduce our risk of absorbing misinformation.

The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit: https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Unified-Theory-Bullshit/dp/B09TDW7RSR

CogDis podcast: https://dissonancepod.com/

Convocation: Frankfurt

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pods:

Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.html

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

Recent Appearances: I was on the Ultraviolet podcast talking about moral luck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ31sIBgWKE

Upcoming Appearances: Come hang out and discuss nonbeliever community organizing and resisting the immoral nonbeliever stereotype at the American Atheist convention in Atlanta https://convention.atheists.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw3IqSBhCoARIsAMBkTb3oEaLKLMj2gj2JSlFJVfZajGeS1yFbXB2LdTWIB7yYFcTJs1RQDJoaAj1BEALw_wcB

Next week: Reengaging LGBTQ nonbelievers with Callie Wright