The Two Tongues Podcast

S2E5 - Chalmers Conscious Mind Part 2

In this episode Chris finally gets to Part 2 of David Chalmers Conscious Mind. We talk "zombies," "supervenience" and just what the hell that means. We then let David take us on a counter-argument destroying rampage where he undermines everyone else's arguments in order to strengthen his own. What's he arguing? That Consciousness does not depend on the physical laws of the universe and cannot be explained by them either!

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S2E4 - Thaddeus and the Red Army

Kyle and Chris back together again in Season 2. We talk punk rock cover songs, the Freedom Convoy, Thaddeus Russell's podcast with Michael Millerman, but we weren't done yet. We talk Consciousness, thought experiments, aliens...AND we tell the positive news stories rapid fire style.

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S2E3 - What is Emergence (Solo)

This episode wraps up the essays Chris wrote when preparing for starting a podcast way back when. In this one we refute those people who think consciousness emerges from complex electro-chemical activity in the brain. We then provide a topsy-turvy counterexample claiming that the cosmos actually emerges from consciousness. Oh, and we sprinkle in a bunch of interesting facts about the Proto-Indo-European peoples, language and religion.

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S2E2 - Experience vs Reality (Solo)

In this episode Chris continues reading the essays he wrote when first exploring starting a podcast. We talk about the development of the eye from single-celled organisms to our very own peepers; we discuss the phenomenal qualities of our subjective experience that do not seem to be found "in the world," but rather within ourselves. We ask the question: If a tree falls in the forest with no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? And we try to answer it.

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S2E1 - Thoughts from the Float Tank (Solo)

In this episode Chris continues reading the essays he prepared way back when he first contemplated starting a podcast. This one involves the insights he gained from a float tank experience on the nature of God and Being. He talks Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, John Wheeler and E.N. Sokolov. 

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S1E91 - One Year of Two Tongues - Neil Young and Rogan

In this episode Kyle and Chris celebrate 1 year of podcasting. We had a gang of guests lined up to join, who all promptly bailed on us in the last minute. We made the best of it though and even had a girl on the podcast. Sexism, Schmexism. We talked 90's television, Jordan Peterson (of course), Rogan vs Spotify, Hillary Clinton, professional wrestling and much, much more.

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S1E90 - What Consciousness Does (Solo)

In this episode Chris reads the second part of the essay he prepared as a sort of monologue, when he was first considering starting a podcast. This one covers the mystic experience, evidence for the illusory nature of perception, a mystic description of God and then ties it all up with parallels from quantum physics.  

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S1E89 - Public Schools and Eisenhower

In this episode Kyle and Chris critique the public school system...but not just them. The media-industrial complex, scientific "certainty" and much, much more.

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S1E88 - What We Call Real (Solo)

In this episode Chris reads a short essay he prepared years ago when first entertaining the idea of starting a podcast. He provides solid reasons for doubting subjective reality, posits an objective reality called--The Ultimate--and, once he's convinced you that perception is illusion...he introduces the "Mystic Experience." But also purposefully leaves you hanging.

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S1E87 - God’s Debris Part 2 Among Other Things

In this episode Chris and Kyle talk about ritual magic, the appeal of nature and just how deep that runs in humanity. We get hippie-dippy, of course, and end with the leftover pieces of "God's Debris" that we didn't get to in the first part.

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