Crazy Wisdom
God, the boundaries of Biology, and Free Will - Woody Wiegmann
- free will
- philosophy of mind
- biology and consciousness
- alfred adler
- theology
About this episode
A collaborative episode with Woody Wiegmann, host of Courage over Conviction podcast. In this episode, we discuss the existence of free will, and try to determine where choice ends and determinism begins. We discuss psychology, making the unconscious conscious, the pitfalls of human hubris, hedging against terrible fiscal policies and much more. Enjoy.
(1:22) What is free will? How do we decide our actions? Do we really decide? Does free will actually exist or are we slaves to determinism?
(10:12) The Iboga mystery. Why is it so effective with heroin withdrawals? What can Iboga, and plant substances in general, teach us about Biochemistry, and in turn free will?
(13:58) Should psychology be a science? We don’t really understand qualia; all information comes to us through a subjective filter and we don’t fully understand that filter, so should psychology be seen as hard science?
(17:24) Would it actually matter if our feeling of free will was actually a delusion? What if we just need to feel strongly like we have free will, what if it’s a mechanism that prevents us from drowning in the complexity of the world?
(18:33) Woody’s answer to the mystery of free will
(19:43) Stewart’s approach.
(21:38) Does a deterministic approach make you more compassionate?
(36:15) How much of our unconscious can we make conscious? How aware can we be of our own shadow?
(42:20) How learning and knowledge-sharing have evolved and sort of given humans the ability to become books, and how this could lead to human evolution
(45:48) The role of wealth in human evolution
(48:21) The potential pitfalls of engaging in genetic engineering
(53:58) Is it possible to resolve all of your inner biases? Is it possible to be free of bias? Or does bias have a role in humanity?
(57:48) Why you should be wary of financial planners with fancy graphic presentations
(1:00:08) How the separation between the treasury and the feds seems to be lessening and the risks associated with this phenomenon.
(1:06:07) Can crypto serve as a hedge against inflation and horrible fiscal policies?
(1:07:42) Alternative hedging options to Bitcoin
Episode transcript
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. So you might have noticed that the world has gone a little bit insane. And to get through this in a way that is sustainable and maybe even joyous, we are going to have to find some crazy wisdom. Which is why I named the podcast Crazy Wisdom. And I try to find guests who are both contrarian and right, as well as people who can help us to understand how we can get through this period of both acceleration as technology accelerates and maybe even a little bit of darkness, as well as some of you may have been noticing, really crazy stuff is happening right now. So my goal with the show is to empower you with crazy wisdom and give you the tools to figure out how to do it on yourself, because we can't rely on too much these days. So with that being said, if you like what I'm offering with this show, I'm on Twitter to Stuart Alsop III. My DMs are open. I'd love to hear from you about how this show has affected you. Thanks. Have a great day. Welcome to another podcast. This time it's a collaboration with me and Woody, who I've interviewed once and he's interviewed me before. His name, name of his podcast is Courage Over Convention, and the name of my podcast is Crazy Wisdom. And both kind of very. Sounds like that both of those things are very, I don't know, collaborative. What's the best word for that?
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