#1222 - Michael Shermer cover

Episode Transcript: #1222 - Michael Shermer

NaN minutesEpisode #1222
Michael Shermer

Follow along with the complete transcript of this episode. The transcript automatically syncs with the video - highlighting the current segment and scrolling as you watch. Click any part of the transcript to jump to that timestamp.

Current time: 00:00:00
00:00:00

And we're live hello Michael Sherman hello Joe Rogan I'm doing well thank you good to see with your pile of your writing

00:00:13

Look at you got there. Yeah, well moral arc

00:00:16

Heavens on earth. Look at you. It's a skeptic magazine. That's the latest issue. Why is there something rather than nothing?

00:00:22

We like to tackle the little questions. That's a deep one. You've dealt with this on the show. Yeah, too much

00:00:27

It's a that's one that just you know when you're in traffic, you know, what is this?

00:00:32

You have someone like Neil or

00:00:34

Sean Carol or Lawrence Krauss talking about this. It's like whoa. Yeah, I'm not a physicist. I'm a social scientist

00:00:41

So for me I come at it like what do you mean by this word nothing because most of us have this idea what I mean?

00:00:46

Oh, no in physics. It means this other thing like okay

00:00:49

Yeah, well, I think our limited understanding of what they're talking about

00:00:53

When I see those guys writing down on legal papers with all that scritchety scratchety crazy-looking

00:00:59

Right fake alien language and mathematics like thank God you guys are out there

00:01:05

Well, I opened heavens on earth with imagine yourself dead

00:01:09

You know most people go well, you know, I see myself in the casket and my friends and family are around and hopefully they're morning

00:01:15

No, you wouldn't see anything of course you're dead

00:01:17

I mean to imagine anything you have to be conscious and alive so you can't even picture being dead

00:01:22

So you can't picture not existing and it would be the same thing imagine. There's no universe. Yeah, okay. I see blackness

00:01:29

No, there's no blackness. I mean nothing would literally be not just no light but no no perception of darkness

00:01:36

Nothing not even nothing. I was going through Instagram the other day and there was this one person who was

00:01:44

talking about the purpose of life and when you die what's going to happen and

© Copyright 2024, All Rights Reserved, created by @mr_johnnybgoode