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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: How an Obsession with Empiricism Tanked the Spiritual Economy - Dr. Joshua Mitchell, Georgetown University
Description: Empiricism as the dominant way of knowing the world optimized technological progress, but also alienated humans because it often avoids the spiritual, motivational realm of biology beyond atoms crashing into one another.
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When it comes to Human science these days, all explanations eventually come back to physics. And while the mathematical convolutions of quantum theory and fluid dynamics can make humans better engineers, physics alone canβt address the emergent properties of biology: Why do you want what you want? Where does the human capacity for transcendent experience come f...