Ep 139: Shooting the Butterfly

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– What’s expected of us by Ted Chiang

– You did it of your own free will? No such thing. by Robert Sapolsky

– Sorry, but your soul just died by Tom Wolfe

– Readiness Potential and Neuronal Determinism by Karim Fifel

– Jorge Luis Borges

– Richard Matheson

– Parable of the Madman by Friedrich Nietzsche

– Saltburn

– Basic Instinct

– Night Moves (1975)

– Charles Baudelaire

– Ange Minko’s review of Aaron Poochigian’s Baudelaire

– Poochigian’s response

– The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

– Herman’s Head

– Inside Out

– The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

Frequent topics:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

– A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

– Austin Allen

– Jonathan Farmer

– Zara Raab

– Ethan McGuire

– Coleman Glenn

– Alexis Sears

– JP Gritton

– Alex Pepple

Alice: Poetry Says

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

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Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed