Veganism, Ghosts & the Folding of Time | with UVA Professor Scott Miller

Veganism, Ghosts & the Folding of Time | with UVA Professor Scott Miller What happens when a certified vegan, trained historian, and finance professor sits down with three students who came prepared to push back?   This week, Peter McHugh, Lidia Zur Muhlen, and Makayla Castle sit down with Professor Scott Miller -- Assistant Professor of Business Administration at UVA's Darden School, Director of the Democracy and Capitalism Lab, and faculty fellow at the Miller Center -- for a conversation that covers more intellectual ground than we expected.   Professor Miller walks through his "Scott Miller Pyramid" of veganism: three layered arguments, from a Yuval Harari thought experiment about Elon Musk's future super-creatures, to the environmental and animal sentience cases, to a theological argument rooted in the Garden of Eden. Then things get genuinely weird.   Armed with a Sharpie and a folded piece of paper, Professor Miller makes the case that ghosts aren't supernatural at all -- they're what happens when Einstein's malleable time folds two people from different eras into the same space. Plus one of our hosts shares her own skinwalker encounter.    It's an episode about intellectual humility -- and why dismissing something as irrational might be the most irrational move of all. Music: "Dispersion Relation" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License Disagree With a Professor is created by Think Again at the University of Virginia, with production support from Awkward Sage Media. Connect with us: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkagain.uva/