Metaphorically Philosophical

About Metaphorically Philosophical

Thoughts about philosophy, science, and the weirdness of this place we're all in.

Publisher

Nathan

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Mar 2021

Latest episode

27 Feb 2023

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Feb 2023

   And all we left was their corpses...

   Instinctual moralization, self-comparison, and the transvaluation of all values

2. 

   13 Dec 2022

   The problem of too many inputs: ADD/ADHD from the inside.

   The world is crazy from the perspective of someone with severe ADD /ADHD. You're always late. You've forgotten something again. Every morning, you have to go back in the house at least once to get something you forgot. And that's a *good* day. It helped me to understand that these are really disorders in the perception of time. I had to find ways to sync my clock.

3. 

   13 Oct 2021

   We lost the poetry of our past

   Our nation's history is full of passionate poetry and prose. Why don't we talk about it? Why don't we teach the passion for it?

4. 

   15 Jun 2021

   A summary of the problem of too many summaries

   Knowledge has exploded to the point where we cannot read it all. This brings new problems.

5. 

   15 Jun 2021

   Dark Matter is just a hypothesis

   When you look at galaxies from a distance, they don't spin the way one might expect. We should be honest and admit that we don't understand it.

6. 

   30 Mar 2021

   Quantum Waveform Collapse at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe

   Quantum mechanics makes a lot more sense in restaurants. Particularly when deep in your pints.