In the season finale of Cogito Ergo Podcast, we confront the one truth we spend our lives trying to avoid: our own mortality.

Drawing on Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death, as well as insights from Heidegger, Nishitani, and Rupert Spira, we explore how our fear of death shapes our cultures, beliefs, and identities—and how, by facing this fear, we can begin to live more authentically.

What happens when the illusions fall away? And how do we live once we’ve awakened to the truth?

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In this episode we give an overview of the hard problem of consciousness. We look at some of the main theories that attempt to explain what consciousness is, or where it comes from: Materialism, the Evolutionary Theory, Panpsychism, and Non-Duality.

Books mentioned in this episode:

• Daniel Dennet, "Consciousness Explained"
• Thomas Nagel, "What Does it Feel Like to Be a Bat?"
• Rupert Spira, "The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter"
• Peter Godfrey-Smith, "Other Minds: the Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life"

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In this episode we discuss the problems that arise when we think about the mind and try to understand what we are. We talk about the problem of other minds, and the things in our experience we take for granted as real.

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Today we discuss the Mind-Body problem: we explore the roots of dualism with Plato and Descartes, how they still influence the way we think today, and the neuroscientific view, with Damasio, that proposes that the mind and body are not separate at all.

Books mentioned in this episode:

• Antonio Damasio "Descartes' Error"

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In this episode we continue the discussion on determinism and free will. We talk about what the consequences of the deterministic view are in regards to our "Self" and moral responsibility, and on the other hand, the consequences of freedom.

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In this episode we dive into one of the fundamental philosophical debates: are we free, or are all our choices predetermined?
We examine the key points of the debate and the more recent studies that can offer some fresh insight.

Books mentioned in this episode:

• Pierre-Simone Laplace - "A Philosophical Essay on Probability" 

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In this episode we talk about the stoic philosophy and its vague resemblance to the phenomenon of "toxic positivity", with insights from neuroscience to discover the importance of our emotions.

Books mentioned in this episode:

• Antonio Damasio "Descartes' Error"
• Whitney Goodman "Toxic Positivity"
• Martha Nussbaum "The Cosmopolitan Tradition"
• Ryan Holiday "Introduction to Stoicism" (The Daily Stoic)

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Why do some people think life has meaning, and others don't?
In this episode we talk about why some people gravitate towards an explanation or another, how our feelings shape our beliefs, and cognitive bias.

Mentioned in this episode:

• William James "The Will to Believe"

Further reading:

• Daniel Kahneman, "Thinking, fast and slow"
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In this episode we take a look at “The Myth of Sisyphus” by Albert Camus to try to find out how we should live in a universe devoid of meaning.

Content Warning: This episode briefly mentions the topic of suicide in a philosophical context. While there are no graphic details, listener discretion is advised.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Albert Camus “The Myth of Sisyphus”

Further reading:

• Philosophy Now: Existentialism
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In this episode, we talk about how we shape our identity, how other people can influence it, and what Sartre really meant by “Hell is other people”.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Jean-Paul Sartre, “No Exit” Read here
• Jean-Paul Sartre, “Being and Nothingness”

Further reading:

• Philosophy Now magazine, The Ultimate Guide, issue six: Existentialism.
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What if you had to relive your choices forever?
In this episode, we explore Nietzsche's idea of the Eternal Return, and how it relates to our daily struggle of making choices.

The words I'm trying to pronounce are "Wissenschaft" and "Naturewissenschaften"

Mentioned in this episode:

• Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
• Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Gay Science" (passage 341)

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