All episodes

#322 - Predicting Reality

#321 - Reckoning with Parfit

Making Sense of Death

#320 - Constructing Self and World

#319 - The Digital Multiverse

Making Sense of Social Media

#318 - Physics & Philosophy

#317 - What Do We Know About Our Minds?

#314 - The Cancellation of J.K. Rowling

#313 - Apocalypse

Making Sense of Belief and Unbelief

#311 - Did SARS-CoV-2 Escape from a Lab?

Making Sense of Free Will

#310 - Social Media & Public Trust

Making Sense of Encounters With Violence

#309 - Vulnerability, Politics, and Moral Worth

#308 - The Long Game

#307 - Twitter, Elon, & Free Speech

Making Sense of Consciousness

#306 - Psychedelics & Mortality

#304 - Why I Left Twitter

Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence

#303 - The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried

#302 - Science & Civilization

#301 - The Politics of Unreality: Ukraine and Nuclear Risk

#300 - A Tale of Cancellation

#299 - Steps in the Right Direction

#298 - Leaving the Faith (Rebroadcast)

#297 - Preparing for the End

#296 - Repairing Our Country

#295 - Philosophy and the Good Life

#294 - Status Games

#293 - What I Really Think About Trump and Media Bias

#292 - How Much Does the Future Matter?

#291 - Where is Happiness?

#290 - What Went Wrong?

#289 - Time Management for Mortals

#288 - The End of Global Order

#287 - Why Wealth Matters

#286 - The Paradox of Psychedelics

#285 - American Division

#284 - The Funny Business

#283 - Gun Violence in America

#282 - Do You Really Have a Self?

#281 - Western Culture and Its Discontents

#280 - The Future of Artificial Intelligence

#279 - The Rules of the Stage

#278 - The Man Who Will Be King

#277 - How Does the War in Ukraine End?

#276 - Defending the Global Order

#275 - The Russian War in Ukraine

Absolutely Mental Season 3

Special Episode: Recipes for Future Plagues

#274 - The Future of American Democracy

#273 - Joe Rogan and the Ethics of Apology

Vaccine Mandates, transgender athletes, billionaires… (AMA #19)

#272 - On Disappointing My Audience

#271 - Earning to Give

#270 - What Have We Learned from the Pandemic?

#269 - Deep Time

#267 - The Kingdom of Sleep

#266 - The Limits of Pleasure

#265 - The Religion of Anti-Racism

#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

#263 - The Paradox of Death

#262 - The Future of American Democracy

#261 - Belief & Identity

Absolutely Mental Season Two

Ask Me Anything #18

#260 - The Second Plane

#259 - The Reckoning to Come

Ask Me Anything #17

#258 - The Fall of Afghanistan

#257 - The State of the World

#256 - A Contagion of Bad Ideas

#255 - The Future of Intelligence

#254 - The Mating Strategies of Earthlings

#253 - Corporate Courage

#251 - Corporate Cowardice

#250 - Broken Conversations

#249 - Distance & Arrival

#248 - Order & Freedom

Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse

#247 - Constructing Minds

#246 - Police Training & Police Misconduct

#245 - Can We Talk About Scary Ideas?

#244 - Food, Climate, and Pandemic Risk

#243 - A Few Points of Confusion

#242 - Psychedelics and the Self

#241 - Final Thoughts on Free Will

#240 - The Boundaries of Self

#239 - Yet Another Call from Ricky Gervais

#238 - How to Build a Universe

#237 - Another Call from Ricky Gervais

#236 - Rebooting New York City

#235 - A Call from Ricky Gervais

#234 - The Divided Mind

#233 - In the Groves of Misinformation

#232 - Inequality & Revolution

#231 - Crossing the Abyss