Two laymen with huge issues

About Two laymen with huge issues

What do you get if you let two great apes with high levels of enthusiasm and limited subject matter expertise tackle the great questions of humankind? Well, you need not wonder any longer. You get the contents of this pod. Follow Lynden and Percy on their odyssey to explore some of the most monumental topics possible - ranging from the impossibility of it all and what “I” really am to parenthood and climate change.

Publisher

Lynden & Percy

Category

science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Jan 2021

Latest episode

31 Aug 2021

Latest episodes

4 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   31 Aug 2021

   Why am I the way I am… and two poor decks of cards

   Percy & Lynden take on the nature vs nurture question, offer several dubious interpretations of decades worth of twin studies and conclude that your only really relevant role as a parent is not to mess up your kids.

2. 

   16 Mar 2021

   What makes me me... and two flesh robots

   Lynden & Percy attempt to answer the hard problem of consciousness (why do I experience being myself) by butchering a random pick of evolutionary theories about the brain and arguing the relevance of the question.

3. 

   3 Feb 2021

   Nature of reality... and two ants missing out

   Lynden and Percy conclude, somewhat longwindedly, that they will never experience reality as it really is, and that they should hence (obviously) offer to stand 5th and 6th in line to implement an infrared vision upgrade.

4. 

   19 Jan 2021

   Insanely improbable... and two imbeciles

   Lynden and Percy muse over the improbability of everything, and pay tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Badger-Rat and that fortunate Taco-Friday a few million years ago.

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