Episode 56: Rationality, Religion, and the Omega Point

Podcast: The Theory of Anything (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 56: Rationality, Religion, and the Omega Point
Pub date: 2023-04-10

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Special guest, Lulie Tanett, asked me if she could come on my podcast and interview me about religion. Lulie and Peter ask me numerous religion-related questions such as:

• How is the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (i.e. Mormon church) similar and different from Deutsch's Four Strands worldview?
• What might the Deutsch Four Strands worldview learn from religion?
• In a modern world, what (if anything) can religion still teach us?
• Is religion an ally or a foe of a rational worldview?
• For what matter, what is the most widely accepted rational worldview?
• What about supernatural truth claims of religion? Can they be reconciled with a rational worldview?
• How was the Omega Point theory (from the final chapter of Fabric of Reality) informed by religion?
• What is the Omega Point theory? Why did Deutsch abandon it (in Beginning of Infinity)? What did he replace it with?
• Is Frank Tipler (creator of the Omega Point theory) a nutter or a mad genius?

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