Episode 313: The Spontaneous Eruption of Now

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist, Dave Fesaro, having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics. Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say, and knowing my dad, some very inappropriate jokes. They say time is the fire. Maiden, I'm Who are you? Who are you? A very bad man. I'm a very good man. Good man. They think they've lost and with no more brains than you have. Pay no attention to that man. Anybody can have a brain? You're a very bad man. I'm a very good man. Just a very bad wizard. Welcome to Very Bad Wizards. I'm Tamara Summers from the University of Houston. Dave Pour went out for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which was canceled yesterday or two days ago or whatever. It's all an illusion anyway. Did you watch a single second of Colbert's show while it was on the air? I don't think so. Maybe maybe, like, Nikki pointed her phone at me just to, like, show me a segment for a second. But no. No. I'm not missing out on anything. No. No. I don't I don't think I watched a single second of it. Like, not even, like, a clip of it. Did you used to watch the old one, like, on whatever? Oh, yeah. Like, after John Stewart. Or whatever. Yeah. Exactly. No. I never really like like, I didn't love that shtick, but, like, I could see why other people might, but it just wasn't. It's it was not it's not my style of humor. Right. I like the guy more than Jon Stewart. Like, I found Jon Stewart to be a little too smug for my tastes, and there was something a little disarming about his character, Stephen Colbert, the the the dimwitted, slightly conservative pundit, that he played. Yeah. But Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think you had to, like, actually feel some affection for Yeah. The character if you were gonna like it. But, really, what I'm what I care about is if they come for Stephen Colbert, they're gonna come for us. That's what I'm worried about too. Yeah. We're next. Clearly. America's eyes are all on us. Yeah. Like, the Trump administration is going, like, one down, one to go. They're going through Patreon. They're, like, requesting subpoenaed Patreon. Q and As are gonna be all part of the public record now. Well, I stand by every single thing that we've said Yeah. Except, like, anything I probably said about, like, moral psychology in the first three years. You're just about. Yeah. Well, see, you've dissed science, and what you didn't know is its power to solve philosophical problems. That's right. And so in the first segment, we're gonna be talking about, a new study or a video that is describing a study that measured qualia. The thing that our stupid philosophers thought you couldn't do, well, they …