Ralph Lewis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is a clinical psychiatrist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada and a psycho-oncology consultant at the Odette Cancer Centre in Toronto. Dr. Lewis writes a popular and widely praised blog series, Finding Purpose, on Psychology Today and has published several print edition articles for that magazine. He has published articles on a psychiatric understanding of belief and purpose in Skeptic magazine and the Human Prospect, and he has delivered presentations on these topics at the James Randi Educational Foundation's TAM conference, Institute for Science and Human Values, and Canadian Association for Spiritual Care. He has also written a best selling book: "Finding Purpose in a Godless World: Why We Care Even If The Universe Doesn't". Dr. Lewis helps people who are seeking meaning in the face of severe and tragic adversity, in addition to his extensive experience with complex and subtle psychiatric and psychological conditions. Photo Cred: Kevin Van Paassen.
✅EPISODE LINKS:
👉Ralph's Website: http://purposewithoutgod.com/
👉Ralph's Blog: https://tinyurl.com/bdz458j9
👉Ralph's Book: https://tinyurl.com/mtnp2t9m
👉Psychology Today: https://tinyurl.com/5a93rz3x
✅TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Introduction
1:15 - Evolution of purposiveness
5:09 - Religious/Cultural evolution
8:47 - Atheism, physicalism & reductionism
16:14 - Psychiatry, consciousness & disordered minds
30:00 - Religious beliefs vs delusional beliefs
41:30 - Evolution of belief systems & ideologies
54:03 - Increase in mental illness or medicalizing the human condition?
1:03:44 - Neural correlates & "biologizing" mental illness
1:07:05 - Evolutionary/anthropological understanding of ADHD
1:37:00 - Michael Shermer, Steven Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Stuart Kauffman etc.
1:44:02 - Thoughts on free will
1:49:59 - Existential angst & finding purpose in a godless world
1:59:45 - Questions from listeners
2:06:20 - Conclusion
Video Title: Ralph Lewis: Does God Exist? Finding Purpose Without God & the Unreliability of Subjectivity
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