#149 – Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion, and the Nature of Belief

Diana Walsh Pasulka is a professor of philosophy and religion at
UNCW and author of American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology.
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (08:28)
- What is real? (13:56) - Can beliefs become reality? (18:59) -
Donald Hoffman (22:57) - Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
(26:27) - Ayn Rand (33:25) - How do religions start? (48:38) -
Religion is an evolutionary advantage (53:59) - Religion used in
propaganda (58:32) - What did Nietzsche mean by "God is Dead"?
(1:03:59) - American Cosmic (1:07:45) - What do aliens look like?
(1:16:28) - History of space programs (1:19:30) - Jacques Vallee
(1:28:55) - Artificial intelligence (1:34:25) - Ufology community
(1:45:38) - Psychedelics (1:49:35) - Tic Tac UFO (1:58:09) -
Roswell UFO incident (2:09:14) - Bob Lazar (2:12:50) - Monoliths in
the desert (2:23:39) - Humans will co-evolve with AI (2:26:58) -
Neuralink (2:31:48) - Singularity (2:41:39) - Books: Nietzsche
(2:46:44) - Books: Hannah Arendt (2:51:43) - Fear of death
(2:56:11) - Meaning of life