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Episode Transcript: #1222 - Michael Shermer
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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
Look at you got there. Yeah, well moral arc
Heavens on earth. Look at you. It's a skeptic magazine. That's the latest issue. Why is there something rather than nothing?
We like to tackle the little questions. That's a deep one. You've dealt with this on the show. Yeah, too much
It's a that's one that just you know when you're in traffic, you know, what is this?
You have someone like Neil or
Sean Carol or Lawrence Krauss talking about this. It's like whoa. Yeah, I'm not a physicist. I'm a social scientist
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?
Oh, no in physics. It means this other thing like okay
Yeah, well, I think our limited understanding of what they're talking about
When I see those guys writing down on legal papers with all that scritchety scratchety crazy-looking
Right fake alien language and mathematics like thank God you guys are out there
Well, I opened heavens on earth with imagine yourself dead
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
No, you wouldn't see anything of course you're dead
I mean to imagine anything you have to be conscious and alive so you can't even picture being dead
So you can't picture not existing and it would be the same thing imagine. There's no universe. Yeah, okay. I see blackness
No, there's no blackness. I mean nothing would literally be not just no light but no no perception of darkness
Nothing not even nothing. I was going through Instagram the other day and there was this one person who was
talking about the purpose of life and when you die what's going to happen and